
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
The act of reading is a
miracle. Every new reader's
brain possesses the
extraordinary capacity to
rearrange itself beyond its
original abilities in order
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Dark Mission: The Secret History of Nasa
For most Americans, the word
NASA suggests a
squeaky-clean image of
technological infallibility.
Yet the truth is that NASA
was born in a lie, and has
concealed the truths about
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Prentice Hall Molecular Model Set For Organic Chemistry
This kit enables users to
build virtually all simple
molecules encountered in
organic chemistry. Includes
space-filling models that
simulate the true shape of
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived
It’s the twenty-first
century and let’s be
honest—things are a
little disappointing.
Despite every World’s
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Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality
IS EVERYTHING CONNECTED?Can we sense what's happening to loved ones thousands of miles away? Why are we sometimes certain of a caller's identity the instant the phone rings? Do intuitive hunches ... > read more -
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of S)
In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. ... > read more -
Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age
For the fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik, the behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that launched the superpowers into space The spy planes were driving Nikita Khrushchev mad. ... > read more -
Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods
Tactics of the Crescent Moon comes none too soon for deployed U.S. service personnel. Little, if any, of their battlefield intelligence has been tactically interpreted. U.S. analysts are generally ... > read more -
Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them
A superb guidebook described in Bookwatch as 'the home astronomer's "bible"', Turn Left at Orion provides all the information beginning amateur astronomers need to observe the Moon, the planets and a ... > read more -
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. ... > read more -
Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet
The first photographic tour of the surface of another planet has now been accomplished. Those who thrilled to the lunar beauty of Full Moon and the IMAX smash Roving Mars will marvel at this awesome, ... > read more -
First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
"On July 20, 1969, the world stood still to watch thirty-eight-year-old American astronaut Neil A. Armstrong become the first person ever to step on the surface of another heavenly body. Perhaps no ... > read more -
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Sputnik: The Shock of the Century
On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launched the space age. Sputnik, all of 184 pounds with only a radio transmitter inside its highly ... > read more
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