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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists recognize her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken not including her knowledge—became one of the much important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity
DescriptionThe theory of relativity, or just relativity, refers specifically to two theories of Albert Einstein: exclusive relativity and general relativity.

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem - February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Award in Physics together with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical ...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
DescriptionTogether with a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller—over 1.5 million copies sold—is now a key PBS exclusive.

Winner of the Pulitzer Award, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This ...

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Problems of Philosophy (Optimized for Kindle)
Description'Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain this no reasonable man could doubt it?' Philosophy is the strive to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we might deal together with them in ordinary life, but critically, afterwards analysing how and why the questions arise and clarifying the assumptions and concepts on ...
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
DescriptionIf all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an nearly completely flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an nearly uninterrupted march of progress.
   
In The Much Great Idea in the ...
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Sidelights on Relativity
DescriptionAlbert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist noted for his theory of relativity. He won the Noble Award for physics in 1921. Einstein was awarded Time magazine's person of the century prize. He is by far the greatest physicist producing theories this have changed the way we look at the world. This volume contains Ether and the Theory of ...
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The God Delusion
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A preeminent scientist -- and the world's much prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

Together with rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his shapes, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the extra benign (but still ...
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books)
Description An astonishing new technology called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion this the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet together the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed—people whose mental ...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Description"One of the funniest and much unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment Weekly

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been ...

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