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Biology: The Easy Way

Gabrielle I. Edwards · Barrons Educational Series
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback

This new edition in Barron's Easy Series contains everything students need to succeed in biology. Key content review and practice exercises to help students learn biology the easy way.Topics covered in Barron's Biology: The Easy Way include the cell, bacteria and viruses, fungi,...
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Chemistry: The Easy Way

Joseph A. Mascetta M.S. · Barrons Educational Series
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback

This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to succeed in chemistry. Chemistry: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn chemistry the easy way.Barron's Chemistry: The Easy Way covers all important...
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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

Timothy C. Winegard · Dutton
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

**The instant New York Times bestseller**
*An international bestseller*

"Hugely impressive, a major work." - NPR

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing...
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The Nature Cure: A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine

Andreas Michalsen MD · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

International bestselling author Dr. Andreas Michalsen uncovers the natural cures that will transform your health and change your life

Sunlight. Forest bathing. Fasting. Cold-water baths. Bloodletting. Leeches. Cupping. These ways of healing have been practiced in different cultures...
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Pre-Algebra: The Easy Way

Caryl Lorandini · Barrons Educational Series
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare themselves for an algebra class. Pre-Algebra: The Easy Way provides key content review, short quizzes, and practice tests to help students master pre-algebra.

Chapters focus on fractions,...
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Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon

Tucker Malarkey · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"A powerful and inspiring story. Guido Rahr's mission to save the wild Pacific salmon leads him into adventures that make for a breathtakingly exciting read." - Ian Frazier, author of Travels in Siberia

In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The...
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

Sam Kean · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely have the secrets been...
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs that Changed Our Minds

Lauren Slater · Back Bay Books
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

"Capacious and rigorous . . . Blue Dreams, like all good histories of medicine, reveals healing to be art as much as science." --Parul Sehgal, New York Times"Terrific." --@MichaelPollan"Ambitious...Slater's depictions of madness are terrifying and fascinating."...
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No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History

Dane Huckelbridge · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

The astonishing true story of the tiger that claimed a record 437 human lives

"Gripping." - Nature * "Thrilling. Fascinating. Exciting." - Wall Street Journal * "Riveting. Haunting." - Scientific American

Nepal, c. 1900: A lone tigress began...

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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl · Basic Books
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

How the study of causality revolutionized science and the world
"Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea...
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