Science genre books (89)
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Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics expecially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Compeche, Mexico. As a genitically engineered Bioform, Rex is a deadly weapon in a dirty war. But all he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactlym, ar the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war crimi... continue
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Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know About the World but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Who Killed The Dead Sea? Where was the Garden of Eden? What's So Bad About the Badlands? Get on board as Kenneth C. Davis, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Don't Know Much About® History, takes us on a fascinating, breathtaking, and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth -- opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew.
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El principio by Jérôme Ferrari ES
FranceDescription:
"Un desencantado joven aspirante a filósofo interpela a la figura del Premio Nobel de física Werner Heisenberg, aquel hombre excepcional que en su momento desafió los principios clásicos de Einstein y estableció las bases de la mecánica cuántica, pero que además aceptó colaborar en las investigaciones de los nazis para crear la bomba atómica. Mientras se dirige al científico, el joven narrador asume las carencias y los fracasos de su propia existencia y se esfuerza por averiguar hasta qué punto el mal domina el mundo contemporáneo. Incertidumbre, se convierte en un marco excepcional para que F... continue
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Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) and although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached ... continue
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a... continue
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Fermat's Last Theorem : The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years by Simon Singh EN
EnglandDescription:
This is the story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century, but which every child can understand. It includes the fascinating story of Andrew Wiles who finally cracked the code.
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Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery “Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The book] carries the stories of trees, fungi, soil and bears--and of a human being listening in on the conversation. The interplay of personal narrative, scientific insights and the amazing revelations about the life of the forest make a compelling story.”—R... continue
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Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott EN
Description:
A humorous examination with serious overtones of the concepts of space, time, and dimension.
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Flying Green : On the Frontiers of New Aviation by Christopher de Bellaigue EN
Description:
Can flying be green? Last year, the world's airlines pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, and whether that actually happens or not, over the coming decades aviation will experience more innovation than it has since the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered and the way they look. Christopher de Bellaigue goes to the frontiers of the new technologies, from a startup in Iceland that shows what it takes to truly capture carbon, a California firm using hydrogen tanks to power their planes, to an airship called the Flying Whale. This is the story of the search fo... continue
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Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts by Emily Anthes EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book Long-listed for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of Nature's Summer Book Picks One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and hunt, housecats that look like tigers, and teacup pigs that fit snugly in our handbags. But what happens when we take animal alteration a step further, engineering a cat that glows green under ultraviolet light or cloning the beloved family Labrador? Science has given us a whole n... continue