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By: Sean B. Carroll
ISBN: 9780691167428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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How does life work How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the pioneering scientists who sought the answ
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By: Susan Mattern
ISBN: 9780691171630
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research to reveal how perceptions of menopause developed from prehistory to today. She goes on to introduce new ways of understanding life beyond fertility.
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By: Susan Mattern
ISBN: 9780691216720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Mark Humphries
ISBN: 9780691226422
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Yuval Grossman
ISBN: 9780691239101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: John Stillwell
ISBN: 9780691234366
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Stuart Clark
ISBN: 9780691141268
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet. This title presents the story behind Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the Sun and how his brilliant insight helped to usher in the modern era of astronomy.
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By: Jason Puskar
ISBN: 9781517915407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Vellend
ISBN: 9780691208992
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691174419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691138176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Features roughly 1,600 quotes in all. This book includes sections unique to the ultimate collection such as "On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and "Einstein's Verses: A Small Selection" - as well as a chronology of Einstein's life and accomplishments, and Freeman Dyson's authoritative foreword.
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By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691160146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers a collection of Einstein quotations that has sold tens of thousands of copies worldwide and been translated into twenty-five languages. This title includes "On and to Children," "On Race and Prejudice," and "Einstein's Verses: A Small Selection" - as well as a chronology of Einstein's life and accomplishments.
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By: Clifford A. Pickover
ISBN: 9780691115979
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. This book explains why Chinese emperors, Babylonian astrologer-priests, prehistoric cave people in France, and ancient Mayans of the Yucatan were convinced that magic squares held the secret of the universe.
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By: Branden Holmes
ISBN: 9781486315536
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Profiles the iconic thylacine, its ecology, evolution, encounters with humans, and extinction.
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By: Harold Francis Blum
ISBN: 9780691622293
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In a book that has become a milestone of scientific writing Dr. Blum uses "time's arrow," the second law of thermodynamics, as a key concept to show how the nature and evolution of the nonliving world place limits on the nature and evolution of life. He seeks to show that, from the beginning of the universe, physical and chemical laws have inexorab
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By: Alex Ramirez
ISBN: 9781785275395
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This work of narrative non-fiction deals with common questions and doubts people have about vaccines, using very accessible, conversational, non-technical language.
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By: John Milnor
ISBN: 9780691048338
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a clear introduction to one of the important subjects in modern mathematics. Beginning with basic concepts such as diffeomorphisms and smooth manifolds, this book goes on to examine tangent spaces, oriented manifolds, and vector fields. It discusses concepts such as homotopy, the index number of a map, and the Pontryagin construction.
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By: Theodore M. Porter
ISBN: 9780691208411
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Elana M Freeland
ISBN: 9781627310536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 10th May 2018
Publisher: Feral House,U.S.
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Radioandmicrowavesarethenextphaseofionizingouratmospheretocreatethemethodtocontrolhuman DNA.
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By: John Pate
ISBN: 9781760800208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: UWA Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Ed Sobey
ISBN: 9781569766040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Zephyr Press
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(Hardback)
By: Joseph M. Forshaw
ISBN: 9780643096325
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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A detailed illustrated account of parrots which have become extinct or are facing extinction.
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By: Tristan Needham
ISBN: 9780691203706
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN: 9780691177816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A "companion to Welcome to the Universe, a ... bestseller that was inspired by the ... introductory astronomy course for non-science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton. [It] features more than one hundred problems and exercises used in the original course"--Amazon.com.
