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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter · Overlook Books
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The lotus. The lily. The sunflower. The opium poppy. The rose. The tulip. The orchid. Seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle but powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have... |
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Last Chance Mustang: The Story of One Horse, One Horseman, and One Final Shot at Redemption
Mitchell Bornstein · St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Last Chance Mustang is the story of Samson, a formerly free-roaming, still wild-at-heart American mustang that was plucked from his mountainous Nevada home and thrown into the domestic horse world where he was brutalized and victimized. After years of abuse, Samson had evolved into a hateful... |
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Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
K Eric Drexler · BBS PublicAffairs
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover |
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K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology - the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically... |
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Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America
Douglas Gayeton · Harper Design
Format: Hardcover |
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Combining stunning visuals with insights and a lexicon of more than 200 agricultural terms explained by today's thought leaders, Local showcases and explores one of the most popular environmental trends: rebuilding local food movements.When Douglas Gayeton took his young daughter to see the salmon... |
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Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission
Marc Kaufman · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover |
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With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most... |
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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
John Bradshaw · Basic Books
Pages: 307
Format: Hardcover |
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while... |
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Statistical Abstract of the United States 2011
Census Bureau (U.S.) (Compiler) · Bureau of Census; 130 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is designed to serve as a convenient volume for statistical reference and as a guide to other statistical... |
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