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Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life - SIGNED by Richard Cohen
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The Sun is so powerful, so much bigger than us, that it is a terrifying subject. Yet though we depend on it, we take it for granted. Amazingly the first book of its kind, CHASING THE SUN is a cultural and scientific history of our relationship with the star that gives us life. Richard Cohen, applying th ...Show more
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming -The Missing Science by Ian Plimer
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth's position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth's orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmosp ...Show more
The Invisible History of the Human Race : How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures by Christine Kenneally
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where ...Show more
Gem Magic - Precious Stones and Their Mystical Qualities by Raymond Walters
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Category: SCIENCE
Gem Magic guides the reader through the uses of and stories surrounding a cornucopia of stones, including how each stone is formed and what beliefs (both occult and scientific) have been associated with it. Precious stones, gems and crystals have been valued throughout history not only for their rarity ...Show more
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
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Category: SCIENCE
Ageing is the biggest cause of disease in our society. Cancer, heart disease, dementia, flu: the risk of all increase staggeringly rapidly as we near the end of life. What if we could slow down the process - or even stop it? Ageless introduces us to the cutting-edge research that is paving the way for a ...Show more
THE ARRL ANTENNA ANTHOLOGY by MARIAN S ANDERON (ed)
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
Observing the Constellations by John Sanford
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Contagion by Dr. Richard Gunderman
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Category: SCIENCE
As the outbreak of a new and deadly form of coronavirus dominates headlines and triggers fear and global recession, now is a good time to reflect on the history and science of transmissible diseases. Behind every disease is a story, from the natural history of the disease and its course in the individua ...Show more
Origins Reconsidered - In Search of What Makes Us Human by Richard Leakey; Roger Lewin
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
An account of Richard Leakey's search for not only human origins, but also the origin of humanity. Since writing Origins in 1978, he has shifted his studies from the eastern to the western shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya. Richard Leakey also wrote People of the Lake and The Making of Mankind.
Longitude by Dava Sobel
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest. The 'longtiude problem' was the thorniest deliema of the eighteenth century. Lacking the ability to measure longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literaly lost at sea.At the heart of Dava Sobel's fascinatin ...Show more
A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough
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Category: SCIENCE
See the world. Then make it better. 'I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us ...Show more