Contemporary Authors: Biography - Curtin, Mary Ellen (1922-)
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Black Prisoners And Their World : Alabama, 1865-1900
In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners and Their World draws on a variety of sources, [... more]
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Magnificent Universe (Hardcover)
Magnificent Universe (Hardcover) by Ken Croswell "The only astronomy coffee-table book that can begin to compare to this one for beauty is Full Moon. The black-and-white photos in the latter have a stark loveliness with something of the chill of [... more]
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Scientific American: How Things Work Today
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The Johnstown Flood
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Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life ...
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"e": The Story of a Number (Princeton Science Library)
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e: The Story of a Number
Amazon.com Review: Until about 1975, logarithms were every scientist's best friend. They were the basis of the slide rule that was the totemic wand of the trade, listed in huge books consulted in every library. Then hand-held calculators arrived, and [... more]
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The New Dinosaurs
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The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and ...
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The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World
Amazon.com Review: Francis Sullivan of the Institute for Defense Analysis said "Great algorithms are the poetry of computation"; David Berlinski calls the algorithm "the idea that rules the world." The Advent of the Algorithm is not [... more]
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