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  • Principles of Brewing Science
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    Principles of Brewing Science

    The science and mystique of what makes truly great beer is explored with logic and order. The long-awaited second edition of the George Fix classic looks at ways in which fundamental science impacts...
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  • The Boundaries of Natural Science
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    The Boundaries of Natural Science

    8 lectures, Dornach, Sep-Oct, 1920 (CW 322)"We must begin by acquiring the discipline that modern science can teach us. We must school ourselves in this way and then, taking the strict methodology,...
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  • Catastrophes!
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    Catastrophes!

    Devastating natural disasters have profoundly shaped human history, leaving us with a respect for the mighty power of the earth -- and a humbling view of our future. Paleontologist and geologist...
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  • Between Human and Machine
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    Between Human and Machine

    Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics,...
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  • The Martin Spirit
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    The Martin Spirit

    The field of science in Australia would be poorer if not for Charles Martin. The indefatigable Englishman served the physiology departments of burgeoning universities in Sydney and Melbourne at the...
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  • White Blood
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    White Blood

    Feeding babies is a topic of intense concern to mothers and of great interest to public health professionals. Milk has been the life and death of the newborn, and their fortunes have often turned on...
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  • Reconnection
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    Reconnection

    How did our relationship with nature become broken, why does it matter and how can we fix it? From a past in which we were embedded in the natural world, revolutions in farming, science and industry...
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  • In Praise of Folly
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    In Praise of Folly

    Travelling to the hard-living Dylan Thomas's Boathouse in Laugharne, Wales, psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple considered along the way another foible - the folly of eminent people. Praised for their...
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  • Ada's Algorithm
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    Ada's Algorithm

    Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life...
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  • Thinking Outside the Brain Box
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    Thinking Outside the Brain Box

    Is it our brain that produces consciousness? Many people, including most scientists, hold such a belief, founded on a conception of the world that is purely materialistic. This worldview sees the...
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  • Research Methods in Physical Activity
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    Research Methods in Physical Activity

    Text for upper-undergraduate or graduate students in physical activity, exercise science, fitness, physical therapy, rehabilitation, and occupational therapy programs; also a reference for...
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  • Picturing the Space Shuttle
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    Picturing the Space Shuttle

    Rare views of the beginnings of a historic space programAfter the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took an ambitious new direction closer to home: NASA's Space Shuttle...
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  • The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure
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    The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure

    An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but...
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  • The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure
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    The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure

    An in-depth analysis of why COVID-19 warnings failed and how to avert the next disaster Epidemiologists and national security agencies warned for years about the potential for a deadly pandemic, but...
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  • Unreason
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    Unreason

    UNREASON: Exploring Pseudoscience, Conspiracies, and Extraordinary Claims is a collection of forty-five of the best articles the legendary Skeptical Inquirer magazine has published in the past decade...
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  • Science Under Siege
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    Science Under Siege

    For more than thirty years, Skeptical Inquirer has steadfastly championed science and reason, and has been the leading voice for reliable scientific examination of the paranormal and other...
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  • The UFO Invasion
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    The UFO Invasion

    UFOs and space aliens are visiting Earth?! Now it's time to get the facts!Did a "flying saucer" really crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and have we been victims of a sinister government...
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  • The Hundredth Monkey
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    The Hundredth Monkey

    The Hundredth Monkey takes its title from philosopher Ron Amundson's expose of the "Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon," a claim about collective consciousness. Forty-three essays by thirty-nine authors,...
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  • Feedback
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    Feedback

    We live in a world where things come and go, rise and fall, grow and decay, tracing out cycles of change that are ordered and predictable.But amongst those well-behaved rhythms hide other phenomena,...
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  • The Unhackable Internet
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    The Unhackable Internet

    Like most aspects of modern existence, more and more of our financial lives have migrated wholly to the digital realm. With the benefits of ease that our Internet allows us, that transition also...
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  • Gregor Mendel
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    Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, is renowned as one of the world's most ingenious and influential scientists. Nonetheless, he remains misunderstood and enigmatic, his history shrouded in...
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  • Comet Madness
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    Comet Madness

    Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these...
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  • Evolution Talk
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    Evolution Talk

    Evolution helps us understand our own humble place in the rich tapestry of life. But what do we know about the theory of evolution itself? Based on the popular podcast of the same name, Evolution...
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  • Vitamin C
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    Vitamin C

    Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience is the compelling story of the history and science behind vitamin C. Vitamin C begins with scurvy, which afflicted Europe for...
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  • On Solid Ground
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    On Solid Ground

    On Solid Ground is intended to inform a general audience about what geologists know about the earth. It will do so by telling the stories of the people who made the discoveries. It will also...
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  • Space Oddities
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    Space Oddities

    Nothing captivates the human imagination like the vast unknowns of space. Ancient petroglyphs present renderings of the heavens, proof that we have been gazing up at the stars with wonder for...
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  • Mysteries and Secrets Revealed
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    Mysteries and Secrets Revealed

    Revealed uncovers the science behind mysteries of nature and secrets of frauds who have been fooling us for centuries. Beginning at the Greek oracle in Delphi, author Loren Pankratz, PhD. guides us...
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  • The Book of Proposition Bets
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    The Book of Proposition Bets

    In the modern world the theory of probability is used extensively in mathematics, science, engineering, medicine and, of course, gambling. A proposition bet is one that involves the use of...
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  • The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside
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    The Forgotten Genius of Oliver Heaviside

    Oliver Heaviside (1850 -1925) was one of the great pioneers of electrical science- his work led to huge advances in communications and became the bedrock of the subject of electrical engineering as...
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  • Researching National Security Intelligence
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    Researching National Security Intelligence

    Researchers in the rapidly growing field of intelligence studies face unique and difficult challenges ranging from finding and accessing data on secret activities, to sorting through the politics of...
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  • Rocket Girl
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    Rocket Girl

    AN UNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE HER STORY FINALLY TOLD. This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial...
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  • Concrete Planet
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    Concrete Planet

    This is the engrossing story of the world's most common man-made material - from ancient times to the present day. Concrete: We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us work within its walls. Yet,...
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  • Hearts and Minds
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    Hearts and Minds

    The world, we are told, is made up of particles and forces. Evolution, impelled by the single purpose of survival, is guided by chance through natural selection -- survival of the fittest. DNA, from...
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  • The Marriage of Sense and Thought
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    The Marriage of Sense and Thought

    This is a classic work on the relationship between science and human qualities, made available again for today's readers. The authors ask questions still relevant today, such as what role can science...
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  • Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
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    Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

    Popular culture fills the mind with a steady diet of fantasy, from tales of UFO landings and alien abductions, haunted houses, and communication with the dead to claims of miraculous cures by...
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  • Qualitative Research
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    Qualitative Research

    By exploring qualitative research through a unique analytic lens, then cumulatively elaborating on methods in each successive chapter, this innovative work cultivates a skill set and literacy base...
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  • Merchants of Knowledge
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    Merchants of Knowledge

    Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of...
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  • Amazon to Zodiac
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    Amazon to Zodiac

    Discover long-lost stories of science spanning thousands of years of Life on Earth in this journey through our universe's most peculiar properties. Mysteries of Science takes readers on a journey...
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  • Physics Around the Clock
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    Physics Around the Clock

    Physics not only shapes the cosmos but every aspect of our lives. Physics Around the Clock is an illuminating and fun journey through the physics of everyday life. From the thermodynamics of cooking...
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  • Everyday Extraordinary
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    Everyday Extraordinary

    Experiences with strange phenomena such as ghosts, UFOs, psychics, and miracle cures make for titillating stories. Many of us leave these stories as just that—stories—but for some people the rabbit...
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  • The New Order
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    The New Order

    What if the great discoveries of science came in the “wrong” order? The Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered well after the creation of algebra, classical physics, and chemistry, but are perhaps...
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  • The Doctors' Riot of 1788
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    The Doctors' Riot of 1788

    Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that...
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  • New Media and Society
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    New Media and Society

    A sociological approach to understanding new media's impact on society We use cell phones, computers, and tablets to access the Internet, read the news, watch television, chat with our friends, make...
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  • Powered by Smart
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    Powered by Smart

    Powered by Smart traces the techno-cultural evolutions that made artificial intelligence feel more familiar than futuristic. From wearables and streaming platforms to home voice assistants and AI...
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  • The Government of Things
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    The Government of Things

    Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialisms Materialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a renaissance...
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  • Atomic Bombshells
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    Atomic Bombshells

    Bullet bras, bazookas, bombshells, bikinis. In Atomic Bombshells, Isabelle Held challenges the usual narratives of how war technologies enter domestic use by following plastics on their journey into...
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