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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Noah Strycker · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world - and deep connection with humanity.Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to understand... |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING · Bantam
Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind.
"Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about... |
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The Melting World: A Journey Across America's Vanishing Glaciers
Christopher White · St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Global warming usually seems to happen far away, but one catastrophic effect of climate change is underway right now in the Rocky Mountains. In The Melting World, Chris White travels to Montana to chronicle the work of Dan Fagre, a climate... |
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers
Kim Kavin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336 Format: Print book
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We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK · Riverhead Books
Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller Instant Washington Post Bestseller
"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street Journal
Daniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling... |
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2007 County and City Extra: Annual Metro, City, and County Data Book
Deirdre A. Gaquin · Bernan Press; 15 edition
Format: Hardcover
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County and City Extra contains data for every U.S. state, county, metropolitan area, Congressional district, and for cities with populations above 25,000. Subjects covered include population by age and race, housing, education, income and poverty, crime, manufacturing, trade, services,... |
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Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
Kathryn Miles · Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no otherThe sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storms... |
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