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A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas …
I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If …
appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to …
"Legendary historian and philosopher of science George Dyson vividly re-creates the scenes of focused experimentation, incredible mathematical insight, and pure …
Chasing the Scream (2015, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc)
For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs -- propelled by moving human stories, …
A guide to writing English informed by recent scholarship (linguistics, cognative science, and such like).
The Art of Thinking Clearly by world-class thinker and entrepreneur Rolf Dobelli is an eye-opening look at human psychology and …
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what …
Far in the distant, post-human future, the Cater-Zimmermann community set out to refute the theory that the universe is created …
