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What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. ...

This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice. ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the ...

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a study of crowd psychology by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay. The subjects of Mackay's de ...

This is a completely updated and revised version of a monograph published in 2002 by the NASA History Office under the original title Deep Space Chronicle: ...

Relates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before ...

A FRANK, FUNNY, EXPLICIT, AND INSPIRING MEMOIR ABOUT HOW DANCING NAKED IN GAY CLUBS IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL HELPED A COLLEGE PROFESSOR DISCOVER HIS TRUE SE ...

Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, I ...

The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana. In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young guitarist played a blistering ...

"A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." --The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientis ...

"An excellent interdisciplinary collage . . . of considerable interest to philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists (of a theoretical stripe), socio ...

"An Oriental institute essay.""Contains lectures given as a public course in the Division of the humanities of the University of Chicago."--Pref. Includes ...

George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activi ...

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The search for our elusive human origins and an understanding of the mysteries of the human body have challenged the most inquisitive and imaginative think ...

Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literar ...

A tale of high adventure on the seas, along with a touching love story. ...

Reproduction of the original: Village Life in China by Arthur H. Smith ...

The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature ...

Excerpt from The Origin of All Religious Worship Many persons having desired, that I should give to the public an abridgment of ray larger work on the orig ...

What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws ...

* This is the only book that provides the full story of the role of women in space exploration. * Previously unpublished photographs of various aspects of ...

This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the ...

"Shaping a nation : a geology of Australia is the story of Australia's geological evolution as seen through the lens of human impacts, illustrating both th ...

Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll ...

This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as "Nicolaus Steno". We learn about the scient ...

This book presents contributions from an internal symposium organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Specola Vaticana, or Vatican Observatory, in ...

The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about hundred scientists who carryon their research in conceptually important ar ...

Extinct Monsters : A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life Natural history is deservedly a popular subject. The manifestations ...

Eleven years after my last divorce I moved to Boston at age 66, after a lifetime in California, to live platonically with a 23-year-old female college stud ...

The New York Times bestseller: "You gotta read this. It is the most exciting book about Pluto you will ever read in your life." —Jon Stewart When the Ros ...

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One woman’s quest to die with dignity may doom them all. ...

Reproduction of the original: A Book for All Readers by Ainsworth Rand Spofford ...

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A satire about the Soviet space program finds Omon, who has dreamed of space flight all of his life, enrolled as a cosmonaut only to learn that his task wi ...

Henri Poincaré was one of the greatest mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He revolutionized the field of topology, which s ...

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolutio ...

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