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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience
Gregory Berns · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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What is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To find out, neuroscientist Gregory Berns and his team began with a radical step: they taught dogs to go into an MRI scanner-completely awake. They discovered what makes dogs individuals with varying capacities for self-control, different... |
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet
Julie Dunlap · Trinity University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book
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Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom... |
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I Just Got a Kitten. What Do I Do?: How to Buy, Train, Understand, and Enjoy Your Kitten
Mordecai Siegal · Touchstone; Original edition
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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The cat is out of the bag.... CATS ARE DELIGHTFUL AND LOVABLE CREATURES But they don't always start out that way. Every day, adorable kittens are charming their way into our homes. What happens once they get there? The family's favorite furry bundle of love can quickly become... |
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Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew
John Pickrell · Columbia University Press
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
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From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf... |
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Arches Enemy
Scott Graham
Format: Paperback
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"Archaeologist Chuck Bender's contract for preservation work in Utah's Arches National Park is disrupted by a sudden death that turns out to be only the first of several. Where will it all end?"
- KIRKUS "Masterfully plotted in confident prose, Arches Enemy... |
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Spirit of the Horse: A Celebration in Fact and Fable
WILLIAM SHATNER · ST MARTIN'S Press
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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From his first time riding as a child, William Shatner has felt a deep love for horses. Whether seated in the saddle, communicating with them, or simply appreciating their beauty, his bond with these majestic animals is deep. For decades he has sought to share his joy -- with children,... |
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Nicholas Pyenson · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A dive into the secret lives of whales, from their evolutionary past to today's cutting edge of science
Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move... |
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