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The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless wester……続きを見る
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Written by F.D. Manchester, an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, Reflections on Public Perceptions of Science explores the evolving role of science in society. Th……続きを見る
