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Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson · Bloomsbury
Pages: 213
Format: Print book |
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In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions -- love (dogs) , contentment (cats) , and grief (elephants) , among others. In Beasts, he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is a matter of projection.Animals... |
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Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
John Bloom · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 496
Format: Print book |
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American technology company developed a revolutionary satellite system called Iridium that promised to be its crowning achievement. Light years ahead of anything previously put into space, and built on technology developed for Ronald Reagan's... |
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On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It
Kyle Dickman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 277
Format: Print book |
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MEN'S JOURNAL * In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers comes a true and heartbreaking tale of courage, difficult decisions, and ultimate sacrifice. On the Burning Edge, by award-winning journalist... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli · Riverhead Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life... |
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Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
Cary Fowler · Easton Studio Pr
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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The remarkable story of the Global Seed Vault - and the valiant effort to save the past and the future of agricultureCloser to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast global seed bank buried within a frozen mountain. At the end of a 130-meter... |
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Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science
David Knight · Yale University Press
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In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed—Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new,... |
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The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado
Holly Bailey · Viking
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"A gripping, heartbreaking and heartwarming account of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma in 2013." --Daniel James Brown, #1 NY Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat An acclaimed reporter returns to her hometown after the worst twister on record and emerges... |
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Everyone Is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
Daniel J. Fairbanks · Prometheus Books
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What does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation. In short, racism is not just morally wrong; it has no basis in fact.The author... |
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante PaÌ?aÌ?bo · Basic Books
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover |
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What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relatives?Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pääbo's mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal... |
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Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I
Taylor Downing · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A startling and vivid account of World War I that uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research that laid the foundation for much of the innovations of the twentieth century. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting... |
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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
David Hone · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic... |
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Zooburbia: Meditations on the Wild Animals Among Us
Tai Moses · Parallax Press
Format: Paperback |
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Every animal has a story.In ZOOBURBIA, urban naturalist Tai Moses launches a lively exploration into "the extraordinary, unruly, half-wild realm where human and animal lives overlap." The author's woodsy backyard at the base of the Oakland hills becomes a laboratory for encounters... |
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