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Poison: Sinister Species with Deadly Consequences
Dr. Mark Siddall · Sterling Signature
Format: Hardcover
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Beware: it's a poisonous world—and this is the ultimate guide to surviving nature at her most toxic! Journeying from the plains of the outback to the jungles of Madagascar, Dr. Mark Siddall, curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, delves into... |
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Ocean Country: One Woman's Voyage from Peril to Hope in her Quest To Save the Seas
Liz Cunningham · North Atlantic Books
Pages: 376
Format: Paperback
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Ocean Country is an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning... |
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Calculus For Dummies
Mark Ryan · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781119293491) was previously published as Calculus For Dummies, 2nd Edition (9781118791295) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.... |
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Darwin's On the Origin of Species: A Modern Rendition
Daniel Duzdevich · Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
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Charles Darwin’s most famous book On the Origin of Species is without question, one of the most important books ever written. While even the grandest works of Victorian English can prove difficult to modern readers, Darwin wrote his text in haste and under intense pressure. For an era in which... |
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Feeder Birds of Eastern North America: Getting to Know Easy-to-Attract Backyard Visitors
Sandy Allison · Stackpole Books,
Pages: 73
Format: Print book
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Bird-watchers know there is a list of species that regularly and dependably come to dine at backyard bird feeders. This perfect guide introduces 30 North American birds most likely to appear at your feeder, including sparrows, finches, chickadees, woodpeckers, nuthatches, titmice, and cardinals.... |
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Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
Matt Lewis · Plume
Format: Print book
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"A sinister version of The Perfect Storm . . . Thrilling." - Sunday Times (UK) For readers of The Perfect Storm, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and Into the Wild There's nothing that armchair adventure lovers relish more than a gripping true story of disaster and heroism,... |
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Ten Great Ideas about Chance
Persi Diaconis · Princeton University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating account of the breakthrough ideas that transformed probability and statisticsIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs... |
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Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction
Bill McGuire · Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Book
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Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. In this Very Short Introduction, Bill McGuire explores the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival.... |
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The House of Owls
Tony Angell · Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting... |
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy · Viking
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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"Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." - Bill Bryson A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledgeEver since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know - to understand the physical world... |
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The Skeleton Revealed: An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates
STEVE HUSKEY · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
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The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature's most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for all the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can see the body's fascinating underlying architecture.In this one-of-a-kind book,... |
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