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It's a Wild Life: How My Life Became a Zoo
Bud DeYoung · Medallion Press Format: Hardcover
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Pursuing your passion includes a whole lot of crap. For Bud DeYoung, that’s about two hundred pounds a day!Since childhood, Bud had a passion for animals. As an adult, that passion led to the rescue of a bear who lived in his family’s house, then more animals crowding for space,... |
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
ANGELA SAINI · Beacon Press Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knewFor hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less... |
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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew
Alan Lightman · Pantheon Format: Hardcover
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"Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences - old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite... |
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Chicken and Egg: Raising Chickens to Get the Eggs You Want
Andy Cawthray · i5 Press; 1 edition Format: Print book
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The age-old question of which comes first is finally answered in Chicken and Egg! For the purposes of egg-centric chicken keepers, its the egg! A new approach to chicken keeping, Chicken and Egg is specifically geared toward hobby farmers and casual chicken keepers who wish to produce eggs... |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
W. Bernard Carlson · Princeton University Press Format: Hardcover
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Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor... |
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Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future
Donald R. Prothero · Indiana University Press Format: Book
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The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country—all are reaching a fevered pitch. Many people and institutions have exerted enormous efforts... |
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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Jennifer Potter · Overlook Books Format: Hardcover
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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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Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution
Doug Fine · Chelsea Green Publishing Pages: 152 Format: Paperback
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The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to grow industrial cannabis... |
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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel · William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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COMETS!: Visitors from Deep Space
David J. Eicher · Cambridge University Press; 1 edition Format: Print book
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Join David J. Eicher in this fast-paced and entertaining journey through the history, present, and future of these important yet mysterious cosmic bodies. From ancient times, humans have been fascinated by "broom stars" and "blazing scimitars" lighting up the sky and moving... |
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1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know: Tips and Trivia for the Backyard and Beyond
Sharon Stiteler · Running Press Format: Paperback
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Bird watching is one of the most popular hobbies in America and Secrets Every Bird Watcher Should Know is the first photographic guide and fact book written in a humorous conversational tone that appeals to every age and skill level Replete with sound information Secrets will expose many... |
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger · Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large. Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes... |
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