Mission to Pluto - The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt by Mary Kay Carson; Tom Uhlman (By (photographer))
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Category: Science | Series: Scientists in the Field Ser.
In July of 2015, a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-a-half-year journey. Explore with New Horizons in this new-to-paperback book about the first mission to Pluto, which revealed the ice dwarf and its five moons as they had never been seen before. Images from the mission show a reddish s ...Show more
Model Thinker - What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott E. Page
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Category: Science
How anyone can become a data ninja From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make ...Show more
Modern Diesel Power by Brian Solomon
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Category: Science | Series: Gallery S.
The 1960s onward witnessed unprecedented technological and horsepower developments in the field of diesel-electric locomotives. Spurred by market demands, EMD and GE have developed locomotives of ever-greater speeds and tractive effort, allowing the railroads to bring resources to market more quickly an ...Show more
Moons: The Mysteries and Marvels of our Solar System by Kate Howells
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Category: Science
ALMOST EVERY PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM HAS ONE, SO WHY DO WE KNOW SO LITTLE ABOUT MOONS? Join astronomer Kate Howells on an interplanetary voyage to explore the mind-boggling moons of our solar system, from the volcanic hellscape of Io to the ice mountains and methane seas of Titan. Beautifully illustr ...Show more
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible by Albert Bourla
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Category: Science
The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s CEO Dr. Albert Bourla A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 202 ...Show more
Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras by Piers Bizony
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Category: Science
Available in paperback to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Moonshots presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASA's archives--taken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras. In December 1968, the crew of Apollo ...Show more
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
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Category: Science | Series: Memory Improvement
"Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist On average, people squander forty days annuall ...Show more
Moral AI by Jana Schaich Borg; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; Vincent Conitzer
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Category: Science
A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous ...Show more
More Than a Glitch - Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard (Contribution by)
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Category: Science
When technology reinforces inequality, it's not just a glitch-it's a signal that we need to redesign our systems to create a more equitable world. The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly ...Show more
Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain by Chelsea Conaboy
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Category: Science
A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, Mother Brain explodes the concept of "maternal instinct" and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent. Before journalist Chelsea Conaboy gave birth, she anticipated the joy o ...Show more
Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava and Life by PHOENIX. JESS
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Category: Science
Ms. Adventure tells the story of Jess Phoenix's extraordinary career in geology - and how the barriers she faced along the way inspired her to advocate for more diversity in science. Volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific ...Show more