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Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography (Springer Praxis Books / Popular Astronomy)
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I'm starstruck with delight! Whoever wants to verify how the stars have been perceived for many millennia across the globe will be very satisfied as well as inspired in reading this star history by Kanas. Thorough, erudite, amply documented with many clear appendices yet also accessibly written for general readers, STAR MAPS is a cartographer's dream.... »
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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A fascinating biography of an self-educated diligent and talented man who beat the academic snobs with his invention of a new way to determine longitude.... »
Happiness: The Science behind Your Smile
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'Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile' surprisingly enabled me to gain a lucid view of my emotions & purpose of living; I've become happier in a calm & rational way. In less than 200 pages, the book is packed with scientific findings from different disciplines (e.g. psychology, biology, philosopy, religion), various common myths were also analyzed;... »
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Kate Ascher could not have chosen a much drier topic for a book than water mains, parking meters, railroad classification yards, and the other doodads of ... »
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (C
David Christian had a great ambition with this book: to write the history of everything there has ever been. In other words, it describes not only human h... »
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meani
A review aimed at science teachers: Nick Lane's Power, Sex, Suicide. Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Oxford 2005, A 10) provided me wit... »
Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of
Excellent book with fascinating characters - Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, Fermi, et al leap out of the page with a clarity that makes one appreciative of w... »
Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed Hi
We have enjoyed this book so much that we bought two for presents. It is a bit deep on the chemistry end of the explanations, but great for the historica... »
The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibra
For centuries, women diagnosed with "hysteria"--a "disease paradigm," in Rachel P. Maines's felicitous phrase, thought to result from a lack of sexual int... »
Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities
This book is an outstanding bargain. It is beautiful and breathtaking. I hadn't read the dimensions of the book before ordering and was really surprised... »
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