Don't look up It won't help. You can't get out of the way, you can't dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, and there's nothing you can do about it. So why read this book?Because you can't look away when not just the religious fanatics are saying we're all going to be destroyed but the scientists are in on the act too. Here's what they're saying: - We're a million years over due for a mass extinction. - The sun at radiation minimum is acting much worse than at solar maximum, and one misdirected spewing of plasma could fry us in an instant. - The magnetic fie...
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Biodiversity (Papers from the 1st National Forum on Biodiversity, September 1986, Washington, D.C.)

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: National Academy of Sciences: January 1988

Seller ID: 101730

ISBN: 0309037395

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

This important book for scientists and nonscientists alike calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressures and the demands of economic development.
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Bottom Line's Mind Boosting Secrets

By: MD Ray Sahelian

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bottom Line Books: January 2004

Seller ID: 7802

ISBN: 0887233287

Binding: Hardcover

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Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction

By: John Vandermeer

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Food First: June 1995

Seller ID: 144554

ISBN: 0935028668

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Choose to Reuse: An Encyclopedia of Services, Businesses, Tools & Charitable Programs That Foster Reuse

By: Nikki Goldbeck, David Goldbeck

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Ceres Press: March 1995

Seller ID: 141781

ISBN: 0960613862

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Complete Idiot's Guide to the Sun (Complete Idiot's Guide to)

By: Jay M. Pasachoff

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Alpha: July 2003

Seller ID: 158067

ISBN: 1592570747

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Everything revolves around it...and now skywatchers and armchair scientists can learn all about the origin and history of the sun. With information on the sun's physical properties; how solar flares, sunspots, and winds on its surface affect Earth's atmosphere and environment; solar and lunar eclipses, transits, and occultations, and early astronomers' discoveries about the sun, including Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bailey, and the Mayans.
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Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)

By: Gretchen Bender

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Bay Press (WA): August 1994

Seller ID: 116493

ISBN: 0941920283

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

"The best collection of advanced and stimulating essays on the meaning of the technology now available".
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Devil's Tango: How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step

By: Cecile Pineda

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Wings Press: February 2012

Seller ID: 174392

ISBN: 0916727998

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As much personal journal as investigative journalism, this account traces the worsening developments at Fukushima Daiichi during the first year following the nuclear disaster. Often poetic in tone and philosophic in scope, this day-to-day reportage is peppered with the author's reflections and dramatic monologues as she investigates the public's willing blindness toward the nuclear power industry's disregard for public safety in the pursuit of profit. The book offers a unique perspective and attempts to come to terms with Fukushima's catastrophic consequences on the planet.
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Earth in the Balance : Ecology and the Human Spirit

By: ALBERT GORE

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc: January 1993

Seller ID: 40287

ISBN: 0452269350

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Global warming. The deteriorating ozone layer. The rapid destruction of the world's rain forests. Rising CO2 levels. Vice President Al Gore's bestselling work on the environmental crisis is a shocking account of just how serious these problems have become.Though Earth in the Balance calls for a radical change in human civilization's relationship with the planet, Gore is a pragmatist whose intent is not to inflame but to inspire and educate. He eloquently describes how the roots of today's environmental crisis reach into every aspect of society, and his forceful analysis of where we've gone ...
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Harvey Lectures: Series 68

By: N/A

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Academic Press Inc: February 1975

Seller ID: 66726

ISBN: 0123120683

Binding: Hardcover

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Information Theory. An Introduction For Scientists And Engineers.

By: Gordon Raisbeck

Price: $2.00

Publisher: The MIT Press. 1965.: December 1964

Seller ID: 144173

ISBN: B0017GWI0G

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe

By: Dennis Overbye

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Harpercollins: January 1991

Seller ID: 166985

ISBN: 0060159642

Binding: Hardcover

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Lucy, the beginnings of humankind

By: Donald C Johanson

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Warner Books: January 1982

Seller ID: 7779

ISBN: 0446370363

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Man in Adaptation. the Biosocial Background

By: Yehudi Cohen

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Publisher: Aldine Publishing Company: January 1968

Seller ID: 51365

ISBN: B000HZTFQS

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Nutritional Quality of Cereal Grains: Genetic and Agronomic Improvement (Agronomy)

By: R. A. Olson

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Amer Society of Agronomy: December 1987

Seller ID: 101738

ISBN: 0891180923

Binding: Hardcover

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On Growth II: The Crisis of Exploding Population and Resource Depletion

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Capricorn Books: December 1974

Seller ID: 115137

ISBN: 0399115617

Binding: Hardcover

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Pacey: the Culture of Technology (Cloth)

By: PACEY

Price: $7.00

Publisher: MIT Press: January 1984

Seller ID: 7803

ISBN: 0262160935

Binding: Hardcover

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Parallel Universes

By: Fred Alan Wolf

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 1990

Seller ID: 238274

ISBN: 0671696017

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Primary Processes in Photosynthesis

By: Martin D. Kamen

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Academic Press: October 2013

Seller ID: 250666

ISBN: 1483252841

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Seeing the Light: Regaining Control of Our Electricity System

By: David Morris

Price: $1.00

Publisher: Institute for Local Self-Reliance: April 2001

Seller ID: 36379

ISBN: 0917582888

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Spirit of the Polar Regions

By: Gerard Cheshire

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Publisher: Parragon Inc: May 2007

Seller ID: 29940

ISBN: 1405486708

Binding: Hardcover

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The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As the Language of Nature

By: Heinz R. Pagels

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 1982

Seller ID: 245875

ISBN: 0671248022

Binding: Hardcover

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The Making of the Earth (New scientist guides)

By: N/A

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Publisher: Blackwell Publishers: June 1985

Seller ID: 52292

ISBN: 063114238X

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The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context

By: Timothy Ferris

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Bantam: March 1993

Seller ID: 180686

ISBN: 0553371339

Binding: Trade Paperback

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His style as playful as ever, Timothy Ferris explores inner as well as outer space in these essays on the human mind, the search for extraterrestrial (and thus nonhuman) intelligence, and their intersection. Other chapters look at comet strikes as a source of species extinction; near-death experience; apocalyptic prophecies; information theory; and the origin of laughter.
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The Road Ahead

By: Bill Gates

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Publisher: Viking: October 1995

Seller ID: 175509

ISBN: 0670772895

Binding: Hardcover

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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

By: Michio Kaku

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Anchor: September 1998

Seller ID: 213018

ISBN: 0385484992

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In "Visions, " physicist and author Michio Kaku examines the great scientific revolutions that have dramatically reshaped the twentieth century--the quantum mechanics, biogenetics, and artificial intelligence--and shows how they will change and alter science and the way we live. The next century will witness more far-reaching scientific revolutions, as we make the transition from unraveling the secrets of nature to becoming masters of nature. We will no longer be passive bystanders to the dance of the universe, but will become creative choreographers of matter, life, and intelligence. ...
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Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters

By: Dr. Robert Jerome Glennon J.D. Ph.D

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Island Press: January 2004

Seller ID: 236149

ISBN: 1559634006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

..."a book as rich in detail as it is devastating in its argument." -SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN "Water Follies deserves a place alongside the late Marc Reisner's classic Cadillac Desert." -ENVIRONMENT "a lively account of hydrology" -NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "if you want to scare yourself silly, read Water Follies, by Robert Jerome Glennon. In it you'll learn how America is irrigating itself to death-just like the Sumerians-while sucking its groundwater aquifers dry." -TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL "Even if you are not working with water issues, you should read this book for a wider awareness ...
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