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2012 Venus Transit - Pedro Braganca & Geoff Gaherty
2012 Venus Transitartwork 2012 Venus Transit
Starry Night’s Complete Guide to a Once-In-a-Lifetime Event
Pedro Braganca & Geoff Gaherty
Genre: Astronomy
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: March 24, 2012
Publisher: Simulation Curriculum Corp.
Seller: Simulation Curriculum Corp.

Astronomers, amateur and professional, think of a Venus transit as one of the rarest and most exciting of celestial events.  The 2012 transit will be the last chance you will get in your lifetime to see a transit of Venus! The next one is in 105 years, in 2117. We hope this interactive guide, from the makers of the popular Starry Night desktop planetarium, will help you understand and enjoy the science, history, and beauty of this unique event. As a special treat, this year observers will also have the opportunity to view a rare annular solar eclipse a few weeks prior to the Venus transit. This book aims to help you make the most of these two exciting, rare events and provide the information you need to successfully understand, and enjoy them.  If you’d like a general introduction to stargazing, check out “Backyard Astronomy: An Introduction to Stargazing.” Available now on the iBookstore. About the Publisher Simulation Curriculum - develops and publishes best-in-class simulation software and curriculum for the K-12 and College markets world-wide.  Our award-winning flagship product Starry Night is the world's leading digital desktop planetarium.
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Backyard Astronomy - Steve Tomecek & Pedro Braganca
Backyard Astronomyartwork Backyard Astronomy
An Introduction to Stargazing
Steve Tomecek & Pedro Braganca
Genre: Astronomy
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: February 16, 2012
Publisher: Simulation Curriculum Corp.
Seller: Simulation Curriculum Corp.

If you are curious about the night sky and would like to learn more about the hobby of astronomy, then this new interactive book is for you. Written by a leading science education author, Backyard Astronomy: An Introduction to Stargazing is a beautifully illustrated guide that teaches you everything you need to know to start exploring the sky you see every night from your own backyard. You’ll learn all about “star hopping”, how to tell a planet from a star, the phases of the Moon and along the way you’ll also get tips on how to use binoculars and telescopes. With this interactive book as your guide, you’ll be exploring the sky in no time!
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Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
Moonwalking with Einsteinartwork Moonwalking with Einstein
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: March 3, 2011
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Seller: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.
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Love, Life, and Elephants - Daphne Sheldrick
Love, Life, and Elephantsartwork Love, Life, and Elephants
An African Love Story
Daphne Sheldrick
Genre: Nature
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: May 8, 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Seller: Macmillan / Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenya's rich variety of wildlife, and her pioneering work in perfecting the right husbandry and milk formula have saved countless elephants, rhinos, and other baby animals from certain death. In this heartwarming and poignant memoir, Daphne shares her amazing relationships with a host of orphans, including her first love, Bushy, a liquid-eyed antelope; Rickey-Tickey-Tavey, the little dwarf mongoose; Gregory Peck, the busy buffalo weaver bird; Huppety, the mischievous zebra; and the majestic elephant Eleanor, with whom Daphne has shared more than forty years of great friendship. But this is also a magical and heartbreaking human love story between Daphne and David Sheldrick, the famous Tsavo Park warden. It was their deep and passionate love, David's extraordinary insight into all aspects of nature, and the tragedy of his early death that inspired Daphne's vast array of achievements, most notably the founding of the world-renowned David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Orphans' Nursery in Nairobi National Park, where Daphne continues to live and work to this day. Encompassing not only David and Daphne's tireless campaign for an end to poaching and for conserving Kenya's wildlife, but also their ability to engage with the human side of animals and their rearing of the orphans expressly so they can return to the wild, Love, Life, and Elephants is alive with compassion and humor, providing a rare insight into the life of one of the world's most remarkable women.
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Breasts - Florence Williams
Breastsartwork Breasts
A Natural and Unnatural History
Florence Williams
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: May 7, 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W. W. Norton

An engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate. Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it’s sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing. Breasts are getting bigger, arriving earlier, and attracting newfangled chemicals. Increasingly, the odds are stacked against us in the struggle with breast cancer, even among men. What makes breasts so mercurial—and so vulnerable? In this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to pregnancy to menopause, taking her from a plastic surgeon’s office where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas to the laboratory where she discovers the presence of environmental toxins in her own breast milk. The result is a fascinating exploration of where breasts came from, where they have ended up, and what we can do to save them.
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Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Airartwork Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Genre: Nature
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: April 22, 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds... Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the Wild. Taking the reader step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his readers shaking on the edge of their seat. Beyond the terrors of this account, however, he also peers deeply into the myth of the world's tallest mountain. What is is about Everest that has compelled so many poeple--including himself--to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense? Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement. From the Paperback edition.
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Good Calories, Bad Calories - Gary Taubes
Good Calories, Bad Caloriesartwork Good Calories, Bad Calories
Gary Taubes
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: September 25, 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like white flour, easily digested starches, and sugars, and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. In this groundbreaking book, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Free Will - Sam Harris
Free Willartwork Free Will
Sam Harris
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: March 6, 2012
Publisher: Free Press
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.

