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E=Mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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. (Published: 2001)
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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>> (Published: 2000)
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Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Gary Thorp
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Household Chores--for many people they are pure drudgery. Yet when our homes are in turmoil, so are our lives. Awareness, patience, and calm are inherent in accomplishing everyday household tasks, and when combined with age-old Zen Buddhist wisdom, we can learn much about ourselves and our surroundings while performing them. With compassion and eloquence, author Gary Thorp, a practicing Zen Buddhist, shows how the principles of Zen can bring harmony and peace tour lives at home. Through the phys... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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The Clutter-Busting Handbook: Clean It Up, Clear It Out, and Keep Your Life Clutter-Free [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Rita Emmett
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A streamlined guide to uncluttering your life from the best--selling author of The Procrastinator’s Handbook We are the clutter generation, inundated by a seemingly daily or weekly influx of clothes, accessories, gadgets, catalogs, mail, and e--mail. Clutter crowds our lives, is a chief source of stress, contributes to sidetracked dreams and opportunities, and can cause guilt and anxiety. If clutter is a problem in your life, then Rita Emmett—herself a reformed clutterer&... more info>>
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Blue Lonesome [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Bill Pronzini
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Jim Messenger is a CPA who hates his job, loves jazz, and can't forget Janet Mitchell. When she commits suicide, Messenger wants to find out why. In Beulah, Nevada, secrets coil like rattlesnakes ready to strike. He starts with one slender clue. By the end, lives are changed, a horrible murder is brought to light, and a quiet town is torn apart. (Published: 2002)
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Ross King
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By all accounts, Filippo Brunelleschi, goldsmith and clockmaker, was an unkempt, cantankerous, and suspicious man--even by the generous standards according to which artists were judged in fifteenth-century Florence. He also designed and erected a dome over the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--a feat of architectural daring that we continue to marvel at today--thus securing himself a place among the most formidable geniuses of the Renaissance. At first denounced as a madman, Brunelleschi liter... more info>>
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Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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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Enchantress from the Stars [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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>> (Published: 1970)
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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>> (Published: 2000)
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Monitor: The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Changed the Course of History [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by James Tertius deKay
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Monitor is the fascinating saga of arguably the most famous ship in American history, of the events leading up to and following the battle, and of the people who made them happen. John Ericsson had had an idea for a mobile ironclad as far back as 1826, and refined it during the thirty-five years it took for someone to commission him. The English and the French, in turn, had declined his vision, and his clever mind had focused on other inventions that were more readily accepted. Nonetheless, his ... more info>>
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Salt: A World History [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Mark Kurlansky
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Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take it for granted; however, as Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates in this world-encompassing book, salt--the only rock we eat--has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Until about 100 years ago, when modern geology revealed how prevalent it is, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities, for without it hu... more info>>
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Sasso [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by James Sturz
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Hidden away in the labrynthine caves that surround Mancanzano, deep in the south of Italy, two teenagers are found dead, their naked bodies perfect except for the mysterious lacerations across their faces. As police puzzle over the deaths, four experts arrive to investigate a different mystery in the caves: the stunning frescoes discovered on the walls. Who painted the frescoes and when? Who tried to hide them? As the art experts and scientists work and begin to become part of the community, ask... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Sputnik: The Shock of the Century [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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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Step to Graveyard Easy [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Bill Pronzini
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Matthew Cape had no time to worry about his fears; caught up in events not of his making, but inescapable, he does things he's never dared and goes places he's only dreamed about. He's given up everything he ever had, but nothing at all of what he is, and if there's a price to pay, Cape is the one who will pay it. The Corvette is easy, the skydiving fun, and gambling, well ... that has always been a passion, though never at stakes this high. Dealing with grifters like Boone and Tanya Judson, how... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Stroke a Martian: And 99 Other Things to Do Before You Die* [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by The Editors of New Scientist Magazine
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A catalog of life--enhancing projects and activities Here is the best science has to offer the common man: activities guaranteed to excite your mind, challenge body, and fill you with wonder. The editors of New Scientist—one of the world’s leading science and technology magazines—have handpicked activities they would most like to do during their lifetime: • Swim in a bioluminescent lake • Listen to an iceberg being born. • Measure the speed of light wi... more info>>
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The Basque History of the World [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Mark Kurlansky
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The Basques. "They are mythical people, almost an imagined people," writes Mark Kurlansky. Settled in seven provinces in a corner of France and Spain in a land that is marked on no maps except for their own, separated by the daunting Pyrenees Mountains, the Basques are a nation without a country, with an ancient and dramatic story that illuminates Europe's own saga. Where did they come from? Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218 B.C., and their culture ap... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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The Flying Book: Everything You Ever Wondered about Flying on Airplanes [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/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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The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Tom Standage
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The Neptune File is the first full account of the dramatic events surrounding the eighth planet's discovery, and the story of two remarkable men who were able to "see" on paper what astronomers looking through telescopes for more than 200 years had never seen. On June 26, 1841, John Couch Adams, a brilliant young mathematician at Cambridge University, chanced upon a report by England's Astronomer Royal, George Airy, describing unsuccessful attempts to explain the mystifying orbital behavior of t... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Tom Harpur
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A startling, provocative vision of the true origins of Christianity For forty years and in nine previous books, scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur has challenged church orthodoxy and guided thousands of readers on subjects as controversial as the true nature of Christ and life after death. Now, in his most radical and groundbreaking work, Harpur digs deep into the origins of Christianity. What he has discovered will have a profound effect on the way we think about religion. ... more info>>
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The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Stephen O'Shea
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At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians, rose to prominence in Languedoc, now a region of southern France, but then a patchwork of city-states and principalities beholden to neither king nor bishop. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the Catholic Church as well as the legitimacy of feudal law: They thought the idea of Hell to be a sham; they rejected all sacraments, including marriage; they thought private prop... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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The Procrastinating Child: A Handbook for Adults to Help Children Stop Putting Things Off [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Rita Emmett
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Parents, grandparents, teachers, supervisors, even baby-sitters, can be driven to distraction by a child's repeated procrastination. However, their distress is nothing compared to the toll procrastination takes on the child-eroding self-confidence, undermining self-esteem and relationships, increasing anxiety, and paving the way for similar behavior as an adult that can be even more costly.Helping a child stop procrastinating is one of the best gifts an adult can share, and Rita Emmett's informa... more info>>
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The Procrastinator's Handbook: Mastering the Art of Doing It Now [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Rita Emmett
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Almost everyone procrastinates. For some it causes problems and strains relationships at home and at work. For most people, though, procrastination is a troublesome habit we would like to overcome. Rita Emmett will inspire you to get started. Filled with useful advice and real-life stories of people who have overcome procrastination, and written with a winning touch, The Procrastinator's Handbook is as entertaining as it is helpful and rewarding. After reading it, you'll find that your self-este... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story from Deep Africa to the Heart of Paris [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by Michael Allin
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In 1826, a giraffe that had been captured in the Sudan was shipped to France. Allin looks beyond the fairy tale to reveal the complex web of politics, culture, religion and greed that fueled this phenomenon.
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