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  • Powering the Future

    How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow

    by Robert B Laughlin ...
    In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we've ceased to use carbon from the ground -- either because humans have banned carbon burning or because fuel has simply run out. Boldly, Laughlin predicts no earth-shattering transformations will have taken place. Six generations from now, there will still be soccer moms, shopping malls, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Crime of Reason

    And the Closing of the Scientific Mind

    by Robert B Laughlin ...
    We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring information is becoming a danger or even a crime. Increasingly, the really valuable information is private property or a state secret, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Different Universe

    Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down

    by Robert B Laughlin ...
    A Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world of atoms, but in the macroscopic world around usIn this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in A Different Universe, Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin argues that the scientific frontier is right under our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Powering the Future

    How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow

    by Robert B. Laughlin ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground. Boldly, Laughlin predicts no earth-shattering transformations will have taken place. Six generations from now, there will still be soccer moms, shopping malls, and business trips. Firesides will still be snug and warm.How will we do it? Not by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Biodiversity and Human Health

    by Jensa Bell, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Michael Boyd, Mary Campbell, Eric Chivian, Paul Cox, Gordon Cragg, Andrew P. Dobson, Kate Duffy-Mazan, Robert Engelman, Paul Epstein, Alexandra Fairfield, John Grupenhoff, Dan Janzen, Catherine Laughlin, Tom Mays, Robert McCaleb, Katy Moran, David Newman, Charles Peters, Walter Reid, John Vandermeer, Anthony Artuso, Byron Bailey ...
    The implications of biodiversity loss for the global environment have been widely discussed, but only recently has attention been paid to its direct and serious effects on human health. Biodiversity loss affects the spread of human diseases, causes a loss of medical models, diminishes the supplies of raw materials for drug discovery and biotechnology, and threatens food production and water ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Monkey Business Theatre

    by Robert M. Laughlin ...
    Series series The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies
    In 1983, a group of citizens in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, formed Sna Jtz'ibajom, the Tzotzil-Tzeltal Maya writers' cooperative. In the two decades since, this group has evolved from writing and publishing bilingual booklets to writing and performing plays that have earned them national and international renown.Anthropologist Robert M. Laughlin has been a part of the group since its ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas

    by Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, Andrés Brizuela Casimir ...
    The Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, volume editor Karen Bassie-Sweet and the other authors assembled here uncover clear continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient counterparts.With evocative and thoughtful essays by leading scholars of Maya ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Atlas of Operative Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

    Edited by Christopher J. Haggerty, Robert M. Laughlin ...
    ATLAS OF OPERATIVE ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERYComprehensive Learning Resource Covering All Aspects of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryThis textbook marks the second edition of the highly successful Atlas of Operative Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The first edition quicky became a staple with surgeons on rounds, in training programs and in preparation for board examinations. This atlas is ... Read more

    $206.00 USD

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    The Race to Build the First Time Machine

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    IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME....Once widely considered an impossibility--the stuff of science fiction novels--time travel may finally be achieved in the twenty-first century. In Breaking the Time Barrier, bestselling author Jenny Randles reveals the nature of recent, breakthrough experiments that are turning this fantasy into reality.The race to build the first time machine is a fascinating saga ... Read more

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  • Collider

    The Search for the World's Smallest Particles

    by Paul Halpern ...
    An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universeThe biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why ... Read more

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  • The Secret Strategy For Learning Math: The One Thing You Must Understand

    by Richard Porr ...
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  • The God Effect

    Quantum Entanglement, Science's Strangest Phenomenon

    by Brian Clegg ...
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