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The hot zone: A Terrifying True Story
By Richard Preston. 1994
Preston chronicles human encounters with the Marburg and Ebola viruses, among the most lethal viruses known. He discusses the effects…
of the viruses on people infected with them, and suggests that they have emerged as the world's jungles and rain forests have been destroyed. He also describes outbreaks of the viruses, particularly an outbreak of a strain of Ebola among monkeys imported to the United States, and how the outbreak was contained. Strong language and explicit descriptions of violence. 1994.Seven wonders of the industrial world
By Deborah Cadbury. 2004
Deborah Cadbury explores the history behind the epic monuments that spanned the industrial revolution from Brunel's extraordinary Great Eastern, the…
Titanic of its day that joined the two ends of the empire, to the Panama Canal, that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans half a century later. 2004.Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game
By Michael Lewis. 2003
Author of "The New New Thing" describes how Billy Beane, general manager of baseball's Oakland Athletics, came in first place…
in the American League West in 2002. Examines Beane's use of computers, statistics, and scouting to achieve success despite a minor league budget. Strong language. Bestseller. 2003.Le voleur d'orchidées: [une histoire vraie] (Nouvelles Angleterres)
By Susan Orlean, Sarah Church, Sophie Brunet. 1999
En 1994, John Laroche et trois Indiens Séminoles sont accusés d'un vol d'orchidées rares dans les marais de Floride. Ce…
fait divers constitue le point de départ d'une passionnante enquête de la journaliste Susan Orlean dans une Floride inconnue des guides touristiques. 1999, c1998. Titre uniforme: The orchid thief.Dialogues sous le ciel étoilé
By Hubert Reeves, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol. 2016
Par une nuit d'été, deux astrophysiciens observent le ciel, nous racontent leurs quêtes et leurs émerveillements, les dernières découvertes qui…
bouleversent notre compréhension de l'Univers. Savez-vous que le Soleil chante ? Qu'un bon nombre d'étoiles vivent en couple ? Qu'un trou noir domine le centre de notre Voie lactée ? Que 2 000 planètes ont déjà été découvertes autour d'étoiles lointaines ? Que la moitié de l'eau présente sur Terre vient de l'espace interstellaire ? Comment pouvons-nous affirmer cela ? Parce que des chercheurs du monde entier se sont acharnés à le découvrir et à le prouver. Qui sont donc ces visionnaires qui contribuent à l'essor fulgurant de l'astronomie, de l'astrophysique, de la cosmologie, de l'astrobiologie ? Jean-Pierre Luminet et Hubert Reeves nous invitent à faire en leur compagnie un fascinant périple d'exploration, à lever le voile sur les découvertes les plus récentes et les plus étonnantes, nous permettant de mieux comprendre l'origine et le destin de l'Univers. 2016. Titre uniforme: Du big bang au vivant (Film)To seek out new life: the biology of Star Trek
By Athena Andreadis. 1998
Uses the original Star Trek television series, spinoffs, and movies to explain concepts in bioscience. Investigates the probability of other…
life-forms in the universe. Discusses human immortality, the transporter, and the universal translator as well as cloning, robots, and virtual reality. 1998.Friday night lights: a town, a team, and a dream
By H. G Bissinger. 1990
The depressed oil town of Odessa, Texas takes its high school football seriously, with 20,000 fans at every Friday night…
game. Students suffer debilitating injuries as well as psychological traumas as they literally fight for the honour of their town. 1990.The ring of truth: an inquiry into how we know what we know
By Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison. 1987
A lively, anecdotal examination of how the scientific method has worked from Galileo to the present time. This book which…
is a companion to the PBS television series looks at six concepts: looking, change, mapping, clues, atoms, and doubt. 1987.Hollywood Hulk Hogan: The Story of Terry Bollea (World Wrestling Entertainment Ser.)
By Michael Jan Friedman, Hulk Hogan, Wwf Staff. 2002
The autobiography of Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler and seven-time world-title holder, from his boyhood as Terry Bollea, an overweight kid…
from Tampa, Florida. Hogan looks at the many phases of his career, his metamorphosis from wrestler to entertainer, steroid use, and the price of fame and success. Strong language. 2002The physics of Star Trek
By Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, S. W Hawking. 1995
Krauss uses the original Star Trek television series (and its spinoffs) to explore concepts in physics, quantum mechanics, interstellar flight,…
and time travel, as he questions the possibility of "warp drives," "transporters," "wormholes," "phasers," and "holodecks," as well as extraterrestrial life. With a foreward by Stephen Hawking. 1995.American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. 2005
Biography of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)--"the father of the atomic bomb." Chronicles his New York City upbringing, marriage to…
Kitty Puening, work on the Manhattan Project, and life after the 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearings which denied Oppenheimer his security clearance for questioning the ethics of nuclear weapons. Pulitzer Prize winner 2006. 2005