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Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
Nick Davies · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 289
Format: Print book |
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The familiar call of the common cuckoo, "cuck-oo," has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo... |
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A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Joel Greenberg · Bloomsbury
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover |
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In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other... |
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The Last Lions
Beverly Joubert · National Geographic; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback |
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A symbol of mythic potency, the African lion has ruled the human imagination for millennia. But in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's most awe-inspiring hunters are challenged not only by their waterlogged territory, but also by their formidable prey—the buffalo—who... |
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Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
Ian Goldin · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
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Da Vinci, Galileo, Copernicus, Raphael, Michelangelo. These names recall an era in which an unprecedented rush of discovery broke through long-standing barriers of ignorance and connected the whole world, politically and economically, for the first time. We still think of such surges of human... |
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Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Mckenzie Funk · Penguin Press
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover |
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A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming worldMcKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming... |
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Hubble: Imaging Space and Time
David Devorkin · National Geographic; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback |
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In the spirit of National Geographic’s top-selling Orbit, this large-format, full-color volume stands alone in revealing more than 200 of the most spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope during its lifetime, to the very eve of the 2008 final shuttle mission to the telescope.... |
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Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living
Deborah Niemann · New Society Publishers; Original edition
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Our food system is dominated by industrial agriculture and has become economically and environmentally unsustainable. The incidence of diet-related diseases, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and heart disease, has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. Whether you have forty... |
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Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
Mike Power · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover |
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The very first thing ever bought or sold on the Internet was marijuana, when Stanford and MIT students used ARPANET to cut a deal in the early ’70s. Today, you can order any conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. In Drugs Unlimited, Mike Power tells the tale of drugs... |
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The Leading Indicators: A Short History of the Numbers That Rule Our World
Zachary Karabell · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 287
Format: Paperback |
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The Leading Indicators was widely and well received as a much needed corrective to the outdated, outmoded economic figures we are accustomed. Every day, we are bombarded with numbers that tell us how we are doing, whether the economy is growing or shrinking, whether the future looks bright... |
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