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Discover a range of science books, including fiction novels about science, intriguing science facts, and essential physics books. Explore the best sci-fi books and top-selling science titles
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AI MoralityA philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives - and what moral problems it might bring, showing us what to be wary of, and what to be hopeful for. There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI...
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Abū Bakr Ibn Al-ʿarabī (D. 543/1148): Legacy and Impact on the Transmission of Al-Ghazālī's (D. 505/1111) Thought in Al-AndalGathering the proceedings of a symposium organized on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the qāḍī Ibn al-ʿArabī's (d. 543/1148) passing, this volume brings together a diverse array of contributions highlighting his legacy, his relationship with his master al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111), his unparalleled...
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Why Ecosystems Matter: Preserving the Key to Our SurvivalEvery one of Earth's teeming ecosystems is an evolutionary cauldron Christopher Wills's claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills describes how, by using the...
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What Lies Beneath: My Life as a Forensic Search and Rescue Expert'From cold cases and serial killers to the death of a spy, Peter's true life story is as gripping as the finest thriller' - Peter James, author of Picture You Dead Discover the truth beyond the police tape in What Lies Beneath, the arresting...
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Vibrations and WavesThe text material in the present volume is intended as an introduction to the study of vibrations and waves in general, but the discussion is almost entirely confined to mechanical systems. Thus, except in a few places, an adequate preparation for it is a...
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Understanding the Nature‒nurture DebateAuthor: Eric TurkheimerPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 150Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781108958165
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The Wonder of Quantum Spin: 200 Years of Discovery in the Golden Era of Mathematics and PhysicsThe Wonder of Quantum Spin is a confection of the history and the science of quantum spin sprinkled with quotations and excerpts from pioneers who lived and breathed science. The book unfolds two centuries of the golden era in mathematics and physics, where first...
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The Psychology and Neuroscience of Hugging: A Multidisciplinary PerspectiveThis Springer essential aims to present the various research branches on the topic of hugging and to unite them in a multidisciplinary perspective. Hugs are an important part of close social relationships and, according to current research, can positively contribute to mental and physical...
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The Platte: Channels in TimeArising in two separate streams high in the Rockies and flowing east across the plains to meet the Missouri near Omaha, Nebraska, the Platte River is a microcosm of the geologic, plant, animal, and human worlds. Way station for the sandhill cranes, home of...
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The North Carolina Flood: July 14, 15, 16, 1916This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Neuropathogenesis of Mood Disorders: A Review on Neuropsychiatric DisordersNeurology does not include study of the limbic system as this is regarded as more relevant to psychiatry. Paradoxically, psychiatrists receive no education on the anatomy, physiology or neuropathology of the limbic system either during their specialist training programs internationally. Their focus is purely...
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The Lamb's TestimonyFollow me in my journey as I discover who I am and why the government wanted me dead before I had a chance to figure it out. Even after I found out I was the messiah, it took me years to determine the significance...
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The Huxleys: An Intimate History of EvolutionA New Yorker and Economist Best Book of the Year Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history. This momentous biography tells the story of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T. H. Huxley ("Darwin's Bulldog") and his grandson,...
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The Heart of the Brain: The Hypothalamus and Its HormonesHow hormonal signals in one small structure of the brain--the hypothalamus--govern our physiology and behavior. As human beings, we prefer to think of ourselves as reasonable. But how much of what we do is really governed by reason? In this book, Gareth Leng considers...
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The Geology of South AfricaThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Genesis Enigma: Why the First Book of the Bible Is Scientifically Accurate"The single Darwinian bicentenary publication most liable to reconcile religion and science." -Booklist (starred review) Andrew Parker is known within the scientific community as the man who best explained the "big bang" in the diversity of life that occurred over 500 million years ago....
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The Coming Storm: The Impending Crisis on Water - And How to Avoid ItFollowing Russia's aggressive war in Ukraine, the world is suddenly gripped by concerns over energy security. And yet, there is an even greater threat ahead - one that is even more likely to shape the events of the twenty-first century than the competition for...
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The Barber, the Astronaut, and the Golf BallIn 1971, famed astronaut Alan Shepard returned from the moon and went to get a haircut. Before settling into the barber's chair in Webster, Texas, near NASA's Mission Control, Shepard gave his longtime barber and friend, Carlos Villagomez, an autographed golf ball. During his...
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Telling the Bees: An Interspecies MonologueIn a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts, theories, musings, and meditations. The result was an apian journal that...
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Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages: Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin Physiologus, Ca. 700-1000This book is a new cultural and intellectual history of the natural world in the early medieval Latin West. It examines the complex relationships between language, texts, and the physical world they describe, focusing on the manuscripts of the Physiologus--the foundation of the medieval...
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