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Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz · Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme... |
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Field guide to the neighborhood birds of New York city
Leslie Day; Trudy Smoke; Beth Bergman · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book : English
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Look around New York, and you'll probably see birds: wood ducks swimming in Queens, a stalking black-crowned night-heron in Brooklyn, great horned owls perching in the Bronx, warblers feeding in Central Park, or Staten Island's purple martins flying to and fro. You might spot hawks... |
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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Leonard Susskind · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013 A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forces to teach Physics 101the DIY way The Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in collegeor who simply wants to know how to think like a physicist.... |
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
HENRY MARSH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Following the publication of Do No Harm, Dr. Henry Marsh retired from his position at a hospital in London. But his career continued, taking him to remote hospitals in places such as Nepal and Pakistan, where he offers his services as surgeon and teacher to those in need. Now, Marsh considers... |
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Creation: How Science Is Reinventing Life Itself
Adam Rutherford · Current Hardcover; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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What is life? Humans have been asking this question for thousands of years. But as technology has advanced and our understanding of biology has deepened, the answer has evolved. For decades, scientists have been exploring the limits of nature by modifying and manipulating DNA, cells and whole... |
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Why Evolution Is True
Jerry A. Coyne · Viking Adult; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a factIn all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant "intelligent design," there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned-the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural... |
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The Universe in a Nutshell
Stephen Hawking · Bantam Books
Pages: 216
Format: Print book
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Stephen Hawking's phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time, introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world. Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly illustrated sequel that unravels the mysteries... |
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Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory
Edward J. Larson · Modern Library
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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"I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking." So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle, bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history.... |
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The Cambridge Star Atlas
Wil Tirion · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
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Developed by one of the foremost designers of astonomical maps, The Cambridge Star Atlas offers an unusual degree of breadth and detail for amateur and experienced astronomers. Northern and southern latitudes are included in a series of monthly sky charts and an atlas of the whole sky.... |
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DK Handbooks: Trees
Allen J. Coombes · DK ADULT
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Trees of all kinds, shapes, and sizes are examined, with detailed specifications.
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