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Everything You Know About the Human Body Is Wrong
Matt Brown - Batsford
Format: Hardcover
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Think you know the truth about your body? With wit and humor, popular science writer Matt Brown is here to separate fact from fiction, and solve the mysteries surrounding this most fascinating of subjects. Does giving kids sugar make them hyperactive? Is there such a thing as being double-jointed?... |
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The Meaning of Human Existence
Edward O. Wilson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most... |
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The Mission of a Lifetime: Lessons from the Men Who Went to the Moon
Basil Hero - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Former award-winning investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the lives and lessons of the twelve remaining Apollo astronauts. Only twenty-four human beings have travelled to the Moon. Theirs were the most daring voyages in mankind's history and their view of Earth from the moon... |
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Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
John Pickrell - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence -- bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more -- has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed... |
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Evolution: The Human Story, 2nd Edition
Alice Roberts - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Fully updated with the latest discoveries and research, amazingly realistic illustrations and detailed maps plot eight million years of human development in the context of our genetics, anatomy, behavior, environment, migrations, and culture.This unrivaled illustrated guide to human evolution... |
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Cosmos: The Infographic Book of Space
Stuart Lowe - Aurum Press Ltd
Format: Print book
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In this truly mind-blowing book, we use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new and unique way - the most amazing places and objects that modern science has laid bare. |
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The Science of Interstellar
Kip Thorne - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system.... |
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The House of Kennedy
James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Those who dwell in the House of Kennedy work hard, live hard, and win at all costs. But just how much has it cost them? The Kennedy name is synonymous with American royalty. The family commitment to public service is legendary and enduring. But all their wild charisma has been dashed by disgrace... |
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Void: The Strange Physics of Nothing
James Owen Weatherall - Yale University Press
Format: Print book
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The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, The Physics of Wall Street, was a New York Times best-seller and named one of Physics Today's five... |
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The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth
Hugh Aldersey-Williams - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A rich and sweeping exploration into the science and history behind the most mysterious, primal, and powerful force on earth: the tide.Half of the worlds population today lives in coastal regions lapped by tidal waters. But the tide rises and falls according to rules that are a mystery... |
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State of the Heart: Exploring the History, Science, and Future of Cardiac Disease
Haider Warraich - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients' rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease.State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future... |
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Disasters in Space: Stories from the USSoviet Space Race and Beyond
Hermann Woydt - Schiffer
Format: Hardcover
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The journey into space is a dangerous one, and although some aspects of space travel seem to be routine it still takes humanity to the limits of what is technically possible. It is an environment that forgives no mistake, and where carelessness usually has fatal consequences. This book... |
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Third Thoughts
Steven Weinberg - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover
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A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and society by the Nobel Prize-winning author of To Explain the World.For more than four decades, one of the most captivating and celebrated science communicators of our time has challenged the public to think carefully about the foundations... |
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Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence
Joseph Mazur - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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What are the chances? This is the question we ask ourselves when we encounter the strangest and most seemingly impossible coincidences, like the woman who won the lottery four times or the fact that Lincoln's dreams foreshadowed his own assassination. But, when we look at coincidences mathematically,... |
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American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
Paul Greenberg - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014"Greenberg's breezy, engaging style weaves history, politics, environmental policy, and marine biology." --New Yorker In American Catch, award-winning author Paul Greenberg takes the same skills that won him acclaim... |
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Neuroplasticity
Moheb Costandi - The MIT Press
Format: Print book
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Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes. This concept of neuroplasticity has captured the imagination of a public eager for self-improvement... |
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Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
Jon Palfreman - Scientific American
Format: Hardcover
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A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - Publishers WeeklyA star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In Brain... |
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The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
Peter Moore - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
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By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite... |
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The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
Marcelo Gleiser - Basic Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of whats out there. In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search... |
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The State of Science: What the Future Holds and the Scientists Making It Happen
Marc Zimmer - Prometheus
Format: Hardcover
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New research and innovations in the field of science are leading to life-changing and world-altering discoveries like never before. What does the horizon of science look like? Who are the scientists that are making it happen? And, how are we to introduce these revolutions to a society in which... |
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Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction
Katherine Blundell - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Format: Print book
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Black holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious nature. This Very Short Introduction, addresses a variety of questions, including what a black hole actually is, how they are characterized and discovered, and what would happen if you came too close to one.Professor... |
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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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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe.How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core... |
