John Brockman

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works





Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.

What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"--The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, neuroscience, and more, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most surprising and brilliant theories of the way of our minds, societies, and universe work.

Jared Diamond on biological electricity * Nassim Nicholas Taleb on positive stress * Steven Pinker on the deep genetic roots of human conflict * Richard Dawkins on pattern recognition * Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on simplicity * Lisa Randall on the Higgs mechanism * BRIAN Eno on the limits of intuition * Richard Thaler on the power of commitment * V. S. Ramachandran on the "neural code" of consciousness * Nobel Prize winner ERIC KANDEL on the power of psychotherapy * Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on "Lord Acton's Dictum" * Lawrence M. Krauss on the unification of electricity and magnetism * plus contributions by Martin J. Rees * Kevin Kelly * Clay Shirky * Daniel C. Dennett * Sherry Turkle * Philip Zimbardo * Lee Smolin * Rebecca Newberger Goldstein * Seth Lloyd * Stewart Brand * George Dyson * Matt Ridley

This Explains Everything

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Ohio

Science

The Ultimate Bitesize Study Guide

A fantastic aid for coursework, homework, and studying for tests, this is the ultimate study guide to biology. From reproduction to respiration and from enzymes to ecosystems, every topic is fully illustrated to support the information, make the facts clear, and bring biology to life. For key ideas, “How it works” and “Look closer” boxes explain the theory with the help of simple graphics. And for further studying, a handy “Key facts” box provides a summary you can check back on later. With clear, concise coverage of all the core biology topics, Super Simple Biology is the perfect accessible guide for students, supporting classwork, and making studying for exams the easiest it’s ever been.

Super Simple Biology

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New Jersey

Neurological, Nutritional and Behavioral Paths to Free Your Brain's Potential

The Mind Unlocked

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Kansas

Nikola Tesla

Colorado Springs Notes 1899-1900

Dictionary of Science

John H. Tiner

Great shape! This is a very interestinf read for students and adults alike!

History

From the ancient physicians of Pharaoh to genetic engineering

The third in this popular series, with the same format (including questions that teachers can use for checking comprehension) that has driven the success of Exploring Planet Earth and Exploring the History of Medicine. Home and Christian school teachers are clamoring for these more specialized books and here Tiner delivers in a big way.With a flair for telling biographical sketches of famous scientists. Tiner also provides students with a solid foundation for understanding the crucial purposes of chemistry.Each chapter ends with study questions and the answers, in the back of the book, can easily be removed by teacher or parent.

Exploring the History of Medicine

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Mary Roach

Science Tackles the Afterlife

The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.

What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's thatthe million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive.

Six Feet Over

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Loose-leaf version; includes 3-ring binder

Chemistry 103: Principles of Chemistry (Loose-leaf version)

Alain de Botton

Like New, First Edition! Very minor wear on dust-jacket edge(see photo). 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false--but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.
 
Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it--because the world's religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world.
 
For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.

Religion for Atheists

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Vladimir I. Arnold

Valery V. Kozlov

Anatoly I. Neishtadt

Evgeny Khukhro

E. Khukhro

The main purpose of the book is to acquaint mathematicians, physicists and engineers with classical mechanics as a whole, in both its traditional and its contemporary aspects. As such, it describes the fundamental principles, problems, and methods of classical mechanics, with the emphasis firmly laid on the working apparatus, rather than the physical foundations or applications. Chapters cover the n-body problem, symmetry groups of mechanical systems and the corresponding conservation laws, the problem of the integrability of the equations of motion, the theory of oscillations and perturbation theory.

Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics

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Mark Kurlansky

A KID'S GUIDE TO THE OCEAN

"Can you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doing things, fish could become extinct within fifty years. So let's change the way we do things!"

World Without Fish is the uniquely illustrated narrative nonfiction account--for kids--of what is happening to the world's oceans and what they can do about it. Written by Mark Kurlansky, author of Cod, Salt, The Big Oyster, and many other books, World Without Fish has been praised as "urgent" (Publishers Weekly) and "a wonderfully fast-paced and engaging primer on the key questions surrounding fish and the sea" (Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish). It has also been included in the New York State Expeditionary Learning English Language Arts Curriculum.

Written by a master storyteller, World Without Fish connects all the dots--biology, economics, evolution, politics, climate, history, culture, food, and nutrition--in a way that kids can really understand. It describes how the fish we most commonly eat, including tuna, salmon, cod, swordfish--even anchovies-- could disappear within fifty years, and the domino effect it would have: the oceans teeming with jellyfish and turning pinkish orange from algal blooms, the seabirds disappearing, then reptiles, then mammals. It describes the back-and-forth dynamic of fishermen, who are the original environmentalists, and scientists, who not that long ago considered fish an endless resource. It explains why fish farming is not the answer--and why sustainable fishing is, and how to help return the oceans to their natural ecological balance.

Interwoven with the book is a twelve-page graphic novel. Each beautifully illustrated chapter opener links to the next to form a larger fictional story that perfectly complements the text.

