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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers
Kim Kavin - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's... |
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Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery
Forrest Galante
Format: Hardcover
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Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth. Forrest Galante is one of them. As a wildlife biologist and conservationist, Galante devotes his life to studying, rediscovering, and protecting our planet's amazing lifeforms. Part memoir, part... |
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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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Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding How Our Genes Work
Kat Arney - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book
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The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make our eyes blue, our hair curly, and they control our risks of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism, and Alzheimer's. One thousand dollars will buy you your own genome readout, neatly stored on a USB stick. And advances... |
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60 Ready-to-Use Coding Projects
Ellyssa Kroski - Amer Library Assn Editions
Format: Paperback
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Your library can make a difference in developing computational thinking in children, teens, and even adults. And you don't even need to be a techie to make it happen; in fact, many activities in this new book from tech champion Kroski dispense with a screen altogether in favor of twister... |
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DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution
James D Watson - Knopf
Format: Paperback
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The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from... |
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