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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and former CIA director, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over 70 years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Drawing on their different perspectives and areas of expertise, Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have...
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt helped popularized science texts with his book Kosmos, published in five volumes between 1845 and 1862, which gives an understandable account of the structure of the universe as known at the time. Around the same time, Gregor Mendel famously studied pea plants and laid the foundation for the modern science of genetics. Readers will be amazed by the detailed biographies of these and many other notable scientists,...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Fraser traces the growth of the Church of Christ, Scientist from a small, eccentric sect into a politically powerful and socially respectable religion. She takes us into the closed world of it's followers, who reject modern medicine even at the cost of their children's lives. And she reveals just how Christian Science managed to gain extraordinary legal and congressional approval for its dubious practices. An exposé of the dangers and delusions of...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Planet Earth is in the Milky Way Galaxy, the cloudy band of light that stretches clear across the night sky. How many galaxies are there in the universe? For years astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the universe. Now we know that there are billions of them. Gail Gibbons takes the reader on a journey light-years away"--
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As a society, were in a constant struggle to control uncertainty and predict the unknown. Quite often, we think of scientific fields and theories as being separate from each other. But a more careful investigation can uncover the common thread that ties many of those together. From ChatGPT, to Amazons Alexa, to Apples Siri, data science, and computer science have become part of our lives. In the meantime, the demand for data scientists has grown,...
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