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Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy
Melvin Konner - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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A lively, richly informed argument for the natural superiority of women from the acclaimed author of The Tangled Wing.There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder... |
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The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission
Jim Bell - Dutton Format: Hardcover
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The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission - told by a scientist who was there from the beginning.The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries - 11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch.Voyager... |
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Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History
Bill Price - Firefly Books Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully presented guide to the foods that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Though many of the foods in this book are taken for granted and one (the mammoth) is no longer consumed, these foods have kept humans alive for millennia and theirs is a fascinating story.... |
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
George Monbiot - University of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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To be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending, arguing, acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But let's be honest: hedging has never inspired anyone. So what if we stopped hedging? What... |
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The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals
James McWilliams - Thomas Dunne Books Format: Hardcover
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Just Food author James McWilliamss exploration of the "compassionate carnivore" movement and the paradox of humanitys relationship with animals.In the last four decades, food reformers have revealed the ecological and ethical problems of eating animals raised in industrial settings,... |
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The Secret Life of Clams: The Mysteries and Magic of Our Favorite Shellfish
Anthony D. Fredericks - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Get up close and personal with an amazing creature that has invaded our lexicon as well as our restaurants.It breathes with tubes, it has no head or brain, it feeds through a filter, and it is the source of dozens of familiar proverbs (“happy as a clam!”). Clams, it turns out,... |
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Snakemaster: Wildlife Adventures with the World’s Most Dangerous Reptiles
Austin Stevens - Skyhorse Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Known as the original "Snakemaster" from his various television shows, Austin Stevens is one of the most famous herpetologists in the world. From his show Austin Stevens: Snakemaster on Animal Planet to his many appearances in the media, Stevens is known as an incredibly smart,... |
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The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
Caleb Scharf - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardThe Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014A Politics & Prose 2014 Staff PickIn the sixteenth century, Nicolaus... |
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Seven Elements that Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
John Browne - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of how seven elements - iron, carbon, gold, silver, uranium, titanium, and silicon - have changed modern life, for good and ill.With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant.... |
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Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change
Orrin H Pilkey - Columbia University Press Format: Print book
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With its 28-foot storm surge and 174 mph winds, 2005's Hurricane Katrina was responsible for nearly 2,000 deaths and more than $100 billion in damage. The event was only a preview of what will soon hit coastal communities as climate change increases the power of storms that can lay waste... |
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The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
Julene Bair - Viking Format: Hardcover
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A love affair unfolds as crisis hits a family farm on the high plainsJulene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair... |
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The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
Roberto Trotta - Basic Books (AZ) Format: Hardcover
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From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology - with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand... |
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Make: 3D Printing: The Essential Guide to 3D Printers
Anna Kaziunas France - Maker Media, Inc; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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The 3D printing revolution is well upon us, with new machines appearing at an amazing rate. With the abundance of information and options out there, how are makers to choose the 3D printer thats right for them? MAKE is here to help, with our Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. With articles... |
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The Galpagos: A Natural History
Henry Nicholls - Basic Books Format: Hardcover
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Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas" - the enchanted islands. Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galpagos is the most pristine archipelago... |
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Beautiful Geometry
Eli Maor - Princeton University Press Format: Book
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If you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind. As much a work of art as a book about mathematics, Beautiful Geometry presents more than sixty exquisite color plates illustrating a wide range of geometric... |
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Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. I: The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected Universe, Uncollected Writings
Loren Eiseley - Library Of America Format: Print book
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An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the twentieth century's greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, and John Muir, and a precursor to such later writers as Stephen Jay Gould,... |
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Venom Doc: The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever
Bryan Grieg Fry - W W Norton Format: Print book
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Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world's most venomous creatures.Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He's been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been... |
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Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved
Darren Naish - Smithsonian Books Format: Hardcover
