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"Cosmology is the perfect introduction to cosmology, astronomy and astrophysics. Written by one of NASA's leading astronomers and educators, this book provides you with the essential foundations for understanding the science behind the universe we live in. It will help you answer questions such as: How do we know the universe is expanding? What is the theory of relativity? How does the Higgs mechanism work? What is dark matter? Filled with helpful...
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Presents the year-in-review of 2000, preliminary 2000 election results, a Noted Personalities section, a color section of maps and flags, and thousands of facts and statistics on economy and business, U.S. populations and cities, science, the Internet, astronomy, each of the United States, and the nations of the world.
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Occupying a space between traditional nature writing, memoir, journalism, and prose poetry, Bruce Berger's essays are beautiful, subtle, and haunting meditations on the landscape and culture of the American Southwest. Combining new, unpublished essays with selections from his acclaimed trilogy of "desert books"-The Telling Distance, There Was a River, and Almost an Island-A Desert Harvest is a career-spanning selection of the best work by this unique...
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