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eBookwise Librarian [Software, Windows PC Only]
by Steve Breen
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Using eBookwise Librarian you can easily upload personal content onto your eBookwise-1150 eBook reader! Supports USB transfers as well as memory card writers, and seamlessly uploads files in the following formats:
; Microsoft Word
; Rich Text Format (RTF)
; HTML
; Rocket editions (RB)
NOTE: Microsoft Word and RTF conversion require that you have Word 2000 or greater installed on your PC. Complex RTF, Word, and HTML documents may require some editing to work properly on the eBookwise-115... more info>>
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A Short History of Nearly Everything [Secure]
by Bill Bryson
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One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey--into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail--well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand--and, if possible, answer--the oldest, biggest questions we have posed abou... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Fallen Dragon [Secure]
by Peter F. Hamilton
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As a child, Lawrence Newton wanted nothing more than to fly starships and explore the galaxy, like his fictional heroes. But on the colony world of Amethi in the twenty-fourth century, Lawrence is living in the wrong era: the age of human starflight is drawing to a close. So, like many another teenage hothead, he rebels and runs away. Twenty years later, he's the seargent of a washed-out platoon taking part in the bungled invasion of another world. The giant corporations who own the remaining st... more info>>
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Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life [Secure]
by Leonard Mlodinow
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A memoir of how an ongoing relationship with Richard Feynman at Caltech inspired the author to a deeper understanding of both his own creative imagination and the nature of humanity itself. The book will include extensive transcripts of Feynman's conversations with the author. Feynman's Rainbow tells the story of a young physicist trying to find his place in the world, and of the famous, old, and dying physicist whose wisdom helped him. It is also the story of Richard Feynman's last years, his r... more info>>
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain [Secure]
by Oliver Sacks
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Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does--humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks's compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally change... more info>>
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Interstellar Navigation, or Getting Where You Want To Go and Back Again (In One Piece)
by John G. Hemry
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Science fiction stories often deal with travel to other stars. But travel isn't just a matter of being able to cover a distance, it's also about being able to find your way to where you want to go. Navigating to other stars will pose some serious challenges, but by using our experience with earth-based navigation methods it should prove difficult but doable. (Published: 2000)
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos [Secure]
by Michio Kaku
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Is our universe dying? Could there be other universes? In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku--an author who "has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth" (Wall Street Journal)--takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe. In his first book of physics since Hyperspace, Michio Kaku begins by describing the extraordinary advances that have transformed cosmology over the la... more info>>
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives [Secure]
by Leonard Mlodinow
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In this irreverent and illuminating book, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in life are often attributed to clear and obvious cases, when in actuality they are more profoundly influenced by chance. The rise and fall of your favorite movie... more info>>
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The Ice Age that Wasn't: How Our Ancestors May Have Held the Ice at Bay
by Richard A. Lovett
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Thousands of years ago, a new scientific theory says, ancient farmers may have cut enough forests and produced enough methane to alter the Earth's climate by nearly as much as industrial pollution is doing today, helping to create the unusually stable climate that allowed modern civilization to develop. This does not mean, however, that future warming will be equally beneficial. (Published: 2007)
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Up In Smoke: How Mt. St. Helens Blasted Conventional Scientific Wisdom
by Richard A. Lovett
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The May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens altered more than the landscape of the nearby mountainsides. It changed forever scientists understanding of two fields of study: volcanology and ecology. This article examines how the mountain's eruption changed our understanding of the natural world. (Published: 2001) AnLab Award Winner
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time [Secure]
by Michael Brooks
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When we look to the "anomalies" that science can't explain, we often discover where science is about to go. Here are a few of the anomalies that Michael Brooks investigates in 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: Homeopathic remedies seem to have biological effects that cannot be explained by chemistry Gases have been detected on Mars that could only have come from carbon-based life forms Cold fusion, theoretically impossible and discredited in the 1980s, seems to work in some modern laboratory expe... more info>>
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A User's Guide to the Brain [Secure]
by John Raty
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John Ratey, bestselling author and clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, here lucidly explains the human brain's workings, and paves the way for a better understanding of how the brain affects who we are. Ratey provides insight into the basic structure and chemistry of the brain, and demonstrates how its systems shape our perceptions, emotions, and behavior. By giving us a greater understanding of how the brain responds to the guidance of its user, he provides us with knowl... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Blame It on the Rain: How the Weather has Changed History [Secure]
by Laura Lee