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Dinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fantastic, bizarre creatures that still capture our imagination: the super-predator Tyrannosaurus, the plate-backed Stegosaurus, and the long-necked, long-tailed Diplodocus. Dinosaurs: The Ultimate... |
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A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
Dave Goulson - Picador, 2014. 2014 Format: Print book
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A FACINATING TRAVEL MEMOIR THAT WILL ALTER THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEEDave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire, starting with an increasingly exotic menagerie of pets. When his interest turned to the anatomical, there were even some... |
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County and City Extra 2015: Annual Metro, City, and County Data Book
Deirdre A. Gaquin - Bernan Press Format: Hardcover
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When you want only one source of information about your city or county, turn to County and City Extra.This trusted reference compiles information from many sources to provide all the key demographic and economic data for every state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district, and for all cities... |
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QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics
Hans Christian Von Baeyer - Harvard University Press Format: Print book
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Measured by the accuracy of its predictions and the scope of its technological applications, quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science -- as well as one of the most misunderstood. The deeper meaning of quantum mechanics remains controversial almost a century after... |
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There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll
Lisa Robinson - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insiders behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem,... |
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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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Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
George Marshall - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshalls search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists... |
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Amir D. Aczel - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery.... |
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Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects
Scott Richard Shaw - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth - and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw - millions and millions of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer... |
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WTF, Evolution?!: A Theory of Unintelligible Design
Mara Grunbaum - Workman Publishing Company Format: Book
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We all have our off days. Why should Evolution be any different? Maybe Evolution got carried away with an idea that was just a little too crazy—like having the Regal Horned Lizard defend itself by shooting three-foot streams of blood from its eyes. Or maybe Evolution ran out of steam... |
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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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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 Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines
Donald R Kirsch - W W Norton Format: Print book
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The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter.The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered... |
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Virtually Human: The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
Martine Rothblatt - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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Virtually Human explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness--simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology--becomes part of our daily lives. Meet Bina48, the worlds most sentient robot, commissioned by Martine Rothblatt and created... |
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Art and Architecture of Insects
David M. Phillips - ForeEdge Format: Print book
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Clad in spiked and scaled armor, lance-like pincers at the ready, alien creatures are in our gardens, our floorboards, and our bedsheets. David M. Phillips has taken his life-long love of insect biology and microscopy and produced a mesmerizing look into the hidden world of the insect form.... |
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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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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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Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptionaland What That Means for Life in the Universe
David Waltham - Basic Books a Member of Perseus Books Group Format: Hardcover
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Humankind has long fantasized about life elsewhere in the universe. And as we discover countless exoplanets orbiting other stars - among them, rocky super-Earths and gaseous Hot Jupiters - we become ever more hopeful that we may come across extraterrestrial life. Yet even as we become aware... |
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Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
Bob Berman - Little Brown & Co Format: Hardcover
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From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood... |
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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins
Hal Whitehead - University of Chicago Press; 1st ed. edition Format: Hardcover
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In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear... |
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
Lynne Cheney - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated Format: Hardcover
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A major new biography of the fourth president of the United States by New York Times bestselling author Lynne Cheney This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison... |
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The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver: Your Questions Answered about Housing, Feeding, Behavior, Health Care, Breeding, and Kindling
Karen Patry - Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition Format: Paperback
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Whether you're raising your rabbits as pets or for meat, you need solid, accurate, easy-to-access information to keep your animals healthy and happy. This Q&A resource from expert Karen Patry has the answers to all your questions about everything from housing and feeding to breeding,... |
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Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Carin Bondar Ph. D. - Pegasus Books Format: Print book
