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In this remarkable book Jonathan Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience.

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This book examines the facts and myths about the first human arrival in Australia and its region; what modern DNA tells us about the origin of Australian Aborigines; theories on the Indonesian hobbits; and who or what killed off Australia's giant marsupials. It explains the science behind the latest techniques in an accessible way.

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A sweeping account of humanity's evolving vision of the universe, as viewed through the writings of the most exceptional thinkers in history

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This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes.

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The things we think we know about energy are mostly myths. A better understanding will radically change our views and policies on a number of very controversial issues.

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An invaluable introduction to the major ideas, discoveries, and personalities in the history of our quest for the origins of life, with an introduction by leading geneticist Steve Jones.

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In the digital age, bullies are no longer confined to the playground. They lurk in our pockets, hiding behind screens, ready to attack at any moment through our devices. 'The Bully in Your Pocket' offers a practical, comprehensive guide to understanding, managing, and overcoming online bullying.

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From the author of The Prehistory of Sex a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul.

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The description for this book, The Calculi of Lambda Conversion. (AM-6), will be forthcoming.

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JBS Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the greatest practitioners of the art of explaining science to the layperson. This title provides accessible introduction to the genetical basis of evolution by natural selection.

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This text offers an understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, using shuffled memories similar to jumbled dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud.

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One of the most familiar features of any high-school chemistry lab is the Periodic Table of Elements. Mendeleyev and the creation of the Periodic Table of Elements, the predictive power of which helped in the discovery of dozens of new elements;

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"The Cichlid Fishes is a marvelous narrative about an extraordinary family of creatures. Barlow's fertile synthesis belongs in the pantheon of natural-history classics."-Natural History

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Addressing physicists and mathematicians alike, this book discusses the finite dimensional representation theory of sl(2), both classical and quantum. Covering representations of U(sl(2)), quantum sl(2), the quantum trace and color representations, and the Turaev-Viro invariant, it is useful to graduate students and professionals.

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Discusses the symmetric, linear, orthogonal, and symplectic groups and determines their invariants and representations. This book covers topics such as matrix algebras, semigroups, commutators, and spinors, which help in understanding the group-theoretic structure of quantum mechanics.

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The world's response to climate change has been deeply flawed. The Climate Fix is where we begin to get it back on track, as science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr. dissects the disastrous climate debate and offers a solution: expanding energy access and increasing energy security while lowering costs through technological innovation.

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"Commentary by Jake McKee, J.P. Rangaswami, and Dan Gillmor"--Cover.

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A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.

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Every document in "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein" appears in the language in which it was written. This book presents the English translations of non-English materials.

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Includes documents that appears in the language in which it was written, and presents the English translations of select portions of non-English materials.

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Every document in "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein" appears in the language in which it was written. This title presents the English translations of those non-English materials.

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And as a pragmatist he reveals his hopes and concerns as to how the information unlocked by the Human Genome Project will affect people's lives in the future.

The Common Thread is at once a compelling history of this most exciting of scientific breakthroughs and also an impassioned call for ethical responsibility in scientific research.

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Scholars in various fields are exploring similar ideas to combat indeterminism when conditions seem chaotic and prohibit the use of a rigid program approach, even with probabilities.

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An in-depth, easy-to-understand examination of the basic physical laws of nature and how they influence our universe.