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  How Many Moons Does the Earth...

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  There's a problem with the typical quiz. It always features far too much sport, 1980s pop and celebrity gossip – and not nearly enough science.
  
  How Many Moons Does the Earth Have? is the ultimate solution. Test your knowledge to the limit with a sizzling collection of brain-stretching, science-based questions in two eight-round quizzes.
  
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  Where was the Big Bang? What links the elephant Tusko and Timothy Leary? What is the significance of 6EQUJ5? Science explainer extraordinaire Brian Clegg tells all…

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  The New Fire - War Peace and...

  Ben Buchanan, Andrew Imbrie

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  Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous—in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire. If we manage AI well, it will become a force for good, lighting the way to many transformative inventions. If we deploy it thoughtlessly, it will advance beyond our control. If we wield it for destruction, it will fan the flames of a new kind of war, one that holds democracy in the balance. As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent—or more fascinating—than how we harness this technology and for what purpose. The new fire has three sparks: data, algorithms, and computing power. These components fuel viral disinformation campaigns, new hacking tools, and military weapons that once seemed like science fiction. To autocrats, AI offers the prospect of centralized control at home and asymmetric advantages in combat. It is easy to assume that democracies, bound by ethical constraints and disjointed in their approach, will be unable to keep up. But such a dystopia is hardly preordained. Combining an incisive understanding of technology with shrewd geopolitical analysis, Buchanan and Imbrie show how AI can work for democracy. With the right approach, technology need not favor tyranny.

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  Vera Rubin - A Life

  Jacqueline Mitton, Simon Mitton,...

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  The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science.In Vera Rubin: A Life, prolific science writers Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton provide a detailed, accessible overview of Rubin's work, showing how she leveraged immense curiosity, profound intelligence, and novel technologies to help transform our understanding of the cosmos. But Rubin's impact was not limited to her contributions to scientific knowledge. She also helped to transform scientific practice by promoting the careers of women researchers. Not content to be an inspiration, Rubin was a mentor and a champion. She advocated for hiring women faculty, inviting women speakers to major conferences, and honoring women with awards that were historically the exclusive province of men.Rubin's papers and correspondence yield vivid insights into her life and work, as she faced down gender discrimination and met the demands of family and research throughout a long and influential career. Deftly written, with both scientific experts and general readers in mind, Vera Rubin is a portrait of a woman with insatiable curiosity about the universe who never stopped asking questions and encouraging other women to do the same.

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  Electronic Commerce

  Dale Hunter

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  Electronic Commerce: A Comprehensive Guide on How to Create Your eCommerce Site. Discover the Secrets on How to Launch a Successful eCommerce SiteIf you have a business that sells physical goods and that business does not yet have an active internet presence, consider this: In 2008, online retail trade turnover in the US measured somewhere around $230 billion, which represented some 10% of total US retail sales! Even with the recent economic downturn, the percentage of retail tradethat is transacted online is set to keep growing throughout the commercialized world as the internet becomes more sophisticated and efficient, while ‘high street’ businesses are constantly on the lookout to expand their customer base still further.There is no question that eCommerce is the way to go now. Just look at Amazon. In this audiobook, you will learn everything about eCommerce and how you can apply island use it for your business.This audiobook will cover the following topics:- Why e-commerce works, and why now more than ever?- What do you need to launch a successful e-commerce site?- Planning and research- Before you start building your site- General e-commerce site guidelines- Site creation- Product Sourcing- After this comes marketing- And many more!If you want to learn more, scroll up and click “add to cart” now!

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  Amazon Fba - Making Passive...

  Spike Law

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  Launch your Amazon business and get the revenue you've always desired! 
  Amazon FBA is the simplest and most straightforward way to become an Amazon seller. Why is Amazon FBA so popular among sellers all over the world? Because it handles a wide variety of issues, such as storage, shipping, and customer service. What could be simpler than creating a product page and delivering all inventory to an Amazon warehouse? 
  With this book, you can:Discover what Amazon FBA is.Learn about its features and primary benefits.Take a look at some of the downsides.Discover how to get started with Amazon FBA.Create a procedure to assist you in selecting the best product for you.Learn how to create a product listingUnderstand the FBA procedureMake use of specialist research tools.Understand how to track and expand your Amazon company.Get the profits you deserve 
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  The Biology of Wonder -...

  Andreas Weber

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  A new way of understanding our place in the web of life from a scholar praised for his “graceful prose” (Publishers Weekly). 
   
  The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by our species today. This schism is arguably the root cause of most of the environmental catastrophes unraveling around us. Until we come to terms with the depths of our alienation, we will continue to fail to understand that what happens to nature also happens to us. 
   
  In The Biology of Wonder Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being superfluous to the study of organisms, are the very foundation of life. From this basic premise flows the development of a "poetic ecology" which intimately connects our species to everything that surrounds us—showing that subjectivity and imagination are prerequisites of biological existence. 
   
  Written by a leader in the emerging fields of biopoetics and biosemiotics, The Biology of Wonder demonstrates that there is no separation between us and the world we inhabit, and in so doing it validates the essence of our deep experience. By reconciling science with meaning, expression, and emotion, this landmark work brings us to a crucial understanding of our place in the rich and diverse framework of life—a revolution for biology as groundbreaking as the theory of relativity for physics. 
   
  “Grounded in science, yet eloquently narrated, this is a groundbreaking book. Weber’s visionary work provides new insight into human/nature interconnectedness and the dire consequences we face by remaining disconnected.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods

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