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More than 100 perforated targets are divided into three themes that minimarksmen can use to develop their skills. Also includes ideas for setting up an in-house firing range, and instructions for mini-weapons.

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"An absolute first-rate writer [on science and the arts]."--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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What does quilting have to do with electric circuit theory This book presents an exploration of some of the many ways that math and physics combine to create something vastly more powerful, useful, and interesting than either is by itself.

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Looks at the domains of inquiry we call "science" and "technology" to assert that traditional perspectives (like classical idealism and materialism) fail to suggest the rich and complex interplay between them.

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Math - the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions - usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes - conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. This book is a collection of paradoxes from different areas of math.

Open Science

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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way This title tells an account of the history of atmospheric oxygen on Earth.

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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans--covers this vast history, emphasi

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Explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. This work takes readers on an extraordinary graphical adventure, revealing how the visual communication of data offers answers to vexing questions yet also highlights the measure of uncertainty in almost everything we do.

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Astronomers are on the verge of answering one of the most profound questions ever asked: are we alone in the universe The ability to detect life in remote solar systems is at last within sight. Its discovery, even if only in microbial form, would revolutionize our self-image. Planet Hunters

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"Rosetta S. Elkin reveals that planting a tree can either be one of the ultimate offerings to thriving on this planet, or one of the most extreme perversions of human agency over it. Plant Life exposes the relationship between human and plant life, revealing that afforestation is not an ecological act: rather, it is deliberately political and distressingly social"--

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Providing a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as a science in the early years of the 20th century, this text seeks to examine the roots of paradoxical assessments of the decoding of the human genome, combining historiography, critical theory and science and technology studies.

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Power and Invention offers a unique perspective on the power of scientific theories to modify society, and vice versa. The book makes an eloquent argument for an "open science", one that focuses on singularities, is specific to context, wary of hasty generalizations, and open to a profusion of events.

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Satellite , an illustrated history that deconstructs the satellite as a cultural,political and technological artefact.

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"A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities"--

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"A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities"--

Addresses the central issue of why certain areas of science cause concern to many people: in particular, those which seem to have implications for the meaning of human existence, and for man's significance on this planet and in the universe as a whole. The book outlines the major environmental problems confronting the world.

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For the first time in paperback and with a new introduction. Discover how and why the government is corrupting scientific research.