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The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives
Stephen L Buchmann - Scribner
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Cultural history at its best - the engaging, lively, and definitive story of the beauty, sexuality, ecology, myths, lore, and economics of the world's flowers, written by a passionately devoted author and scientist, and illustrated with his stunning photographs.Flowers, and the fruits that... |
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Statistics Essentials For Dummies
Deborah J. Rumsey - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Statistics Essentials For Dummies not only provides students enrolled in Statistics I with an excellent high-level overview of key concepts, but it also serves as a reference or refresher for students in upper-level statistics courses. Free of review and ramp-up material, Statistics Essentials... |
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Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change
Seamus McGraw - University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover
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Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass, tortured denials. But out in the vast middle are ordinary... |
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Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Jeffrey Foote - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The most innovative leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US offer a groundbreaking, science-based guide to helping loved ones overcome addiction problems and compulsive behaviors.The most innovative leaders in progressive addiction treatment in the US offer a groundbreaking,... |
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Bears in the Backyard: Big Animals, Sprawling Suburbs, and the New Urban Jungle
Edward R. Ricciuti - Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fang and claw have jumped the white picket fence as encounters with cougars in Chicago, alligators in Florida, and bears virtually everywhere have become increasingly commonplace. Author Edward Ricciuti explores cutting-edge research into why its happening, how it impacts all of us, and how to deal... |
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A Window on Eternity: A Biologist's Walk Through Gorongosa National Park
Edward O Wilson - Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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A Window on Eternity is a stunning book of splendid prose and gorgeous photography about one of the biologically richest places in Africa and perhaps in the world. Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique was nearly destroyed in a brutal civil war, then was reborn and is now evolv-ing back... |
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White Beech: The Rainforest Years
Germaine Greer - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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One bright day in December sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm one of many in southeast Queensland Australia which after a century of logging clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned... |
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At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
Michael Brooks - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Free Radicals takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial areas of modern science The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science -- and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises... |
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Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
John Browne - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of how seven elements - iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon - have changed modern life, for good and ill.With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant.... |
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Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse
Caitlin O'Connell - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Greg. Hes a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. Hes been the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of friendsincluding Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking Kevin starts to get ambitious, seeking a higher... |
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Pre-Calculus For Dummies
Yang Kuang PhD - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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The fun and easy way to learn pre-calculusGetting ready for calculus but still feel a bit confused? Have no fear. Pre-Calculus For Dummies is an un-intimidating, hands-on guide that walks you through all the essential topics, from absolute value and quadratic equations to logarithms and exponential... |
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
Nick Lane - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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To explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes.The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that... |
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Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
Maude Barlow - The New Press
Format: Hardcover
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In her bestselling books Blue Gold and Blue Covenant, world-renowned water activist Maude Barlow exposed the battle for ownership of our dwindling water supply and the emergence of an international, grassroots-led movement to reclaim water as a public good. Since then, the United Nations... |
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Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects
Scott Richard Shaw - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth - and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw - millions and millions of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer... |
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Seas and Waterways of the World
John Zumerchik - ABC-CLIO; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Seas and Waterways of the World: An Encyclopedia of History, Uses, and Issues offers a comprehensive introduction to humanity's historical reliance on the world's seas and waterways and how that reliance continues to evolve.Over the course of two volumes, this extraordinary resource... |
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Mindless: Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans
Simon Head - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) - the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide... |
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A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction
Joel Greenberg - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover
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In the early nineteenth century 25 to 40 percent of North America's birds were passenger pigeons, traveling in flocks so massive as to block out the sun for hours or even days. The down beats of their wings would chill the air beneath and create a thundering roar that would drown out all other... |
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A Buzz in the Meadow: The Natural History of a French Farm
Dave Goulson - Picador USA
Format: Hardcover
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A CONSERVATIONIST'S DEEPLY PERSONAL AND FASCINATING REFLECTION ON OWNING AND REVITALIZING A FARM IN RURAL FRANCEA Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson's account of a lifetime studying bees, was a powerful call to arms for nature lovers everywhere. Brilliantly reviewed, it was shortlisted... |
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The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn
Melissa Holbrook Pierson - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, surprising look at man's best friend and what the leading philosophies of dog training teach us about ourselves.Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose... |
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The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
Russell Gold - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Fracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started... |
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
Svante PaÌ?aÌ?bo - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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What can we learn from the genomes of our closest evolutionary relativesNeanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo's mission to answer this question, and recounts his ultimately successful efforts to genetically define what makes us different from our Neanderthal cousins.... |
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Frank Wilczek - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's... |
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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
Susan Wise Bauer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public... |
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Beyond: Our Future in Space
Chris Impey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space -- and then reminds us that we're already there.Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle... |
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Help Your Kids with Math, Second Edition
Barry Lewis - DK; Rev Upd edition
Format: Book
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After its publication in 2010, Help Your Kids with Math quickly climbed to the top of DKs bestseller charts. Families were hungry for meaningful math help-not Internet searches and hours of family frustration. The simple, visual approach of Help Your Kids with Math was exactly what parents... |
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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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Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
Peter H. Diamandis - Simon & Schuster
Format: NOOK Book(eBook)
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"A visionary roadmap for people who believe they can change the world - and invaluable advice about bringing together the partners and technologies to help them do it. " - President Bill ClintonA radical, how-to guide for using exponential technologies, moonshot thinking, and crowd-powered... |
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City Crime Rankings 2015
Kathleen O'Leary Morgan - CQ Press
Format: Hardcover
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Using the latest FBI crime statistics, City Crime Rankings 2015 provides easy-to-understand crime comparisons for cities and metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Numbers, rates, and trends for total crime, violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime,... |
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Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River
Robert Twigger - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover
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From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind’s tales. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Red Nile navigates a meandering course through... |
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The Galpagos: A Natural History
Henry Nicholls - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galpagos is the most pristine archipelago... |
