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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 Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish

Emily Voigt · Scribner
Pages: 319
Format: Print book

A riveting journey into the bizarre world of the Asian arowana or "dragon fish" - the world's most expensive aquarium fish - reveals a surprising history with profound implications for the future of wild animals and human beings alike.A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish....
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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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The Value of the Moon: How to Explore, Live, and Prosper in Space Using the Moon's Resources

Paul D. Spudis · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 243
Format: Book

While the Moon was once thought to hold the key to space exploration, in recent decades, the U. S. has largely turned its sights toward Mars and other celestial bodies instead. In "The Value of the Moon, " lunar scientist Paul Spudis argues that the U. S. can and should return...
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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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