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Divorce Your Car!: Ending the Love Affair with the Automobile
Our romance with cars, begun with enthusiasm more than 100 years ago, has in fact become a very troubled entanglement. Today's relationship with the automobile inflicts upon us pollution, noise,...
Achilles in the Quantum Universe: Definitive History of Infinity
In this guided tour down the centuries, Rich ard Morris shows how each new encounter with infinity has fu rthered the advancement of physics and mathematics. This is a mathematical...
Newton and Gravity
Newton is one of the most influential scientists the world has ever known. He changed the way we viewed the universe by showing how it really worked - developing the...
Return Blessings: Ecofeminist Liturgies Renewing the Earth
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While representing a strongly feminist perspective, the liturgies speak to women and men of many traditions and can be used either as they are or as a springboard for creating...
Ninety Degrees North: The Quest For The North Pole
In the mid-nineteenth century the North Pole was a mystery. Some believed that it was an island of basalt in a warm crystal sea. Explorers who tried to penetrate the...
Essential Pre-University Physics
Isaac is a Department for Education project at the University of Cambridge that develops understanding and confidence through problem solving in the physical sciences, by combining accessible and concise print...
A Sense Of The Future
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Author: J. BronowskiBinding: PaperbackPublished: The MIT Press, 1977Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn this profound work of non-fiction, J. Bronowski, a renowned...
Australian Nurses Since Nightingale 1860-1990 (SIGNED)
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Author: Elizabeth BurchillBinding: PaperbackPublished: Spectrum Melbourne, 1992Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionThis historical non-fiction work chronicles the significant contributions of...
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist
It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips,...
Quantum Physics: Illusion or Reality?
Quantum physics is believed to be the fundamental theory underlying our understanding of the physical universe. However, it is based on concepts and principles that have always been difficult to...
Time: A Traveler's Guide
"Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, probing a...
The Great White South: Traveling with Robert F.Scott's Doomed South
175 photos illustrate this account by photographer Ponting of his journey with Capt. Robert Scott to the Antarctic, a voyage from which Scott did not return.
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
When The Planiverse ?rst appeared 16 years ago, it caught more than a few readers off guard. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it...
Superforce: Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature
Heisenberg Probably Slept Here: Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great
"Here is a book I wish I had when taking physics my senior year in high school!" --Book Report A lively illumination of modern physics' marquee players, featuring: Albert Einstein...
The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics
The Solid Earth is a general introduction to the study of the physics of the solid Earth, including the workings of both the Earth's surface and its deep interior. The...
Quantum Leap: How John Polkinghorne found God in science and religion
Quantum Leap uses key events in the life of Polkinghorne to introduce the central ideas that make science and religion such a fascinating field of investigation. Sir John Polkinghorne is...
Too Hot to Handle: Story of the Race for Cold Fusion
The extraordinary story of the Pons and Fleischmann "discovery" of cold fusion in Salt Lake City in 1988, the enormous world-wide media excitement their announcement generated, and the military, political...
Einstein's Greatest Mistake: The Life of a Flawed Genius
Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic...
What Makes Nature Tick?
For many of us, the physical sciences are as obscure as the phenomena they explain. We see the wonders of nature but miss the symmetry beneath, framed as it is...
My Attainment of the Pole
Cook, allegedly the first man to reach the North Pole, recounts his adventures at the top of the world, his meetings with eskimos and his hunting of musk ox, plus...
Patriots: Defending Australia's Natural Heritage 1946-2004
This is the story of the struggle by a small group of people who sought to defend the life that belongs to a continent. The name they gave that struggle...
In The Drink
'In The Drink' is the unflinching second poetry collection from Emily Crocker. Poems stream through ' In The Drink ', collecting hauntings of desire and futures lost. Visceral and at...
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
The Special and the General Theory Redesigned inside and out to have a fresh, appealing look, this new edition of a classic Crown Trade Paperback is a collection of Einstein's...
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Ten years after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers , acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but...
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the
In this far- reaching foray into the millennia- long relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist and author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson and...
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea
An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.' Times...
Qed: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Quantum electrodynamics - or QED for short - is the 'strange theory' that explains how light and electrons interact. Thanks to Richard Feynman, it is also one of the rare...
Designed Dutch Landscapes: JaC.P.Thijsse Park
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Voyaging the World's Civil Engineering Wonders
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Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
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A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming
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Eat: Australia's Best Dining Experiences
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The Silicon Boys: And Their Valley of Dreams
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Arrow through the Heart, an: A Young Woman's Intimate Portrait from Heart Attack to Wholeness
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Childrens Sports Injuries Oe
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Green Inheritance: World Wild Life Fund Book of Plants
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea
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Fishes of the Open Ocean: A Natural History and Illustrated Guide
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Storey's Guide to Raising Turkeys, 3rd Edition: Breeds, Care, Marketing
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Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players, Parents and Coaches
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Desserts For Dummies
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Maternal Fitness
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