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What If You Had Animal Teeth?For use in schools and libraries only. If you could have any animal's front teeth, whose would you choose? What If You Had Animal Teeth? takes children on a fun, informative, and imaginative journey as they explore what it would be like if their...
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Problem Solved: Bar Model Math: Grade 4: Tackle Word Problems Using the Singapore MethodHelp students solve word problems with confidence using the proven Singapore bar modeling method. Twenty mini-lessons teach students how to use this effective strategy to tackle problems with multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, and more. Each lesson comes with four problems that increase in difficulty,...
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society"Engrossing ... [An] expedition through the hidden and sometimes horrifying microbial domain." --Wall Street Journal "Fascinating--and full of the kind of factoids you can't wait to share." --Scientific American Parasites can live only inside another animal and, as Kathleen McAuliffe reveals, these tiny organisms...
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The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World's Most Critical ResourceClimate change, population increase, and the demands made by the growing number of people adopting urban lifestyles and western diets threaten the world's supply of freshwater, edging us closer to a global water crisis, with dire implications for agriculture, the economy, the environment, and...
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Einstein's Theory of RelativityA book in which one great mind explains the work of another great mind in terms comprehensible to the layman is a significant achievement. This is such a book. Max Born is a Nobel Laureate (1955) and one of the world's great physicists: in...
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Lectures on Classical Differential Geometry: Second EditionElementary, yet authoritative and scholarly, this book offers an excellent brief introduction to the classical theory of differential geometry. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students who will find it not only highly readable but replete with illustrations carefully selected to help...
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Finite Elements and ApproximationA powerful tool for the approximate solution of differential equations, the finite element is extensively used in industry and research. This book offers students of engineering and physics a comprehensive view of the principles involved, with numerous illustrative examples and exercises.Starting with continuum boundary...
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Elementary Nuclear Theory: Second EditionThis compact treatment of the basic theory of nuclear forces, structures, and reactions bases its explanations almost entirely on the familiar results of nonrelativistic quantum theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it presents careful and concise discussions of experimental ideas.The three-part treatment...
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Quantum Theory of Many-Particle SystemsSinglemindedly devoted to its job of educating potential many-particle theorists...deserves to become the standard text in the field. -- Physics TodayThe most comprehensive textbook yet published in its field and every postgraduate student or teacher in this field should own or have access to...
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Topological Graph TheoryClear, comprehensive introduction emphasizes graph imbedding but also covers thoroughly the connections between topological graph theory and other areas of mathematics. Discussion of imbeddings into surfaces is combined with a complete proof of the classification of closed surfaces. Authors explore the role of voltage...
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The Nature of Light and Colour in the Open AirRainbows, mirages, multiple moons, black snow, colored shadows, irridescent clouds, halos, green surf, and hundreds of other natural phenomena are clearly and simply explained in this unique book by Professor Minnaert of the University of Utrecht. Written with complete lucidity, it is a book...
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed CivilizationFor more than a century we've known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred...
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Physics II for DummiesA plain-English guide to advanced physics Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Physics II For Dummies walks you through the essentials and gives you easy-to-understand and digestible guidance on this often intimidating...
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The Physics of Star TrekHow does the Star Trek universe stack up against the real universe? What warps when you're traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between a wormhole and a black hole? Are time loops really possible, and can I kill my grandmother before I...
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Harnessing ComplexityHarnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all...
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Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental BondThe phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant but essential, and how do they affect our bodies and our minds?In Friendship, science journalist Lydia Denworth takes us in...
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite PlanetWhen the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York. Immediately, the public, professionals, and press were...
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest AnimalsUntil a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller--including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more--roamed the earth. These great beasts, or "megafauna," lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With...
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True or Poo?: The Definitive Field Guide to Filthy Animal Facts and FalsehoodsFrom the scientist duo behind the New York Times bestselling sensation Does It Fart? comes a new illustrated compendium of animal facts and falsehoods, from the head-scratching to the repulsive After Does It Fart? comes Number Two...a fully illustrated compendium of animal facts and...
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The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming WorldThe 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutionsClimate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We...
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