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The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists
Gary Marcus - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Including a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof... |
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
MICHAEL R BLOOMBERG - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world... |
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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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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
Stanislas Dehaene - Viking Adult
Format: Print book
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A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brainHow does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking... |
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 98th Edition
John Rumble (Editor) - CRC Press
Format: Hardcover
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The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 98th Edition is an update of a classic reference. The 98th Edition contains several new features including, but not limited to - a major update to the table of isotopes, the first major compilation of high quality data of protein-ligand binding... |
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The Infinity Puzzle: Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
Frank Close - Basic Books
Format: Book
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Speculation is rife that by 2012 the elusive Higgs boson will be found at the Large Hadron Collider. If found, the Higgs boson would help explain why everything has mass. But theres more at stakewhat were really testing is our capacity to make the universe reasonable. Our best understanding... |
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Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home
Boyd Varty - Random House of Canada, Limited
Format: Hardcover
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Boyd Varty had an unconventional upbringing. He grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. Founded more than eighty years ago as a hunting ground, Londolozi was transformed into a nature reserve... |
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Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
Vaclav Smil - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course... |
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New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City
William Powers - New World Library
Format: Paperback
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Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City?... |
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The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery
Barbara K Lipska - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness - only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains... |
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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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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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Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
John Hands - Overlook Duckworth
Format: Print book
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The book that transforms our understanding of what we are and where we came from.Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began and how we humans evolved to play such a dominant role on Earth?John Hands's... |
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Charles Fishman - Free Press
Format: Paperback
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Praised as "an entertaining and torrential flow of a book" by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.. The water coming out of your... |
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How to Help Stray Pets and Not Get Stuck
Diane Carey - koehlerbooks,
Format: Print book
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You're going about your daily life when it happens: you see a dog on the side of the road, confused and lost. Or maybe a frightened kitten where no kitten should be. Or you witness a pet as it is tossed out of a passing car. . .what can you do? Take charge and risk getting stuck with... |
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Ocean Worlds: The story of seas on Earth and other planets
Jan Zalasiewicz - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth but they are very important not only in hosting life including the fish and other animals on which many humans depend but in terms of their role in the Earth system in regulating... |
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Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by their Trace Fossils
Anthony J. Martin - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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CSI meets Jurassic Park in a fascinating, revelatory look at dinosaurs and their world through the million-year-old clues they left behind What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive... |
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Guide to Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Economics
The Economist - Wiley; 7 edition
Format: Print book
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The ultimate resource for understanding and interpreting important economic figuresEconomic indicators are increasingly complicated to compute and comprehend. Yet in today's challenging economic environment, economic indicators are also more important than ever. This highly accessible... |
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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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Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
Paul Dolan - Hudson Street Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is not just another happiness book. In Happiness by Design, happiness and behavior expert Paul Dolan combines the latest insights from economics and psychology to illustrate that in order to be happy we must behave happy Our happiness is experiences of both pleasure and purpose over... |
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The Horse Lover's Bible: The Complete Practical Guide to Horse Care and Management
Tamsin Pickeral - Firefly Books
Format: Print book
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Reviews for the hardcover edition: An extremely useful book for the general rider. --Horse Country Written in accessible language... reader-friendly layout includes color photos on every page. --Sci-Tech News This comprehensive and up-to-date reference takes a different approach... |
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Cosmic Numbers: The Numbers That Define Our Universe
James D. Stein - Basic Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children and continues throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes and end up balancing checkbooks and calculating risk. So powerful is the appeal of numbers that many people ascribe to them a mystical significance. Other... |
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Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science
David Knight - Yale University Press
Format: Book
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In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed—Luther’s Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new,... |
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Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True?
