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| Special Relativity: A First Encounter
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Domenico Giulini.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780198567479. Daedalus Item Code: 30728 |
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| Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity provides the foundations of our knowledge of space and time. Without it, our understanding of the world and its place in the universe would be ... (Read More)
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| A Student's Guide to Natural Science
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Stephen M. Barr.
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| Publisher: ISI Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781932236927. Daedalus Item Code: 31161 |
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| Physicist Stephen Barr's lucid guide aims to give students a broad outline of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times to the present, with a primary focus on ... (Read More)
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| Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose
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Deirdre Barrett.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393068481. Daedalus Item Code: 11096 |
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| Our instinctual drives for food, sex, or territorial protection evolved for life on the savannahs 10,000 years ago, not in today's world of densely populated cities, technological innovations, and ... (Read More)
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| Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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Douglas Hofstadter & Emmanuel Sander.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465018475. Daedalus Item Code: 38543 |
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| Analogy is the essential component of all thinking—this is the simple but unorthodox premise that Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander defend in this brilliant, lucid, and detailed exploration of ... (Read More)
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| Suspended Animation: Six Essays on the Preservation of Bodily Parts
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F. Gonzalez-Crussi.
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| Publisher: Kaplan. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781607141235. Daedalus Item Code: 10760 |
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| The six personal, introspective essays here guide readers through a wealth of natural medical phenomena—both the everyday and the monstrously irregular—and conduct us from an instinctive, perhaps ... (Read More)
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| This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking
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John Brockman, ed.
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| Publisher: Harper Perennial. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780062109392. Daedalus Item Code: 29278 |
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| What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, posed to such scientists and thinkers as ... (Read More)
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| Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human
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Chip Walter.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780802716255. Daedalus Item Code: 20403 |
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| Among the countless traits and behaviors that separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, says science writer Chip Walter, six stand out—our big toe, opposable thumb, oddly shaped pharynx, and ... (Read More)
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| Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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Barry Estabrook.
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| Publisher: Andrews McMeel. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781449423452. Daedalus Item Code: 29499 |
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| Americans have come to expect supermarket produce sections to carry an abundant, year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red tomatoes. But in this intelligent expansion of his James Beard ... (Read More)
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| Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
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Amir D. Aczel.
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| Publisher: Macmillan. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230613744. Daedalus Item Code: 32001 |
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| Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, has an atomic nucleus so heavy that it is highly unstable, and if broken apart it unleashes the tremendous energy that holds atoms together. Here ... (Read More)
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