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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
112 Mercer street 112 Mercer street Burton Feldman,Burton Feldman The story of quantum physics in the 20th century, with some outlooks onto mathematics. OL12251391W
Chaotic dynamics Chaotic dynamics Tamás Tél,Márton Gruiz,Tamas Tel In the past few decades we have come to understand that even motions in simple systems can have complex and surprising properties. Chaotic Dynamics provides a clear introduction to these chaotic phen… OL13165565W
How stuff works How stuff works HowStuffWorks.com,Marshall Brain From the award-winning Web site visited by more than 2.5 million people every month comes How Stuff Works, the definitive guide to the inner workings of everyday items. In this fun and infinitely inf… OL2459693W
Human Human Gazzaniga, Michael S. One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social co… OL2707903W
Lonely Planets Lonely Planets David Harry Grinspoon It's been nearly four decades since Carl Sagan first addressed the general public from a scientist's perspective, confronting the possibility of extraterrestrial life. David Grinspoon, a planetary sc… OL273352W
Ice ages Ice ages John Imbrie,Katherine Palmer Imbrie Presents recent findings on and confirmation of the correctness of one of the several theories regarding causes of ice ages. OL5109253W
Memory Memory Larry R. Squire,Eric R. Kandel "Combining insights from both cognitive neuroscience and molecular biology, Memory presents the basics of memory--from molecules and cells to brain systems and cognition. What is memory and where in … OL5275387W
Nonzero Nonzero Robert Wright In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the dir… OL8300064W