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  • In Search of Time

    Journeys Along a Curious Dimension

    by Dan Falk ...
    An enjoyable and compelling ride through one of life’s most fascinating enigmas“What, then, is time? If no one ask of me, I know,” St. Augustine of Hippo lamented. “But if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.”Who wouldn’t sympathize with Augustine’s dilemma? Time is at once intimately familiar and yet deeply mysterious. It is thoroughly intangible: We say it flows like a river — yet when ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • The Science of Shakespeare

    A New Look at the Playwright's Universe

    by Dan Falk ...
    William Shakespeare lived at a time when the medieval world — a world of magic, astrology, witchcraft, and superstition of all kinds — was just beginning to give way to more modern ways of thinking. Shakespeare and Galileo were born in the same year, and new ideas about the human body, the earth, and the universe at large were just starting to transform Western thought. Shakespeare was not a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Universe on a T-Shirt

    The Quest for the Theory of Everything

    by Dan Falk ...
    No scientific quest is as compelling as the search for the key to understand the universe—the elusive unified “Theory of Everything”—a theory so concise it could fit on a T-shirt. Lively and thought-provoking, Universe on a T-Shirt tells the fascinating story of the search for the Holy Grail of physics.Dan Falk places this intriguing story in its historical context, tracing the quest from ancient ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • One Dollar Man

    The Dane Who Changed the Course of the Second World WarOn the 28th May 1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt placed a direct call from the White House to William S. Knudsen, Director of General Motors Corporation in Detroit. Roosevelt needed the right man to lead America's armament during the Second World War – and the president only had one candidate in mind for the job: the Dane known as 'Bill' ... Read more

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  • Forty Years in The Big House

    Michigan Tales from My Four Decades as a Wolverine

    An inside look at the University of Michigan's football program from the man who was the team's equipment manager for more than four decadesForty years ago, Michigan equipment manager Jon Falk began his legacy, becoming a living encyclopedia of Michigan football tradition and history. Hired by Bo Schembechler in 1974, the now retired Falk shares his firsthand, inside stories from in the locker ... Read more

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  • The Beginning Or the End

    How Hollywood—and America—Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    by Greg Mitchell ...
    The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production.Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called “the most important story” he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon ... Read more

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  • The Search for Life on Mars

    The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time

    With a focus of the Perseverance rover mission, here is the "Quintessential account of one of humanity’s most intriguing quests" (Pail Halpern, Medium), "A remarkable, timely, and up-to-date account of Mars exploration" (Leonard David, "Space Insider," Space.com).From The War of the Worlds to The Martian and to the amazing photographs sent back by the robotic rovers Curiosity and Opportunity, Mars ... Read more

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  • Future Minds

    The Rise of Intelligence from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe

    by Richard Yonck ...
    For readers of Michio Kaku and Stephen Hawking, the book readers have acclaimed as "A mega-comprehensive outlook at intelligence as convincing as it is surprising" and "A truly breathtaking forecast on the future of intelligence."With the ongoing advancement of AI and other technologies, our world is becoming increasingly intelligent. From chatbots to innovations in brain-computer interfaces to ... Read more

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  • The Writer's Library

    The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives

    NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMESWith a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" and recipient of the ... Read more

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    From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology that Transformed Our World (Technology History and Future Technology)

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  • #TIL: Today I Learned

    Hilarious, Entertaining, and Educational Trivia

    From Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth, movies and music to politics and biology, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Spignesi compiles five hundred facts in this addictive bathroom reader trivia book.From history and science to sports and literature, New York Times bestselling author Stephen Spignesi offers eye-opening trivia in 500 facts inspired by the viral social media acronym TIL used on ... Read more

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