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The Underdogs: Children, Dogs, and the Power of Unconditional Love
Melissa Fay Greene · Ecco Press Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs... |
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The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee · Scribner Pages: 592 Format: Book |
THE #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of "The Emperor of All Maladies" a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to read and write... |
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Failure: Why Science Is So Successful
Stuart Firestein · Oxford University Press, Pages: 286 Format: Print book |
The general public has a glorified view of the pursuit of scientific research. However, the idealized perception of science as a rule-based, methodical system for accumulating facts could not be further from the truth. Modern science involves the idiosyncratic, often bumbling search for understanding... |
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Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does
Philip Ball · The University of Chicago Press Pages: 288 Format: Print book |
Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the order at the foundation of the seemingly... |
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The Hubble Cosmos: 25 Years of New Vistas in Space
David H. Devorkin · National Geographic Society Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover |
To celebrate NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and its 25 years of accomplishments, let The Hubble Cosmos fill your mind with big ideas, brilliant imagery, and a new understanding of the universe in which we live. Relive key moments in the monumental Hubble story, from launch through major... |
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The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Paul B. Wignall · Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover |
Two hundred and sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst--the end-Permian extinction--wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful... |
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Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
Seth M. Siegel · Thomas Dunne Books Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover |
Los Angeles Times Bestseller!As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face alarming... |
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Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies
Zahi A Hawass · Amer Univ In Cairo Press Pages: 352 Format: Print book |
The royal mummies in the Cairo Museum are an important source of information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians. The remains of these pharaohs and queens can inform us about their age at death and medical conditions from which they may have suffered, as well as the mummification process... |
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