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A brilliantly engaging guide to the reproductive habits of creatures great and small, based on the author's popular webseries "Wild Sex," which has received over 14 million views Birds do it, bees do it -- every member of the animal kingdom does it, from fruit flies to blue... |
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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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Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life
Niles Eldredge - Firefly Books Ltd. Format: Book
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"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly... |
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My Brief History
Stephen Hawking - Bantam Format: Hardcover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERStephen Hawking has dazzled readers worldwide with a string of bestsellers exploring the mysteries of the universe. Now, for the first time, perhaps the most brilliant cosmologist of our age turns his gaze inward for a revealing look at his own life and intellectual evolution.... |
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The Almanac of American Education 2014-2015
Deirdre Gaquin - Bernan Press, Format: Print book
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The Almanac of American Education helps users understand and compare the quality of education at the national, state, and county levels. Compiled from official U.S. government and reliable private sources, the book contains historical and current data, insightful analysis, and useful graphs... |
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What Should We Be Worried About?: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
John Brockman - Harper Perennial
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Drawing from the horizons of science, todays leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking aboutand expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org The worlds smartest websiteThe... |
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Algebra Success in 20 Minutes a Day
LearningExpress - LearningExpress Format: Book : English : Fifth editionView all editions and formats
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Whether youre new to algebra or just looking for a refresher, Algebra Success in 20 Minutes a Day offers a 20-step lesson plan that provides quick and thorough instruction in practical, critical skills. Stripped of unnecessary math jargon but bursting with algebra essentials, this handy... |
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What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
Gary Smith - Overlook Press Format: Print book
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The newest book by the acclaimed author of Standard Deviations takes on luck, and all the mischief the idea of luck can cause in our lives.In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed... |
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The Birds of Pandemonium
Michele Raffin - Algonquin Books Format: Hardcover
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Aremarkablebook. Reading about the birds of Pandemonium will make you laugh and cry it will make you see more clearly the need to take care of our planet and it will confirm that one person with a passion can make a difference. Jeff Corwin, nature conservationist and host of Animal Planet... |
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves
James Nestor - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Format: Hardcover
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An Amazon Best Book of 2014 While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious... |
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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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A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention
Matt Richtel - William Morrow Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Matt Richtel, a brilliant, narrative-driven exploration of technologys vast influence on the human mind and society, dramatically-told through the lens of a tragic texting-while-driving car crash that claimed the lives of two rocket scientists in 2006.In... |
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Physics for Rock Stars: Making the Laws of the Universe Work for You
Christine McKinley - Perigee Format: Paperback
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From the host of the History channel's Brad Meltzer's Decoded: the laws of the universe like you've never experienced them before. This approachable book explains the world of physics with clarity, humor, and a dash of adventure. Physics for Rock Stars is not a weighty treatise... |
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Unnatural Selection: How We Are Changing Life, Gene by Gene
Dr. Emily Monosson PhD - Island Press Format: Hardcover
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Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans... |
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What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
Lawrence Lipking - Cornell University Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand... |
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Atlas of Indian Nations
Anton Treuer - National Geographic Society Format: Hardcover
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Atlas of Indian Nations is a comprehensive resource for those interested in Native American history and culture. Told through maps, photos, art, and archival cartography, this is the story of American Indians that only National Geographic can tell. In the most comprehensive atlas of Native... |
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Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
Mark L. Winston - Harvard University Press Format: Hardcover
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Being among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writes—from the low hum of tens of thousands of insects and the pungent smell of honey and beeswax, to the sight of workers flying back and forth between flowers and the hive. The experience of an apiary slows our sense of time,... |
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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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Snow Crystals
W. A. Bentley - Dover Publications; 1St Edition edition Format: Paperback
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"Offers valuable material not only to students of crystallography but also to those of the arts." — The New York TimesDid you ever try to photograph a snowflake? The procedure is very tricky. The work must be done rapidly in extreme cold, for even body heat can melt a rare... |
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Badluck Way: A Year on the Ragged Edge of the West
Bryce Andrews - Atria Books Format: Hardcover
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"Mine might have been a simple, pretty story, if not for the wolves. In late July, they emerged from the foothills . . ." In this gripping memoir of a young man, a wolf, their parallel lives and ultimate collision, Bryce Andrews describes life on the remote, windswept Sun Ranch... |
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Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World
B Brett Finlay - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Format: Print book
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"A must-read . . . Takes you inside a child's gut and shows you how to give kids the best immune start early in life." - William Sears, MD, coauthor of The Baby BookLike the culture-changing Last Child in the Woods, here is the first parenting book to apply the latest... |
