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1) Nexus
Author
Series
Nexus novels (Ramez Naam) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link human together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage -- for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes.
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
[2024]
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English
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"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. Because time is about to loop. In a flash...
4) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ex-police officer Mick Stranahan rescues a woman from the ocean. Joey Perrone's husband tried to kill her by pushing her overboard from a cruise liner because he suspected that she had figured out his scam of doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can illegally dump fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. Mick helps Joey haunt and taunt her homicidal husband.
5) Some Really Personal, Yet Entertaining Stories From My Life That You Will Enjoy and May Even Find
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English
Description
What is a "normal childhood?" Does it include almost being murdered by your sister with an ax? Speeding around town in the back of a station wagon because your mom is chasing an "alien spaceship"? Being busted by the police for intent to light a pond on fire? Tackling your mom to the ground and wrestling a knife out of her hand because she was trying to kill your dad? While my stories may be unique, readers will be able to relate to the broader themes...
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Français
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"Sourire le premier – Les clés du changement" est un ensemble de ressources précieuses pour ouvrir la porte à un horizon inédit grâce à des comportements innovants. Il propose une perspective originale sur la vie et explore la possibilité de renaître au milieu du chaos actuel. Quelles attitudes pouvons-nous adopter pour retrouver le bonheur ?
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Thérapeute holistique, Anna Asteria a toujours été sceptique à l'égard...
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Français
Description
Rage, vengeance, colère, remords, jalousie, haine, admiration, attachement, liés... Sont tous des sentiments qu'on peut avoir pour elle, elles, mais qui peut vivre sans elle ? Ce n'est pas une recette culinaire, ni un mélange quelconque fait dans un laboratoire, à moins que le fruit de l'azar qu'on parvient à ce superbe créature qu'est la femme, il y a beaucoup d'hommes qui voudraient être femme dépensent des fortunes pour leur transformation,...
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English
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Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists-even a poet and a musicologist-traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked their lives in pursuit of...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"When I take a trip to the North Pole with my mom to study whales, I learn that are so many different ways to be a scientist. Did you know that there are meteorologists, zoologists, astronomersand many more! Maybe I'll be a scientist too!"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental discovery in the vastness of space. Scientists uncovered an asteroid of immense scientific importance--a colossal celestial entity. As massive as an aircraft carrier and towering as high as the iconic Empire State Building, this cosmic titan was later named Bennu. Remarkable for much more than its size, Bennu belonged to a rare breed of asteroids capable of revealing the essence of life itself. But...
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