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New Titles - Science
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The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
Dr. Steven R Gundry M.D. · Harper Wave Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life.From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating... |
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Science of Yoga: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Perfect Your Practice
Ann Swanson · DK Pages: 224 Format: Paperback
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Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle, and master each asana with confidence and control.Did you know that yoga practice can help lower your blood pressure, decrease inflammation and prevent age-related brain changes?Recent scientific research now backs... |
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The Book of the Moon: A Guide to Our Closest Neighbor
Maggie Aderin-Pocock · Abrams Image Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered if there are seasons on the moon or if space tourism will ever become commonplace? So has Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock. In fact, she earned her nickname "Lunatic" because of her deep fascination for all things lunar. In her lucidly written, comprehensive guide... |
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded... |
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells · Tim Duggan Books Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year"... |
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Dragonflies and Damselflies: A Natural History
Dennis Paulson · Princeton University Press Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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A lavishly illustrated introduction to the world's dragonflies and damselfliesDragonflies and damselflies are often called birdwatchers' insects. Large, brightly colored, active in the daytime, and displaying complex and interesting behaviors, they have existed since the days of the dinosaurs,... |
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The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
Paul Morland · PublicAffairs Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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A dazzling new history of the past 200 years, recast as a story of population: how irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations have made and unmade nations, continents, and empires The advance and subsequent retreat of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower;... |
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National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky, 2nd Edition
Andrew Fazekas · National Geographic Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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Explore the star-studded cosmos with this fully updated, user-friendly skywatcher's guide, filled with charts, graphics, photographs, and expert tips for viewing -- and understanding -- the wonders of space.Stargazing's too much fun to leave to astronomers. In these inviting pages,... |
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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson · Harper Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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A blend of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester's Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know. For more... |
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