A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality -- as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement -- without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. In this enlightening book, Sam Harris argues that this truth about the human mind does not undermine morality or diminish the importance of social and political freedom, but it can and should change the way we think about some of the most important questions in life.
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The Fabric of the Cosmos - Brian Greene
The Fabric of the Cosmosartwork The Fabric of the Cosmos
Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene
Genre: Physics
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: February 10, 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe , comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Ocean of Life - Callum Roberts
The Ocean of Lifeartwork The Ocean of Life
The Fate of Man and the Sea
Callum Roberts
Genre: Earth Sciences
Price: $14.99
Expected Publish Date: May 24, 2012
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Seller: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" ( The New York Times ) Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. We have always been fish eaters, from the dawn of civilization, but in the last twenty years we have transformed the oceans beyond recognition. Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma , The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
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The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean
The Disappearing Spoonartwork The Disappearing Spoon
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Sam Kean
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: July 12, 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Seller: Hachette Book Group

The Periodic Table is one of man's crowning scientific achievements. But it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. We learn that Marie Curie used to provoke jealousy in colleagues' wives when she'd invite them into closets to see her glow-in-the-dark experiments. And that Lewis and Clark swallowed mercury capsules across the country and their campsites are still detectable by the poison in the ground. Why did Gandhi hate iodine? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium? And why did tellurium lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? From the Big Bang to the end of time, it's all in THE DISAPPEARING SPOON.
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Space Chronicles - Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang
Space Chroniclesartwork Space Chronicles
Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Neil deGrasse Tyson & Avis Lang
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: February 27, 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W. W. Norton

A thought-provoking and humorous collection on NASA and the future of space travel. Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold—with a five- or possibly ten-year delay until the next launch of astronauts from U.S. soil—Tyson’s views on the future of space travel and America’s role in that future are especially timely and urgent. This book represents the best of Tyson’s commentary, including a candid new introductory essay on NASA and partisan politics, giving us an eye-opening manifesto on the importance of space exploration for America’s economy, security, and morale. Thanks to Tyson’s fresh voice and trademark humor, his insights are as delightful as they are provocative, on topics that range from the missteps that shaped our recent history of space travel to how aliens, if they existed, might go about finding us .
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A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
A Brief History of Timeartwork A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: March 1, 1988
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

#1  NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends? Told in language we all can understand,  A Brief History of Time  plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.
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The Social Conquest of Earth - Edward O. O. Wilson
The Social Conquest of Earthartwork The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. O. Wilson
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: April 9, 2012
Publisher: Liveright
Seller: W. W. Norton

#13 on NPR's Bestseller List From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career. Where did we come from? What are we? Where are we going? In a generational work of clarity and passion, one of our greatest living scientists directly addresses these three fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, and science while “overturning the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” ( Discover magazine). Refashioning the story of human evolution in a work that is certain to generate headlines, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of biology and social behavior to show that group selection, not kin selection, is the primary driving force of human evolution. He proves that history makes no sense without prehistory, and prehistory makes no sense without biology. Demonstrating that the sources of morality, religion, and the creative arts are fundamentally biological in nature, Wilson presents us with the clearest explanation ever produced as to the origin of the human condition and why it resulted in our domination of the Earth’s biosphere.
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The Drunkard's Walk - Leonard Mlodinow
The Drunkard's Walkartwork The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: May 13, 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.   By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.   From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Why Math Isn't an Awful Nerd - Jason Marshall
Why Math Isn't an Awful Nerdartwork Why Math Isn't an Awful Nerd
Jason Marshall
Genre: Mathematics
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: June 14, 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Seller: Macmillan / Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

In "Why Math isn't an Awful Nerd" Jason Marshall, the guy behind the incredibly popular Math Dude's Quick and Dirty Tips podcast, shows readers how insanely easy and downright elegant math can be. Marshall focuses on perfect squares and patterns (hint: they're called perfect squares for a reason), and clearly -- and most importantly concisely -- explains step-by-step how numbers work. Multiple games and puzzles re-enforce the concepts Marshall presents, making for a crazy fun, accidental learning experience. Perfect for anyone looking for a leg-up on their algebra homework, that won't put them to sleep. And if this e-book leaves you wanting even more! more! more! there's The Math Dude's Quick and Dirty Guide to Algebra , with even more math number games, explanations, and -- dare we say it -- fun.
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The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
The Grand Designartwork The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: September 7, 2010
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? In this startling and lavishly illustrated book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about these and other abiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by brilliance and simplicity. According to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history. The authors explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature. They conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a “theory of everything”: the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, which, if confirmed, would represent the ultimate triumph of human reason.
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DK Natural History: Insects - DK Publishing
DK Natural History: Insectsartwork DK Natural History: Insects
The Definitive Visual Guide
DK Publishing
Genre: Nature
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: January 19, 2012
Publisher: DK Publishing
Seller: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

