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On Labor Day in 1935, a hurricane that produced the record low barometric pressure reading of 26.35 inches hit Florida's upper Keys, destroying virtually everything in its path. In his meticulously researched work, Drye gives a vivid, detailed account ...
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With sliced bread and the lava lamp among his selected inventions, Harrison aims to please more than teach. He allocates a two-page spread for each item, giving it a kaleidoscopic visual treatment with a text block about the inventor, an unusual photograph...
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Recently there's been a run of coffee-table books combining elegant astronomical photographs with brief, friendly exegeses of the science behind them (e.g., Ken Croswell's Magnificent Universe, Forecasts, Sept. 6). But for adults and young people who enjoy...
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A sweeping look at the state of the world's health which includes National Geographic photographer Karen Kasmauski's powerful images created over the past 15 years and text by award-winning medical writer Peter Jaret....
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Each day at least 10,000 people worldwide die from disease-infected water. This is just one of the startling statistics contained in this collection of 13 essays, which address a wide variety of water-related issues, including global scarcity, pollution, p...
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Where did we come from? Though it's been fairly well settled that our species was born in Africa, the debate still rages over our hometown. ...
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"As a young anthropologist I never understood how I was supposed to turn up at some village... announce that I was staying for a year, and then notify the headman that he and his people were to feed and house me while I studied their lives," writes Davis (...
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Reading about a subject enough times can practically kill interest in it--just ask any of the research scientists who are wondering where their replacements will come from. National Geographic gives scientists from Aristotle to Stephen Hawking a say wit...
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Expert at documenting the peoples of the world, National Geographic has drawn together a notable international team of anthropologists to compile this first-of-its-kind, illustrated volume of the traditions and ways of life of ethnic groups around the glob...
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The Builders documents some of humankind''s m ost ambitious projects - structural and civil engineering la ndmarks that range from Egypt''s pyramids and Notre Dame de P aris to the oil rigs in the North Sea, the heaviest movable objects on Earth. '...
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