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CSI meets John Allen Paulos-ten cases of the uses and abuses of mathematics in the courtroom

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An eloquent, utterly charming guide to discovering the interconnectedness of mathematics.

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A unique and utterly charming guide to the history of mathematics.

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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.

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That energy is transformed at your senses into the utterly unique weave of brain connections that is YOU.

New research has demonstrated the way in which the brain is shaped by experience and sculpted by our interactions with the world around us.

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Develops the suggestion that ideas can be transmitted across societies and generations and are subject to natural selection in the same way as are physical characteristics, a concept first proposed by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.

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A ground-breaking book that will do for morality what THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT did for language.

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This accessible volume provides readers whether students new to the field or just interested members of the lay public with the essential ideas of the new science of nanotechnology using a minimum of jargon and mathematics.

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With lively prose and an eye for colorful and unusual details, Le Couteur and Burreson offer a novel way to understand the shaping of civilization and the workings of our contemporary world.

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Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, 'friendly' dolphins and 'killer' whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel's humps. In his 27 books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and advises readers to be wise. Here he continues his crusade to keep the world a rational place.

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AIDS is not caused by HIV. Coal and oil are not fossil fuels. Radiation exposure is good for you. Distributing more guns reduces crime. These ideas make headlines, but most educated people scoff at them. This title evaluates, for the general reader or student, nine seemingly far-out propositions culled from physics, biology, and social science.

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The science of our slumber, from the different stages of sleep and how our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, to what happens when things go wrong.

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Tells a complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle there is: how does the world work at the most fundamental level and what is the role of mathematics in its description It considers what the role of beauty may be in mathematics and physics.

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Demonstrates how odd and unusual math problems can be solved by bringing together basic physics ideas and powerful computers. This title looks at how the art of number-crunching has changed since the advent of computers, and how high-speed technology helps to solve conundrums such as the three-body, Monte Carlo, and gambler's ruin problems.

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An eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through to the 20th century.

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Oscar Zariski has enriched mathematics, particularly in algebraic geometry and modern algebra, by numerous and fundamental papers. This volume is the first of four in which these papers are available in collected form.

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Oscar Zariski has enriched mathematics, particularly in algebraic geometry and modern algebra, by numerous and fundamental papers. This volume is the first of four in which these papers are available in collected form.

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Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Nino. This book discusses the scientific, political, economic and cultural developments that shaped our perceptions of this force of nature. It outlines the history of El Nino, an innocuous current that appears off the coast of Peru around Christmas time.

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How did life on Earth get started Can we duplicate human thought in a computing machine How do children acquire language In PARADIGMS REGAINED Casti recounts the huge leaps science has made, and how new theories and candidate answers have emerged for almost all the big questions.

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An explanation of how the body's natural healing mechanisms work -- and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the 'placebo effect'.