This book explores a group of animals that first appeared on land more than 400 million years ago—insects. A comprehensive introduction places insects in the context of other living things, and an extensive catalog showcases the amazing variety of earth’s most abundant—and often bizarre—animals. From butterflies and moths to dragonflies and grasshoppers, from beetles and bees to ants and earwigs, hundreds of individual specimens are profiled in incredible detail, each accompanied by clear, concise text and key data. Conceived from the ground up to take advantage of this amazing new technology, DK Natural History: Insects brings the subject to life like never before, and offers an amazing range of interactive features, including: • Audio • Video • Interactive galleries DK Natural History: Insects includes: • Over 80 interactive and illustrated pages • A comprehensive introduction explaining how insects fit into the natural world, which also explains their anatomy and life cycles • Illustrated profiles of nearly 300 animals • Hundreds of crystal-clear photographs, many specially commissioned • Contextual images DK Natural History: Insects forms part of an ongoing series that is a landmark in illustrated reference publishing and was authenticated by experts at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. The complete series offers an unrivalled visual survey of Earth’s natural history, giving a clear overview of the natural world with over 6,000 species featured. DK - Dorling Kindersley - is an award-winning publisher of distinctive, highly visual products for adults and children. We produce books, ebooks, and apps for consumers in over 100 countries and 60 languages. Founded in London in 1974 we are enormously proud to be the world’s leading illustrated reference publisher. Everything we make strives to inform, inspire, and entertain readers of all ages.
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The Hidden Reality - Brian Greene
The Hidden Realityartwork The Hidden Reality
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Brian Greene
Genre: Physics
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: January 25, 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and accessible book to date -- a book that takes on the grandest question: Is ours the only universe? There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range of different "multiverse" proposals emerges from theories developed to explain the most refined observations of both subatomic particles and the dark depths of space: a multiverse in which you have an infinite number of doppelgängers, each reading this sentence in a distant universe; a multiverse comprising a vast ocean of bubble universes, of which ours is but one; a multiverse that endlessly cycles through time, or one that might be hovering millimeters away yet remains invisible; another in which every possibility allowed by quantum physics is brought to life. Or, perhaps strangest of all, a multiverse made purely of math. Greene, one of our foremost physicists and science writers, takes us on a captivating exploration of these parallel worlds and reveals how much of reality's true nature may be deeply hidden within them. And, with his unrivaled ability to make the most challenging of material accessible and entertaining, Greene tackles the core question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? Sparked by Greene's trademark wit and precision, The Hidden Reality is at once a far-reaching survey of cutting-edge physics and a remarkable journey to the very edge of reality -- a journey grounded firmly in science and limited only by our imagination. From the Hardcover edition.
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Bonk - Mary Roach
Bonkartwork Bonk
The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: April 6, 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W. W. Norton

“Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It’s compulsively readable.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.
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Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Life - DK Publishing
Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Lifeartwork Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Life
The Definitive Visual Guide
DK Publishing
Genre: Nature
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: January 19, 2012
Publisher: DK Publishing
Seller: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Conceived from the ground up to take advantage of this amazing new technology, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life brings this subject to life like never before, and offers an amazing range of interactive features, including: • Video • Interactive galleries • Interactive images • Specially designed 3-D models and skeletons • Close-up details Spanning the history of life on Earth from its first emergence over 3.8 million years ago to the rise of the human race, Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life tells the incredible story of evolution in all its forms. Traveling through millions of years, this comprehensive reference book charts the appearance, development, and extinction of lifeforms throughout geological time, with hundreds of examples profiled and re-created in vivid illustrated detail. The ever-popular and always intriguing dinosaurs feature extensively, but Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life provides a complete overview of living things, also covering plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life includes: • Over 250 interactive and illustrated pages • A comprehensive introduction to life on Earth • Introductions to each period through geological time, including continental and climate changes • Over 200 illustrated profiles, including almost 100 dinosaurs • Hundreds of unique images and illustrations • Specially commissioned digital 3-D artwork • Dozens of specially photographed skeletons and fossils • Timelines tracking the development of life on earth • Overviews of key groups of animals and plants DK - Dorling Kindersley - is an award-winning publisher of distinctive, highly visual products for adults and children. We produce books, ebooks, and apps for consumers in over 100 countries and 60 languages. Founded in London in 1974 we are enormously proud to be the world’s leading illustrated reference publisher. Everything we make strives to inform, inspire, and entertain readers of all ages.
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Secrets of Mental Math - Arthur Benjamin & Michael Shermer
Secrets of Mental Mathartwork Secrets of Mental Math
The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
Arthur Benjamin & Michael Shermer
Genre: Mathematics
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: August 8, 2006
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

These simple math secrets and tricks will forever change how you look at the world of numbers. Secrets of Mental Math will have you thinking like a math genius in no time. Get ready to amaze your friends -- and yourself -- with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and -- maybe for the first time -- make mathematics fun. Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You'll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. No matter what your age or current math ability, Secrets of Mental Math will allow you to perform fantastic feats of the mind effortlessly. This is the math they never taught you in school. Also available as an eBook
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Turing's Cathedral - George Dyson
Turing's Cathedralartwork Turing's Cathedral
The Origins of the Digital Universe
George Dyson
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $14.99
Publish Date: March 6, 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

