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Cod [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
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 Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been founded on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, the settlement of North America was based on it. To those it has sustained, it is a treasure more precious than gold. It is the codfish, whose story--concisely and eloquently told by Mark Kurlansky--casts a fascinating and revealing fight on world history. Cod spans a thousand years and four continents. From the extraordinary Basques, who firs... more info>> 2000
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E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by David Bodanis
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Bodanis first explains the equation's letters and symbols, with insights into the historical backdrop to Einstein's discovery. He then illuminates the astonishing array of discoveries and consequences it made possible--a beacon throughout the twentieth century--governing everything from the atomic bomb to a television's cathode-ray tube to the carbon dating of prehistoric paintings. 2001
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The Flying Book: Everything You Ever Wondered about Flying on Airplanes [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by David Blatner
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The highly praised author of The Joy of Pi now turns his clever technical and mathematical expertise to the conundrum of flight. Everyone who has ever sat in an airplane has had this same thought at some point in their lives, perhaps every time they fly: "How is this plane ever going to get off the ground?" The Flying Book explores flying through history, physics, anecdotes, sidebars, and illustrations mankind's fascination with flight. From the earliest efforts to fly five millennia ago to toda... more info>>
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Sputnik: The Shock of the Century [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Paul Dickson
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As Paul Dickson reminds us in this fresh and tightly focused look at the first man-made satellite and the space-race that both led up to it and accelerated from it, the idea of placing a satellite in Earth orbit had been familiar to space enthusiasts for a long time-from Isaac Newton's time, in fact. By the fall of 1957--when most Americans did not even know what a satellite was--both the United States and the U.S.S.R. were preparing to go into space, as part of the International Geophysical Yea... more info>>
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Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Matthew Hart
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Beginning with the memorable story of an extraordinary pink diamond discovered in Brazil in 1998, Matthew Hart illuminates the rich and obsessive world of diamonds in a fascinating, original narrative. Hart's story sparkles with the science and geology of diamonds: Some may be as ancient as the universe, formed before the Earth was created, while those formed on Earth come via volcanic action and are tremendously hard to find. It introduces an intriguing cast, from the creators of the DeBeers em... more info>>
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Dava Sobel
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Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of tw... more info>> 2000
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Enchantress from the Stars [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
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 Enchantress from the Stars was originally published in 1970 and became a Newbery Honor Book. Luckily for me, Engdahl's thoughtful and enjoyable story has been republished for a whole new generation to discover. The story has a subtle allegorical premise that is still valid even after all this time. Engdahl successfully weaves a beautiful story from the perspectives of three distinct civilizations at three different levels of technological maturity. Elana's family are members of the Federation An... more info>> 1970
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love [Secure Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Dava Sobel
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Inspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book of great originality and power, a biography unlike any ever written on the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics--indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day. Though he never left italy, his birthplace, his inventions and discove... more info>> 2000
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