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Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
Peter Godfrey-Smith - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In his acclaimed 2016 book Other Minds, the philosopher and scuba diver Peter Godfrey-Smith explored the mind of the octopus -- the closest thing to an intelligent alien on earth, as he put it. In Metazoa, Godfrey-Smith expands his inquiry to animals at large, investigating the evolution... |
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Llamas (Wow, That's Woolly!)
Beth Gottlieb - Gareth Stevens Publishing
Format: Library Binding
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Llamas have become a popular animal in recent years because of their cute, if odd looking, face and body. But llamas are more than just a cool mammal. They are very useful to people as pack animals and wool producers. Their wool can be made into cloth, just like sheep or alpacas. This volume... |
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Carl Zimmer - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically.She Has Her Mother's... |
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The Mission: A True Story
David W Brown
Format: Hardcover
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A masterful, genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep-space mission to Europa - the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system - powered by a motley team of obsessives and eccentrics.When scientists discovered... |
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Environmental Geography: People and the Environment
Leslie A. Duram - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover
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Explores the complex relationship humans have with the environment. It is one of both responsibility -- including the sustainable or unsustainable management of natural resources -- and emotion, like the elation gleaned from a beautiful landscape or the devastation experienced from a natural... |
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The End of Everything:
Katie Mack - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look - in the bestselling tradition of Sean Carroll and Carlo Rovelli - at the five different ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important... |
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Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
Stephon Alexander - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Years ago, cosmologist Stephon Alexander received life-changing advice: to discover real physics, he needed to stop memorizing and start taking risks. In Fear of a Black Universe, Alexander shows that great physics requires us to think outside the mainstream -- to improvise and rely on intuition.... |
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