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Idiot's Guides: Calculus II
Alpha. · Alpha
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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Idiot's Guides: Calculus II, like its counterpart Idiot's Guides: Calculus I, is a curriculum-based companion book that continues the tradition of taking the sting out of calculus by adding more explanatory graphs and illustrations in easy-to-understand language, practice problems, and even... |
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Shrewdunnit: The Nature Files
Conor Mark Jameson · Pelagic Publishing, 2014.
Pages: 300
Format: Print book
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Conor Mark Jameson has spent most of his life exploring the natural environment and communicating his enthusiasm for it to family, friends and, more recently, readers of a range of newspapers and magazines. Shrewdunnit brings together the best of these dispatches, alongside unpublished... |
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The Predator Paradox: Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes
John Shivik · Beacon Press (MA)
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
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An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist. Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common, even for people living in non-rural areas. And that might not be a bad thing... |
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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
Jeffrey Bennett · Columbia University Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, Bennett begins an entertaining... |
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Touching the Wild: Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch
Joe Hutto · Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, writer, and naturalist Joe Hutto has done it again. Touching the Wild is the enchanting story about one man who has lived with a herd of mule deer in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming for almost seven years. Why, you may ask, would a person choose to do such... |
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Statistics: 1,001 Practice Problems For Dummies
Consumer Dummies · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Book
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1,001 practice opportunities to score higher in statistics 1,001 Statistics Practice Problems For Dummies takes you beyond the instruction and guidance offered in Statistics For Dummies to give you a more hands-on understanding of statistics. The practice problems offered range in difficulty,... |
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Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
Dean Burnett · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Neuroscientist Dean Burnett dives into the squishy science and bubbly feelings of what happiness means.The pursuit of happiness is one of the most common and enduring quests of human life. It's what drives us to get a job, fall in love, watch stand-up comedy, go to therapy, have questionable... |
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Trees of Eastern North America
Gil Nelson · Princeton University Press; Illustrations by David More, Edited by Amy K. Hughes. edition
Format: Hardcover
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Covering 825 species, more than any comparable field guide, Trees of Eastern North America is the most comprehensive, best illustrated, and easiest-to-use book of its kind. Presenting all the native and naturalized trees of the eastern United States and Canada as far west as the Great Plains--including... |
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
Jon Katz · Ballantine
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover
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In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would challenge... |
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Weeds of North America
Richard Dickinson · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 797
Format: Paperback
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"What is a weed," opined Emerson, "but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?" While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root, weeds compete for resources,... |
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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
Lewis Dartnell · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What... |
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Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
Peter Schneider · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic cityIt isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those... |
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Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
John Pickrell · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence -- bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more -- has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed... |
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