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The Urban Naturalist: How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground
Menno Schilthuizen - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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A manifesto - and a field guide - for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.. Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discovering a rare mason bee that builds its nest in empty snail shells. Or a miniature... |
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Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure
Jennie Erin Smith - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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The riveting account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer's disease. In the 1980s, a neurologist named Francisco Lopera traveled on horseback into the mountains seeking families with symptoms... |
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Adaptable: How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us
Herman Pontzer PhD - Penguin Audio
Format: Hardcover
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A new understanding of how our bodies work, how to keep them healthy, and how our biological diversity unites us rather than divides usHow does the body work - and why does it seem to work so differently for each of us? Why do we grow tall or short, obese or slim? Why do some of us stay... |
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The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking
Leor Zmigrod - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Named a best book of the year by The Guardian and The Telegraph. Why do some people become radicalized? How do ideologies shape the human brain? And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?. In The Ideological Brain, Leor Zmigrod reveals the deep connection between political beliefs... |
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The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street
Mike Tidwell - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees - all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, simultaneously, rising hopes for clean energy.. In 2023,... |
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Off the Spectrum: Why the Science of Autism Has Failed Women and Girls
Gina Rippon - Seal Press
Format: Hardcover
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A cognitive neuroscientist reveals how autistic women have been overlooked by biased research - and makes a passionate case for their inclusion Who comes to mind when you think about an autistic person? It might be yourself, a relative or friend, a public figure, a fictional character,... |
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