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Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test: How Behavior Evolves and Why It Matters
MARLENE ZUK - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, whether in tiny wasps, lumbering elephants, or ourselves.For centuries, people have been returning to the same tired nature-versus-nurture debate, trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit. In Dancing Cockatoos... |
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Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America's Death Row
Lynden Harris - Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback
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Upon receiving his execution date, one of the thousands of men living on death row in the United States had an epiphany: "All there ever is, is this moment. You, me, all of us, right here, right now, this minute, that's love." Right Here, Right Now collects the powerful, first-person... |
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Robert Plomin - MIT Press
Format: Paperback
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A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA revolution has made DNA personal by giving us the power... |
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Jason Roberts - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth - a competition whose consequences still reverberate today - from the bestselling author of A Sense of the World. "[A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important, outrageous,... |
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The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Wont Hear From Al Gore--And Others
Joe Bastardi - ?CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Large Print edition
Format: Paperback
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Joe Bastardi has been in love with the weather since his first memory, He is the son of a meteorologist, Matt Bastardi Texas A and M 1965, who emphasized to him the importance of looking at the past and understanding the present in an effort to formulate ideas on future events. This methodology... |
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Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
Mark O'Connell - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense--and coming to grips with the futureWe're alive in a time of worst-case scenarios: The weather has gone uncanny. Our old postwar alliances are crumbling. Everywhere you look... |
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Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species
Mark Elbroch - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback
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The most comprehensive reference guide to mammal tracks and sign for North America. This new edition is more visual, with more than 1300 photos and 450 illustrations for easy comparison and identification of similar sign. Each species account includes information on tracks and trails, scat... |
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Butts: A Backstory
HEATHER RADKE - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating journey into the scientific and cultural history of the female butt, for fans of Mary Roach and Leslie Jamison.Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated... |
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