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Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World
Tristan Donovan · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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This social, cultural, and culinary history charts soda's remarkable, world-changing journey from awe-inspiring natural mystery to ubiquity. Off-the-wall and offbeat stories abound, including how quack medicine peddlers spawned some of the world's biggest brands, how fizzy pop cashed... |
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Coastal Crafts: Decorative Seaside Projects to Inspire Your Inner Beachcomber
Cynthia Shaffer · Lark Crafts
Format: Print book
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When lifes a beach . . . get crafty! Coastal Crafts carries you straight to the shore, with projects that incorporate seashells, ropes, sea glass, and a range of nautical materials and motifs. Learn how to weather surfaces, make driftwood, and cast sand. With everything from wood frames... |
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Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs
Steve Parker · Firefly Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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"Magnificent in its breadth and illustration." -- Booklist Dinosaurus was published in 2003 and went on to sell 15,000 in hardcover and more in paperback. Now 13 years have passed during which there have been dozens of discoveries. At the same price and fully revised, this... |
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Star Trek The Official Guide to Our Universe: The True Science Behind the Starship Voyages
Andrew Fazekas · National Geographic Society
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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As Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary, this book reveals the real science behind its fantastic and beloved fictions, inviting readers to step outside, gaze up at the night sky, and observe some of the destinations the Starfleet has visited. Many of the galactic destinations featured... |
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Bird Homes and Habitats
Bill Thompson III · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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Two of the best-known names in birding - Peterson and Bird Watcher's Digest - team up to provide reliable, expert advice on how to attract the birds you want into your yard. Which birds use nest boxes? What's required to maintain a birdhouse? What kind of habitat will attract... |
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Middle School Math for Parents: 10 Steps to Help Your Child Master Math
Scott Meltzer · Learningexpress, Llc
Format: Book
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Why doesn't my child understand math? How can I help my child with this if I don't even understand it? Why doesn't the textbook look like it used to? Questions like these vex even the most educated parents. This book is for any parent who has ever felt baffled, frustrated,... |
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Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body
Hugh Aldersey-Williams · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening, spine-tingling, heartwarming tour through the extraordinary history and secrets of the human body. The human body is the most fraught and fascinating, talked-about and taboo, unique yet universal fact of our lives. It is the inspiration for art, the subject of science, and the source... |
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
Beth Shapiro · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.... |
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Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology
Mara Prentiss · Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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Energy can be neither created nor destroyedxbut it can be wasted The United States wastes two-thirds of its energy including percent of the energy used in transportation So the nation has a tremendous opportunity to develop a sensible energy policy based on benefits and costs But to do that... |
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The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds: Eastern Region
Donald Stokes · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Paperback
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The culmination of many years of research, observation, and study, the THE NEW STOKES FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS: Eastern Region is factually, visually, and organizationally superior to any other photographic field guide available. This easy-to-use guide features 545 North American bird species... |
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Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
Simon Barnes · Marble Arch Press
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures - weird, wonderful, and everything in between - are inextricably linked.Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together:... |
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Denial: Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the Origins of the Human Mind
Ajit Varki · Twelve
Format: Book
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The history of science abounds with momentous theories that disrupted conventional wisdom and yet were eventually proven true. Ajit Varki and Danny Brower's "Mind over Reality" theory is poised to be one such idea-a concept that runs counter to commonly-held notions about... |
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The Conundrum
David Owen · Riverhead Trade; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough... |
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The Cat Whisperer: Why Cats Do What They Do--and How to Get Them to Do What You Want
Mieshelle Nagelschneider · Bantam Books
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
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Who says you can't train a cat? Just when you thought you had reached the end of your ball of twine, one of America's most popular cat behaviorists comes to the rescue of perplexed cat owners everywhere, providing practical and effective strategies for solving every feline behavior... |
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