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A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Andrew H. Knoll - Custom House
Format: Hardcover
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"A fantastic distillation of Earth's history, from one of the world's leading geologists. Engrossing, witty, and eminently readable." - Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava,... |
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Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship
Catherine Raven - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable memoir about the friendship between a solitary woman and a wild fox. When Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house... |
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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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The Chemistry Book (Big Ideas)
DORLING KINDERSLEY LTD. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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An accessible guide to more than 75 of the most important discoveries and theories in the history of chemistry.Discover and understand the key ideas that underpin the core science of chemistry and learn about the great minds who uncovered them Written in plain English, The Chemistry Book... |
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How Are We Going to Explain This: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Jelmer Mommers - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Journalist Jelmer Mommers has discovered that bringing up the subject of climate change is a great way to ruin a conversation. Most people prefer to look away, resigned to an apocalyptic fate. But the climate crisis does not have to signify The End. Mommers argues that there are ways we can mitigate,... |
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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
Juli Berwald - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the urgent fight to save coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they're thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean's surface burst with... |
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We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Jonathan Safran Foer - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times-bestselling author offers an accessible, immediate, life-changing study of climate change and a call to action to combat the dilemma. . Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those... |
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The Calcium Connection: The Little-Known Enzyme at the Root of Your Cellular Health
Brunde Broady - Skyhorse
Format: Hardcover
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An enormous body of reputable research into this enzyme has been isolated, ignored, and misunderstood by medical experts. The importance of this enzyme simply cannot be overstated.The Calcium Connection: The Little-Known Enzyme at the Root of Your Cellular Health delivers a clear explanation... |
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