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Echoes from the Operating Room: Vignettes in Surgical History

By: Boyd MD, Carl R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Trafford Publishing: January 2013

Seller ID: 133929

ISBN: 1466977558

Condition: Used - Good

Every day in every operating room, the same names are spoken over and over again. These names are the names of the great surgical innovators and teachers of the past. Surgeons call out for Kocher clamps and Deaver retractors. They perform Billroth gastric resections and Bassini hernia repairs. Those names have echoed from the sterile environments of operating rooms for over a hundred years. In Echoes from the Operating Room, Dr. Boyd tells the stories of the principal events and great men of surgery and science and their accomplishments in a concise and compelling style. From the sad story of ...
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The Hidden World of the Fox

By: Brand, Adele

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow: October 2019

Seller ID: 127488

ISBN: 0062966103

Condition: Used - Good

Why Geography Matters: More Than Ever

By: de Blij, Harm

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: August 2012

Seller ID: 134394

ISBN: 0199913749

Condition: Used - Good

In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system. Is there some way we can get our minds around these disparate global upheavals, to grasp these events and their interconnections, and place our turbulent world in a more understandable light?...
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Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

By: Dennett, Daniel C.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The MIT Press: July 1981

Seller ID: 130231

ISBN: 0262540371

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theoryof mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Usingcareful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiarpreconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory inPsychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will andPersonhood.
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The Hidden Messages in Water

By: Emoto, Masaru

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Atria Books: September 2005

Seller ID: 130225

ISBN: 0743289803

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book has the potential to profoundly transform your world view. Using high-speed photography, Dr. Masaru Emoto discovered that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward them. He found that water from clear springs and water that has been exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns. In contrast, polluted water, or water exposed to negative thoughts, forms incomplete, asymmetrical patterns with dull colors. The implications of this research create a new awareness of how we can positively impa...
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Backyard Ballistics : Build Potato Cannons, Paper Match Rockets, Cincinnati Fire Kites, Tennis Ball Mortars, and More Dynamite Devices

By: GURSTELLE, WILLIAM

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Independent Pub Group: June 2001

Seller ID: 130223

ISBN: 1556523750

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ordinary folks can construct 13 awesome ballistic devices in their garage or basement workshops using inexpensive household or hardware store materials and this step-by-step guide. Clear instructions, diagrams, and photographs show how to build projects ranging from the simple--a match-powered rocket--to the more complex--a scale-model, table-top catapult--to the offbeat--a tennis ball cannon. With a strong emphasis on safety, the book also gives tips on troubleshooting, explains the physics behind the projects, and profiles scientists and extraordinary experimenters such as Alfred Nobel, Robe...
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The Grand Energy Transition: The Rise of Energy Gases, Sustainable Life and Growth, and the Next Great Economic Expansion

By: Hefner III, Robert A.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Wiley: September 2009

Seller ID: 130413

ISBN: 0470527560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A groundbreaking book on solving our growing energy problemsIn this visionary book, leading energy industry executive Robert Hefner puts forth a convincing case about how the world can move beyond its current dependence on oil and toward a new era of clean, renewable energy.Written with the knowledge and authority of a major player in this industry, Hefner relates how misguided government policies and vested industry interests have contributed to our current energy problems and proposes a variety of measures that could encourage the use of natural gas, solar, wind, and hydrogen.Convin...
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Mathematics and Optimal Form (Scientific American Library)

By: Hildebrandt, Stefan,Tromba, Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W H Freeman & Co: August 1986

Seller ID: 130224

ISBN: 0716750090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maddie on Things: A Super Serious Project About Dogs and Physics

By: Humphrey, Theron

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books: March 2013

Seller ID: 133979

ISBN: 1452115567

Condition: Used - Good

Maddie is a sweet-tempered coonhound who accompanied her owner, Theron, on a yearlong, cross-country trip while he worked on a photojournalism project. In his spare time, Theron took photos of Maddie doing what she does best: standing on things. From bicycles to giant watermelons to horses to people, there really isn't anything that Maddie won't stand on with grace and patience. The poignant Instagram photos of this beautiful dog and her offbeat poses have captured the imagination of all those who long for a road trip with a good dog for company. Maddie on Things celebrates the strange talent ...
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Joseph Banks: A Life

By: O'Brian, Patrick

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 134210

ISBN: 0226616282

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of our greatest writers about the sea has written an engrossing story of one of history's most legendary maritime explorers. Patrick O'Brian's biography of naturalist, explorer and co-founder of Australia, Joseph Banks, is narrative history at its finest. Published to rave reviews, it reveals Banks to be a man of enduring importance, and establishes itself as a classic of exploration. "It is in his description of that arduous three-year voyage on the ship Endeavor] that Mr. O'Brian is at his most brilliant. . . . He makes us understand what life within this wooden world was like, with...
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Browser's Book of Beginnings: Origins of Everything Under, and Including, the Sun

By: Panati, Charles

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: June 1984

Seller ID: 131485

ISBN: 0395360994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

By: Sacks, Oliver

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf: October 2007

Seller ID: 133148

ISBN: 1400040817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In "Musicophilia, " he examine...
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The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales

By: Sacks, Oliver W.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: January 1987

Seller ID: 133931

ISBN: 0060970790

Condition: Used - Good

Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts

By: Sandford, Maggie Ryan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal: August 2019

Seller ID: 127485

ISBN: 0316418390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

By: Shubin, Neil

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Vintage: January 2009

Seller ID: 130392

ISBN: 0307277453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered "Tiktaalik," the "fish with hands," tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria.""Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By: Skloot, Rebecca

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Broadway: March 2011

Seller ID: 130393

ISBN: 1400052181

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells-taken without her knowledge-became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons-as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets o...
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