“It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence,” twenty-four-year-old Alan Turing announced in 1936. In Turing’s Cathedral , George Dyson focuses on a small group of men and women, led by John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, who built one of the first computers to realize Alan Turing’s vision of a Universal Machine. Their work would break the distinction between numbers that mean things and numbers that do things—and our universe would never be the same.   Using five kilobytes of memory (the amount allocated to displaying the cursor on a computer desktop of today), they achieved unprecedented success in both weather prediction and nuclear weapons design, while tackling, in their spare time, problems ranging from the evolution of viruses to the evolution of stars.   Dyson’s account, both historic and prophetic, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II. The proliferation of both codes and machines was paralleled by two historic developments: the decoding of self-replicating sequences in biology and the invention of the hydrogen bomb. It’s no coincidence that the most destructive and the most constructive of human inventions appeared at exactly the same time.   How did code take over the world? In retracing how Alan Turing’s one-dimensional model became John von Neumann’s two-dimensional implementation, Turing’s Cathedral offers a series of provocative suggestions as to where the digital universe, now fully three-dimensional, may be heading next.
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The Tiger - John Vaillant
The Tigerartwork The Tiger
A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
John Vaillant
Genre: Nature
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: August 24, 2010
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random: the tiger is apparently engaged in a vendetta. Injured, starving, and extremely dangerous, the tiger must be found before it strikes again. As he re-creates these extraordinary events, John Vaillant gives us an unforgettable portrait of this spectacularly beautiful and mysterious region. We meet the native tribes who for centuries have worshipped and lived alongside tigers, even sharing their kills with them. We witness the arrival of Russian settlers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, soldiers and hunters who greatly diminished the tiger populations. And we come to know their descendants, who, crushed by poverty, have turned to poaching and further upset the natural balance of the region. This ancient, tenuous relationship between man and predator is at the very heart of this remarkable book. Throughout we encounter surprising theories of how humans and tigers may have evolved to coexist, how we may have developed as scavengers rather than hunters, and how early Homo sapiens may have fit seamlessly into the tiger's ecosystem. Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain. Beautifully written and deeply informative, The Tiger circles around three main characters: Vladimir Markov, a poacher killed by the tiger; Yuri Trush, the lead tracker; and the tiger himself. It is an absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably to a final showdown in a clearing deep in the taiga. From the Hardcover edition.
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Death by Black Hole - Neil deGrasse deGrasse Tyson
Death by Black Holeartwork Death by Black Hole
And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Neil deGrasse deGrasse Tyson
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: November 17, 2007
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W. W. Norton

“One of today’s best popularizers of science.”— Kirkus Reviews Loyal readers of the monthly “Universe” essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson’s talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and childlike enthusiasm. Here Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining just what would happen to your body if you fell into one, while “Hollywood Nights” assails Hollywood’s feeble efforts to get its night skies right. Tyson is the world’s best-known astrophysicist, and he’s at his best here, as a natural teacher who simplifies the complexities of astrophysics while sharing his infectious excitement for our universe.
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain - Marc Lewis
Memoirs of an Addicted Brainartwork Memoirs of an Addicted Brain
A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs
Marc Lewis
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: March 6, 2012
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Seller: The Perseus Books Group, LLC

Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escapes from reality by way of cough medicine, alcohol, and marijuana. In Berkeley, California, in its hippie heyday, he found methamphetamine and LSD and heroin. He sniffed nitrous oxide in Malaysia and frequented Calcutta's opium dens. Ultimately, though, his journey took him where it takes most addicts: into a life of addiction, desperation, deception, and crime. But unlike most addicts, Lewis recovered and became a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience. In Memoirs of an Addicted Brain , he applies his professional expertise to a study of his former self, using the story of his own journey through addiction to tell the universal story of addictions of every kind. He explains the neurological effects of a variety of powerful drugs, and shows how they speak to the brain—itself designed to seek rewards and soothe pain—in its own language. And he illuminates how craving overtakes the nervous system, sculpting a synaptic network dedicated to one goal—more—at the expense of everything else.
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Gifts of the Crow - John Marzluff & Tony Angell
Gifts of the Crowartwork Gifts of the Crow
How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans
John Marzluff & Tony Angell
Genre: Nature
Price: $11.99
Expected Publish Date: June 5, 2012
Publisher: Free Press
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.

CROWS ARE MISCHIEVOUS, playful, social, and passionate. They have brains that are huge for their body size and exhibit an avian kind of eloquence. They mate for life and associate with relatives and neighbors for years. And because they often live near people -- in our gardens, parks, and cities -- they are also keenly aware of our peculiarities, staying away from and even scolding anyone who threatens or harms them and quickly learning to recognize and approach those who care for and feed them, even giving them numerous, oddly touching gifts in return. With his extraordinary research on the intelligence and startling abilities of corvids -- crows, ravens, and jays -- scientist John Marzluff teams up with artist-naturalist Tony Angell to tell amazing stories of these brilliant birds in Gifts of the Crow. With narrative, diagrams, and gorgeous line drawings, they offer an in-depth look at these complex creatures and our shared behaviors. The ongoing connection between humans and crows -- a cultural coevolution -- has shaped both species for millions of years. And the characteristics of crows that allow this symbiotic relationship are language, delinquency, frolic, passion, wrath, risk-taking, and awareness -- seven traits that humans find strangely familiar. Crows gather around their dead, warn of impending doom, recognize people, commit murder of other crows, lure fish and birds to their death, swill coffee, drink beer, turn on lights to stay warm, design and use tools, use cars as nutcrackers, windsurf and sled to play, and work in tandem to spray soft cheese out of a can. Their marvelous brains allow them to think, plan, and reconsider their actions. With its abundance of funny, awe-inspiring, and poignant stories, Gifts of the Crow portrays creatures who are nothing short of amazing. A testament to years of painstaking research and careful observation, this fully illustrated, riveting work is a thrilling look at one of nature's most wondrous creatures.
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Statics For Dummies - James H. Allen, III, PE, PhD
Statics For Dummiesartwork Statics For Dummies
James H. Allen, III, PE, PhD
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: August 13, 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Seller: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

