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Ingredients
A Visual Exploration of 75 Additives & 25 Food Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
In the bestselling tradition of The Elements and Salt Sugar Fat, an unprecedented visual exploration of what is really inside our food, setting the record straight on the controversial and fascinating science of chemical and synthetic additives in processed food—from Twinkies and McNuggets to organic...
The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays
and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
E=mc2: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation?
In this collection of his seven most important essays on physics, Einstein guides his reader step-by-step through the many...
Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn
A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
In a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she conned her way into a career as a science...
by Neal Bertrand
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
Worried about 2012, the end of the world? Or the Rapture, Second Coming of Christ, end-times, last days, Antichrist, Abomination of Desolation? Has a harmony of three Gospel accounts of Jesus discourse concerning the end time. This Bible study is in topical arrangement for orderly, enjoyable study....
by Norman L. Geisler, Frank Turek
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
To some, the concept of having faith in a higher power or a set of religious beliefs is nonsensical. Indeed, many view religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as unfounded and unreasonable.
Norman Geisler and Frank Turek argue, however, that Christianity is not only more reasonable...
Academia Obscura
The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Academia Obscura has 129k Twitter followers.
The hardback edition (2017) sold over 5,000 copies.
This is a perfect gift book for anyone currently in higher education... or who has ever liked a cat video on the internet. for fans of the QI Book of General **Ignorance, Schott’s Original Miscellany, The Book of Lists, Randall Munroe.
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Boost Your grades with this illustrated Study Guide. You will use it from college to graduate school and beyond.TABLE OF CONTENTS:Chapters: I. Laws of Science II. Classical Mechanics III. Heat, Gas, and Thermodynamics IV. Electromagnetism V. Optics VI. Atomic PhysicsAppendix: General Index Weights and...
Designs for the Pluriverse
Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies...
Last Hope Island
Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler, from the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days
When the Nazi blitzkrieg rolled over...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
If John Gierach is living in a fool’s paradise, then it’s a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering....
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
With the wry humor and wit that have become his trademark, John Gierach writes about his travels in search of good fishing and even better fish stories....
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
“Once an angler has become serious about the sport (and ‘serious’ is the word that’s used), he’ll never again have enough tackle or enough time...
by John Gierach
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Brilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
Proving that fishing is not just a part-time pursuit, At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman takes us through a year with America’s favorite fishing...
Designing the French Interior
The Modern Home and Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs,...