The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet by Arthur Turrell
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Category: Science and Nature
From a young, award-winning scientist, a look at one of the most compelling and historic turning points of our time--the race to harness the power of the stars and produce controlled fusion, creating a practically unlimited supply of clean energy. The most important energy-making process in the univers ...Show more
Gemstones by Cally Hall; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: DK Handbooks Ser.
Packed with more than 800 vivid full-color photographs of more than 130 varieties of cut and uncut stones, organic gemstones, and precious metals, this concise guide combines its stunning visuals with a systematic approach that enables you to recognize each gemstone instantly. Published by Dorling Kinde ...Show more
The Clan of One-Breasted Women by Terry Tempest Williams
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The Clan of One-Breasted Women, bringing together the best of writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams' essays, explores the impact of nuclear testing, the importance of environmental legislation, and the spirit of conservation.
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
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Category: Science and Nature | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise.
The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine by Brendan Borrell
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Category: Science and Nature
An enthralling real-life thriller that tells the full inside story of the high-stakes race for a lifesaving vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemicThe global race to find a coronavirus vaccine is the defining story of our times. In The First Shots, award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell brings this high- ...Show more
The Other World: Animal Portraits by Brad Wilson (By (photographer)); Dan Flores (Text by)
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Category: Science and Nature
This spectacular collection of photographs is a follow-up to Wilson's very successful book, Wild Life, which was published in 2014. With 80 percent new work, stunning landscape format design, a new introduction by Wilson about his philosophy and process, and an essay by Dan Flores, author of the New Yor ...Show more
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel
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Category: Science and Nature
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made vi ...Show more
In Pursuit of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer's by Joseph Jebelli
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Category: Science and Nature
For readers of Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Henry Marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of history's most fascinating and confounding diseases--Alzheimer's--from its discovery more than 100 years ago to today's race towards a cure. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE ...Show more
Science in the Soul -Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Science and Nature
Science in the Soul is a kaleidoscopic argument for the power and the glory of science. Breathtaking, brilliant and passionate, the essays, journalism, lectures and letters in this new collection make an unanswerable case for the wonder of scientific discovery and its power to stir the imagination; for ...Show more
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Category: Science and Nature
'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished philosopher ...Show more
From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett
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Category: Science and Nature
"What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. This is Daniel C. Dennett's brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions, exploring the deep i ...Show more
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What they Teach Us by Frans De Waal
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Category: Science and Nature
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal intelligence, Mama's Last Hug delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals.Mama's Last Hug ...Show more