The fast and easy way to ace your statics course Does the study of statics stress you out? Does just the thought of mechanics make you rigid? Thanks to this book, you can find balance in the study of this often-intimidating subject and ace even the most challenging university-level courses. Statics For Dummies gives you easy-to-follow, plain-English explanations for everything you need to grasp the study of statics. You'll get a thorough introduction to this foundational branch of engineering and easy-to-follow coverage of solving problems involving forces on bodies at rest; vector algebra; force systems; equivalent force systems; distributed forces; internal forces; principles of equilibrium; applications to trusses, frames, and beams; and friction. Offers a comprehensible introduction to statics Covers all the major topics you'll encounter in university-level courses Plain-English guidance help you grasp even the most confusing concepts If you're currently enrolled in a statics course and looking for a friendlier way to get a handle on the subject, Statics For Dummies has you covered.
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Packing for Mars - Mary Roach
Packing for Marsartwork Packing for Mars
The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Mary Roach
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: April 4, 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W. W. Norton

“America’s funniest science writer” ( Washington Post ) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations. As Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.
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A Universe from Nothing - Lawrence M. Krauss & Richard Dawkins
A Universe from Nothingartwork A Universe from Nothing
Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Lawrence M. Krauss & Richard Dawkins
Genre: Physics
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: January 10, 2012
Publisher: Free Press
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.

"WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?" Lawrence Krauss's provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of religious and philosophical debates about the existence of God, and it's the supposed counterargument to anyone who questions the need for God. As Krauss argues, scientists have, however, historically focused on other, more pressing issues -- such as figuring out how the universe actually functions, which can ultimately help us to improve the quality of our lives. Now, in a cosmological story that rivets as it enlightens, pioneering theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the groundbreaking new scientific advances that turn the most basic philosophical questions on their heads. One of the few prominent scientists today to have actively crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss reveals that modern science is addressing the question of why there is something rather than nothing, with surprising and fascinating results. The staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories are all described accessibly in A Universe from Nothing, and they suggest that not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. With his characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations, Krauss takes us back to the beginning of the beginning , presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved -- and the implications for how it's going to end. It will provoke, challenge, and delight readers as it looks at the most basic underpinnings of existence in a whole new way. And this knowledge that our universe will be quite different in the future from today has profound implications and directly affects how we live in the present. As Richard Dawkins has described it: This could potentially be the most important scientific book with implications for supernaturalism since Darwin. A fascinating antidote to outmoded philosophical and religious thinking, A Universe from Nothing is a provocative, game-changing entry into the debate about the existence of God and everything that exists. "Forget Jesus," Krauss has argued, "the stars died so you could be born."
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The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earthartwork The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: September 22, 2009
Publisher: Free Press
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold more than 2 million copies in English alone. He revolutionized the way we see natural selection in the seminal bestseller The Selfish Gene . Now, he launches a fierce counterattack against proponents of "Intelligent Design" in his latest New York Times bestseller, The Greatest Show on Earth . "Intelligent Design" is being taught in our schools; educators are being asked to "teach the controversy" behind evolutionary theory. There is no controversy. Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence -- from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics -- to make the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." His unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument, exposing the absurdities of the creationist position, into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.
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The Information - James Gleick
The Informationartwork The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
Genre: History
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: March 1, 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.   The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.   And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. From the Hardcover edition.
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The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
The Elegant Universeartwork The Elegant Universe
Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $15.99
Publish Date: October 17, 2003
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Seller: W. W. Norton

Now with a new preface (not in any other edition) that will review the enormous public reception of the relatively obscure string theory—made possible by this book and an increased number of adherents amongst physicists—The Elegant Universe "sets a standard that will be hard to beat" (New York Times Book Review). Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and all matter—from the smallest quarks to the most gargantuan supernovas—is generated by the vibrations of microscopically tiny loops of energy. Today physicists and mathematicians throughout the world are feverishly working on one of the most ambitious theories ever proposed: superstring theory. String theory, as it is often called, is the key to the Unified Field Theory that eluded Einstein for more than thirty years. Finally, the century-old antagonism between the large and the small-General Relativity and Quantum Theory-is resolved. String theory proclaims that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe, from the frantic dancing of subatomic quarks to the majestic swirling of heavenly galaxies, are reflections of one grand physical principle and manifestations of one single entity: microscopically tiny vibrating loops of energy, a billionth of a billionth the size of an atom. In this brilliantly articulated and refreshingly clear book, Greene relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind twentieth-century physics' search for a theory of everything. Through the masterful use of metaphor and analogy, The Elegant Universe makes some of the most sophisticated concepts ever contemplated viscerally accessible and thoroughly entertaining, bringing us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works.
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Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku
Physics of the Impossibleartwork Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Michio Kaku
Genre: Physics
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: March 11, 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships -- the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future , renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe's physical laws may permit in the near and distant future.Entertaining, informative, and imaginative, Physics of the Impossible probes the very limits of human ingenuity and scientific possibility. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The World of the Dinosaurs - Dougal Dixon
The World of the Dinosaursartwork The World of the Dinosaurs
An Exciting Guide to Prehistoric Creatures, with 350 Fabulous Detailed Drawings of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Beasts, and the Places They Lived
Dougal Dixon
Genre: Nature
Price: $1.99
Publish Date: October 12, 2011
Publisher: Anness Publishing
Seller: Anness Publishing Ltd

