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New Titles - Science
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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we - and the planet we inhabit - could not survive without them.Insects comprise roughly half of the animal kingdom. They live everywhere - deep inside caves, 18,000 feet high in the Himalayas, inside computers,... |
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In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
Streever, Bill · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening... |
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The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Panek, Richard · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds, and cultures, and tracing our millennia-long efforts to unravel its secrets - from Aristotelian philosophy to Newton's apple to the recent, groundbreaking... |
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
Sarah Parcak · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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National Geographic Fellow and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the brave new world of "space archaeology," a growing field of exploration that has brought humanity to a tipping point of mass discovery in the ancient worldDr. Sarah Parcak pioneers the young field... |
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This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
Ketcham, Christopher · Viking
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild placesThe public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains.... |
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A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
Hyde, Lewis · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace) , Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift and Trickster Makes This World, offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture... |
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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Little, Amanda · Harmony
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's most creative and controversial innovators on the front... |
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The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
McIntyre, Lee · The MIT Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence.Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory,"... |
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Wild Horses of the Summer Sun: A Memoir of Iceland
Tory Bilski · Pegasus Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A wondrous story of adventure and friendship featuring a group of women who ride Icelandic horses."Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us." -- Virgina WoolfEach June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern... |
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