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An Einstein Encyclopedia
Alice Calaprice - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, this... |
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America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake
Ted Levin - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book
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There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. Yet most of us have never seen a timber rattler.... |
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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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Endurance: My Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Scott Kelly - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life. He describes navigating the extreme challenges of long-term... |
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Wildlife of the World
DK Publishing - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Hardcover
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Wildlife of the World takes you on a journey through some of the most scenic and rich animal habitats - from the Amazon rain forests to the Himalayas, the Sahara to the South Pole - meeting the most important animals in each ecosystem along the way.In Wildlife of the World truly spectacular... |
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At Least Know This: Essential Science to Enhance Your Life
Guy P Harrison - Prometheus Books
Format: Paperback
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This primer on essential scientific literacy gives readers the basics to understand themselves and the world around them, plus a glimpse of how much more science has to offer.Science tells us a good deal about who we are, where we come from, the nature of the universe, how our brains work,... |
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What Shape Is Space?: A Primer for the 21st Century
Giles Sparrow - Thames & Hudson
Format: Paperback
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This fascinating entry in the "Big Idea" series is a well-informed, comprehensive and accessibly written look at the very nature of the universe. What Shape Is Space? is a question with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the very nature of reality and our place... |
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Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
DANIEL GOLEMAN - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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Two New York Times-bestselling authors unveil new research showing what meditation can really do for the brain. In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your... |
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
Nathaniel Rich - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change -- including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world... |
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4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars
Nicky Jenner - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Paperback
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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Red Planet, revealed in an up-close and personal tour of Mars.Mars is ingrained in our culture, from H. G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds to Looney Tunes' hapless Marvin the Martian to David Bowie's extraterrestrial spiders.... |
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Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
Ben Ehrenreich - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush, National Magazine Award winner and The Nation columnist Ben Ehrenreich layers climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences into a stunning reckoning of our current moment and our all-too-human urge to grapple with... |
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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology
Leo Grasset - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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France's brightest young scientist lucidly explains the intricacies of the animal kingdom through the lens of evolutionary biology. Why do giraffes have such long necks Why are zebras striped And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function like... |
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Book
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTA major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful... |
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book
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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction... |
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ACCUPLACER Test, Bob Miller's Math Prep for the
Bob Miller - Research & Education Assn
Format: Print book
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Bob Miller's Math Prep for the ACCUPLACER Test Gets You a High Score!Updated Second EditionBob Miller has taught math to thousands of students at all educational levels for 30 years. His proven teaching methods help college-bound students succeed on the ACCUPLACER exam and boost their... |
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
DAVID CHRISTIAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A captivating history of the universe -- from before the dawn of time through the far reaches of the distant future.Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from... |
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's... |
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years,... |
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The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking
Michael C. Corballis - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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If weve done our job welland, lets be honest, if were luckyyoull read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you wont. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. Thats just how it is. That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news... |
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The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
DK - DK
Format: Hardcover
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Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains over 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts... |
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
MARYANNE WOLF - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne... |
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Earth in Human Hands: The Rise of Terra Sapiens and Hope for Our Planet
David Grinspoon - Grand Central Pub
Format: Print book
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For the first time in Earth's history, one species--humans--is knowingly altering our planet's evolution, exerting increasing influence and attempting stewardship. How we handle this juncture may very well determine the fate not just of our species, but of life, and the planet. Without... |
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Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: A Natural History and Species Guide
Annalisa Berta - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover
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The eighty-nine cetacean species that swim our seas and rivers are as diverse as they are intelligent and elusive, from the hundred-foot-long, two-hundred-ton blue whale to the lesser-known tucuxi, ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, and diminutive, critically endangered vaquita. The huge distances... |
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The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition
Richard Dawkins - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution... |
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Firefly Complete Guide to Stargazing
Robin Scagell - Firefly Books, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Firefly Complete Guide to Stargazing is a comprehensive introduction to an increasingly popular leisure pursuit. The book's flexi-paperback format makes it easy to use while telescope viewing, a welcome feature for the growing number of stargazers. The rapid growth in astronomy is due in large... |
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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings
