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Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Annaka Harris · Harper Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does... |
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Robert Macfarlane · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet's past and future.Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal) , Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections... |
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Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
Laura Lynne Jackson · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides on the Other Side. Laura Lynne Jackson is a psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us. She possesses an incredible gift:... |
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The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature
Nick Haddad · Princeton University Press Pages: 264 Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinctionMost of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr?... |
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She has her mother's laugh : what heredity is, is not, and may become
Carl Zimmer · Dutton Format: eBook
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times She Has Her Mother's Laugh But, Zimmer writes, "Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history.... |
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Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
Pooja K. Agarwal · Jossey-Bass Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D.,... |
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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Joseph Menn · PublicAffairs Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even democracy itselfCult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly... |
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The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource
Obi Kaufmann · Heyday Pages: 144 Format: Hardcover
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Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California's water infrastructure... |
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