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An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world. Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful, inscrutable force of nature: the weather. In Blame It on the Rain, author Laura Lee explores the amazing and sometimes bizarre ways in which weather has influenced our history and helped to bring about sweeping cultural change. She ... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion [Secure]
by Barbara J. King
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This cutting-edge book--with echoes of both Jane Goodall and Joseph Campbell--adds a fascinating new dimension to the debate about the origins of religion. The study of evolution has uncovered invaluable information about many aspects of human behavior and culture, from the physiology of our bodies and brains to the development of hunting, technology, and social groups. But an understanding of the intangibles of human experience, especially religion, lags far behind. Attempts to discover the sou... more info>>
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Inside the Animal Mind [Secure]
by George Page
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In the past, scientists have refused to acknowledge that animals have anything like human intelligence, but a growing body of research reaveals otherwise. We've discovered ants that use leaves as tools to cross bodies of water, woodpecker finches that hold twigs in their beaks to dig for grubs, and bonobo apes that can use sticks to knock down fruit or pole-vault over water. Not only do animals use tools, some also display an ability to learn and problem-solve. Based on the latest scientific and... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology [Secure]
by James R. Chiles
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Combining captivating storytelling with eye-opening findings, Inviting Disaster delves inside some of history's worst catastrophes in order to show how increasingly "smart" systems leave us wide open to human tragedy. Weaving a dramatic narrative that explains how breakdowns in these systems result in such disasters as the chain reaction crash of the Air France Concorde to the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, Chiles vividly demonstrates how the battle between man and machine may ... more info>>
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel [Secure]
by Michio Kaku
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A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks--revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future. One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction th... more info>>
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Star Trek: I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact [Secure]
by William Shatner, Chip Walter
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Over the past three decades, Star Trek has become a global phenomenon. Its celebration of mankind's technical achievements and positive view of the future have earned it an enduring place in the world's psyche. It has inspired countless viewers to become scientists, inventors, and astronauts. And they, in turn, have wondered if they could make even a little piece of Star Trek real in their own lifetime. As one noted scientist said when he saw a plywood, plaster and plastic set that represented t... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Storm Warning: The Story of a Killer Tornado [Secure]
by Nancy Mathis
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The Perfect Storm on the prairie, Storm Warning is a compulsively readable account of one of the most terrible tornadoes in history--and the extraordinary people who kept it from becoming the deadliest. May 3, 1999, is a day that Oklahomans will never forget. By the time the sun set over a ravaged plain, some 71 tornadoes had claimed 11,000 homes and businesses and caused a billion dollars in damages. One of them was a mile-wide monster of incredible power, the fiercest F5 twister to hit a metro... more info>>
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The Demon in the Freezer [Secure]
by Richard Preston
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The first major bioterror event in the United States--the anthrax attacks in October 2001--was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of USAMRIID, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, once the headqua... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Origin of Species [Secure]
by Charles Darwin
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Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of the scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England, and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly 'passed beyond the bounds of the study and lecture-room into the drawing-room and the public street.' Yet after reading it, Darwin's friend and colleague T. H. Huxley had a different reaction: 'H... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable [Secure]
by John Brockman
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From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true. What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the ca... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty [Secure]
by John Brockman
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More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone--yet that is enough to push those minds toward making the theory viable. Eminent cultural impresario, editor, and publisher of Edge, John Brockman ask... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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A New Human: The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the 'Hobbits' of Flores, Indonesia [Secure]
by Mike Morwood
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In October 2004, a team of Australian and Indonesian anthropologists led by Mike Morwood and Raden Pandji Soejono stunned the world with their announcement of the discovery of the first example of a new species of human, Homo floresiensis, which they nicknamed the "Hobbit." This was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy, however, but a tool-using, fire-making, cooperatively hunting person. The more Morwood and his colleagues revealed about the find, the more astonishing it became: standing only three... more info>>
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A Short History of Medicine [Secure]
by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
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In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. Gonzalez-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, Gonzalez-Crussi also describes how modern medicine's roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and Eastern medical traditions. Covered here in engaging detail are the birth of anatomy and the practi... more info>>
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