RICHARD DAWKINS - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades,... |
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Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight
Joe Pappalardo - The Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Life in space? This timely book shows the current state and future of the space travel industry -- and how this is becoming our future -- at a crucial juncture in the industry's history.The 21st-century space industry is changing drastically, the most dramatic shift happening in the United... |
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The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience.... |
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The Minds of Billy Milligan
Daniel Keyes - Bantam Books
Format: Paperback
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A portrait of a tortured young man, arrested for a series of kidnappings and rapes, explores the world of a multiple personality, whose traumatic childhood shattered his mind into twenty-four distinct personalities. |
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Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff
Lydia Pyne - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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Is the distinction between "real" and "fake" as clear-cut as we think?Does an authentic Andy Warhol painting need to be painted by Andy Warhol? Should we be outraged that some of those famous scenes in Blue Planet were filmed in a lab? Who are the scientists putting... |
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold. The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better... |
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Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain
Tim James - Abrams Press
Format: Paperback
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If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements - nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson - we at last could identify all the ingredients... |
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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight
Amy Shira Teitel - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Spaceflight historian and creator of YouTube's "Vintage Space" Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.A book that will appeal to readers of Fly Girls and The Astronaut Wives' Club,... |
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Idiot's Guides: The Cosmos
Christopher De Pree - ALPHA
Format: Book
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Idiots Guides The Cosmos is a fascinating and easy-to-understand exploration of the universe. Dozens of stunning, full-color photos highlight the latest discoveries and beauty of space, including the solar system, the Sun, the asteroid belt, the Milky Way, various star types, black holes,... |
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
Patricia Wiltshire - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist.From mud tracks on a quiet... |
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Einstein at Home
Friedich Herneck - Prometheus
Format: Print book
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These intimate, candid descriptions of the private life of Albert Einstein come from a series of interviews with Herta Waldow, a housekeeper who lived with Einstein and his wife and daughter from 1927 to 1933 at their residence in Berlin. After World War II, science historian Friedrich... |
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Idiot's Guides: Quantum Physics
Nora Berrah - Alpha
Format: Print book
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Quantum physics explores the behavior of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and even smaller levels. Idiots Guides Quantum Physics explores this very complex topic, while making it easy-to-understand for science enthusiasts and students alike. It skips the complicated... |
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Genetics in Minutes
Tom Jackson - Quercus Books
Format: Print book
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Genetics in Minutes is your compact and accessible guide to the central concepts of the science of genetics, revealing how our genes shape our bodies and our lives, and how in turn we are beginning to shape them. Covering the basics of DNA, inheritance, and evolution in animals, plants,... |
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The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe
Marie-Janine Calic - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting... |
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Michael T Osterholm - Little
Format: Print book
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A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility... |
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Earth
Robert Dinwiddie - DK; Upd Rev edition
Format: Hardcover
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Earth The Definitive Visual Guide is an extraordinary survey of our planet produced in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. This stunning reference includes detailed, illustrated information about everything that makes up our planet, from Mount Kilimanjaro to the Antarctic ice sheet,... |
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Algebra I Workbook For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The grade-saving Algebra I companion, with hundreds of additional practice problems online Algebra I Workbook For Dummies is your solution to the Algebra brain-block. With hundreds of practice and example problems mapped to the typical high school Algebra class, you'll crack... |
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert - Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley's Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab - reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.Sleep is one of the most... |
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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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Science Hacks
Colin Barras - Cassell
Format: Paperback
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With Science Hacks, you no longer need a PhD to understand the fascinating ideas behind science's greatest theories and discoveries. This latest addition to the ingenious new Hacks series will show you a technique for understanding and, crucially, remembering 100 of the most important... |
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E-Z Arithmetic
Edward Williams - Barron's Educational Series; 5th Revised edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Barron's growing list of E-Z Series titles are new, updated, and improved versions of Barron's longtime popular Easy Way books. New cover designs reflect the all-new interior layouts, which feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material... |
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyThe gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine foreverIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed... |
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Tom Phillips - Hanover Square Press
Format: Paperback
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Modern humans have come a long way in the seventy thousand years they've walked the earth. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're true winners. But it hasn't always been smooth sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to truly f*ck things... |
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American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
Paul Greenberg - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS Book Award, Finalist 2014"A fascinating discussion of a multifaceted issue and a passionate call to action" --Kirkus In American Catch, award-winning author Paul Greenberg takes the same skills that won him acclaim in Four Fish to uncover... |
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Algebra to Calculus: Unlocking Math's Amazing Power
Michael Goldsmith - Shelter Harbor Press
Format: Hardcover
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Think math is boring? Think again! Algebra to Calculus: Unlocking Maths Amazing Power tells the story of algebra and calculus to explore the surprising, fascinating and sometimes mind-boggling evolution of mathematics through the ages.How do you make a decision with numbers? You have to use a kind... |
