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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor,...
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Wiley
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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"In the past two centuries, we have witnessed an unparalleled expansion in scientific and technical horizons. But with our longer view of things, the horizon is now interrupted, here and there, by walls. With our newfound knowledge and technical abilities has come an understanding of the limitations of science and technology. Beyond Reason provides a mind-bending exploration not into what is doable and knowable - but what is undoable and unknowable."
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Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"From modern-day challenges such as balancing a checkbook, following the stock market, buying a home, and figuring out credit card finance charges to appreciating historical developments by Pythagoras, Archimedes, Newton, and other mathematicians, this engaging resource addresses more than 1,000 questions related to mathematics. Organized into chapters that cluster similar topics in an easily accessible format, this reference provides clear and concise...
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English
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This book shows us that math isnt́ confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does ṕublic opinion ŕeally represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop...
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Kaplan Inc., d/b/a Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Painless Calculus provides review and practice in an easy, step-by-step format...Inside you’ll find: Examples of all topics, including limits and continuity, derivatives, curve sketching, definite integrals, and much more; Diagrams, charts, and instructive math illustrations; Painless tips and common pitfalls; Math talk boxes that translate complex 'math speak' into easy-to-understand language; Brain Tickler quizzes throughout each chapter to test...
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Abdo Group
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This title will teach kids what patterns they can find at the park. Text and images complement each other so that readers can easily learn what patterns are and how to recognize them the next time they are playing at the park. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.