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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didnt Know About Math and the Arts

By John D. Barrow

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9780393352221 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 18, 2016, cover price $16.95

Absolute Motion: On the Stupidity of Modern Science

Product Description: Modern science on the subject says that there is a power in the universe, this power lies within the matter that exists in its domain which is a physical or natural object. Now, it is this power that enables every physical to resist any change in its present state of existence (or state of motion to be precise) ...read more

By Rupesh Sharma

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9781507800522 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 31, 2015, cover price $43.99 | About this edition: Modern science on the subject says that there is a power in the universe, this power lies within the matter that exists in its domain which is a physical or natural object.

9781505831139 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 1, 2014, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Modern science on the subject says that there is a power in the universe, this power lies within the matter that exists in its domain which is a physical or natural object.

Adequate Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Existence: A Layman's Observations of Life & the Cosmos

By Ronald P. Smolin

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9781891696305 | Bainbridge Books, February 12, 2012, cover price $27.95

Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis

By Andrew W. Appel (editor)

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9780691155746 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 7, 2012, cover price $28.95

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9780691164731 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, November 16, 2014), cover price $14.95

Albert Einstein: Historical and Cultural Perspectives : The Centennial Symposium in Jerusalem

Product Description: Although best known for his revolutionary scientific ideas, Albert Einstein was also an impassioned social critic, who challenged social and philosophical orthodoxies and championed individual liberty and dignity in the face of persecution and war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Akademyah Ha-Leumit Ha-Yisreelit Le-Madaim (corporate author), Yehuda Elkana and Gerald James Holton

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9780486298795 | Dover Pubns, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Although best known for his revolutionary scientific ideas, Albert Einstein was also an impassioned social critic, who challenged social and philosophical orthodoxies and championed individual liberty and dignity in the face of persecution and war.

Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

By Jim Al-Khalili

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9781250109637 | Picador USA, November 1, 2016, cover price $25.00

American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land

Product Description: From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, writers from Hector St...read more

By Sara M. Gregg (editor)

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9780300137095 | Yale Univ Pr, April 26, 2011, cover price $40.00

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9780300188042 | Yale Univ Pr, September 25, 2012, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment.

Anatomy Lessons

Product Description: Even today universities adhere to a time-honored hierarchy of professors, readers, lecturers, demonstrators, techniciansâa structure first established in the European anatomical âtheatersâ of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...read more

By Karen Ingham (photographer) and Professor Bernard Moxham (foreword by)

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9781904587149 | Dewi Lewis Pub, November 1, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Even today universities adhere to a time-honored hierarchy of professors, readers, lecturers, demonstrators, techniciansâa structure first established in the European anatomical âtheatersâ of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation

By Sunaura Taylor

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9781620971284 | New Pr, February 28, 2017, cover price $25.95

The Beavers of Popple's Pond: Sketches from the Life of an Honorary Rodent

Product Description: Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top hats...read more

By Patti A. Smith

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9780989310444 | Midpoint Trade Books Inc, May 12, 2014, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Tucked away in a remote stream valley in Vermont, a dynasty of beavers has nearly completed the restoration of the meadows and ponds that adorned this stream in the days before the beavers of a continent were turned into top hats.

A Bee in a Cathedral: And 99 Other Scientific Analogies

Product Description: 100 scientific truths and principles clearly explained using the power of analogy. The well-known "a bee in a cathedral" analogy describes the size of an atom and its nucleus in understandable terms. The analogy goes that if an atom were expanded to the size of a cathedral, the nucleus would be only about the size of a bee...read more

By Joel Levy

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9781554079599 | Firefly Books Ltd, June 16, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 100 scientific truths and principles clearly explained using the power of analogy.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

By Mary Roach (editor)

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9780547350639 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 4, 2011), cover price $21.95

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

By Tim Folger (editor)

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9780547799537 | 1 edition (Mariner Books, October 2, 2012), cover price $21.95

