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| | | | | Sally Ride, the first American woman to go to space, once said that she didn't set out to be a role model, but after her first flight, she realized that she was one. Like her, the 12 women scientists in this collection became unintentional heroes through perseverance and hard work, making great discoveries in all areas of science. From Vera Rubin's examination of the internal dynamics of galaxies to Nobel Prize winner May-Britt Moser's study of the brain's GPS-like navigating system, read up on the achievements of women who became role models for us all.
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| Unlocking Happiness | | Stress and adversity will always be part of life, but we can manage our reactions to them. In this eBook, we look at ways to do just that – to take control and retrain our brains to achieve a happier, healthier state of mind. We examine different areas such as perception, social support and time management and offer approaches shown to boost mood and contentment, including reframing negative events, increasing resilience through self-compassion and practicing mindfulness. |  | | |
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| Evolution: The Human Odyssey | | The complex story of human evolution is a tale seven million years in the making. Each new discovery adds to or revises our story and our understanding of how we came to be the way we are. In this eBook, Evolution: The Human Odyssey, we explore the evolution of those characteristics that make us human. | | | | |
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| Ask the Brains, Part 1: 55 Mysteries of the Mind | | People behave in strange ways. We sometimes giggle when someone falls down, swear we've been to places we haven't or continue believing in something despite scientific evidence to the contrary. For more than a decade, Scientific American MIND's long-running feature "Ask the Brains" has addressed questions from our readers on the quirks and quandaries of human behavior, psychology and neurology. Here we've compiled some of the best and most interesting inquiries about the human brain. | | | | |
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| Ultimate Physics: From Quarks to the Cosmos | | The fundamental outlines of the physical world, from its tiniest particles to massive galaxy clusters, have been apparent for decades. Does this mean physicists are about to tie it all up into a neat package? Not at all. Just when you think you're figuring it out, the universe begins to look its strangest, and this eBook, Ultimate Physics: From Quarks to the Cosmos, illustrates clearly how answers often lead to more questions and open up new paths to insight. | | | | |
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| The Science of Pets | | In the U.S., more than half of households have a pet – usually more than one. They're usually considered members of the family. The strength of the human-pet bond tells us as much or more about ourselves as it does about our pets, and in this eBook, The Science of Pets, we look at why dogs and cats behave the way they do and what makes our bond with them so strong. | | | | |
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| Martin Gardner: The Magic and Mystery of Numbers | | Known as "the best friend mathematics ever had," Martin Gardner introduced many readers to real mathematics, making the subject accessible and fun for more than 25 years through his Mathematical Games column. In this eBook collection, we focus on all flavors of number, from common integers and negative numbers to figurate numbers and the exotic random number, Omega, which can be described but not computed. | | | | |
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