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The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human
Noah Strycker · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
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An entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world - and deep connection with humanity.Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As scientists come to understand... |
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Brush Management: Past Present, Future
Wayne T. Hamilton · Texas A&M University Press
Pages: 296 Format: Hardcover
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The presence of brush in rangeland environments continually tops the list of priority issues among landowners, and not just in Texas. Whether they manage their land for livestock, hunting, or wildlife watching, what to do about unwanted woody plants remains a serious and pervasive question... |
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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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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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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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The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
Lewis Dartnell · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch?If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a viral pandemic or catastrophic asteroid impact, what would be the one book you would want to press into the hands of the postapocalyptic survivors? What... |
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The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
Gregory Hickok · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror... |
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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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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Richard Preston · Anchor Books
Pages: 448 Format: Paperback
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The bestselling landmark account of the first emergence of the Ebola virus. A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT... |
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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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The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
Todd Rose · Harper One, 2015.
Pages: 256 Format: Print book
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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how closely we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average... |
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