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Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes
William Gurstelle · Chicago Review Press
Format: Print book
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Your home is your castle, but could it withstand an attack by Attila and the Huns, Ragnar and the Vikings, Alexander and the Greeks, Genghis Khan and the Mongols, or Tamerlane and the Tartars? Engineer William Gurstelle, author of the bestselling Backyard Ballistics, poses this fascinating... |
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Niki Kapsambelis · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure... |
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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
Alexandra Horowitz · Scribner; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the giant 1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Alexandra Horowitzs brilliant On Looking Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to... |
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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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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
Bill Schutt · Algonquin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"A masterful and compulsively readable book that challenges our preconceived notions about a behavior often sensationalized in our culture and, until just recently, misunderstood in the scientific world." - Ian Tattersall, Curator Emeritus, American Museum of Natural History,... |
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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Princeton University Press
Pages: 470
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton,... |
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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Douglas Rushkoff · Current; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. This is the moment weve been waiting for, explains award-winning media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, but we dont seem to have any time in which to live it. Instead we remain... |
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Dawn of the Neuron: The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems
Michel Anctil · McGill-Queens University Press
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals... |
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A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
Dave Goulson · Picador, 2014. ©2014
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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A FACINATING TRAVEL MEMOIR THAT WILL ALTER THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEEDave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire, starting with an increasingly exotic menagerie of pets. When his interest turned to the anatomical, there were even some... |
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Are Numbers Real?: The Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World
Brian Clegg · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them?Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own,... |
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Ha!: The Science of When We Laugh and Why
Scott Weems · Basic Books
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
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Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny - and why?In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening... |
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The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
Lynne Barrett-Lee · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a girl who overcomes unique hardship and deprivation - growing up with a troop of capuchin monkeys - to find ultimate redemption. In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from... |
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