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Provides explanations and step-by-step diagrams on the law, with quotes and illustrations to enhance understanding of its concepts.

"A practical, all-encompassing guide to disaster preparedness--from avalanches and blackouts to pandemics and wildfires--from NBC News senior medical correspondent and emergency medicine physician Dr. John Torres"--Provided by publisher.

"This tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in everyday life. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have significant consequences. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the ways math trips us up"--Provided by publisher.

"A hidden set of rules governs who owns what--explaining everything from whether you can recline your airplane seat to why HBO lets you borrow a password illegally"--Provided by publisher.

"Covering the key psychological theories from moral development to cognitive behavioral therapy, each easy-to-read, single-page entry explains the concept more clearly than ever before. Organized into chapters covering each branch of psychology, the book maps the development of psychological study, unpacking the complex ideas from the philosophers, psychologists, and scientists who have shaped our understanding of the human brain"--Provided by publisher.

Looks at how things work or are manufactured, including locks, clocks, scales for weighing, and cloth manufacture.

"Our genetic makeup determines so much about who we are, and what we pass on to our children--from eye color, to height, to health, and even our longevity. [This book] breaks down the science of how genes are inherited and passed from parents to offspring, what DNA is and how it works, how your DNA affects your health, and how you can use your personal genomics to find out more about who you are and where you come from"--Provided by publisher.

"Mathematicians Hannah Fry and Thomas Ol?ron Evans discuss the traditional holiday season with diagrams, sketches and graphs, equations, Markov chains, and matrices.

"A handy reference to meteorology and to the types of weather phenomena that one might encounter at home or in nature"--OCLC.