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Publisher CommentsWithin the fabric of every stone building is a wondrous story of geological origins, architectural aesthetics, and cultural history. You probably don’t expect to make geological finds along the sidewalks of a major city, but when natural history writer David B. Williams looks at the stone masonry, façades, and ornamentations of buildings, he sees a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories i... read more>>>
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Publisher CommentsThe fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield
Uranium is a common element in the earthâs crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global orderâwhoever could master uranium could master the world.
Marie Curie gave us hope that uranium would be a miracle panacea, but the Manhattan Project gave us reason to... read more>>>
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Publisher CommentsThere are three men whose life’s work helped free science from the strait-jacket of religion. Two of the three—Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin—are widely heralded for their breakthroughs. The third, James Hutton, is comparatively unknown, yet he profoundly changed our understanding of the earth, its age, and its dynamic forces. A Scottish gentleman farmer, Hutton’s observations on his small tract of land led him to a ... read more>>>
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