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Biomimetics: How Lessons From Nature can Transform Technology

Brian Clegg - Icon Books
Format: Paperback

An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind. Biomimetics literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast...
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Euclid's Elements

AU Euclid - Green Lion Press
Format: Paperback

The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary.
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A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

Rachel E. Cargle - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

From a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful approach to the power of reimagining to dismantle the frameworks and systems that no longer serve us while building liberating new ones.There are breaking points in all our lives when...
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Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith

Michael Guillen PhD - Tyndale Refresh
Format: Hardcover

Dr. Michael Guillen, a best-selling author, Emmy award-winning journalist and former physics instructor at Harvard, used to be an Atheist -- until science changed his mind. Once of the opinion that people of faith are weak, small-minded folks who just don't understand science, Dr. Guillen...
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The Hidden World of the Fox

Adele Brand - HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understanding the fabled yet enigmatic fox. Now she reveals their secrets in this extraordinary portrait of our most remarkable wild neighbors.The fox. For thousands of years myth and folklore have celebrated its cunning intelligence. Today...
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The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species

Marianne Taylor - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor's The Story of Life in 10 and a Half Species. Each life forms explains a key aspect about life on Earth. From the sponge...
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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror

Becky Siegel Spratford - ALA Editions; 3rd edition
Format: 3rd Edition

Covering the latest in monsters and the macabre, horror expert Spratford's guide is ideal as both an introductory guide for novices and a fount of new ideas for horror-aware reference staff.Like the zombies, ghouls, and vampires which inhabit many of its books, the popularity of horror...
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Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World

Miriam Darlington - Tin House Books
Format: Hardcover

"Beguiling. The gentle and persistent search by Darlington sparkles." - The GuardianA plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend a whole year or longer, if that's what it took, wading through marshes, hiding between mossy...
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This Way to the Universe: A Theoretical Physicist's Journey to the Edge of Reality

Michael Dine - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas that Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic...
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A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea

Don Kulick - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Format: Hardcover

Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over 30 years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying. But you cant study a language without settling in among the people, understanding how they...
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