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The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter
Richard Girling · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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Taking as its narrative engine the hunt for an animal that is legendarily rare, Richard Girling writes an engaging and highly informative history of humankind's interest in hunting and collecting - what prompts us to do this? what good might come of our need to catalog all the living... |
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High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health
Elizabeth Grossman · Shearwater Books; 1 edition
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover |
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The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era ofclean production, an alternative to smokestackindustries and their pollutants. But as environmentaljournalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetratinganalysis of high tech manufacture and disposal,digital may be sleek, but it’s... |
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Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Carin Bondar Ph. D. · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author's popular webseries "Wild Sex," which has received over 14 million views Birds do it, bees do it -- every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue... |
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Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince · Milkweed Editions
Format: Hardcover |
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We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself... |
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The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs
Jon Franklin · Henry Holt
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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A man and puppy exhumed from a 12,000-year-old grave sends a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer on a journey to the dogsOf all the things hidden in plain sight, dogs are one of the most enigmatic. They are everywhere but how much do we really know about where they came from... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin - a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals... |
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Dataclysm: Who We Are
Christian Rudder · Crown
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A New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making  Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we dont need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly... |
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