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Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction
Jules Howard - Bloomsbury USA Format: Hardcover
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One thousand million years ago, a huge revolution occurred on Earth--sex happened for the first time. From that moment on, the world became ever more colorful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided,... |
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Invasive Species: What Everyone Needs to Know
Sylvan Ramsey Kaufman - Oxford University Press, USA Format: Print book
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Of the 7,000 estimated non-native species present in North America, approximately 1,000 are invasive. Clearly, invasive species are in the minority, but their small numbers don't keep them from causing billions of dollars in economic and ecological harm each year. Policymakers and ecologists... |
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe
Louisa Preston - Bloomsbury Sigma Format: Print book
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Astrobiology is the study of life in the universe from its origins to its evolution into intelligent sentient beings. All life as we know it is carbon-based, reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival, and as far as we are aware, exists only on Earth. Our planet occupies... |
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Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land
Dan OBrien - Bison Books Format: Hardcover
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For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan OBriens home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region... |
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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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Touching the Wild: Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch
Joe Hutto - Skyhorse Publishing; 1 edition Format: Book
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Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, writer, and naturalist Joe Hutto has done it again. Touching the Wild is the enchanting story about one man who has lived with a herd of mule deer in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming for almost seven years. Why, you may ask, would a person choose to do such... |
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Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal
Ava Chin - Simon & Schuster Format: Hardcover
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In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance...and so much more.Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods, and it's all about eating better, healthier, and more sustainably, no matter where you live. Time... |
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition Format: Hardcover
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As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman... |
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The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder
Linda Stratmann - Yale University Press Format: Print book
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Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control... |
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Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World
Alexandra Witze - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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Can a single explosion change the course of history? An eruption at the end of the 18th century led to years of climate change while igniting famine, disease, even perhaps revolution. Laki is one of Iceland's most fearsome volcanoes.Laki is Iceland's largest volcano. Its eruption in 1783... |
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Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
Marilyn Roossinck - Princeton Univ Press Format: Print book
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This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses. Contrary to popular belief, not all viruses are bad for you. In fact, several are beneficial to their hosts, and many are crucial to the health of our planet. Virus... |
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art
Victoria Finlay - J Paul Getty Museum Format: Hardcover
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The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically... |
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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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Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
Jessica Pierce - The University of Chicago Press Format: Print book
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A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as powerful: guilt. When we see our cats... |
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Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence
Marc Bekoff - New World Library Format: Book
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In wildlife conservation, rewilding refers to restoring habitats and creating corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world’s leading animal experts and activists, here applies rewilding to human attitudes. Rewilding Our Hearts... |
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Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiositys Chief Engineer
Rob Manning - Smithsonian Books Format: Hardcover
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The firsthand account of the trials and tribulations of engineering one of the most complex pieces of space technology, the Mars Rover Curiosity, by its chief engineer Rob ManningIn the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we havent found answers... |
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Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity
Edward Slingerland - Crown Publishing Group Format: Hardcover
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A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity - an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand - and why it is so essential to our well-being Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming... |
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How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets
Paul Abel - Pegasus Books Format: Hardcover
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A fresh and essential guide to understanding and interpreting the wonders of our solar system, from two intrepid young astronomers who are the hosts of the popular BBC television series, "The Sky at Night."What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school... |
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Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
Philip Ball - University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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After World War II most scientists in Germany maintained that they had been apolitical or actively resisted the Nazi regime but the true story is much more complicated In Serving the Reich Philip Ball takes a fresh look at that controversial history contrasting the career of Peter Debye... |
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