When my daughter Elizabeth asked me what the difference was between a deciduous and conifer tree, because she was having trouble memorizing the answer from the science book, I took her outside to see it for herself.
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Well, according to the research behind the book Change Anything: the New Science of Personal Success, by Kerry Patterson, et al., it is more than that.
As Williams revealed in his 1971 book The Science of Hitting, he swung at balls that landed in his best cells and let the others whizz by, even if it meant being called out on strikes once in a while.
As I explain in a new book on the emerging science of workplace excellence, to perform at our best, we require distraction-free periods in which we can leverage our full, uninterrupted attention.
When I take a tablet upstairs to continue watching a Netflix show I started on the downstairs TV, I think I'm living in the coolest science-fiction book ever written.
Her adherence to the unproven concepts of traditional Chinese medicine puts the science she presents later in the book on uncertain footing.
In the book, Pink offers a fresh look at the art and science of sales using a mix of social science, survey research and stories.
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For a comprehensive yet eminently comprehensible account of how cosmologists pieced together the history of the universe, turn to the latest book by Simon Singh, a British science writer best known for his bestselling account of the solution of Fermat's last theorem.
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Passages of autobiography and anecdote enliven the hard science, but the book's real drama is at a cellular level.
Three studios bid on the book. 20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott, director of the blockbuster science-fiction films "Blade Runner" and "Alien, " optioned it.
The Spanish version of the book was launched on 29 January 2010 at the UNESCO Conference on Biodiversity Science Policy for the International Year of Biodiversity.
The real cutting edge in climate science was publicly exposed recently in a book by one of the long time leaders of the German environmental movement, Fritz Vahrenholt, in his new book, The Cold Sun.
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In their fascinating book "Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, " Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton say there are two ways to get more happiness out of our money.
Dakan had brought in his grad school buddy, a classics scholar named Jack Emmert, to build a game featuring the science fiction of comic-book superheroes-without paying license fees for established characters like Batman or Spider-Man.
His book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, details the connection.
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Walter Mosley says the science-fiction element in the book gives him the freedom to follow 47 through history.
Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution is an engrossing book and I think a necessary addition to the library of any history of science buff.
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The heroes of Mr Morton's book are the astronomers who yearn to solve Mars's scientific puzzles, the science-fiction writers who project their politics on to Mars's blank canvas, and the space-flight enthusiasts who dream of Martian colonies.
That is a lot to worry about, and Mr Yergin's book, which includes almost 100 pages on the history of climate science and politics, should be required reading for all those in warming denial.
The publisher was created in 1992 when Britain's Reed, a trade book and magazine publisher, merged with the Netherlands' Elsevier, a science publisher.
Legendary science fiction author David Gerrold contemplates the future of the e-book as a medium unto itself, separate from the books that precede it.
Readers interested in the science behind sincerity might want to pair Mr. Magill's book with Dan Ariely's "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, " just published by Harper.
Instead, it's compatible with "Mobipocket" books, a digital format that offers more than 100, 000 titles, though many are noncopyrighted classics, romance novels and science fiction--hardly the material recommended by Oprah's book club.
His book was also shortlisted for the Dingle Prize, which honours publications about the history of science.
Uniquely qualified on cutting-edge issues of science and technology, Mr Gore chose to write a courageous book on the dangers of catastrophic climate change and other threats to the habitability of our planet.
In the debut issue of a new open access online journal, Euresis, Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and the History of Science at Harvard, offers a fascinating essay on Johannes Kepler and his book Astronomia Nova.
But the rewards of this book come when Mr Whalley ventures further than his two feet into literature, science and social history.
In her remarkable new book "The Rambunctious Garden, " Emma Marris explores a paradox that is increasingly vexing the science of ecology, namely that the only way to have a pristine wilderness is to manage it intensively.
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