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How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth Where does the bell-shaped curve come from Drawing on areas of mathematics from probability theory, number theory, and geometry, this work highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions. It includes puzzles and problems of varying difficulty.

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The story of the U.S. Department of Defense's extraordinary effort, in the period from 1983 to 1993, to achieve machine intelligence.

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Dr Chris Smith - The Naked Scientist - strips down science to its bare essentials to sort fact from fiction and replace myths and misinformation with some seriously interesting medical, technological and biological breakthroughs.

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In this groundbreaking and absorbing book Dr. Sharon Moalem, delves back into the evolution of man to offer a radical perspective on survival, the human body, and our understanding of disease. Survival of the Sickest will change the way you think about your body.

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In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympath

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The role that system has played in the shaping and reshaping of modern knowledge, from Galileo and Newton to our own computational universe.

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A scientific nail-biter that takes readers where no reality television show would dare go - and proves what survival really means.

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Use an interactive approach to keep students engaged and excited about learning science with 25 teaching modules that cover ten major science areas.

One-of-a-kind tool that covers all areas of science with films

Make learning fun while meeting science and information literacy standards

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Six exciting titles use well-known works of childrens literature as a springboard for learning! Activities, booktalks, and recommended book titles help students connect reading for pleasure with reading for information. Includes relevant McREL, Information Power II, and NETS standards.

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Six exciting titles use well-known works of childrens literature as a springboard for learning! Activities, booktalks, and recommended book titles help students connect reading for pleasure with reading for information. Includes relevant McREL, Information Power II, and NETS standards.

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An essential resource for teachers and librarians who work with students in the later high school years through college and graduate school levels, this book explains and simplifies the scholarly task of researching and writing a scientific literature review.

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The intersection of race and technology: black creativity and the economic and social functions of the myth of disengenuity.

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Most contemporary accounts of the role of technology in world culture are alarmist and, at times, condemn many uses of technology without much effort to get beyond the surface of this worldwide phenomenon.

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(Paperback, 3rd edition)

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Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.

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For the developing countries to take advantage of the accumulated and growing body of scientific and technological information, they must develop competence in choosing technology through an institutionalized technology policy.

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Over the past 200 years, technology has enabled tourists to visit everywhere on the globe, resulting in locations being commodified into "products" and national identity constructs. Presenting a historical narrative, this study examines landscape consumption and the technologies that shape it.

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Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe

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A scientist provides a close-up look at his discoveries about and evidence concerning life after death, offering revelations about the nature of life and death, the soul in the afterlife, and the meaning of eternity and charting his own personal odyssey in search of the mysteries of human existence.

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A sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the 20th century, without question the greatest century for science in human history, by the legendary former publisher of Scientific American.