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New Everyday Science Explained: From the Big Bang to the human genome...and everything in between
Curt Suplee
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February 1, 2004
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The New Everyday Science Explained updates Curt Suplee's coffee table classic with 21st-century answers to many of the most common science questions, and quite a few uncommon ones. Why is the sky blue? How can we get rid of body fat? Why do we get sunburned? Is light ...
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Adventures in Ocean Exploration : From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood
Robert D. Ballard
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October 1, 2001
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For decades, Robert Ballard has pursued a dual career as a marine scientist and a pioneering discoverer, locating scores of wrecks all over the world, including the Titanic and the battleship Bismarck. In this lavishly illustrated chronicle, he uses his most exciting dives as starting points for an odyssey ...
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Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
Willie Drye
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July 1, 2003
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On Labor Day in 1935, a hurricane that produced the record low barometric pressure reading of 26.35 inches hit Florida's upper Keys, destroying virtually everything in its path. In his meticulously researched work, Drye gives a vivid, detailed account ...
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Mystery of the Ancient Seafarers: Ancient Maritime Civilzation
Robert D. Ballard
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June 1, 2004
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In a beautiful volume featuring more than 170 maps and photographs, ...
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Book of Inventions (National Geographic)
Ian Harrison
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November 1, 2004
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With sliced bread and the lava lamp among his selected inventions, Harrison aims to please more than teach. He allocates a two-page spread for each item, giving it a kaleidoscopic visual treatment with a text block about the inventor, an unusual photograph...
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Orbit: NASA Astronauts Photograph the Earth
Jay Apt
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October 1, 2003
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This awe-inspiring collection of photographs gives those of us stuck on Earth a glimpse of what our home planet looks like from the window of a space craft... and the big blue marble has never looked more beautiful. All the continents are shown, as well...
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Other Worlds: The Solar System And Beyond
James S. Trefil
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September 1, 1999
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Recently there's been a run of coffee-table books combining elegant astronomical photographs with brief, friendly exegeses of the science behind them (e.g., Ken Croswell's Magnificent Universe, Forecasts, Sept. 6). But for adults and young people who enjoy...
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Mysteries of the Mind
Ruth Mae Roddy
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October 1, 2000
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Weighing a mere three pounds, the human brain is truly a wonder of design and function. Mysteries of the Mind explores all aspects of this most fascinating organ -- its structure and how it works, the effects of genetics and experience, the biology behind emotion and memory,as well ...
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Impact: On the Frontlines of Global Health
Karen Kasmauski
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October 21, 2003
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The eradication of smallpox proved that the world could unite to fight a common enemy. But this extraordinary triumph was soon eclipsed by the ferocious spread of AIDS, a humbling reminder that new infections still threaten. Today, polio is on the verge of...
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Beyond Earth: Mapping the Universe
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March 1, 2002
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A historical survey of cosmology, this appealing set of essays benefits from the authors' diverse careers. Some are historians of science, and some are astrophysicists, lending a split personality to the overall volume, yet that does not detract from its a...
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Whose Water Is It?: The Unquenchable Thirst of a Water-Hungry World
Douglas Jehl
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October 1, 2003
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Each day at least 10,000 people worldwide die from disease-infected water. This is just one of the startling statistics contained in this collection of 13 essays, which address a wide variety of water-related issues, including global scarcity, pollution, p...
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Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Bikini Island
Robert D. Ballard
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June 1, 2001
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Graveyards of the Pacific offers exactly what readers expect from National Geographic: A beautiful book full of outstanding photos and graphics. It is worth reading (bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose writes the introduction), but even better to look at. Coauthor Robert D. Ballard, of course, ...
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In the Footsteps of Eve: The Mystery of Human Origins (Adventure Press)
Lee R. Berger
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June 1, 2001
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Where did we come from? Though it's been fairly well settled that our species was born in Africa, the debate still rages over our hometown. ...
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Incredible Voyage
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August 1, 1998
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YA?A trip through the human body via astounding photographs with interesting text as a guide. Written for the layperson, this wonderful resource traces human growth, anatomy, and physiology at all stages of life, sick or healthy. The engaging, easy-to-read...
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Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
Wade Davis
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February 1, 2002
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"As a young anthropologist I never understood how I was supposed to turn up at some village... announce that I was staying for a year, and then notify the headman that he and his people were to feed and house me while I studied their lives," writes Davis (...
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Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet
Paul Raeburn
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April 15, 2000
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On Mars the sky is pink, the polar caps are made of dry ice, the volcanoes are 17 miles high, and there is a little rock named Lozenge. Paul Raeburn's new book about Mars is full of fun facts like these. Published by the National Geographic Society, thi...
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Milestones of Science: The History of Humankind's Greatest Ideas (reading line)
Curt Suplee
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August 1, 2000
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Reading about a subject enough times can practically kill interest in it--just ask any of the research scientists who are wondering where their replacements will come from. National Geographic gives scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking a say wit...
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Mystery of Time: Humanity's Quest for Order and Measure
John Langone
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September 1, 2000
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Einstein may have shown that space and time are parts of the same thing, but that doesn't help us understand either one. Science journalist John Langone teams up with National Geographic to present the past, present, and future of our thinking about the...
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Peoples of the World : Their Cultures, Traditions, and Ways of Life
David Maybury-Lewis
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November 1, 2001
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Introduction by David Maybury-Lewis Long viewed as an authority on exotic peoples, National Geographic has drawn together a dozen leading experts to explore for the first time the astounding array of cultures still surviving on Earth, even as many are threatened with extinction. Spectacular photographs and compelling essays by ...
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Space Odyssey: Voyaging Through the Cosmos
William Harwood
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October 1, 2001
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Space Odyssey has two foci: cosmology and the space program. It sums up current knowledge: what's out there, where it came from, and where it's going. It traces the origin and development of the universe as we know it today, and explores how the space prog...
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The Builders
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May 1, 1998
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* Winner of the International Architecture Book Award * More than 400 photographs, detailed diagrams, and period engravings * Handy reference format This fascinating book chronicles some of the world's greatest engineering wonders from ancient times to the present -- the longest bridges, the highest dams, the ...
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