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| The Achievement of Galileo
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James Brophy & Henry Paolucci, eds.
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| Publisher: Bagehot Council. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780918680952. Daedalus Item Code: 31142 |
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| Deemed by Albert Einstein to be "the father of modern science," Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and his accomplishments are portrayed in this collection of writings and documents by and about the great ... (Read More)
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| Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
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Robert L. Fleming Jr., Dorje Tsering, & Liu Wulin. Jimmy Carter, foreword.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393061178. Daedalus Item Code: 01922 |
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| Presented in color photographs, captions, and a detailed narrative travelogue, this book depicts the staggering beauty and diversity of Tibet, from Mount Everest to the world's deepest gorge, from ... (Read More)
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| Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds Within Us
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F. Gonzalez-Crussi.
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| Publisher: Kaplan. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781607140726. Daedalus Item Code: 13937 |
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| In this fascinating, surprisingly entertaining tour of the human body, F. González-Crussi reveals not only how our bodies breathe air, pump blood, give birth, digest food, and discard waste, he also ... (Read More)
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| Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life
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Richard Cohen.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400068753. Daedalus Item Code: 20565 |
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| In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, swordsman and publisher Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life in this erudite, ... (Read More)
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| The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
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Greg Pahl.
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| Publisher: Chelsea Green. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781933392127. Daedalus Item Code: 00652 |
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| In the wake of weather and seismic disasters and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever accept global warming as a reality, and reckon that the peak of the petrochemical ... (Read More)
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| Darwin: British Naturalist
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Diane Cook. Vitali Konstantinov, illus.
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| Publisher: Mason Crest. Format: laminated cover.
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| ISBN: 9781590841457. Daedalus Item Code: 30986 |
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| Born in the spring of 1809, Charles Robert Darwin seemed to be an ordinary child in upper-middle-class England, as seen in this charmingly illustrated biography for readers 8 and up. Though Darwin ... (Read More)
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| Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information
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Vlatko Vedral.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199237692. Daedalus Item Code: 13709 |
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| For a physicist, all the world is information. The universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information; we are all transient patterns of information, passing on the recipe for our basic ... (Read More)
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| Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
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Amy Seidl. Bill McKibben, foreword.
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| Publisher: Beacon Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780807085844. Daedalus Item Code: 31066 |
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| Nowhere in the United States are the four seasons more central to the regional culture than in New England; indeed, from the natural observations of Robert Frost and Henry Thoreau to the homey ... (Read More)
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| Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language
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Dean Falk.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465002191. Daedalus Item Code: 02895 |
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| Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, toolmaking, and warfare, and eventually developed into ... (Read More)
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| The Finger: A Handbook
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Angus Trumble.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374154981. Daedalus Item Code: 20448 |
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| From the author of A Brief History of the Smile comes this complete index of the digit. Art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle in this mix of art and ... (Read More)
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