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Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
Emily Urquhart · Harper
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The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, Newfoundland, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. News of the child's icy locks travels across the hospital, and physicians and nurses from all wards visit... |
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Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Carin Bondar Ph. D. · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author's popular webseries "Wild Sex," which has received over 14 million views Birds do it, bees do it -- every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue... |
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Will Harlan · Grove Press
Pages: 307
Format: Print book |
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become... |
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The Perfect Theory
Pedro G Ferreira · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback |
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Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. In this sweeping narrative of science and culture, astrophysicist Pedro Ferreira brings general relativity to life through the story of the brilliant... |
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The Science of Why: Answers to Questions About the World Around Us
Jay Ingram · Simon & Schuster Canada
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Ever wonder why onions make you cry? Or why lizards do pushups? Or why leaves change color in the fall?Don't worry, you're not alone. Acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram wonders the same things. After a long career of asking important questions (Does time speed up as we age?... |
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