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013

By Tom Folger (foreword by) and Siddhartha Mukherjee (editor)

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9780544003439 | Houghton Mifflin, October 8, 2013, cover price $21.95

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014

By Tim Folger (editor)

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9780544003422 | Mariner Books, October 7, 2014, cover price $14.95

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

By Rebecca Skloot (editor)

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9780544286740 | Mariner Books, October 6, 2015, cover price $14.95

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

By Tim Folger

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9780544748996 | Mariner Books, October 4, 2016, cover price $14.95

The Best American Science Writing 2003

Collects top articles from numerous publications to cover the full range of scientific inquiry, including biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition to represent the year's most significant scientific developments.

By Jesse Cohen (editor) and Oliver W. Sacks (editor)

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9780066211633 | Ecco Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.

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9780060936518 | Perennial, September 1, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.

The Best American Science Writing 2005

A latest collection in the annual series features a selection of the year's most significant writings on key scientific developments in genetics, physics, cognition, evolutionary theory, astronomy, and other fields and is complemented by an accessible overview. Original. 30,000 first printing.

By Jesse Cohen (editor) and Alan Lightman (editor)

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9780060726423 | Perennial, September 1, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.

The Best American Science Writing 2006

Product Description: Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today's most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (American Scientist)...read more

By Atul Gawande (editor)

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9780060726447 | Perennial, September 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents essays on animals, the universe, physics, flowers, and other topics by contributors including Peter Canby, Natalie Angier, Michael Klesius, and Joseph D'Agnese.

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9781435281257 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today's most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (American Scientist).

The Best American Science Writing 2008

By Jesse Cohen (editor)

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9780061340413 | Perennial, September 1, 2008, cover price $14.95

The Best American Science Writing 2011

Product Description: The 2011 edition of the popular annual series that Kirkus Reviews hailed as “superb brain candy,” Best American Science Writing 2011 continues the tradition of gathering the most crucial, thought-provoking and engaging science writing of the year together into one extraordinary volume...read more

By Floyd Skloot (editor) and Rebecca Skloot (editor)

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9780062091246 | Original edition (Ecco Pr, September 27, 2011), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The 2011 edition of the popular annual series that Kirkus Reviews hailed as “superb brain candy,” Best American Science Writing 2011 continues the tradition of gathering the most crucial, thought-provoking and engaging science writing of the year together into one extraordinary volume.

The Best American Science Writing 2012

Product Description: The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that Kirkus Reviews calls, “Superb brain candy.” Edited by renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory, this collection contains the most engaging and provocative science writing of the year—gathering in one volume enthralling and eye-opening essays about the latest developments in biochemistry, physics, astronomy, genetics, evolutionary theory, cognition, and more...read more

By Michio Kaku (editor)

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9780062117915 | Original edition (Ecco Pr, September 4, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that Kirkus Reviews calls, “Superb brain candy.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2011

Product Description: Dynamic and informative, this anthology examines science topics both macrocosmic and microscopic. Featuring both young, unpublished writers as well as renowned Australian writers and thinkers—such as Paul Davies, Tim Flannery, Anna Funder, and Germaine Greer—this account includes insightful and powerful selections of important writing about science and nature...read more

By Peter Doherty (foreword by)

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9781742233000 | New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd, January 1, 2012, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Dynamic and informative, this anthology examines science topics both macrocosmic and microscopic.

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

Product Description: Australiaâs best science writing is showcased in this collection drawn from some of this the nationâs best publications. Questions such as these are addressed: How were Ned Kellyâs bones finally identified? What makes cockroaches some of the most successful creatures on the planet? Could some obscure bacteria finally rid the world of dengue fever? and How did infant reflux become the disease of the moment? From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply canât match...read more

By Elizabeth Finkel (editor)

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9781742233482 | New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd, April 1, 2013, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Australiaâs best science writing is showcased in this collection drawn from some of this the nationâs best publications.

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