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| About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
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Adam Frank.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439169599. Daedalus Item Code: 23757 |
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| The Big Bang is all but dead, says astrophysicist Adam Frank; our universe's "beginning" is at an end, though we do not yet know what will replace it. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? ... (Read More)
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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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| Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
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Michael Erard.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451628258. Daedalus Item Code: 31740 |
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| What do an Italian cardinal, a Connecticut blacksmith, and a German diplomat have in common with an MIT linguist, a Hungarian translator, and a Scottish church organist? They all were, or are, hugely ... (Read More)
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| The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
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Mary Roach, ed. Tim Folger, series ed.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547350639. Daedalus Item Code: 30814 |
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| The author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk, and Packing for Mars, as well as the winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award (a category in which, ... (Read More)
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| The Big Idea: How Breakthroughs of the Past Shape the Future
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Timothy Ferris, foreword.
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| Publisher: National Geographic. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781426208102. Daedalus Item Code: 30599 |
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| From the Pythagorean theorem to the double helix of DNA, from the discovery of microscopic life forms to Einstein's general theory of relativity, the big ideas of science and technology shape our ... (Read More)
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| Bogus Science: or, Some People Really Believe These Things
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John Grant.
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| Publisher: FF&F. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781904332879. Daedalus Item Code: 23330 |
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| Following Discarded Science: Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time, and Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology, and Politics in Science, Hugo Award winner John Grant here looks at ... (Read More)
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| Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451621372. Daedalus Item Code: 29415 |
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| (First Edition, Signed Bookplate) One day in 2009, journalist Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A ... (Read More)
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