Science / Tech
Science / Tech
Are Bananas Radioactive?: Questions and Answers About Surprising Science
What is snot made of? Can trees talk to each other? How was the Grand Canyon made?Discover the answers to these questions and more in this wild and wacky book filled with mind-blowing science facts for young readers. With an...
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Ender's Game (The Ender Saga, 1)
From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game―adapted to film starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford―is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war.In order to develop...
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Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame
For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, in close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives to the problems, ethical and otherwise, that...
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Ecology and Natural Resource Development in the Western Highlands of Cameroon: Issues in Natural Resource Management
The densely populated Bamenda Highlands of Cameroon remains one of the regions with the greatest land degradation problems in the country. Factors responsible for this include climate change, the hilly nature or topographic layout of the land, and human interference...
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Will Post for Profit: How Brands and Influencers Are Cashing In on Social Media
How to earn a profit on social media.Since the rise of social media, Influencer Marketing has emerged as one of the most powerful alternatives to traditional marketing channels that have become too expensive and ineffective for the majority of businesses...
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Trusting Technology: Mastering Technology for Non-Tech Leaders
Trusting Technology is about adapting to new ways of life and work. Technology merely provides the platform.When we talk about the challenges of technology, we’re really talking about the challenges of improvement—the ways we change and the lessons we learn on...
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (Hardcover)
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (Hardcover)
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTHFROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out...
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How to Handle a Crowd: The Art of Creating Healthy and Dynamic Online Communities
A guide to successful community moderation exploring everything from the trenches of Reddit to your neighborhood Facebook page.Don’t read the comments. Old advice, yet more relevant than ever. The tools we once hailed for their power to connect people and...
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The Google Story: For Google's 10th Birthday
Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a...
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
THE UNTOLD TECH STORY OF OUR TIME What does it mean to be smart? To be human? What do we really want from life and the intelligence we have, or might create? With deep and exclusive reporting, across hundreds of interviews, New York...
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A Curious Life: From Rebel Orphan to Innovative Scientist
The funny, moving, and surprising story of how Thomas Haines—who grew up in the famed Graham School orphanage—became a prominent scientist, social activist, New York City landlord, educator, and founder of the City University of New York Medical School.A Curious...
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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
A New York Times Notable Book A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics “Max Chafkin’s The Contrarian is much more than a consistently shocking biography...
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Posters for a Green New Deal: 50 Removable Posters to Inspire Change
"The Green New Deal is the most exciting idea in American politics for decades––and as theses powerful posters make clear, it’s grabbed the attention not just of policy wonks but of artists who can translate these ideas into images that...
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Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life
Extinction and Evolution recounts the research of paleontologist Niles Eldredge, whose discoveries overturned Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as a slow and inevitable process. In his 1859 treatise On the Origin of Species, Darwin posited that evolutionary changes happen very slowly over...
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Seeing Colour: A Journey Through Goethe's World of Colour
A thought-provoking read for color enthusiasts and experts alike, and an accessible route to a new way of seeing color. Features a Foreword by renowned physicist Arthur Zajonc. Color is everywhere. From blue skies to red sunsets, from the first...
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Great Maps The world's masterpieces explored and explained
The world's finest maps explored and explained.From Ptolemy's world map to the Hereford's Mappa Mundi, through Mercator's map of the world to the latest maps of the Moon and Google Earth, "Great Maps" provides a fascinating overview of cartography through...
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Everyday Mathematics Made Easy: A Quick Review of What You Forgot You Knew, VOL 2
This easy-to-understand handbook teaches essential math concepts using real-life examples so you can confidently apply math skills in everyday situations such as personal finance, cooking, home repair, and shopping.For many of us, math can conjure memories of frustration and embarrassment, yet math...
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The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond
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The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond
The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang to the present day and beyond.Starting with the moment of the Big Bang—at exactly one ten-millionth of a trillionth of...
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Astrology: An In Focus Workbook: A Guide to Understanding Yourself Through the Sun, Moon, and Stars (Volume 3)
Learn the characteristics and workings of the zodiac signs, along with how to create your own astrology chart with the information and exercises in this beautifully designed workbook. What signs are you compatible with? Why are you not getting along...
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Water Babies: The Hidden Lives of Baby Wetland Birds
Never-before-seen photographs of baby birds of the marshlands from a noted birding photographer Naturalist William Burt is known for seeking out wild places and elusive birds―and none fit the bill quite so well as the creatures featured in this book....
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Mossback: Ecology, Emancipation, and Foraging for Hope in Painful Places
In Mossback, David Pritchett traverses geography, history, and genealogy to explore landscapes and mythologies at the intersection of environmental, indigenous, and social justice. This collection of a dozen essays searches terrain—from the heart of a swamp to the modern grid...
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The Last Speaker of Bear: My Encounters in the North
The Last Speaker of Bear is the patchwork story of a life spent traveling in the north from Alaska to Siberia. Lawrence Millman first visited northern Canada as a child and has spent four decades since on some thirty-five expeditions in...
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Birds of New York: Over 100 Plates
In 1910 and 1914, a two-volume study of New York's native birds was issued as part of the State Museum's annual report. A vast catalog of hundreds of species, the survey was illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), a rising...
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Animal Lore and Legend: The Wisdom and Wonder of Animals Revealed
What makes owls wise and foxes sly? How did the lion become the king of beasts, and why do serpents symbolize evil? This survey of legends, folk tales, myths, and superstitions chronicles the human fascination with the animal kingdom. Assembled...
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Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah (Volume 7)
Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his...
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A Wasp Builds a Nest: See Inside a Paper Wasp's Nest and Watch It Grow
Children (and adults, too) have become aware of the ecological importance of bees. Wasps are ecologically important, too. They pollinate plants and provide pest control by eating insects and feeding them to their young. Paper wasps construct open-celled paper nests....
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STEM Baby: Science: (STEM Books for Babies, Tinker and Maker Books for Babies)
Babies will love to look at babies demonstrating natural proficiency in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) skills in this adorable board book series!Babies and toddlers are natural-born scientists. Whether rolling a ball down a slope, stacking blocks and knocking...
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STEM Baby: Math: (STEM Books for Babies, Tinker and Maker Books for Babies)
Babies will love to look at babies demonstrating natural proficiency in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) skills in this adorable board book series!Babies and toddlers are natural-born scientists. Whether rolling a ball down a slope, stacking blocks and knocking...
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Professor Figgy's Weather and Climate Science Lab for Kids: 52 Family-Friendly Activities Exploring Meteorology, Earth Systems, and Climate Change
As champion of educational fun Jim Noonan (aka Professor Figgy) guides you through the topics of weather and climate through fun and easy activities, he also teaches the importance of affecting change in the world, through the lens of our climate’s uncertain...
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