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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Jonathan Safran Foer · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those... |
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller
Best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers real questions from kids about death, dead bodies, and decomposition. Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids.... |
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How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Randall Munroe · Riverhead Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"How To will make you laugh as you learn ... With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious complexity of our universe and the amazing breadth of humanity's effort to comprehend it. If you want some... |
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Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond
Alexandra Horowitz · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From Alexandra Horowitz, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Inside of a Dog, an eye-opening, informative, and wholly entertaining examination and celebration of the human-canine relationship for the curious dog owner and science-lover alike.
We keep dogs and are kept... |
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U.S. Guide to Venomous Snakes and Their Mimics
Scott Shupe · Skyhorse
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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The Definitive Reference for Differentiating Venomous Snakes from their Harmless Look-Alikes This easy-to-use guide is the most comprehensive resource for snake admirers in the United States. Full-color photographs for every venomous snake in the country make for easy reference, and dividing... |
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Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts
Maggie Ryan Sandford · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Interested in the origins of the species? Consider the Platypus uses pets such as dogs and cats as well as animal outliers like the axolotl and naked mole rat to wittily tackle mind-bending concepts about how evolution, biology, and genetics work.
Consider the Platypus explores... |
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
Tatiana Schlossberg · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From former New York Times Science writer Tatiana Schlossberg comes Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday... |
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Bathsheba Demuth · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between capitalism, communism, and Arctic ecology since the dawn of the industrial age. Whales and walruses, caribou and fox, gold and oil: through the stories of these animals and resources, Bathsheba Demuth reveals how people have... |
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How the Brain Lost Its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness
Allan H. Ropper · Atlantic Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpêtrière Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of human misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly upgraded the facilities, and in doing... |
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Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more... |
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