Charles Seife - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital worldDigital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to controleven when that information is actually... |
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist
Chad Orzel - Basic Books
Format: Book
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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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Overpowered: The Dangers of Electromagnetic Radiation
Martin Blank PhD - Seven Stories Press
Format: Hardcover
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Keys, wallet, cell phone . . . ready to go! Cell phones have become ubiquitous fixtures of twenty-first-century life - suctioned to our ears and stuck in our pockets. Yet, we've all heard whispers that these essential little devices give you brain cancer. Many of us are left wondering,... |
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Middle School Math for Parents: 10 Steps to Help Your Child Master Math
Scott Meltzer - Learningexpress, Llc
Format: Book
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Why doesn't my child understand math? How can I help my child with this if I don't even understand it? Why doesn't the textbook look like it used to? Questions like these vex even the most educated parents. This book is for any parent who has ever felt baffled, frustrated,... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America's Wetlands
Paul A. Johnsgard - Bison Books; 1st edition
Format: Paperback
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Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. “I suspect,” he says, “that the migrating cranes of a pre–ice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane... |
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Pocketguide to Eastern Wetlands
T. Travis & Shanda Brown - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback
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More than 200 plants, trees and shrubs, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds commonly found in eastern wetland habitats are featured in this detailed field guide. Entries for each species include identifying characteristics, descriptions, full-color photos, and range... |
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Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars
Scott Kelly - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station--a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.The veteran of four space flights and the American... |
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The Telomere Effect: The New Science of Living Younger
Elizabeth H Blackburn - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase and telomeres' role in the aging process and the health psychologist who has done original research into how specific lifestyle and psychological habits can protect telomeres, slowing disease... |
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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Max Tegmark - Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Format: Paperback
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Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate... |
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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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Extreme: Why Some People Thrive at the Limits
Emma Barrett - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Why do some people risk their lives regularly by placing themselves in extreme and challenging situations? For some, such as astronauts, the extreme environments are part of the job. For others, they involve the thrill and competition of extreme sports, or the achievement of goals such... |
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Baensch/Mergus Cichlid Atlas, Vol. 1
Uwe Römer - Mergus Verlag
Format: Hardcover
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The Cichlid Atlas Vol. 1 is a must-have for every enthusiast of South American dwarf cichlids. With its approximately 1,400 color photographs, 150 drawings, and distribution maps, this book offers the hobbyist incredible pictorial information. An original key to identify Apistogramma... |
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Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
James T Costa - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Darwin's Backyard goes beyond the portrait of Charles Darwin as a brilliant thinker to concentrate on him as a nimble experimenter delving into some of evolution's great mysteries.James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where... |
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High Tide On Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
John Englander - The Science Bookshelf
Format: Paperback
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NEW 2nd Edition (10-16-13) of best selling book that described a superstorm hitting Atlantic City and New York City -- exactly one week before Sandy. Just one of dozens of scenarios in this amazing book. Find out the other forecasts. Rave reviews from experts and Amazon readers. Fully updated... |
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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants
Jane Goodall - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around... |
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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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Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation
Timothy J Jorgensen - Princeton University Pres, 2016.
Format: Book
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More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports.
We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety... |
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On the Origin of Tepees: The Evolution of Ideas
Jonnie Hughes - Free Press
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout history we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas but perhaps this pride is misplaced Perhaps ideas have us In this book science writer and documentary filmmaker Jonnie Hughes investigates the evolution of ideas taking a look at how they seem to have lives... |
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Making Faces: The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face
A S Wilkins - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Format: Print book
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Humans possess the most expressive faces in the animal kingdom. Adam Wilkins presents evidence ranging from the fossil record to recent findings of genetics, molecular biology, and developmental biology to reconstruct the fascinating story of how the human face evolved. Beginning with the first... |
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Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us
David Neiwert - Overlook
Format: Print book
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A celebrated journalist's eye-opening history of orcas, and an exploration of their relationship with human beings, Of Orcas and Men does for whales what Barry Lopez did for wolves The orca -- otherwise known as the killer whale -- is one of earth's most intelligent animals. Remarkably... |
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Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Amy Seidl - Beacon Press; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive—yet... |
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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
Jerry A. Coyne - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical... |
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The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
William DeBuys - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on EarthIn 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western... |
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Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History
Donald E. Canfield - Princeton University Pres
Format: Hardcover
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The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield--one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth... |
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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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Everglades: America's Wetland
Mac Stone - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover
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"Fervent and stirring." - David Yarnold, president and CEO, National Audubon Society "Stone's spectacular photography captures the splendor of America's Everglades. His remarkable book is convincing proof that our nation cannot risk losing this unique natural wonder."... |
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration
Bernd Heinrich - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A noted naturalist explores the centrality of home in the lives of humans and other animals . . . A special treat for readers of natural history" (Kirkus Reviews) . Every year, many species make the journey from one place to another, following the same paths and ending up in the same... |
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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Marcus du Sautoy - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." - Bill Bryson A captivating journey to the outer reaches of human knowledgeEver since the dawn of civilization we have been driven by a desire to know - to understand the physical... |
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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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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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The Smart Guide to Freshwater Fishing (Smart Guides)
Mike Seymour - Smart Guide Publications, Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Whether you are a novice angler or a seasoned veteran, The Smart Guide to Freshwater Fishing serves as a reference book on all topics related to freshwater fishing. The book presents a wealth of angling information in an easy-to-read style and discusses topics including places to fish;... |
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Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York
Ted Steinberg - Simon & Schuster; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth.Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century... |
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
Will Harlan - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become... |
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The Storm and the Tide: Tragedy, Hope and Triumph in Tuscaloosa
Lars Anderson - Time Inc
Format: Print book