This fascinating book charts the evolution of the dinosaurs and shows how different species developed and adapted in response to the changing world landscape, climate and available food sources. A clear illustrative chart explains dinosaur ancestry and evolutionary lines of all of these creatures, and lavish anatomical illustrations show the main differences between the major groups of dinosaurs. The book covers fossil finds, environments in which prehistoric beasts lived, and 50 profiles of the most well known dinosaurs. Each entry is presented with a description of its body shape and size, lifestyle, period of time in which it lived and evolutionary line, and is illustrated with precise portraits according to the latest scientific understanding. Dougal Dixon began his career as a geological consultant for a publishing company in 1973, nurturing a special interest in fossils and evolution. He is now a full-time writer specializing in earth sciences and has written many children's books and encylopedia with a special interest in dinosaurs. He has made several television appearances and acted as a consultant and animator for a video programme about dinosaurs. This book covers fossil finds, environments in which prehistoric beasts lived, and 50 profiles of the most well known dinosaurs. 
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Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Silent Springartwork Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
Genre: Nature
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: October 22, 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Seller: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. “Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction - John Austin
Mini Weapons of Mass Destructionartwork Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
Build Implements of Spitball Warfare
John Austin
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: October 1, 2009
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Seller: Chicago Review Press, Inc. DBA Independent Publishers Group

"We love this MacGyverization of office supplies, and the book is probably the perfect Christmas gift for the man who has nothing, or the cubicle monkey in your life." —Charlie Sorrel, Wired.com " Mini Weapons is the Holy Grail: a beautifully illustrated guide for making all manner of miniature munitions, from slingshots and catapults to mines and bazookas, with supplies that can be found in any household, office, or classroom." —Gizmodo.com  With the advent of modern household products and office supplies—binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and matches and barbeque lighters—troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an impressive, if somewhat miniaturized, arsenal. Detailed, step-by-step instructions for each project are provided, including materials and ammo lists, clear diagrams, and construction tips. The 35 devices include catapults, slingshots, minibombs, darts, and combustion shooters—build a tiny trebuchet from paper clips and a D-cell battery, wrap a penny in a string of paper caps to create a surprisingly impressive "bomb," and convert champagne party poppers and pen casings into a three-barreled bazooka. Finally, plans are provided for a top secret concealing book to hide your stash, as well as targets—cardboard critters, big-headed aliens, and zombies—for shooting practice. Never let your cubicle, home office, or personal space go undefended again! 
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Illustrated Theory of Everything - Stephen Hawking
Illustrated Theory of Everythingartwork Illustrated Theory of Everything
The Origin and Fate of the Universe
Stephen Hawking
Genre: Physics
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: October 1, 2009
Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc,
Seller: Phoenix Books, Inc.

Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the world’s greatest minds, a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped reconfigure models of the universe and define what’s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context; it would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World. Hawking presents a series of seven lectures—covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theory—that capture not only the brilliance of Hawking’s mind but his characteristic wit as well. Of his research on black holes, which absorbed him for more than a decade, he says, “It might seem a bit like looking for a black cat in a coal cellar.”  Hawking begins with a history of ideas about the universe, from Aristotle’s determination that the Earth is round to Hubble’s discovery, more than 2,000 years later, that the universe is expanding. Using that as a launching pad, he explores the reaches of modern physics, including theories on the origin of the universe (e.g., the Big Bang), the nature of black holes, and space-time. Finally, he poses the questions left unanswered by modern physics, especially how to combine all the partial theories into a “unified theory of everything.” “If we find the answer to that,” he claims, “it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason.” Hawking believes that advances in theoretical science should be “understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists.” In this book, he offers a fascinating voyage of discovery about the cosmos and our place in it. It is a book for anyone who has ever gazed at the night sky and wondered what was up there and how it came to be.
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Masters of the Planet - Ian Tattersall
Masters of the Planetartwork Masters of the Planet
The Search for Our Human Origins
Ian Tattersall
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: March 27, 2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Seller: Macmillan / Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

50,000 years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct.  So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the Planet?   Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, Ian Tattersall takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special.  Surveying a vast field from initial bipedality to language and intelligence, Tattersall argues that Homo sapiens acquired a winning combination of traits that was not the result of long term evolutionary refinement. Instead it emerged quickly, shocking their world and changing it forever.
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The Demon in the Freezer - Richard Preston
The Demon in the Freezerartwork The Demon in the Freezer
A True Story
Richard Preston
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $7.99
Publish Date: October 8, 2002
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

"The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines." -Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer , his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone , a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headquarters of the U.S. biological weapons program and now the epicenter of national biodefense. Peter Jahrling, the top scientist at Usamriid, a wry virologist who cut his teeth on Ebola, one of the world's most lethal emerging viruses, has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox-and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science, the smallpox virus now resides, officially, in only two high-security freezers-at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia, at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in the freezer has been set loose. It is almost certain that illegal stocks are in the possession of hostile states, including Iraq and North Korea. Jahrling is haunted by the thought that biologists in secret labs are using genetic engineering to create a new superpox virus, a smallpox resistant to all vaccines. Usamriid went into a state of Delta Alert on September 11 and activated its emergency response teams when the first anthrax letters were opened in New York and Washington, D.C. Preston reports, in unprecedented detail, on the government's response to the attacks and takes us into the ongoing FBI investigation. His story is based on interviews with top-level FBI agents and with Dr. Steven Hatfill. Jahrling is leading a team of scientists doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where Jahrling is reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if his last bold experiment fails. From the Hardcover edition.
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Brain Wars - Mario Beauregard
Brain Warsartwork Brain Wars
The Scientific Battle Over the Existence of the Mind and the Proof That Will Change the Way We Live Our Lives
Mario Beauregard
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: April 24, 2012
Publisher: HarperOne
Seller: HarperCollins

