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Is That a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
Joe Schwarcz - ECW Press
Format: Paperback
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Eat this and live to 100. Dont, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and whats best for the environment. In Is That a Fact?, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz carefully... |
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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
John Bradshaw - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while... |
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Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee
Lisa Jean Moore - NYU Press
Format: Book
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“Buzz is a fascinating reminder of the interconnections between humans and animals, even in that most urban of environments, New York City.”—Gary Alan Fine, author of Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction Bees are essential... |
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The Last American Hero: The Remarkable Life of John Glenn
Alice L. George
Format: Hardcover
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He became celebrated in all corners of the world as not just the first American to orbit the Earth, but as the first space traveler to take the human race with him. Refusing to let that dramatic day define his life, he went on to become a four-term US senator - and returned to space at the age of seventy-seven.... |
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The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West
Rob Chaney
Format: Hardcover
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Four decades ago, the areas around Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks sheltered the last few hundred surviving grizzlies in the Lower 48 states. Protected by the Endangered Species Act, their population has surged to more than 1,500, and this burgeoning number of grizzlies now collides... |
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Dispatches from the Race War
Tim Wise
Format: Paperback
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"What Tim Wise has brilliantly done is to challenge white folks' truth ... to see that they have a responsibility to do more than sit back and watch, but to recognize their own role in co-creating ... a fair, inclusive, truly democratic society." - Michelle Alexander,... |
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A Very Short Tour of the Mind: 21 Short Walks Around the Human Brain
Michael C Corballis - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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How does your dog remember where it buried its bone but you cant find your keys? And do we really only use ten percent of our brains? In A Very Short Tour of the Mind, Michael C. Corballis answers these questions and more. The human mind is arguably the most complex organ in the universe.... |
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Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening
John Elder Robison - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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An extraordinary memoir about the cutting-edge brain therapy that dramatically changed the life and mind of John Elder Robison, the New York Times bestselling author of Look Me in the Eye Imagine spending the first forty years of your life in darkness, blind to the emotions... |
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