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  • Reconstructing Earth:
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    Reconstructing Earth:

    The Earth's biological, chemical, and physical systems are increasingly shaped by the activities of one species-ours. In our decisions about everything from manufacturing technologies to restaurant menus, the health of the planet has become a product of...
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  • A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism
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    A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism

    The laws of physics provide clear-cut principles defining what is possible - and not possible - in the physical world. This book examines and critiques many widely held pseudoscientific beliefs in light of these laws. Rather than treating supernatural...
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  • Human Embryos, Human Beings
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    Human Embryos, Human Beings

    The overall purpose of Human Embryos, Human Beings is to establish the ontological status of the human embryo, in light of the most recent biological evidence. The thesis of the book is that sound philosophical reasoning and the available scientific...
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  • Anatomy Fundamentals: Life Science
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    Anatomy Fundamentals: Life Science

    Laminated Study Guide Designed as a companion guide for Science Fundamentals 2: Life Science a Humans, this 2-panel (4-page) guide is written for students grades 5a8. Each major system of the human body is featured through detailed, full-color...
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  • Has Science Found God?
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    Has Science Found God?

    In the past few years, a number of scientists have claimed that there is credible scientific evidence for the existence of God. In 1998, "Newsweek" went so far as to proclaim on its cover, "Science Finds God." Is this true? Are scientists close to...
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  • Science and Religion
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    Science and Religion

    Despite marked public interest, many leading scientists remain sceptical that there is much common ground between scientific knowledge and religious belief, or that science offers support to any of the fundamental beliefs of the world's religions. In...
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  • Einstein
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    Einstein

    Einstein continues to captivate, not only for his revolutionary scientific insights but also for his complex personality and personal pursuits. In this unique contribution to the Einstein literature, physicist and acclaimed science writer, Barry Parker...
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  • The Identity of Man
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    The Identity of Man

    Science has called into question many traditional assumptions about human nature. In the age of the human genome project, this truism is even more obvious than it was in 1965, when scientist and historian of ideas Jacob Bronowski first delivered the...
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  • Dear Professor Einstein
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    Dear Professor Einstein

    We are often amazed by the wide-eyed innocence and boundless curiosity of children and the questions they ask. And letters to and from children are always appealing, especially so when they are written to someone famous. In "Dear Professor Einstein",...
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  • Exploring Science Communication
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    Exploring Science Communication

    Exploring Science Communication demonstrates how science and technology studies approaches can be explicitly integrated into effective, powerful science communication research. Through a range of case studies, from climate change and public parks to...
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  • Turned Upside Down
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    Turned Upside Down

    Marko Pogacnik is an experienced lithopuncturist, or 'landscape-healer'. Through his work, he is attuned to the different planes and dimensions of the Earth, and in the late 1990s he became aware that the Earth had initiated a self-healing process. In...
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  • Wired Wilderness
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    Wired Wilderness

    American wildlife biologists first began fitting animals with radio transmitters in the 1950s. By the 1980s the practice had proven so useful to scientists and nonscientists alike that it became global. Wired Wilderness is the first book—length study of...
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  • Pursuing Power and Light
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    Pursuing Power and Light

    In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics - the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic field - were deeply rooted in the new technologies...
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  • Pursuing Power and Light
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    Pursuing Power and Light

    In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics -- the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic field -- were deeply rooted in the new technologies...
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  • Turtles
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    Turtles

    Ever wonder how many kinds of turtles there are? Or if they have teeth? Why so many turtles have yellow stripes on their neck? If it is wise to feed turtles in your neighborhood pond or lake? Whit Gibbons and Judy Greene, two internationally known turtle...
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  • Gold Medal Physics
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    Gold Medal Physics

    Nothing is quite as thrilling as watching superior athletes do the seemingly impossible. From Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass to Lance Armstrong's record—breaking climb of Alp d'Huez to David Beckham's astounding ability to bend a soccer kick, we marvel and...
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  • Gold Medal Physics:
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    Gold Medal Physics:

    Nothing is quite as thrilling as watching superior athletes do the seemingly impossible. From Doug Flutie's ''Hail Mary'' pass to Lance Armstrong's record—breaking climb of Alp d'Huez to David Beckham's astounding ability to bend a soccer kick, we marvel...
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  • Urban Mass Transit
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    Urban Mass Transit

    Technological choices depend on, and are part of, contests over political power, as the history of mass transit vividly illustrates. From horse—drawn omnibuses to subways to light rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that...
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  • Laboratory Disease
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    Laboratory Disease

    In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize–winning German...
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  • The Book
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    The Book

    The printed book is one of life's most frequently encountered technologies. Historian Nicole Howard provides a comprehensive survey of the evolution of this technology, tracing its development across many centuries and cultures.No other technology in...
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  • Waterpower in Lowell
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    Waterpower in Lowell

    Patrick M. Malone demonstrates how innovative engineering helped make Lowell, Massachusetts, a potent symbol of American industrial prowess in the 19th century. Waterpower spurred the industrialization of the early United States and was the principal...
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  • Women and the Machine:
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    Women and the Machine:

    From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern technology in popular culture have been both demeaning and celebratory. Depictions of...
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  • Objectivity in the Making
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    Objectivity in the Making

    How we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of nature—and whether we ever truly have done so—are questions that continue to engage both historians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual...
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  • Stronger than a Hundred Men
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    Stronger than a Hundred Men

    Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this ''picturesque artifact'' was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills...
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  • Steam Laundries
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    Steam Laundries

    Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities–products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully...
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  • The Rational Factory
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    The Rational Factory

