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Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy brings together the lectures that comprise Strauss’s “Introduction to Political Philosophy.” Strauss begins by emphasizing the importance of political philosophy in determining the common good of society and critically examining the two most powerful contemporary challenges to the possibility of using political theory to learn about and develop the best political order: positivism and historicism. In seeking...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements.These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events. What drove these...
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Caliber hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Media commentator Haney, a founding member of Delta Force, along with other noted military analysts, examines how our military must evolve to face changing times, technology, and adversaries. From limited wars to possible large scale invasions of Syria or Iran--or a major military stand-down with North Korea--this book is a look at America's army of the future. Includes articles on the weapons of future wars; such legal issues as pre-emptive attacks...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these deeply researched essays, a Paris Review contributor blends science, history, and memoir to explore human obsession with gorgeous things, exposing the fraught histories of makeup, silk, jewels, perfume, and other objects, helping readers to ethically partake in the beauty of the world around them.
Author
Publisher
Ivy Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
151 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How It All Works is a unique and unprecedented demonstration of our universe and how it works. Starting in the home, and moving through ever more complex scenes of street, city and landscape, all the way to the solar system and the whole universe, Adam Dant's exquisite illustrations reveal where scientific laws apply and where the phenomena they create are to be found. A rigorous reference section includes all these in alphabetical order for ease...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 378 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A "New York Times" bestselling author presents the true story of a pivotal moment in modern history when a group of strange, tormented geniuses--Isaac Newton chief among them--invented science and remade our understanding of the world.
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Hawking has been an iconic figure in physics for the last half a century, making many groundbreaking discoveries on the nature of the universe. Yet while his mind roams to the farthest corners of reality, his body has become increasingly trapped by the advance of Lou Gehrig's disease, which has bound him to a wheelchair, without speech or movement except for a few facial muscles. Told in his youth that he would not live past his 20s, Hawking...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of COD--the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way to catch a fish. Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--andthe fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The targets--salmon, trout, and char--are highly intelligent, wily, strong, and athletic animals. The allure, Kurlansky finds, is that fly fishing makes...
Author
Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
"What do Thomas Jefferson's ice cream recipe, Coca Cola and Chanel No. 5 have in common? They all depended on a 19th century African boy who, with a single pinch, solved one of nature's great riddles and gave birth to the multi-million dollar vanilla industry. Kevin Ashton opens his book with the fascinating story of the young slave who launched a flavor revolution to show that invention and creation come in unexpected shapes and sizes. From the crystallographer's...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
400 pages
Language
English
Description
"A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
324 pages
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive and revelatory book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses. In 2019, 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer's, and more than half a million will die of Alzheimer's disease dementia. 16 million caregivers are responsible for paying as much as half of the $226 billion annual costs of their care. As more people live beyond their seventies and eighties, the number of patients will rise to an estimated 13.8 million by 2025. Part case...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
304 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show - already regarded as the "the leading...
394) Ancient Rome
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Experience the intrigue, scandal, excitement and chaos of the most dominant empire in the history of western civilization as History journeys back to the age of Caesar"--Container.
Series
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xxiv, 229 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The war on terrorism and the threat of chemical and biological weapons have brought a new urgency to already complex moral and bioethical questions. In the wake of terror presents thought-provoking essays on many of the troubling issues facing American society, written by experts from the fields of medicine, health care policy, law, political science, history, philosophy, and theology. One of the first potential casualties of catastrophic circumstances...
396) Tom Stoppard: a life
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
872 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A perfect match of writer and subject: one of our most brilliant biographers takes on one of our greatest living playwrights--with his cooperation and access to a trove of hitherto unseen material. Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics, and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary...
397) Engineering Eden: the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 370 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away...
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co- founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the...
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