David Toomey is a professor of English and director of the Professional Writing and Technical Communication Program at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives in Amherst.
5 Ebooks by David Toomey
David Toomey: The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
The story of physicists’ quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time? Since H. G. Wells’ 1895 classic
The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the …
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English
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€25.99
David Toomey: Weird Life: The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own
“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—Nature In the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There …
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English
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€15.99
David Toomey: Stormchasers: The Hurricane Hunters and Their Fateful Flight into Hurricane Janet
Fifty years after Isaac’s Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price. ‘In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and …
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English
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€21.99
David Toomey: Kingdom of Play
For readers of Inside of a Dog and The Soul of an Octopus, a fascinating, charming, and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play that shows how lifeat its most fundamental levelis …
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English
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€17.60
David Toomey: Das faszinierende Spiel der Tiere
Warum Tiere spielen und wie das unser Leben beeinflusst
Krähen surfen auf Dächern, Delfine laufen in freier Wildbahn auf ihren Hinterflossen, Elefanten rutschen auf ihren Bäuchen im Schlamm und T …
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German
€15.99