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The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma
Delphine Schrank - Nation Books
Format: eBook
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An epic, multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship on the verge of massive transformation, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma. Journalist Delphine Schrank spent four years underground tracking Burmese dissidents... |
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Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
Emily Urquhart - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The story begins on St. Stephen's Day, 2010, in St. John's, Newfoundland, when the author gives birth to a baby girl named Sadie Jane who has a shock of snow-white hair. News of the child's icy locks travels across the hospital, and physicians and nurses from all wards visit... |
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Marcelo Gleiser - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of whats out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search... |
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
Luke Rendell - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples... |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Amir Aczel - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims the "New Atheists," providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's... |
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Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior
Janine M Benyus - Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Format: Paperback
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Unlock the secrets behind the behavior of the world's most fascinating creatures from the Adlie penguin to the plains zebra to the giant pandain this wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated book.In The Secret Language of Animals, biologist Janine Benyus takes us inside the animal... |
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Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Mckenzie Funk - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming worldMcKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming... |
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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Carl Safina - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about... |
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins
Gavin Francis - Counterpoint; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station... |
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Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I
Taylor Downing - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A startling and vivid account of World War I that uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research that laid the foundation for much of the innovations of the twentieth century. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting... |
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The Sea Inside
Philip Hoare - Random House Inc
Format: Hardcover
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A yearlong adventure through the world's oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The WhaleIn colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton... |
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
Robert Wald Sussman - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Biological races do not existxand never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent, false, and poisonous... |
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
David J. Hand - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions,... |
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The Perfect Theory
Pedro G Ferreira - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Paperback
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Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915. In this sweeping narrative of science and culture, astrophysicist Pedro Ferreira brings general relativity to life through the story of the brilliant... |
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The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
Roberto Trotta - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology - with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand... |
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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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The Future, Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action
Mathew Burrows - Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty-five years ago when Mathew Burrows went to work for the CIA as an intelligence analyst, the world seemed frozen. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union; suddenly, unpredictability became a universal theme and foresight was critical. For the past... |
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Seaweeds: Edible, Available, and Sustainable
Ole G. Mouritsen - University Of Chicago Press; Tra edition
Format: Book
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Until recently, seaweed for most Americans was nothing but a nuisance, clinging to us as we swim in the ocean and stinking up the beach as it rots in the sun. With the ever-growing popularity of sushi restaurants across the country, however, seaweed is becoming a substantial part of our total... |
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Saving Simon: How a Rescue Donkey Taught Me the Meaning of Compassion
Jon Katz - Ballantine
Format: Hardcover
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In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, New York Times bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would... |
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Testosterone: Sex, Power, and the Will to Win
Joe Herbert - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: it changes the body and brain to make a male. It is involved not only in sexuality but in driving... |
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Bioinformatics Data Skills: Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools
Vince Buffalo - O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: Book
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This practical book teaches the skills that scientists need for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. Many biologists begin their bioinformatics training by learning scripting languages like Python and R alongside the Unix command line. But theres... |
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Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions -- love (dogs) , contentment (cats) , and grief (elephants) , among others. In Beasts, he demonstrates that the violence we perceive in the "wild" is a matter of projection.Animals... |
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Red: A History of the Redhead
Jacky Colliss Harvey - Black Dog & Leventhal; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover
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The brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages and across multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art The mere mention of red hair calls to mind vivid... |
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Berlin Now: The City After the Wall
Peter Schneider - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A smartly guided romp, entertaining and enlightening, through Europe's most charismatic and enigmatic cityIt isn't Europe's most beautiful city, or its oldest. Its architecture is not more impressive than that of Rome or Paris; its museums do not hold more treasures than those... |
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Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet
Joann Eckstut - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which color colors our world.Why is the sky blue, the grass green, a rose red? Most of us have no idea how to answer these questions, nor are we aware that... |
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The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver: Your Questions Answered about Housing, Feeding, Behavior, Health Care, Breeding, and Kindling
Karen Patry - Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Whether you're raising your rabbits as pets or for meat, you need solid, accurate, easy-to-access information to keep your animals healthy and happy. This Q&A resource from expert Karen Patry has the answers to all your questions about everything from housing and feeding to breeding,... |
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America's Top-Rated Cities, 2015: A Statistical Handbook
David Garoogian - Grey House Pub; 22 Pap/Psc edition
Format: Paperback
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The 2015 Edition of America s Top-Rated Cities A Statistical Handbook offers current, comprehensive statistical information in one easy-to-use source on 100 cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the United States. Conveniently arranged by city, this four-volume... |
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Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel
Jason Padgett - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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The remarkable story of an ordinary man who was transformed when a traumatic injury left him with an extraordinary giftNo one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal... |
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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein - Verso, 2014.
Format: Print book
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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On the Edge: The State and Fate of the World's Tropical Rainforests
Claude Martin - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover
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In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the worlds rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of global air and water cycles. Since that time, new research... |
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Oil
Michael Molina - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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Aside from air and water, oil is perhaps the most valuable natural resource. Oil supplies the tremendous energy needs of the modern world. What exactly is oil, where does it come from, how does it get consumed, and who is using it? This encyclopedia provides clear answers to these questions... |
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Aging in America
Robert Scardamalia - Bernan Pr
Format: Book
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As baby boomers reach retirement age, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, trends in disability, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are all at the forefront of conversation. Aging in America focuses on the economic and demographic portrait of the senior... |
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On the Burning Edge: A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It
Kyle Dickman - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MEN'S JOURNAL * In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers comes a true and heartbreaking tale of courage, difficult decisions, and ultimate sacrifice. On the Burning Edge,... |
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