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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Given the recent assertions
made by the Bush
administration, it would
seem that coal is a
glistening new energy
... > full story
Rocket Boys
Inspired by Werner von Braun
and his Cape Canaveral team,
14-year-old Homer Hickam
decided in 1957 to build his
own rockets. They were his
ticket out of Coalwood, West
Virginia, a mining town that
everyone knew was dying--ev ... > full story
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Jared Diamond's Collapse:
How Societies Choose to Fail
or Succeed is the
glass-half-empty follow-up
to his Pulitzer
Prize-winning Guns, Germs,
and Steel. While Guns,
Germs, and Steel explained
... > full story
Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering: An Integrated Approach
This Second Edition of
Fundamentals of Materials
Science and Engineering
continues to take an
integrated approach to the
... > full story
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The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the ... > read more -
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: ... > read more -
Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (Fifth Edition)
Michael D. Coe's Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region's ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been ... > read more -
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach--an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. Can thought arise out of ... > read more -
Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals (Smithsonian Handbooks)
The Smithsonian Handbook of Rocks and Minerals combines 600 vivid full--color photos with descriptions of more than 500 specimens. This authoritative and systematic photographic approach, with words ... > read more -
The World Without Us
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity’s impact on the planet: he asks us to ... > read more -
Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford History of Art)
The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. ... > read more -
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through ... > read more -
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the ... > read more -
100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names
Illustrations by Ippy Patterson. From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred ... > read more
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