Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and...
Contributions to a Philosophy of Technology: Studies in the Structure of Thinking in the Technological Sciences
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The highly sophisticated techniques of modern engineering are normally conceived of in practical...
Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States
Fabio Parasecoli and Laura Lindenfeld
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Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food-they...
Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Duncan Barrett and Michele Barrett
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In a world shrunk by modern transport and communication, Star Trek has maintained the values of...
Applied Physical Chemistry with Multidisciplinary Approaches
Sabu Thomas, A.K. Haghi and Devrim Balkose
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Presenting illustrative case studies, highlighting technological applications, and explaining...
Fullerenes: Nanochemistry, Nanomagnetism, Nanomedicine, Nanophotonics
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At the interface between chemistry, biology, and physics, fullerenes were one of the first objects...
Introduction to Boolean Algebras
Paul R. Halmos and Steven R. Givant
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The theory of Boolean algebras was created in 1847 by the English mat- matician George Boole. He...
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen, Anne Whitman and Julia Budenz
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In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the...
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
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Britain's most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot...
On Football by Jorge Valdano
Jorge Valdano and Miguel Aguilar
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Until the summer of 2003, when his club failed to bring home a single trophy, Jorge Valdano was the...