World Without Fish

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Carole Lium Edelman

Carol Lynn Mandle

This book is a clean copy with a good spine and binding. The contents and Graphics are in good condition. There is minimal wear inside. There is slight wear on the paperback cover. Will ship book within hours after we receive your order please. Thanks for stopping by and please stay safe.

Texas

This seventh edition addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups, individuals, families and communities.

Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

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Excellent condition! Great for avoiding brain drain! Summer learning!

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Marvel at the wonders of the universe, from stars and planets to black holes and nebulae, in this exploration of our solar system and beyond. Universe opens with a look at astronomy and the history of the Universe, using 3D artworks to provide a comprehensive grounding in the fundamental concepts of astronomy, including the basic techniques of practical astronomy. The core of the book is a tour of the cosmos covering the Solar System, the Milky Way, and galaxies beyond our own. Explanatory pages introduce different celestial phenomena, such as galaxies, and are followed by catalogs that profile the most interesting and important examples. A comprehensive star atlas completes the picture, with entries on each of the 88 constellations and a monthly sky guide showing the night sky as it appears throughout the year as viewed from both the northern and southern hemispheres.

Universe, Third Edition

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Great condition inside, no writing or highlighting observed. Some cover wear.

Pennsylvania

Student Text

In this book you will learn about the history of science, how to do science, the history of life, how your body works, and some of the amazing living creatures that exist in God's Creation.

Exploring Creation with General Science Textbook and Solutions and Test

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This book on water talks about scientific, vedic, historical, humanitarian and technological aspects of water. 

Anomalous Water 

Vilakshana jalajala

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

“I know this is going to sound hyperbolic, but when I’m reading Ken Liu’s stories, I feel like I’m reading a once-in-a-generation talent. I’m in awe.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author “Captivating.” —BuzzFeed “Extraordinary.” —The Washington Post “Brilliant.” —The Chicago Tribune With the release of The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Ken Liu’s short fiction has resonated with a generation of readers. From stories about time-traveling assassins, to Black Mirror-esque tales of cryptocurrency and internet trolling, to heartbreaking narratives of parent-child relationships, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories is a far-reaching work that explores topical themes from the present and a visionary look at humanity’s future. This collection includes a selection of Liu’s speculative fiction stories over the past five years—seventeen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition, it also features an excerpt from The Veiled Throne, the third book in Liu’s epic fantasy series The Dandelion Dynasty.

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

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Christopher T. Cross

Brian Sandoval

Jeremy Anderson

Setting the Course for State and Federal Policy

In this volume, political insider Christopher Cross updates his critically acclaimed bestseller with new chapters and important new insights into future education policy. Cross draws on his own experience in Washington, along with research and interviews, to present a highly readable history of federal education policy from WWII to the Obama administration. The book highlights the key players who helped shape federal policy, because as Cross writes in his introduction "policy development is woven of personalities, events, and timing." This fascinating chronicle demonstrates, among other things, how federal policy has been a constant influence on what states and local districts do, especially with respect to students most at-risk.

Political Education

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A Thematic Approach

Bukatko/Daehler's CHILD DEVELOPMENT: A THEMATIC APPROACH provides a comprehensive, topically organized, up-to-date picture of development from conception to adolescence. Most important, it draws students' attention to the themes that replay themselves throughout the course of development, fundamental issues that resurface continually and that provide coherence to sometimes seemingly disparate research. The themes can serve as frameworks to help students further understand and remember the multitude of facts about child development. Bukatko/Daehler's sixth edition text draws on five themes, Nature and Nurture, Sociocultural Influence, Continuity/Discontinuity, Interaction among Domains, and Risk/Resilience. By drawing on these themes, the authors hope to stimulate readers to think about the process of development, or why it proceeds as it does. Through new For Your Review and Reflection sections, the authors also hope students will engage with the text and become more adept critical thinkers, who are more likely to appreciate the ramifications of theory and research for applied issues such as parenting practices, education, and social policy for children, which are ultimately concerns for us all.

Child Development

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The Cooling: Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun?


Signed and inscribed by author with a personal message to journalist and author, Kelly Lange and the date, 10-16-77

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Has the Next Ice Age Already Begun? Can We Survive It?

The Cooling SIGNED

Stephen Hawking

Leonard Mlodinow

Very good clean tight copy in unread coo. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

The best-selling author of A Brief History of Time presents a new study of the cosmos that will blow peoples' minds, presented in clear, concise language this is easy to understand.

1st ed./1st* The Grand Design

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Dee Silverthorn

Richard Damian Hill

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

An Integrated Approach

Co-written by author Dee Silverthorn, this student study guide is adapted from materials the author developed for her own class. Each chapter features a "guided note-taking" series of questions that allow students to learn the basics as they read. Assigning these questions as pre-class homework helps instructors free up class time for interactive learning activities. Other helpful study aids include try-it-yourself activities, quantitative and application-level review questions, chapter summaries, lab exercises, and reading lists.

