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A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the...
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For anyone interested in the tiny building blocks of our universe, Matt Tweed-the illustrator of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae-offers a fascinating...
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Vernor Vinge; Edited by James Frenkel
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Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species
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On the Northern Front of Climate Change
Charles Wohlforth
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