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Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation into Civilization's End

By: Lawrence E. Joseph

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Broadway: January 2007

Seller ID: 36856

ISBN: 0767924479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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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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

Condition: Used - Good

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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

At the center of our solar system, the sun has long been a popular object of curiosity and study throughout human history. Stonehenge may have been built primarily to observe it. The Mayans designed their mathematically sophisticated calendars around it. And, Galileo nearly came to blows with other keen minds in describing its unique features.
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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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Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

By: Gleick, James

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Pantheon: August 1999

Seller ID: 279693

ISBN: 0679408371

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Harvey Lectures: Series 68

By: N/A

Price: $4.98

Publisher: Academic Press Inc: February 1975

Seller ID: 66726

ISBN: 0123120683

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

In the Shadow of Man

By: Lawick-Goodall, Jane van

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T): June 1971

Seller ID: 280991

ISBN: 0395127262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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

Condition: Used - Good

Man in Adaptation. the Biosocial Background

By: Yehudi Cohen

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Aldine Publishing Company: January 1968

Seller ID: 51365

ISBN: B000HZTFQS

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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

Condition: Used - Good

Our vanishing wilderness,

By: Grossman, Mary Louise

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Madison Square Press: January 1969

Seller ID: 282246

ISBN: B0006BVRXW

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pacey: the Culture of Technology (Cloth)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: MIT Press: January 1984

Seller ID: 7803

ISBN: 0262160935

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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Parallel Universes

By: Fred Alan Wolf

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 1990

Seller ID: 238274

ISBN: 0671696017

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From renowned physicist Fred Alan Wolf comes his enthralling and accessible exploration of parallel universes and the various theories surrounding them.

In this "enthralling read" (Publishers Weekly), travel through the frontiers of space as physicist Fred Alan Wolf guides you through the complex yet intruging concept of parallel universes. Challenge your preceptions of the universe and explore ideas as varied as superspace theater and zero-time ghosts and even explore a future where time travel is real and black holes are gateways rather than endings.
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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

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Spirit of the Polar Regions

By: Gerard Cheshire

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Parragon Inc: May 2007

Seller ID: 29940

ISBN: 1405486708

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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The Barmaid's Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science

By: Ingram, Jay

Price: $2.00

Publisher: W. H. Freeman: November 2001

Seller ID: 287712

ISBN: 0716747022

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Here are twenty-one unexpected and fascinating tales of science's stranger facts and episodes-from why we laugh, to why moths fly to the light, to how slinging drinks affects both memory and perception in a barmaid's brain (for the better ).
Best-selling author and media personality Jay Ingram offers investigations from the very edges of science that evoke the impressive breadth of the scientific mind and demonstrate how science works. Ingram explores how science adds to a re-examination of history with startling new theories about the Salem witches and a psychiatric profile of Joan of Arc...
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The Dream of the Earth

By: Berry, Thomas

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Sierra Club Books: March 1990

Seller ID: 295809

ISBN: 0871566222

Binding: New Trade

Condition: Used - Good

Thomas Berry provides the ethical guidance needed to move beyond exploitation of the Earth toward a vision of a restorative, creative relationship with the natural world.
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The Faber Book of Science

By: N/A

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Faber & Faber: December 1995

Seller ID: 279862

ISBN: 0571163521

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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

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

Condition: Used - Good

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 Origins of Modern Science: Revised Edition

By: Butterfield, Herbert

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Collier Books, 1962: January 1962

Seller ID: 276301

ISBN: B000I5M6B8

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Image for Urgent Message From Mother : Gather The Women, Save The World

Urgent Message From Mother : Gather The Women, Save The World

By: BOLEN, JEAN SHINODA

Price: $2.00

Publisher: August 2005

Seller ID: 107029

ISBN: 1573242659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The message to all women of the world is "Wake Up Arise Do not ask for permission to gather the women. What cannot be done by men, or by individual women, can be done by women together. Earth is Home." Jean Shinoda Bolen's life's work -- her Jungian-inspired insights in The Tao of Psychology, the blockbuster Goddesss in Every Woman, the empowering Crones Don't Whine and The Millionth Circle -- all lead up to this book. It is an urgent message and an empowering one. "When women are strong together, women can be fiercely protective of what we love." Bolen's poetic polemic explores the psycholo...
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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

The Santa Cruz River that once flowed through Tucson, Arizona is today a sad mirage of a river. Except for brief periods following heavy rainfall, it is bone dry. What killed the Santa Cruz River and could devastate other surface waters across the United States - was ground pumping.
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Wetlands (Audubon Society Nature Guides)

By: Elliott, Charles

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Knopf: May 1985

Seller ID: 279912

ISBN: 0394731476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable