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After the Ice: Life, Death, and Geopolitics in the New Arctic
by Alun Anderson
Published 2009 by Smithsonian Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061579073

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An eye-opening look at the winners and losers in the high-stakes story of Arctic transformation, from nations to natives to animals to the very landscape itself The Arctic--like the canary in the coal mine--has reacted more quickly and dramatically to global warming than many had anticipated.... More...

The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
by Nicholas Wade
Published 2009 by Penguin Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781594202285

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A noted science writer offers a convincing case based on a broad range of scientific evidence for the evolutionary basis of religion. Noted science writer Nicholas Wade offers for the first time a convincing case based on a broad range of scientific evidence for the evolutionary basis of religion.... More...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
by William Kamkwamba
Published 2009 by William Morrow & Company

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061730320

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This immensely engaging tale relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity--and a future--to his family. William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery.... More...

Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
by Eugenie Samuel Reich
Published 2009 by Palgrave MacMillan

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780230224674

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This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schon who faked the discovery of a new superconductor made from plastic. A star researcher at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he claimed to have stumbled across a powerful method for making carbon-based crystals into transistors, the switches found on computer chips.... More...