The brain can be weighed, measured, scanned, dissected, and studied. The mind that we conceive to be generated by the brain, however, remains a mystery. It has no mass, no volume, and no shape, and it cannot be measured in space and time. Yet it is as real as neurons, neurotransmitters, and synaptic junctions. It is also very powerful. ?from Brain Wars Is the brain "a computer made of meat," and human consciousness a simple product of electrical impulses? The idea that matter is all that exists has dominated science since the late nineteenth century and led to the long-standing scientific and popular understanding of the brain as simply a collection of neurons and neural activity. But for acclaimed neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, Ph.D., along with a rising number of colleagues and others, this materialist-based view clashes with what we feel and experience every day. In Brain Wars, Dr. Beauregard delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the role of the brain and mind. Filled with engaging, surprising, and cutting-edge scientific accounts, this eye-opening book makes the increasingly indisputable case that our immaterial minds influence what happens in our brains, our bodies, and even beyond our bodies. Examining the hard science behind "unexplained" phenomena such as the placebo effect, self-healing, brain control, meditation, hypnosis, and near-death and mystical experiences, Dr. Beauregard reveals the mind's capabilities and explores new answers to age-old mind-body questions. Radically shifting our comprehension of the role of consciousness in the universe, Brain Wars forces us to consider the immense untapped power of the mind and explore the profound social, moral, and spiritual implications that this new understanding holds for our future.
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 - Mary Roach
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011artwork The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
The Best American Series
Mary Roach
Genre: Essays
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: October 4, 2011
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Seller: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

The Best American Series(C) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 includes Atul Gawande, Jonathan Franzen, Deborah Blum, Malcolm Gladwell, Oliver Sacks, Jon Mooallem, Jon Cohen, Luke Dittrich, and others
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Wesley the Owl - Stacey O'Brien
Wesley the Owlartwork Wesley the Owl
The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
Stacey O'Brien
Genre: Nature
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: August 19, 2008
Publisher: Free Press
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.

On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl -- a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet's ability to fly was forever compromised, and he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O'Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to care for the helpless owlet and give him a permanent home. Wesley the Owl is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together. With both a tender heart and a scientist's eye, O'Brien studied Wesley's strange habits intensively and first-hand -- and provided a mice-only diet that required her to buy the rodents in bulk (28,000 over the owl's lifetime). As Wesley grew, she snapped photos of him at every stage like any proud parent, recording his life from a helpless ball of fuzz to a playful, clumsy adolescent to a gorgeous, gold-and-white, macho adult owl with a heart-shaped face and an outsize personality that belied his 18-inch stature. Stacey and Wesley's bond deepened as she discovered Wesley's individual personality, subtle emotions, and playful nature that could also turn fiercely loyal and protective -- though she could have done without Wesley's driving away her would-be human suitors! O'Brien also brings us inside the prestigious research community, a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls sometimes flew freely from office to office and eccentric, brilliant scientists were extraordinarily committed to studying and helping animals; all of them were changed by the animal they loved. As O'Brien gets close to Wesley, she makes important discoveries about owl behavior, intelligence, and communication, coining the term "The Way of the Owl" to describe his inclinations: he did not tolerate lies, held her to her promises, and provided unconditional love, though he was not beyond an occasional sulk. When O'Brien develops her own life-threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal. Enhanced by wonderful photos, Wesley the Owl is a thoroughly engaging, heartwarming, often funny story of a complex, emotional, non-human being capable of reason, play, and, most important, love and loyalty. It is sure to be cherished by animal lovers everywhere.
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory - Albert Einstein, Robert W. Lawson (Translator)
Relativity: The Special and General Theoryartwork Relativity: The Special and General Theory
Albert Einstein, Robert W. Lawson (Translator)
Genre: Physics
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: MobileReference
Seller: MobileReference

Relativity: The Special and General Theory is an introduction to Einstein's space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, first published in December 1916. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively. Einstein's theories shocked the world with their counterintuitive results, including the dissolution of absolute time. In this book, he brings a simplified form of his profound understanding of the subject to the layperson. In the words of Einstein: "The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." The book is challenging at times but, when approached patiently, proves itself one of the most lucid explanations of Relativity to be found anywhere. — Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow - Wade Davis
The Serpent and the Rainbowartwork The Serpent and the Rainbow
Wade Davis
Genre: Science & Nature
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: October 5, 2010
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti -- from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti's countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
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What the Robin Knows - Jon Young
What the Robin Knowsartwork What the Robin Knows
How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Jon Young
Genre: Nature
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: May 8, 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Seller: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Companion audio files are available at www.hmhbooks.com/whattherobinknows A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided in his work and teaching by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning in to their vocalizations and behavior, we can acquire much of this wisdom for our own pleasure and benefit; and the birds' companion calls and warning alarms are just as important as their songs. Birds are the sentries -- and our key to understanding the world beyond our front door. Unwitting humans create a zone of disturbance that scatters the wildlife. Respectful humans who heed the birds acquire an awareness that radically changes the dynamic. We are welcome in their habitat. The birds don't fly away. The larger animals don't race off. No longer hapless intruders, we now find, see, and engage the deer, the fox, the red-shouldered hawk -- even the elusive, whispering wren. Deep bird language is an ancient discipline, perfected by Native peoples the world over. Finally, science is catching up. This groundbreaking book unites the indigenous knowledge, the latest research, and the author's own experience of four decades in the field to lead us toward a deeper connection to the animals and, in the end, a deeper connection to ourselves.
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What a Plant Knows - Daniel Chamovitz
What a Plant Knowsartwork What a Plant Knows
A Field Guide to the Senses
Daniel Chamovitz
Genre: Life Sciences
Price: $10.99
Expected Publish Date: May 22, 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Seller: Macmillan / Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC

