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The Science of Why 2: Answers to Questions About the Universe, the Unknown, and Ourselves

Jay Ingram - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An all-new volume of science questions to delight, entertain, and inform readers of all ages, from bestselling author Jay Ingram.Bestselling author and commentator Jay Ingram is back to explain the magic and mysteries of the world around us. Jay takes readers on a tour of the universe,...
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McGraw-Hill Education Geometry Review and Workbook

Carolyn Wheater - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback

This engaging review guide and workbook is the ideal tool for sharpening your Geometry skills!This review guide and workbook will help you strengthen your Geometry knowledge, and it will enable you to develop new math skills to excel in your high school classwork and on standardized tests....
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Apaga el celular y enciende tu cerebro: Manipulación, control y destrucción del ser humano

Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta - ?HarperEnfoque
Format: Paperback

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Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind

A. S. Barwich - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli "spark" neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. This has fostered a view of the brain as a space that we can map: here the brain responds to faces, there it perceives a sensation in your left hand. But it turns...
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Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy

Karen Gray Houston - Lawrence Hill Books
Format: Hardcover

In 1950, before Montgomery, Alabama, knew Martin Luther King Jr., before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger, before the city's famous bus boycott, a Negro man named Hilliard Brooks was shot and killed by a white police officer in a confrontation after he tried...
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The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines

Malcolm Gay - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format: Print book

Leading neuroscience researchers are racing to unlock the secrets of the mind. On the cusp of decoding brain signals that govern motor skills, they are developing miraculous technologies that will enable paraplegics and wounded soldiers to move prosthetic limbs and will give all of us the power...
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Forest Bathing: Discovering Health and Happiness Through the Japanese Practice of Shinrin Yoku

Cyndi Gilbert - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Paperback

Author and naturopathic physician Dr. Cyndi Gilbert introduces readers to the art and science of forest bathing, the deceptively simple Japanese practice of spending time in the forest as a way to find peace, rejuvenation, and to promote health.Dr. Gilbert shares her own personal history...
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A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved

Bret Stetka
Format: Hardcover


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The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

Mark W. Moffett - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating speciesIf a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to Los Angeles--or Borneo--with very little fear. Psychologists...
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Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - HOUGHTON MIFFLIN


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