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THE MOVING STORY OF HOW A SHARED TRAGEDY INSPIRED A COLLEGE FOOTBALL DYNASTY On April 27, 2011, a powerful tornado ripped through the heart of Tuscaloosa, Ala., leaving 53 dead and a path of unimaginable devastation. In the aftermath, Alabama coach Nick Saban and his football team went... |
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What... |
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The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease
Niki Kapsambelis - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An inspiring race against time: The courageous, hopeful story of the one family who may hold the key to finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.Every sixty-nine seconds, someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Of the top ten killers, it is the only disease for which there is no cure... |
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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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Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024
MARK LITTMANN - OXFORD UNIV Press
Format: Print book
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Totality: The Great American Eclipses is a complete guide to the most stunning of celestial sights, total eclipses of the Sun. It focuses on the eclipses of August 21, 2017 and April 8, 2024 that pass across the United States. The U.S. mainland has not experienced a total solar eclipse... |
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CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas, 33rd Edition
Daniel Zwillinger (Editor) - Chapman and Hall/CRC
Format: Hardcover
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Containing more than 6,000 entries, CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulas, 33rd Edition continues to provide essential formulas, tables, figures and detailed descriptions. The newest edition of this popular series also features many diagrams, group tables, and integrals that are not available... |
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society
Cordelia Fine - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Beliefs about men and women are as old as humanity itself, but Fines funny, spiky book gives reason to hope that weve heard Testosterone rexs last roar." -- Annie Murphy Paul, New York Times Book Review Many people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental force... |
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
Alan Burdick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?... |
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Evolution: The Human Story
DK Publishing - DK ADULT
Format: Hardcover
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How did we develop from simple animals inhabiting small pockets of forest in Africa to the dominant species on Earth? Traveling back almost eight million years to our earliest primate relatives, Evolution The Human Story charts the development of our species from tree-dwelling primates... |
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The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
Hannah Nordhaus - Harper Perennial; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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"You'llnever think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their laborsthe same way again." - Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of LobstersAward-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America's foremost migratory... |
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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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Butterflies of North America
Jeffrey Glassberg - Sterling
Format: Paperback
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Enter the magical world of butterflies with Jeffrey Glassberg, president of the North American Butterfly Association and driving force behind the current revolution in butterfly watching. This user-friendly guide, lavishly illustrated with more than 160 species, provides invaluable information... |
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Frans de Waal - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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In this lively and illuminating discussion of his landmark research, esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal argues that human morality is not imposed from above but instead comes from within. Moral behavior does not begin and end with religion but is in fact a product of evolution. For many... |
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Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Roger Penrose - Bodley Head; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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One of our most distinguished scientists offers a radical new theory of the origin, and ultimate end, of the Universe.Professor Sir Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality provided a complete guide to the laws that govern our universe. In Cycles of Time, Penrose... |
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Cancer Genetics and Genomics for Personalized Medicine
Il-Jin Kim - Pan Stanford
Format: Hardcover
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This book covers almost all fields of cancer genetics and genomics for personalized medicine. Targeted therapy, or precision medicine, or personalized medicine is becoming a standard treatment for many diseases, including cancer. However, how much do we know about the personalized medicine... |
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In Search of Lost Frogs: The Quest to Find the World's Rarest Amphibians
Dr. Robin Moore - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully rich and personal exploration of the plight of amphibians and the people working to save them. Moores book proves him not just a fantastic photographer but an excellent reporter and compelling storyteller. Such a vital part of the natural world, amphibians are lucky to have... |
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason... |
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The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth About 2012
David Stuart - Crown Archetype
Format: Book
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The world's foremost expert on Maya culture looks at 2012 hysteria and explains the truth about what the Maya meant and what we want to believe.Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilizations End. The World Cataclysm in 2012. 2012: The return of Quetzalcoatl. According to many... |
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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
Michael Benson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film's release, this is the definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, including the inside account of how director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke created... |
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Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution
Doug Fine - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet's strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it's been illegal to grow industrial cannabis... |
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Electronic Troubleshooting, Fourth Edition
Daniel Tomal - McGraw-Hill Professional; 4 edition
Format: Book
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The Most Complete, Current Guide to Troubleshooting and Repairing Electrical and Electronic Devices "If it's electronic, and there is troubleshooting to be done, then this is the book to reach for!" --Dr. Simon Monk, bestselling author of 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius... |
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Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields
Jim Baggott - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers... |
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong - Ecco
Format: Book
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Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ed Yong, whose humor is as evident as his erudition, prompts us to look at ourselves and our animal companions in a new light - less as individuals and more as the interconnected, interdependent... |
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Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the Waves
Dr. Richard Kirby - Firefly Books
Format: Print book
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"Beasts that look as if they come from a science-fiction movie." -- The Times (UK) Beneath the waves lies a hidden microcosm of life: the world of plankton. These microscopic algae and the tiny animals that eat them float freely in the sunlit surface of the sea, where they... |
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A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Barbara Oakley - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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The companion book to COURSERAs wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools... |
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Miracle Cure: The Creation of Antibiotics and the Birth of Modern Medicine
William Rosen - Viking
Format: Print book
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The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma.As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less... |
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The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
Jesse Bering - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st American edition, edition
Format: Hardcover
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Top 25 Books of 2011 by the American Library Association, Choice Reviews Named one of the 11 Best Psychology Books of 2011 by The Atlantic "A balanced and considered approach to this often inflammatory topic." ―Nature Why is belief so hard to shake? Despite our best attempts... |
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos... |
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and associated mathematics of the strange world of quantum mechanics.In this follow-up to the New York Times best-selling The Theoretical Minimum,... |
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A Rough Ride to the Future
James Lovelock - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author of The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelockthe great scientific visionary of our agepresents a radical vision of humanitys future Now in his 95th year, James Lovelock has been hailed as the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles... |
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To
Dean Burnett - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know... |
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch - Viking Adult; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of todays great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand lifes mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly... |
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