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The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson · Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most... |
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How the Body Works
Dorling Kindersley Inc. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A bold, accessible, illustrated guide that delivers real scientific information on how the body works with a healthy side of fun facts and trivia.If you've ever searched the Internet for information on that odd rash on your arm, advice to help you get the best night's sleep, or tips... |
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Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Dr. Emily Monosson PhD · Island Press
Format: Hardcover
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Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans... |
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Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
Hugh Aldersey-Williams · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening, spine-tingling, heartwarming tour through the extraordinary history and secrets of the human body. The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fact of our lives. It is the inspiration for art, the subject of science, and the source... |
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Physics: a short history from quintessence to quarks
J. L. Heilbron · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankinds place in the universe... |
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Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
K Eric Drexler · BBS PublicAffairs
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
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K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology - the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically... |
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils
Aaron O'Dea · Smithsonian Books
Format: Hardcover
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A History of Life in 100 Fossils showcases 100 key fossils that together illustrate the evolution of life on earth. Iconic specimens have been selected from the renowned collections of the two premier natural history museums in the world, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and the Natural... |
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Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Bryce Andrews · Atria Books
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
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"Mine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the wolves. In late July, they emerged from the foothills . . ." In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch... |
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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
Maude Barlow · The New Press
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
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In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations... |
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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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Near-Earth Objects: Finding Them Before They Find Us
Donald K. Yeomans · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Of all the natural disasters that could befall us, only an Earth impact by a large comet or asteroid has the potential to end civilization in a single blow. Yet these near-Earth objects also offer tantalizing clues to our solar system's origins, and someday could even serve as stepping-stones... |
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Will Harlan · Grove Press
Pages: 307
Format: Print book
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become... |
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