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Nature and Science June 2021
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| A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. KnollDrawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going. |
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| Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began by Guido TonelliA breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life-drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos. |
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Helgoland : making sense of the quantum revolution
by Carlo Rovelli
Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the 21-year-old Werner Heisenberg first developed quantum theory, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, cats that appear both dead and alive), quantum physics has led to countless discoveries and technological advancements. Today our understanding of the world is based on this theory, yet it is still profoundly mysterious. As scientists and philosophers continue to fiercly debate the theory's meaning, Rovelli argues that its most unsettling contradictions can be explained by seeing the world as fundamentally made of relationships, not substances.
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Lizards of the World : A Guide to Every Family
by Mark O'Shea
Explores the diversity and adaptations of lizards in habitats around the world. Includes information on more than 80 families and subfamilies of lizards, with details on evolution, biology, behavior, distribution, and life cycles.
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Noise : a flaw in human judgment
by Daniel Kahneman
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, coauthor of Nudge and author of You Are About to Make a Terrible Mistake! comes an exploration of why people make bad judgments.
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The premonition : a pandemic story
by Michael Lewis
The #1 best-selling author's nonfiction narrative pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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Whole brain living : the anatomy of choice and the four characters that drive our life
by Jill Bolte Taylor
At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life. Her recovery led to her writing the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight, and delivering one of the top TED talks of all time. Since then, she has received hundreds of thousands of emails from people all around the world asking for a specific set of directions on how they too can choose a peaceful mind-set in a world where politics, relationships, and life in general spiral into an uncomfortable state of chaos.
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