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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily life in the year 2100.
Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next hundred years. He also considers how these inventions will affect the world economy, addressing the key questions:...
 
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A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family
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A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family

The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven’t looked closely enough at how and why these questions are framed, or who benefits from the proposed answers.

 
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Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference
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Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference

Andy Puddicombe, founder of the much publicised Headspace, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day to sit in the here and now. Here he shares his simple to learn, but highly effective techniques of meditation. Accessible and portable, these powerful techniques promise amazing results.
 
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Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human Geography's Binaries
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Spaces of Geographical Thought: Deconstructing Human Geography's Binaries

Spaces of Geographical Thought examines key ideas – like space and place - which inform the geographic imagination. The text explains the significance of these binaries in the constitution of geographic thought and shows how many of these binaries have been interrogated and reimagined in more recent geographical thinking.
 
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Agatha Christie - The Underdog and Two Other Stories
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Agatha Christie - The Underdog and Two Other StoriesUsing his "little grey cells," Hercule Poirot proves his genius and mastery at solving murders in three entertaining mysteries: The Under Dog, Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds, and The Dream. In each, he unearths solutions to murders others have considered impossible. Hugh Fraser's distinctive voice adds considerable pleasure to these wonderful stories.

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