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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that ... > read more -
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to ... > read more -
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
As a boy, Brian Greene read Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus and was transformed. Camus, in Greene's paraphrase, insisted that the hero triumphs "by relinquishing everything beyond immediate ... > read more -
Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History (Princeton Field Guides)
This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen ... > read more -
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom ... > read more -
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
Throw out your fossils—the best evidence for evolution is now found in DNA.DNA is the genetic blueprint of all creatures. Scientists have only recently discovered that it is also a living ... > read more -
Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
For more than 30 years, Ira Flatow has interviewed Nobel winners and experts like E.O Wilson and Carl Sagan on NPR. In this book, he gives us the best of what he's learned from those conversations, ... > read more -
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ... > read more -
Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most ... > read more -
The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type
Approach page design in a revolutionary new way! Unlike other graphic design books, The Elements of Graphic Design reveals the secrets of successful graphic design from the unique perspective of the ... > read more
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