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  • The Shortest History of Reality

    From Plato's Cave to the Mind-Bending Discoveries of Modern Physics - The Human Quest to Explain the World

    by Geraint F. Lewis ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    An award-winning astrophysicist leads a brisk, lucid tour of the human quest to uncover reality’s fundamentals, from myth-making to mathematical precisionSince the dawn of consciousness, humans have sought to make sense of this world into which we’re each born. The Shortest History of Reality explores the shifting boundary between what we perceive and what truly exists—tracing the idea of “what’s ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • In Praise of Error

    Productive Mistakes in Culture, Cuisine and Science

    by Derek Mueller ...
    Many people know that Columbus wouldn't have dared to sail across the Atlantic if he had been aware how far the way to Asia really is. But there exist a lot more errors which turned out to be useful. Great thinkers like Copernicus and Einstein, but also ordinary people made mistakes which changed our world in many ways. A collection of the most interesting and useful errors in history, science, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies

    by Derek Mueller, Andrea Williams ...
    Series series Inkshed
    Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies coordinates mixed methods approaches to survey, interview, and case study data to study Canadian writing studies scholars. The authors argue for networked disciplinarity, the notion that ideas arise and flow through intellectual networks that connect scholars not only to one another but to widening networks of human and nonhuman actors. Although the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands

    Edited by Derek Mueller, Luke Copland ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features. Ice shelves are permanent areas of ice which float on the ocean surface while attached to the coast, and typically occur in very cold environments where perennial sea ice builds up to great thickness, and/or where glaciers flow off the land and are preserved on the ocean ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

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    Escape from Stalag Luft III

    The Memoir of Jens Muller

    by Jens Muller ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 51 min

    Jens Müller was one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III in March 1944—the break that later became the basis for the famous film The Great Escape.Müller was no. 43 of the 76 prisoners of war who managed to escape from the camp (now in Zagan, Poland). Together with Per Bergsland he stowed away on a ship to Gothenburg. The escapees sought out the British consulate and were ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

    How Humans Took Control of Climate

    by William F. Ruddiman ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum has sparked lively scientific debate since it was first published--arguing that humans have actually been changing the climate for some 8,000 years--as a ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Global Carbon Cycle

    by David Archer ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    A must-have introduction to this fundamental driver of the climate systemThe Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Second Treasury of Kahlil Gibran

    by Kahlil Gibran ...
    Translated by Anthony R. Ferris ...
    Works on joy and sorrow, life and love, by Kahlil Gibran, one of the most celebrated modern philosophersIn this magnificent volume, Gibran's writings have been translated from their native Arabic to English by Anthony Rizcallah Ferris. The collection includes The Broken Wings, an exquisitely tender, poetic love story; The Voice of the Master, a remarkable study of life; and Thoughts and ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

    by Daniel S. Wilks ...
    Series Book 100 - International Geophysics
    Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Second Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines. In this ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • The Sun's Influence on Climate

    by Joanna D. Haigh, Peter Cargill ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric composition, while the distribution of solar heating across the planet produces global wind patterns and contributes to the formation of clouds, storms, and rainfall. The Sun’s Influence on Climate provides an unparalleled introduction to this vitally ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Brave New Arctic

    The Untold Story of the Melting North

    by Mark C. Serreze ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world. The Arctic's perennially frozen ground, known as permafrost, was warming, and treeless tundra was being ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model

    A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community

    Edited by Tianjun Zhou, Yongqiang Yu, Yimin Liu, Bin Wang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (LASG/IAP, CAS), a first-tier national ... Read more

    $143.09 USD