    Searching for a ''rational'' workplace, turn-of-the-century engineers and industrial architects recast the factory itself in the image of the machine. Indeed, they considered the factory building the ''master machine,'' containing and coordinating all of...
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  • Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
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    Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

    In the nineteenth century, philology–especially comparative philology–made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative...
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  • Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space
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    Testing Aircraft, Exploring Space

    The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics--forerunner of today's NASA--emerged in 1915, when airplanes were curiosities made of wood and canvas and held together with yards of baling wire. At the time an unusual example of government intrusion (and...
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  • The History of the Barometer
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    The History of the Barometer

    For two centuries the barometer has been an indispensable laboratory instrument. Yet, despite its revolutionary influence on science, W. E. Knowles Middleton here offers the first complete history of the barometer as a scientific tool. Middleton relies...
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  • A History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology
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    A History of the Thermometer and Its Use in Meteorology

    This history of the thermometer includes controversy about its invention, the story of different scales, Fahrenheit and centigrade, and the history of the gradual scientific then popular understanding of the concept of temperature. Not until 1800 did...
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  • Earth's Magnetism in the Age of Sail
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    Earth's Magnetism in the Age of Sail

    From about 1600 to 1800 scientists and mariners made increasingly sophisticated attempts to understand the earth's magnetic field and use it in navigation. Europeans had long understood the difference between magnetic and true north, but why did it vary...
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  • Measure for Measure:
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    Measure for Measure:

    From the cubit used by Noah to build the ark to the angstrom in spectroscopy, units of measure have been integral to science and engineering. Throughout history, countless systems of measurement have been devised and then discarded as more precise and...
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  • The Papers of Thomas A. Edison
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    The Papers of Thomas A. Edison

    The fifth volume of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison covers Edison's invention and development of the first commercial incandescent electric light and power system. In the process he turned his famed Menlo Park laboratory into the first true research and...
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  • Women Scientists in America
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    Women Scientists in America

    ''A splendid book . . . Rossiter's tone in recounting [the struggle of women scientists] is never strident. A clear enough case emerges from the sources that she skillfully weaves into a tapestry of social trends and individual experience.''–New York...
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  • From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe
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    From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe

    During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a radical change occurred in the patterns and the framework of European thought. In the wake of discoveries through the telescope and Copernican theory, the notion of an ordered cosmos of 'fixed stars' gave...
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  • Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859
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    Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859

    Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's 'Origin of Species', this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant,...
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  • Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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    Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    The nineteenth century produced scientific and cultural revolutions that forever transformed modern European life. Although these critical developments are often studied independently, Richard G. Olson's Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe...
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  • Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change
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    Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change

    This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the anticipatory ethical issues associated with human genetic enhancement. It provides instructive clarifications for understanding the philosophy and science behind this long-standing bioethical debate,...
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  • Scientific Excellence and Equality at University Scientific Excellence and Equality at University
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    Scientific Excellence and Equality at University

    Based on the EU- funded project RESET (Redesigning Equality and Scientific Excellence Together) and written by members of seven European partner universities representing different disciplines, this book combines theory and practice to discuss and...
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  • From Fire To AI From Fire To AI
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    From Fire To AI

    From Fire to AI is a sweeping fusion of science, technology, and human evolution, tracing the arc of civilization from ancient flame to the rise of artificial intelligence. Through a blend of history, physics, philosophy, and mythic insight, author...
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  • I'll Teach You To Talk Back... For Real I'll Teach You To Talk Back... For Real
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    I'll Teach You To Talk Back... For Real

    Ever feel like your own brain is your biggest bully? You try to move forward, but anxiety hijacks the moment with worst-case scenarios and relentless self-doubt. You know the truth... but in the heat of the moment, your thoughts are louder than your...
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  • Decoding the Language of God Decoding the Language of God
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    Decoding the Language of God

    In his bestselling book, The Language of God, Francis Collins-the director of the National Institutes of Health and the scientist who led the Human Genome Project-attempted to harmonize the findings of scientific research with Christian belief. In this...
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  • Easy Electrical Experiments And How To Make Them Easy Electrical Experiments And How To Make Them
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    Easy Electrical Experiments And How To Make Them

    Embark on a journey of electrical discovery with "Easy Electrical Experiments And How To Make Them" by Leonard Perley Dickinson. This comprehensive handbook is designed for both beginners and advanced students, offering a wealth of lessons, experiments,...
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  • Classification Du Règne Végetal... Classification Du Règne Végetal...
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    Classification Du Règne Végetal...

    Classification Du Règne Végétal... par Théodore Polycarpe Brisson est une œuvre importante du 18ème siècle, offrant une perspective précieuse sur les premiers efforts de classification botanique. Ce livre...
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  • Dissertatio Physica De Electricitate ...... Dissertatio Physica De Electricitate ......
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    Dissertatio Physica De Electricitate ......

    Dissertatio Physica De Electricitate ... is a historical dissertation on the subject of electricity. Written in Latin by Amadeus Lullin, this work provides insight into the scientific thought and experimentation of the 18th century. This book will appeal...
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  • Geschichte Der Merckwürdigsten Pilze, Volume 2... Geschichte Der Merckwürdigsten Pilze, Volume 2...
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    Geschichte Der Merckwürdigsten Pilze, Volume 2...

    Geschichte Der Merckwürdigsten Pilze (History of the Most Remarkable Fungi), Volume 2, by James Bolton and Karl Ludwig Willdenow, offers a detailed exploration of various fungal species. Written in German, this historical text provides insights into the...
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