
Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain
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Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at...

Key Methods in Geography
Nicholas Clifford, Shaun French, Meghan Cope and Thomas W. Gillespie
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"Practical, accessible, careful and interesting, this...revised volume brings the subject up-to-date...

Before Time Began: The Big Bang and the Emerging Universe
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What is the origin of the universe? What was there before the universe appeared? We are currently...

Essentials of Developmental Plant Anatomy
Taylor A. Steeves and Vipen K. Sawhney
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The main aim of this book is to provide a developmental perspective to plant anatomy. Authors...

From Classical to Quantum Fields
Laurent Baulieu, John Iliopoulos and Roland Seneor
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Quantum Field Theory has become the universal language of most modern theoretical physics. This...

Godel's Disjunction: The Scope and Limits of Mathematical Knowledge
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The logician Kurt Godel in 1951 established a disjunctive thesis about the scope and limits of...

Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
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What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it...
Quantum Physics: A First Encounter: Interference, Entanglement, and Reality
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Quantum physics is often perceived as a weird and abstract theory, which physicists must use in...

Reagent Chemicals: Specifications and Procedures for Reagents
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Analytical Reagents sets the specifications for...

Surfing the Quantum World
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The ideas and phenomena of the quantum world are strikingly unlike those encountered in our visual...