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The Galápagos: A Natural History
Henry Nicholls · Basic Books
Pages: 195
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galápagos is the most pristine archipelago... |
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My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope
Ellie Laks · Harmony Books
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
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"My Gentle Barn is a wonderful book. You'll love Ellie Laks and the animals she rescued--and who rescued her back." -Sy Montgomery, The Good Good PigFounder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred... |
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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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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Roger Penrose · Bodley Head; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of our most distinguished scientists offers a radical new theory of the origin, and ultimate end, of the Universe.Professor Sir Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality provided a complete guide to the laws that govern our universe. In Cycles of Time, Penrose... |
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Patterns in the Sky: An Introduction to Stargazing
Ken Hewitt-White · Sky Publishing
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
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Night Sky: Astronomy for Everyone is an outdoor-oriented, hands-on series of books designed for novice skywatchers who may own binoculars or a small telescope but have limited experience in actual observing. Covering a wide range of celestial phenomena, the books strongly emphasize entry-level... |
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Light: The Visible Spectrum and Beyond
Kimberly K Arcand · Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2015.
Pages: 208
Format: Print book
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A visual exploration of the power and behavior of light, across the electromagnetic spectrum, and how it affects life on earth and everything in the Universe. |
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Shrubs & Trees of the Southwest Deserts
Janice Emily Bowers · Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Pages: 140
Format: Book
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Field guide to 134 common species of the Southwest Deserts, with an emphasis on those in National Park Service sites. Detailed line drawings for identification. |
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Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs
MARK LYNAS · Bloomsbury Sigma
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world--from... |
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First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe
Richard Preston · Random House
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover
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Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers... |
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
Lisa Randall · Ecco Press
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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In this brilliant exploration of our cosmic environment, the renowned particle physicist and New York Times bestselling author of Warped Passages and Knocking on Heaven's Door uses her research into dark matter to illuminate the startling connections between the furthest reaches of space... |
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Algebra for the Clueless
Bob Miller · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 236
Format: Paperback
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Student tested and approved! If you suffer from math anxiety, then sign up for private tutoring with Bob Miller! Do sets, theorems, and equations leave your head spinning? If so, you are like hundreds of thousands of other students who face math--especially, algebra--with fear. Luckily,... |
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