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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
In 1898 John H. Patterson arrived in East Africa with a mission to build a railway bridge over the Tsavo River. What started out as a simple engineering problem, however, soon took on almost mythical ... > read more -
The First Men on the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to orbit the Earth. One month later, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American nation to land a man on the Moon before the decade was out. ... > read more -
Michigan Trees, Revised and Updated: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region
Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees has been, since it was first introduced in 1913, the must-have reference book for anyone who wants to know about the trees of this unique North ... > read more -
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed by Stephen Jay Gould as “the founder of ... > read more -
Harmonies Of The World (On the Shoulders of Giants)
Book Five of Johannes Kepler's great masterpiece on planetary motion is presented with an introduction by the ultimate authority on this topic, noted physicist and bestselling author Stephen Hawking. ... > read more -
David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition
There has been an explosion of recent discoveries in biblical archaeology. These finds have shed powerful light on figures and stories from the Bible -- and completely changed what we know about some ... > read more -
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.
Since fossils have presumably existed for millions of years, why don't we see much paleontological thought from ancient writers? Classics scholar Adrienne Mayor suggests that we can, in fact, learn ... > read more -
An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion
This book describes a serious look at defending the planet in the event of an extra-terrestrial invasion. Travis Taylor, et al, have written the definitive book on the defense of earth against a ... > read more -
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space: Apogee Books Space Series 12 (Apogee Books Space Series)
Rocket man, I think it's going to be a long, long time. When Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill published the first edition of High Frontier back in the mid 1970s (just four years after "Rocket ... > read more -
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
A wide-ranging exploration of our universe -- from "what makes the wind blow?" to "how was the moon formed?" -- in questions-and-answer format, written in vintage Asimov style. "A fine introduction ... > read more
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