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Molly Abberwick is a formidable business woman and trustee of her late father's charitable foundation. Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan, noted scientist and philosopher, is Molly's consultant. When he suggests a "scientifically inspired" affair, she is outraged. But soon, a stalker will force Molly to turn to Harry as her only hope of survival. Krentz (aka Amanda Quick) is the New York Times best-selling author of dozens of delightful romances.
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A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.
3) The genesis quest: the geniuses and eccentrics on a journey to uncover the origin of life on Earth
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"Some have argued that life began in the chemical-rich seas of the early Earth, the famous primordial soup, while others are convinced that life began in strange vents pumping hot water out of the sea floor, where the chemical reactions that sustain living cells could get started. Or perhaps life began in volcanic ponds on land, or in meteorite impact zones, or even in beds of clay. Each idea has attracted staunch believers who promote it with an...
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Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean, still grieving the death of her fiancē in a bank robbery eight months earlier, becomes caught up in the investigation of the death of Jillian Perry, a wife of three weeks with a young daughter, who was found dead in the woods of no apparent cause, and her efforts are aided by Jillian's former boyfriend who believes the child may also be in danger.
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A Sigma Force novel volume 21
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To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and pulse-pounding action.
For eons, the city of Troy-whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad-was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. • From the acclaimed author of Magnificent Rebels.
"Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe
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"Vivid and exciting.... Wulf’s pulsating account brings this dazzling figure back into a dazzling, much-deserved focus.” —The Boston Globe
Alexander...
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World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize- winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, "First and foremost, curiosity." In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists (including three Nobel Laureates), Klein lets us listen...
11) The maze cutter
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Maze cutter volume 1
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"73 years after THE MAZE RUNNER series, the descendants of dystopia have thrived on the island but must leave everything they know behind when a ship comes from the old world with news about how they are needed to save civilization"--
"Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the...
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Questioneers volume 5
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When pets go missing in Blue River Creek it is up to Ada to follow the scientific method by making a hypothesis, collecting data, and experimenting to find the missing animals.
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While this is not a self-help book, some may find a few of the vignettes within the pages here as helpful if you have an open mind and consider the consequences of ignoring the common-sense rules that guide your personal universe.
In other words, the underlying messages are, meant to mitigate the circumstances of the choices you made or the ones you will make down the road ahead. Basically, it's all about paying attention to details that you may...
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Amorçant la réflexion avec une question telle que «Dieu existe, alors qu'allons-nous faire de cette vérité?», Goswami en appelle à un plan d'action o les principes de l'activisme quantique seraient appliqués à un ensemble d'enjeux sociaux: il plaide pour une économie spirituelle qui met l'accent sur le bien-être plutt que sur les besoins matériels; une démocratie qui utilise le pouvoir pour servir les autres plutt que de les exploiter;...
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Widely acclaimed for giving "an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche's personal experience and his most famous ideas" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in Turin, Chamberlain now renders a similar service to readers of Freud. In this book, part biography, part literary criticism, she takes the reader into the mind of Freud, toward a better understanding of the thinker, his work, and art...
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White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine is the story of a Bostonian close-knit Jewish working-class family of five sisters and one brother and the impact they and their next generation endured due to the popularization of lobotomy during the 20th century. When Janet Sternburg's grandfather abandoned his family, and her uncle, Bennie, became increasing mentally ill, Sternburg's mother and aunts had to bind together and make crucial decisions...
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En una noche de vigilia en la que el alma está cerca de la razón, paralizada de manera obligada en confinamiento por la pandemia mundial de la Covid 19. Una de esas noches en la que te cuestionas todo: lo existencial y lo profesional, sentí la llamada caballeresca de quien sigue sus instintos y delirios más primogénitos de reflejar mi experiencia profesional después de 20 años de terminar la carrera de trabajo social en nuestra querida Salamanca...
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This is a story by a father and his son to detail the son's issues with PTSD after returning from multiple overseas Naval deployments as a sniper that led to several suicide attempts, including a long, convoluted plan involving multiple foreign countries. This story is both heartwarming and disturbing. Family and friends worked together to save Mark, but the military seemed indifferent to the struggles that led to this situation. This is a powerful...
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Partial Sanity: Stories from the Edge of Mental Health is a memoir about jumping feet-first into adulthood. Armed with a newly earned undergraduate degree in human services, Beth accepts the first full-time position she is offered to work as a psychiatric case manager in a community mental health program. Located in the economically depressed coal region of Pennsylvania in the late 1980's, the town of Houtzdale has an equal number of small bars, dingy...
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Beginning in the summer of 2004, Scott Nadelson's life fell apart. His fiancée left him a month before their planned wedding for another woman who made her living performing as a drag king. He moved into a drafty attic. His car's brakes went out. He learned that his cat was dying. Over the next two years, he'd struggle, with equivocal and sometimes humiliating results, to get back on his feet, in the process re-examining his past to understand his...
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