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Bats: A World of Science and Mystery
M. Brock Fenton · University Of Chicago Press
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There are more than 1,300 species of bats - or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night," consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat several thousand insects... |
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Flock Together: A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
B.J. Hollars · University of Nebraska Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; specifically, extinct North American birds. How, he wondered, could we preserve so beautifully on film what we've failed to preserve in life?... |
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
Donald E. Canfield · Princeton University Pres
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover |
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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth... |
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert · Bloomsbury USA; Updated edition
Format: Print book |
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Elizabeth Kolberts environmental classic Field Notes from a Catastrophe first developed out of a groundbreaking, National Magazine Award-winning three-part series in The New Yorker. She expanded it into a still-concise yet richly researched and damning book about climate change a primer... |
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
Bernd Heinrich · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history." - Kirkus Reviews Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same... |
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
Benedict Carey · Random House
Format: Hardcover |
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In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today - and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness,... |
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us
Michael S Walker · Prometheus Books
Pages: 420
Format: Print book |
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Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life... |
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The Perpetual Now: A Story of Amnesia, Memory, and Love
Michael Lemonick · Doubleday
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations... |
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Among Chimpanzees: Field Notes from the Race to Save Our Endangered Relatives
Nancy J. Merrick · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Foreword by Jane GoodallA former student and colleague of Jane Goodall shares stories of chimps and their heroes, and takes readers on a journey to save mans closest relative. Â Unbeknownst to much of the public, chimps are in trouble censuses show them to be extinct in four African countries... |
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Utopia is creepy : and other provocations
Nicholas Carr · W W Norton
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy offers... |
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Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 213
Format: Print book |
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In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions -- love (dogs) , contentment (cats) , and grief (elephants) , among others. In Beasts, he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is a matter of projection.Animals... |
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Einstein's Greatest Mistake: A Biography
David Bodanis · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the best-selling author of E=mc2, a brisk, accessible biography of Albert Einstein that reveals the genius and hubris of the titan of modern physics Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory... |
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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 |
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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 of nature - and how we find... |
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