Student Workbook for Human Physiology

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David H. Devorkin

25 Years of New Vistas in Space

"To celebrate NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its 25 years of accomplishments, let The Hubble Cosmos fill your mind with big ideas, brilliant imagery, and a new understanding of the universe in which we live. Relive key moments in the monumental Hubble story, from launch through major new instrumentation to the promise of discoveries to come. With more than 150 photographs including Hubble All-Stars -- the most famous of all the noteworthy images -- The Hubble Cosmos shows how this telescope is revolutionizing our understanding of the universe." --

The Hubble Cosmos

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Preoperative, Phase I and Phase II PACU Nursing

To best serve the needs of practicing perianesthesia nurses, content from Core Curriculum for PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 4th Edition and Ambulatory Surgical Nursing Core Curriculum were combined into one new core, PeriAnesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum. This new core adds additional key content to provide the most comprehensive reference for perianesthesia practice, from preanesthesia through postanesthesia Phase 3. This one resource provides practicing perianesthesia nurses with the complete scope of practice in line with and as defined by ASPAN.
 * Focuses on ASPAN's full scope of perianesthesia nursing practice regardless of the practice setting.
 * Provides the core content necessary to demonstrate competency as a perianesthesia nurse.
 * Includes a section on LifeSpan Considerations, Unit 3, to help the nurse understand the full scope of perianesthesia care from pediatrics through older adult life.
 * Unit 4, Competency of Preoperative Assessment incorporates all aspects of the complete assessment of the patient and family including key areas such as cultural and alternative/complementary therapies.
 * Unit 6, Surgical Specialties provides a consistent format presentation for each specialty area, including anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, operative procedures, postanesthesia priorities: phases 1, 2, and 3, and where necessary, potential complications including anesthesia and pain management.
 * An appendix on Certification Concepts and Testing Strategies along with the core content provides an outstanding tool to prepare for certification as a perinanesthesia nurse (CPAN) or as an ambulatory perianesthesia nurse (CAPA).

PeriAnesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum

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Medical-Surgical, Pediatric, Maternity, and Psychiatric

Highly regarded for its clinically relevant and thought-provoking content, Winningham's Critical Thinking Cases in Nursing, 6th Edition features 150 case studies that cover all four clinical practice areas: medical-surgical, pediatric, OB/maternity, and psychiatric nursing. Each case covers a common patient problem, drawn from actual clinical experiences and written by nurses who are clinical experts. This edition reflects the most current standards of clinical practice, including content on pharmacology, nutrition, and diagnostic/laboratory tests to prepare you for all aspects of patient care. From nursing educators Mariann Harding and Julie Snyder, this workbook helps you develop your clinical nursing judgment and bridge the gap from nursing knowledge to nursing practice.

 * Comprehensive case study approach uses cases drawn from actual clinical experiences to help you identify changes, anticipate possible complications, and initiate therapeutic interventions.
 * Progressive case complexity builds on previous learning and helps you develop more and more expertise.
 * 150 case studies cover all major clinical areas, including medical-surgical, pediatric, OB/maternity, and psychiatric cases, providing you with many diverse clinical situations and opportunities to apply knowledge and develop critical thinking skills.
 * Body system organization makes the book easier to use with medical-surgical nursing textbooks and courses.

 * NEW! QSEN icons highlight essential safety content.
 * NEW! Increased emphasis on NCLEX® Exam-style alternate-format questions includes multiple-response, prioritization, and illustration-based questions, offering better NCLEX Examination preparation.
 * NEW! Additional documentation questions and a NEW Chart View design provide more experience in documenting patient care based on real-world electronic chart formats.
 * NEW! Reorganized format presents cases in three parts: 1) medical-surgical cases; 2) pediatric, maternity, and women's health cases; and 3) psychiatric and alternative therapies cases.
 * NEW! Increased difficulty level includes more questions about care of older adults and multi-system situations.
 * UPDATED content includes the latest clinical treatment guidelines, issues, and practice standards.

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This Explains Everything

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The Mind Unlocked

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Colorado Springs Notes 1899-1900

Robert K. Barnhart

Dictionary of Science

John H. Tiner

Exploring the History of Medicine

Mary Roach

Six Feet Over

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Chemistry 103: Principles of Chemistry (Loose-leaf version)

Alain de Botton

Religion for Atheists

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Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics

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World Without Fish

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Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span

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Universe, Third Edition

Jay L. Wile

Exploring Creation with General Science Textbook and Solutions and Test

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Ken Liu

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Christopher T. Cross; Brian Sandoval; Jeremy Anderson

Political Education

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Child Development

Lowell Ponte

The Cooling SIGNED

Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow

1st ed./1st* The Grand Design

Dee Silverthorn; Richard Damian Hill

Student Workbook for Human Physiology

David H. Devorkin

The Hubble Cosmos

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PeriAnesthesia Nursing Core Curriculum

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Winningham's Critical Thinking Cases in Nursing