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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Dan L Flores · Basic Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. As soon as Americans... |
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Abraham Flexner · Princeton University Press
Pages: 104
Format: Print book
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A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems,... |
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Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin
Cornelia Dean · The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Print book
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"I'm not a scientist" is a familiar refrain among people asked to evaluate scientific claims they feel are beyond their ken. Most citizens learn about science from media coverage, and even the most conscientious reporters sometimes struggle to offer a clear, unbiased explanation... |
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Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong
Andrew Shtulman · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always get these questions wrong. Worse, we regularly misconstrue fundamental qualities of the world around us. In Scienceblind,... |
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert Sapolsky · Penguin Press
Pages: 790
Format: Hardcover
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"It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." - David P. Barash, The Wall Street JournalFrom the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer... |
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
James Owen Weatherall · Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five... |
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Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change
Lisa Palmer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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The U.N. predicts the Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years, documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting... |
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