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From Matter to Life
Information and Causality
Sara Imari Walker

Recent advances suggest that the concept of information might hold the key to unravelling the mystery of life's nature and origin. Fresh ...


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In Just Ten Days
Christopher L. Myers

Dr. Joshua Petersen, a professor of international studies at George Washington University and a former CIA intelligence analyst, is approached by ...


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Honestly Ben
Bill Konigsberg

Booklist called this companion to the award-winning "Openly Straight" remarkable. Perfect for fans of David Levithan, Andrew Smith, and John Green ...


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Transculturation in British Art, 1770–1930
Edited by Julie Codell

Examining colonial art through the lens of transculturation, the essays in this collection assess these art works’ complex and unresolved meanings ...


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Noah's Freezer
L. M. Reker

In 2032, Daniel McKnight, a high-ranking government official and biologist who has cofounded a state-of-the-art, cryo-preservation laboratory, ...




Planetesimals
Early Differentiation and Consequences for Planets
Edited by Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Benjamin P. Weiss

Processes governing the evolution of planetesimals are critical to understanding how rocky planets are formed, how water is delivered to ...


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Earth
Object Lessons
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

In "Earth," a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a “ ...


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What Algorithms Want
Imagination in the Age of Computing
Ed Finn

We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of ...

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