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Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs

Steve Parker - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

"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 edition...
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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres

Alison Pouliot - University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet's power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that...
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The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future

Peter Gleick - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

A revelatory account of how water has shaped the course of human life and history, and a positive vision of what the future can hold - if we act now From the very creation of the planet billions of years ago to the present day, water has always been central to existence on Earth. And since...
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Geometry: The Easy Way

Elizabeth Waite - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback

This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare for a geometry class. Geometry: The Easy Way provides key content review and practice exercises to help students learn geometry the easy way.Topics covered in this detailed review of algebra...
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You're a Miracle (and a Pain in the Ass): Understanding the Hidden Forces That Make You You

McHargue, Mike - CONVERGENT

Why is there such a gap between what you want to do and what you actually do? The co-host of The Liturgists Podcast and Ask Science Mike explains why our desires and our real lives are so wildly different--and what you can do to close the gap. For thousands of years, scientists, philosophers,...
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Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

Oren Solomon Harman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of AltruismWe don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing...
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Biology For Dummies

Rene Fester Kratz - For Dummies
Format: Print book

The ultimate guide to understanding biology Have you ever wondered how the food you eat becomes the energy your body needs to keep going? The theory of evolution says that humans and chimps descended from a common ancestor, but does it tell us how and why? We humans are insatiably curious...
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Dataclysm: Who We Are

Christian Rudder - Crown
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times BestsellerAn audacious, irreverent investigation of human behaviorand a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we dont need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly...
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Incubating Creativity at Your Library: A Sourcebook for Connecting with Communities

Erinn Batykefer - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback

Creativity needs a platform. As technology consultant David Weinberger puts it, A platform provides resources that lets other people build things. The library is an ideal platform, and in this book Batykefer and Damon-Moore share the experiences of numerous creative library workers and artists...
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

An essential journey through the American South - and the way it defines American identity - from one our most extraordinary writers on race and culture at work today We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there, who have never even been there, can rattle off a list...
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