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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Max Tegmark · Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Pages: 421
Format: Paperback

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate...
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Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

Christie Wilcox · Scientific American/Farrar
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A thrilling tale of encounters with nature's masters of biochemistryIn Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today.Wilcox...
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger

Elizabeth H Blackburn · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 398
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease...
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Beacham's guide to international endangered species

Walton Beacham; Kirk H Beetz · Beacham Pub.
Pages: 3
Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats

3 volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 26-27 cm
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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings

RICHARD DAWKINS · Random House
Pages: 438
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades, Richard...
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The Rooftop Beekeeper: A Scrappy Guide to Keeping Urban Honeybees

Megan Paska · Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback

The number of urban beekeepers has escalated with more than 25 percent increases year over year in the United States and the United Kingdom. From a go-to authority on beekeeping and backyard farming, The Rooftop Beekeeper is the first handbook to explore the ease and charm of keeping bees...
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Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin

Cornelia Dean · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book

"I'm not a scientist" is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims they feel are beyond their ken. Most citizens learn about science from media coverage, and even the most conscientious reporters sometimes struggle to offer a clear, unbiased explanation...
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Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal

Ava Chin · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance...and so much more.Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods, and it's all about eating better, healthier, and more sustainably, no matter where you live. Time...
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Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe

Ian Stewart · Basic Books
Pages: 360
Format: Print book

In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from the solar system to the Galaxy and the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's...
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My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope

Ellie Laks · Harmony Books
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover

"My Gentle Barn is a wonderful book. You'll love Ellie Laks and the animals she rescued--and who rescued her back." -Sy Montgomery, The Good Good PigFounder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred...
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The Mini Farming Bible: The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

Brett L. Markham · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book

When Brett Markham published a small black and white handbook about how to run a successful mini farmhe never dreamed how popular the book would soon become. In 2010 Skyhorse Publishing Inc. published Bretts book in full color with over a hundred of the authors own photographsand Mini...
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Stem Cells: Promise and Reality

Lygia da Veiga Pereira · World Scientific Publishing Company
Pages: 95
Format: Hardcover

Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.Stem cells are the great therapeutic promise of the century, and this evolving field of research and medicine brings with it many...
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Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

Ian Bogost · Basic Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

"Play Anything is nothing short of brilliant... I will be recommending this provocative and entertaining book to everyone I know." --Jane McGonigal, bestselling author of Reality is Broken and SuperBetterLife is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing...
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Sean M Carroll · Dutton
Pages: 470
Format: Print book

*An instant New York Times Bestseller**Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016*"You will be enthralled." - Wall Street Journal"A tour de force." - Salon.comAlready internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging...
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