How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insect's tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they actually remember the weather?   For centuries we have collectively marveled at plant diversity and form -- from Charles Darwin's early fascination with stems to Seymour Krelborn's distorted doting in Little Shop of Horrors . But now, in What a Plant Knows , the renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz presents an intriguing and scrupulous look at how plants themselves experience the world -- from the colors they see to the schedules they keep. Highlighting the latest research in genetics and more, he takes us into the inner lives of plants and draws parallels with the human senses to reveal that we have much more in common with sunflowers and oak trees than we may realize. Chamovitz shows how plants know up from down, how they know when a neighbor has been infested by a group of hungry beetles, and whether they appreciate the Led Zeppelin you've been playing for them or if they're more partial to the melodic riffs of Bach. Covering touch, sound, smell, sight, and even memory, Chamovitz encourages us all to consider whether plants might even be aware of their surroundings.   A rare inside look at what life is really like for the grass we walk on, the flowers we sniff, and the trees we climb, What a Plant Knows offers us a greater understanding of science and our place in nature.
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The Canon - Natalie Angier
The Canonartwork The Canon
A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Natalie Angier
Genre: Reference
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: April 1, 2011
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Seller: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angier distills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials, delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop science education. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing the simple question “What do you wish everyone knew about your field?" The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyride through the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world around us and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angier proves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guide in her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and the basic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology, cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Even science-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "to make the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffable affable."
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The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes - Lucy H. Spelman, DVM & Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
The Rhino with Glue-On Shoesartwork The Rhino with Glue-On Shoes
And Other Surprising True Stories of Zoo Vets and their Patients
Lucy H. Spelman, DVM & Ted Y. Mashima, DVM
Genre: Nature
Price: $13.99
Publish Date: June 24, 2008
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Seller: Random House Digital, Inc. (Books)

A moray eel diagnosed with anorexia...A herd of bison whose only hope is a crusading female doctor from Paris...A vet desperately trying to save an orphaned whale by unraveling the mystery of her mother's death...This fascinating book offers a rare glimpse into the world of exotic animals and the doctors who care for them. Here pioneering zoological veterinarians -- men and women on the cutting edge of a new medical frontier -- tell real-life tales of daring procedures for patients weighing tons or ounces, treating symptoms ranging from broken bones to a broken heart, and life-and-death dramas that will forever change the way you think about wild animals and the bonds we share with them. From a root canal on a three-thousand pound hippo to one doctor's heartbreaking effort to save a critically ill lemur, here are acts of rescue, kindness, and cross-disciplinary cooperation between zoo vets and other top scientists. We meet highly trained specialists racing against time and circumstance to save the lives of some of the most exotic animals in the world. Shoes designed for racehorses help a rhinoceros with a debilitating foot disease. A kangaroo survives spinal surgery performed by a leading human doctor. These unforgettable stories capture the bonds that develop between vets and their animal patients, the ingenious measures many vets have tried, and the remarkable new insights modern medical technology is giving us into the physiology and behaviors of wild animals. At once heart-quickening and clinically fascinating, the stories in this remarkable collection represent some of the most moving and unusual cases ever taken on by zoological vets. A chronicle of discovery, compassion, and cutting-edge medicine, The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes is must reading for animal lovers, science buffs, and anyone who loves a well-told tale. From the Hardcover edition.
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Kaplan 101 Biology Practice Questions - Kaplan
Kaplan 101 Biology Practice Questionsartwork Kaplan 101 Biology Practice Questions
Kaplan
Genre: Mathematics
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: August 17, 2010
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Seller: Kaplan, Inc.

Kaplan presents 101 Biology Practice Questions to help you study basic biology fundamentals.  While this eBook is not specific to any test, the questions will prepare you for a number of different tests. You can use them to quiz yourself, practice your skills, or just become familiar with the format of standardized biology test questions. Inside this learning tool you will find everything you need to quickly study and boost your success in a convenient and easy-to-navigate eBook. Kaplan helps you learn while you're on the go! This eBook features 101 biology multiple choice questions and answer explanations covering a wide range of topics, including: Cellular/Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics, Organism Biology, Classical Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Diversity, and Population Genetics. Kaplan 101 Biology Practice Questions : Portable practice so you can work through questions at your own pace, on your own schedule, anytime and anywhere. About Kaplan Publishing Kaplan is one of the nation's top publishers of academic and professional development resources. Kaplan publishes titles on topics such as test prep, college and graduate school admissions, academic and career development in the legal, medical, education and general business fields. The Kaplan mission is to help individuals achieve their educational and career goals
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