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Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
Leonard Mlodinow - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming... |
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Redesigning Life: How genome editing will transform the world
John Parrington - Oxford University Press, USA
Format: Hardcover
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Since the birth of civilisation, human beings have manipulated other life-forms. We have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years to maximize agricultural production and cater to our tastes in pets. The observation of the creation of artificial animal and plant variants... |
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Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
George Marshall - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book
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Most of us recognize that climate change is real yet we do nothing to stop it. What is the psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall's search for the answers brings him face to face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists... |
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Welcome to the universe : an astrophysical tour
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught... |
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Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs
Steve Parker - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback
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"Magnificent in its breadth and illustration." -- BOOKLIST Dinosaurus was published in 2003 and went on to sell 15,000 in hardcover and more in paperback. Now 13 years have passed during which there have been dozens of discoveries. At the same price and fully revised, this edition... |
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Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants
Jacob Shell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A journey through the hidden world of elephants and their riders.High in the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India grow some of the world's last stands of mature, wild teak. For more than a thousand years, people here have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable... |
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Balance: A Dizzying Journey Through the Science of Our Most Delicate Sense
Carol Svec - Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Some low-frequency sounds - such as noise from storms or truck engines - can make you feel dizzy and nauseated. An index finger's light touch can stop people from losing balance. You are more prone to trip when you think someone is watching you. A breakthrough in improving balance as we age might... |
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Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
Michael S. Gazzaniga - Ecco; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker.In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, "the... |
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle
Andreas Wagner - Current
Format: Hardcover
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"Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many innovations - some uncannily perfect - call for natural principles that accelerate life's ability to innovate."Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations... |
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Shoot for the Moon: The Space Race and the Extraordinary Voyage of Apollo 11
James Donovan - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"This is the best book on Apollo that I have read. Extensively researched and meticulously accurate, it successfully traces not only the technical highlights of the program but also the contributions of the extraordinary people who made it possible." --Mike Collins, Command module... |
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GED Mathematical Reasoning Test For Dummies
Murray Shukyn - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Gear up to crush the GED Mathematical Test Does the thought of taking the GED Mathematical Reasoning Test make you weak? Fear not! With the help of GED Mathematical Reasoning Test For Dummies, you'll get up to speed on the new structure and computer-based format of the GED and gain... |
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times Bestseller!The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school... |
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Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists and Code Breakers of World War I
Taylor Downing - Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A startling and vivid account of World War I that uncovers how wartime code-breaking, aeronautics, and scientific research that laid the foundation for much of the innovations of the twentieth century. World War I is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting... |
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Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life
Brian Wansink - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Print book
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In Slim by Design, leading behavioral economist, food psychologist, and bestselling author Brian Wansink introduces groundbreaking solutions for designing our most common spaces--schools, restaurants, grocery stores, and home kitchens, among others--in order to make positive changes... |
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Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
Susan Casey - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times BestsellerInspired by a profound experience swimming with wild dolphins off the coast of Maui, Susan Casey set out on a quest to learn everything she could about these creatures. Her journey takes her from a community in Hawaii known as "Dolphinville," where the animals... |
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Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Johnjoe McFadden - Crown; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times BestsellerLife is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how did it come to be? Even in an age of cloning and artificial biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only... |
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The Illustrated Walden: or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature. "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived... |
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Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos
Brian Cox - Da Capo
Format: Book
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In Universal, bestselling physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw (Why Does E=mc2?) take us on an inspirational journey of scientific exploration. They show that, by asking questions about the world around us, anyone can think like a physicist and grasp the breath-taking grandeur of the cosmos.Universal... |
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Lab Girl
Hope Jahren - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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A New York Times 2016 Notable BookNational Best SellerNamed one of TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People"An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016A TIME and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 So Far An illuminating... |
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Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Edward O. Wilson - Liveright Publishing Corp, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Half-Earth proposes an achievable plan to save our imperiled biosphere: devote half the surface of the Earth to nature.In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most... |
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Smitten by Giraffe: My Life as a Citizen Scientist
Anne Innis Dagg - McGill-Queen's University Press
Format: Print book
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When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behaviour of giraffe in the wild. Subsequently, Jane Goodall and Dian... |
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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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