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Summary: "In 2011, without warning, a skyscraper in South Korea began to shake uncontrollably and was immediately evacuated. Was it an earthquake? A terrorist attack? No one seemed quite sure. The actual cause emerged later: Twenty-three middle-aged Koreans were having a Tae Bo fitness class in the office gym on the twelfth floor. Their beats had inadvertently matched the building's natural frequency,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 531 MAILustgarten, Abrahm
Summary: "An overview of how climate change will reshape the United States, with an emphasis on climate migration"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 LUSFlorian, Douglas
Summary: "Discover the poetry of our weather in these poems about everyday and once-in-a-lifetime natural phenomena"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 FLODyson, Freeman J.
Summary: "Both recalling his life story and recounting many of the major advances in twentieth-century science, a renowned physicist shares his autobiography through letters. While recognizing that quantum mechanics "demands serious attention," Albert Einstein in 1926 admonished fellow physicist Max Born that the theory "does not bring us closer to the secrets of the Old One." Aware that "there are deep...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DYSON, FREEMAN DYSTegmark, Max
Summary: "Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present, and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and ground-breaking science, he not only helps us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.101 TEGBrown, Jordan
Summary: An introduction to the science that powers favorite amusement park rides reveals why a roller coaster does not need an engine and how bumper cars can move without gasoline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2015