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Brain Ponderables by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to the human brain, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the three pounds of matter inside our heads that does all our thinking for us. With 100 billion nerve cells joined by thousands more to every corner of the body, the brain is wired together with 10 ...Show more
Engineering : An Illustrated History From Ancient Craft To Modern Technology by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
From ancient aqueducts to soaring skyscrapers, explore engineering milestones over the centuries. Combining engaging text with captivating images and helpful diagrams, renowned science writer Tom Jackson guides readers through the history of Engineering in this engaging installment of the groundbreaking ...Show more
Philosophy (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
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Category: History | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to philosophy. Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought is an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions -- what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come from? ...Show more
Ponderables Computer Science: An Illustrated History of the World's Smartest Machines by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to computers, an authoritative reference book and timeline about the most powerful tools ever devised. Computing has been the sharp end of cutting-edge technology for a generation and it now permeates all our lives. But to many computer science remains something of a mystery. ...Show more
Ponderables Engineering: An Illustrated History From Ancient Craft to Modern Technology by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: 100 Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to engineering, an authoritative reference book and timeline about how technology has given shape to our civilization. Here is the updated essential guide to engineering, an authoritative reference book and timeline about how technology has given shape to our civilisation. En ...Show more
Ponderables Mathematics: An Illustrated History of Numbers by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: 100 Ponderables Ser.
Here is the updated essential guide to mathematics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that explores the work of history's greatest mathematicians. These include the teasing genius of Pierre de Fermat, who said he knew the answers but rarely gave them up, the helpful guidance of Fibonacci, who ...Show more
Ponderables Physics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: 100 Ponderables Ser.
Here is the updated essential guide to physics, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the foundations upon which all scientific knowledge rests. Without physics, everything else from astronomy to zoology would be meaningless conjecture. Our journey begins with the first attempts to ...Show more
Psychology Ponderables by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to psychology, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines how we learned to understand the mysteries of the human mind. Psychology is a young science. While great thinkers have pondered the nature of thought itself for centuries, the idea of using scientific ...Show more
Technology Ponderables - 100 Inventions That Changed History by Tom Jackson (Editor)
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to the history of technology, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines how tools have built our civilization, changed our environment, and could even alter our species. The term technology is frequently associated with modernity and the possibilities of the ...Show more
The Elements - An Illustrated History of the Periodic Table by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
NEW 2024 UPDATED EDITION Here is the essential guide to the Periodic Table, an authoritative reference book and timeline with at-a-glance information for every element. The Periodic Table, set out by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, is the result of centuries of accumulated knowledge. It is a powerful yet ele ...Show more
The Universe : An Illustrated History of Astronomy by Tom Jackson
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Astronomers today believe that the Universe may have begun 13.7 billion years ago, when its entire energy, mass, space, and even time, expanded out from a single point. New, empty space was lit by innumerable baby stars and infant galaxies, their light finally reaching Earth many billions of years later ...Show more
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