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Publisher
Camden Media Inc
Language
English
Description
Popular Science has been demystifying the worlds of science and technology since 1872. Our digital subscription delivers deeply reported stories that explain the inner workings of the phone in your pocket, explore world-changing innovations, and examine everything from the marvels of deep space to the secret lives of staples like bread.
Publisher
A360 Media, LLC
Language
English
Description
There’s been an explosion of published science in recent years on the inner workings and psychology of the dog’s mind. The findings are so fast and furious that university departments have been created and professional journals launched just to investigate canine neuroscience, and we are here to spread the word. Dogs inhabit a universe defined not by vision, like us, but rather by intense, constantly changing scent. They feel deep emotion from
...Publisher
A360 Media, LLC
Language
English
Description
In recent years, scientists studying dinosaurs have revolutionized what we know about a world lost to time, much of it covered here. In this issue look for extraordinary paleoart inspired by the latest research showing what dinosaurs looked like in real life (feathered, striped, camouflaged); how many of them managed to live so gigantically large; how they ate; and how they mated and had their young. Also inside: surprising new details about their
...Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this eye-opening and entertaining work of popular science in the spirit of The Mosquito, Entangled Life, and The Book of Eels, a leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance.
Wasps get a bad rap, but there may no other earthly creature guarding so many undiscovered...
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Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Wow! is a fantastic series not only filled with the best and most amazing facts about popular science topics, but each book also includes beautiful illustrations with fun and interactive artwork clues that lead readers through the book and stimulate discussion. This appealing series is certain to make readers say "Wow!"over and over again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Wow! is a fantastic series not only filled with the best and most amazing facts about popular science topics, but each book also includes beautiful illustrations with fun and interactive artwork clues that lead readers through the book and stimulate discussion. This appealing series is certain to make readers say "Wow!"over and over again.
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Series
Once upon a con volume 3
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, the teenaged star of a popular science fiction movie franchise hides out in a small town, following a tabloid scandal, and meets the bookish Rosie Thorne who is still grieving over her mother's death.
Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck: on her college application essays, on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon, but most of all in her grief over her mother's death. Her only...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This film documents the inspiring story of Juan-Carlos Asse, owner of Zen Fitness, and his quest to prove that a whole foods, plant-based diet coupled with an intensive exercise regimen is capable of remarkably and rapidly improving the health of any and every individual. Asse teams up with Tracy Ryan, who has struggled with obesity throughout her life, and guides her from poor health to a new life. Watch as Asse helps Ryan lose 200 pounds in a single...
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Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The first-ever collection of the most intelligent, strangest, mysterious, and wonderful quotes from all fifty years of the BBC America hit television series Doctor Who. Over the years, Doctor Who has become one of the most popular science fiction series to date, with an ever growing and extremely dedicated fan base. Now for the first time, fans can enjoy a plethora of their favorite memorable quotes and wisest words spoken throughout the series from...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Star Trek remains one of the most popular science-fiction series of all time, and Captain Kirk is one of the most famous and highly decorated captains in the history of Starfleet. Viewers follow his adventures through space as the commanding officer of starships like the U.S.S. Enterprise. But did you know that Kirk wasn't even the show's first captain? And that the Star Trek series almost didn't happen? Author M. D. Payne takes readers aboard Starfleet...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Star Trek stands as one of the most popular science-fiction series of all time, and Captain Picard is one of its fan-favorite characters thanks to his inspiring quotes and brilliant leadership. As the captain of the starship USS Enterprise, Picard has taken viewers with him on adventures through space for decades. Now, young fans can learn even more about the famous character, including details about his obsessions with Earl Grey tea and Shakespeare"--...
13) Robotics Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Robots. The mere word conjures up a bevy of mind-bending images pulled straight from popular science fiction tales. But robots aren’t just the stuff of entertainment. They’re real. They’re everywhere around you. Yet for all their seen (and unseen) prevalence, robotics remains mysterious to most of us. Take an in-depth journey into an exciting world; a journey Professor Long and The Great Courses present in the 24 incredible lectures of Robotics....
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be, " Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo...
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Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich history of everyday things. He has become a household name among fans, both young and old, of popular science and mechanics. He's an incorrigible tinkerer with a constant curiosity for how things work. Gray's readers love how he always brings...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The nineteenth century was a transformative period in the history of American science, as scientific study, once the domain of armchair enthusiasts and amateurs, became the purview of professional experts and institutions. In Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur shows that women were central to the development of the natural sciences during this critical time. She does so by uncovering the forgotten lives of entomologist Margaretta Hare...
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Publisher
Bluebird
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby's life don't go as planned? How have advances in modern medicine and perinatal genetics redefined our perceptions of what is possible?The First Breath by Olivia Gordon is a powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing today's babies into the world. Unveiling the intense patient-doctor relationship at work with every birth, this book reflects on the...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
We don't think of imagination the way that we should. The word is often only associated with children, artists and daydreamers, viewed as something separate from everyday adult life. However, imagination is an integral part of almost every action and decision that we make. Simply put, imagination is a person's ability to create scenarios in his or her head: this can include everything from planning a grocery list, to honing a golf swing, and even...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At the start of the twentieth century, our knowledge of science appeared complete and it seemed that the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant--we discovered quantum mechanics. In the quantum realm, objects can be in two places at once. It's a place where time travel is not only possible, but necessary. It's a place where cause and effect can happen in reverse and observing something changes its state. From...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to us all. That is, until a few years ago, when he found himself on OKCupid. Looking through that vast catalog of human difference, he got to thinking, where does it all come from? Why does one person have perfect pitch, a taste for hoppy beer, and an aversion to bathroom selfies? That is, what makes you, you, and me, me? In Unique,...
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