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This is the inspiring story of an ordinary guy who achieved two great goals that others had told him were impossible. First, he set a record for the longest automobile journey ever made around the world, during the course of which he blasted his way out of minefields, survived a breakdown atop the Peak of Death, came within seconds of being lynched in Pakistan, and lost three of the five men who started with him, two to disease, one to the Vietcong....
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Brings together a compilation of the most important works by Albert Einstein, presenting his papers on the Theory of Relativity, quantum theory, statistical mechanics, the photoelectric effect, and other studies that transformed modern physics.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
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Viking
Pub. Date
2009
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IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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2007
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English
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Before the New York Times bestselling success of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this widely acclaimed second novel of crime and suspense, which was named a Favorite Crime Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and several other newspapers.
Boston, 1963. Meet the charming, brawling Daley brothers. Joe is a cop whose gambling habits have dragged him down into the city’s underworld. Michael...
Boston, 1963. Meet the charming, brawling Daley brothers. Joe is a cop whose gambling habits have dragged him down into the city’s underworld. Michael...
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Library of America volume 284
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The Library of America
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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2013.
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English
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Explores the predominant themes in the work of Albert Camus and what they reveal about his character, portraying the author as a clear-eyed moralist who favored principled, if ultimately hopeless, rebellion.
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English
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The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight. Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now,...
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Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
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[2014]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him want to keep figuring out the secrets of the universe. Other people thought he was just a dreamer, but because of his curiosity, Einstein grew up to be one of the greatest scientists the world...
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Random House
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[2015]
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English
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For more than fifty years, the world{u2019}s top scientists searched for the "missing" planet Vulcan, whose existence was mandated by Isaac Newton{u2019}s theories of gravity. Countless hours were spent on the hunt for the elusive orb, and some of the era{u2019}s most skilled astronomers even claimed to have found it. There was just one problem: It was never there. In The Hunt for Vulcan, Thomas Levenson follows the visionary scientists who inhabit...
13) Albert Pujols
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World Book, Inc
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[2016]
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Yale University Press
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[2019]
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English
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The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life-first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the Nazis. In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon his Berlin home and go "on the run"? In this...
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Quercus Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Do something amazing and learn a new skill thanks to the Little Ways to Live a Big Life books! The beginning of the 20th century heralded a scientific revolution: what a few brilliant minds uncovered about our reality in the first twenty years has shaped the history of our species. And one of them in particular stands out: Einstein, with his celebrated E=mc2. In this remarkable and insightful book, Christophe Galfard describes how E=mc2 is a direct...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Following the death of the senior English master in a tragic road accident, Mr Campion{u2019}s son Rupert and daughter-in-law Perdita are helping out at Ash Grange School for Boys, where Perdita{u2019}s godfather is headmaster. While Perdita is directing the end-of-term play, a musical version of Dr Faustus, Rupert is tackling the school{u2019}s rugby football team {u2013} and both of them are finding their allotted tasks more of a challenge than...
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