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Absolutely Small: How Quantum Theory Explains Our Everyday WorldDemystifies the world of quantum science for the layperson, exploring scientific concepts—from particles of light, to probability, to states of matter, to what makes greenhouse gases bad—in considerable depth, but using examples from the everyday world.
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The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and NatureFrom tales of vegetarian piranha fish and voiceless dogs to the scientific search for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah, Quammen captures the natural world with precision. Throughout, he illuminates the surprising intricacies of the natural world, and our human attitudes towards those intricacies.
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Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the BrainMost people have never heard of prions. Indeed, most are only barely aware of the diseases caused by them, except, perhaps, for mad cow disease. Yet prions are the stuff of a revolutionary science? a science that might lead to cures for some of humankind's most devastating diseases
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & ReligionScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
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Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for NonscientistsThis humanized view of science opens up the mind-stretching visions of how quantum mechanics, God, human thought, and will are related, and provides profound implications for our understanding of the nature of reality and our relationship to the cosmos.
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The Elements We Live By: How Iron Helps Us Breathe, Potassium Lets Us See, and Other Surprising Superpowers of the Periodic TableAn around-the-world journey to discover where in the wild we can find the elements of life and the surprising ways they’re essential to our survival.
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the UnthinkableAre we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming?
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global WarmingIn the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here
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It's a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding EverywhereWhy aren't left-handers extinct? What makes a rainbow round? How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum? These may not look like math questions, but they are-because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, at heart, is the study of patterns.
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Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have ToIt’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan?