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On Labor Day in 1935, a hurricane that produced the record low barometric pressure reading of 26.35 inches hit Florida's upper Keys, destroying virtually everything in its path. In his meticulously researched work, Drye gives a vivid, detailed account ...
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With sliced bread and the lava lamp among his selected inventions, Harrison aims to please more than teach. He allocates a two-page spread for each item, giving it a kaleidoscopic visual treatment with a text block about the inventor, an unusual photograph...
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Recently there's been a run of coffee-table books combining elegant astronomical photographs with brief, friendly exegeses of the science behind them (e.g., Ken Croswell's Magnificent Universe, Forecasts, Sept. 6). But for adults and young people who enjoy...
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The eradication of smallpox proved that the world could unite to fight a common enemy. But this extraordinary triumph was soon eclipsed by the ferocious spread of AIDS, a humbling reminder that new infections still threaten. Today, polio is on the verge of...
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Each day at least 10,000 people worldwide die from disease-infected water. This is just one of the startling statistics contained in this collection of 13 essays, which address a wide variety of water-related issues, including global scarcity, pollution, p...
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Where did we come from? Though it's been fairly well settled that our species was born in Africa, the debate still rages over our hometown. ...
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"As a young anthropologist I never understood how I was supposed to turn up at some village... announce that I was staying for a year, and then notify the headman that he and his people were to feed and house me while I studied their lives," writes Davis (...
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Reading about a subject enough times can practically kill interest in it--just ask any of the research scientists who are wondering where their replacements will come from. National Geographic gives scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking a say wit...
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Introduction by David Maybury-Lewis Long viewed as an authority on exotic peoples, National Geographic has drawn together a dozen leading experts to explore for the first time the astounding array of cultures still surviving on Earth, even as many are threatened with extinction. Spectacular photographs and compelling essays by ...
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* Winner of the International Architecture Book Award * More than 400 photographs, detailed diagrams, and period engravings * Handy reference format This fascinating book chronicles some of the world's greatest engineering wonders from ancient times to the present -- the longest bridges, the highest dams, the ...
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