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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel · Basic Books |
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Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,... |
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Backyard Wildlife
Todd Telander · Falcon Guides; First Edition edition |
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Falcon Pocket Guide Backyard Wildlife is a field guide to the most common and sought-after species you can find in your very own backyard. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each animals prominent physical attributes and natural habitat make it easy to identify... |
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Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
Melvin Konner · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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A lively, richly informed argument for the natural superiority of women from the acclaimed author of The Tangled Wing.There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder... |
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World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 1,007 UNESCO Workd Heritage Sites
UNESCO · Firefly Books
Pages: 936
Format: Paperback |
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"No school, public, or academic library could go wrong including the very affordable World Heritage Sites in both reference and circulating collections." --BOOKLIST (for a previous edition) More than 52,000 copies of the previous editions of World Heritage Sites have been... |
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Amir Aczel · HarperCollins
Pages: 288
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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Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
Richard C Francis · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 484
Format: Print book |
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Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist.We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization -- the Middle East -- is where sheep, goats, pigs,... |
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Idiot's Guides: Algebra I
Carolyn Wheater · Alpha |
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Starting with the very basics and reinforcing concepts with practice and tips along the way, Idiot's Guides: Algebra I makes a complex subject easier to grasp and helps students and adult learners clear the hurdle that can stand between them and their academic goals. Special sidebars... |
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Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession With Weight Loss
Sandra Aamodt · Current
Pages: 290
Format: Print book |
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"If diets worked, we'd all be thin by now. Instead, we have enlisted hundreds of millions of people into a war we can't win." What's the secret to losing weight? If you're like most of us, you've tried cutting calories, sipping weird smoothies, avoiding fats, and swapping out sugar... |
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