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Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Virginia Morell · Crown Publishers; 1st edition Format: Hardcover |
Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be a fish? Or a parrot, dolphin,... |
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Louisa Preston · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe from its origins to its evolution into intelligent sentient beings. All life as we know it is carbon-based, reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival, and as far as we are aware, exists only on Earth. Our planet occupies... |
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Middle School Math for Parents: 10 Steps to Help Your Child Master Math
Scott Meltzer · Learningexpress, Llc Format: Book |
Why doesn't my child understand math? How can I help my child with this if I don't even understand it? Why doesn't the textbook look like it used to? Questions like these vex even the most educated parents. This book is for any parent who has ever felt baffled, frustrated,... |
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Citizen Canine: Our Evolving Relationship with Cats and Dogs
David Grimm · Perseus Books Group Pages: 337 Format: Hardcover |
Dogs are getting lawyers. Cats are getting kidney transplants. Could they one day be fellow citizens?
Cats and dogs were once wild animals. Today, they are family members and surrogate children. A little over a century ago, pets didn't warrant the meager legal status of property.... |
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Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guinea Fowl
Gail Damerow · Storey Pages: 239 Format: Paperback |
If you want to incubate, hatch, and brood chicks yourself, rather than buying them from a hatchery, this is the guide you need. Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults, and guinea keets, addressing everything... |
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor J Cox · W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. Pages: 331 Format: Print book |
"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox's] zestful curiosity." -- New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers... |
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Beyond: Our Future in Space
Chris Impey · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover |
Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space -- and then reminds us that we're already there.Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle... |
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Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
Martine Rothblatt · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the worlds most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created... |
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Aldo Leopold: a Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology:
Aldo Leopold · Library of America; Reprint edition Format: Hardcover |
Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and ecologist, he was also a gifted writer whose farsighted land ethic is proving increasingly relevant... |
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Nextinction
Ralph Steadman · Bloomsbury Natural History Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover |
The Boids are back in town . . . The follow-up to the award-winning Extinct Boids, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time, the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but on the ones that there is still time left to save. These are the 192 critically... |
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Are We Being Watched?: The Search for Life in the Cosmos
Paul Murdin · Thames & Hudson; 1 edition Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover |
An engaging exploration with renowned astronomer Paul Murdin of how life emerged on Earthxand the possibilities that it exists elsewhere There is no more fascinating question than whether or not we are alone in a vast universe Here Paul Murdin applies the latest scientific discoveries and theories... |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told--So Far: Why Are We Here?
Lawrence M Krauss · Atria Books Pages: 336 Format: Print book |
Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision... |
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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Jim Bell · Dutton Format: Hardcover |
The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission - told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries - 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.Voyager... |
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