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How to Astronaut: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
Terry Virts - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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A wildly entertaining account of the rules, lessons, procedures, and experiences of space travel, How to Astronaut is a book that will appeal to anyone - male or female, young or old - with even a passing interest in space. Written by Col. Terry Virts, a former astronaut, space shuttle... |
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Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
Mark Miodownik - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Sometimes explosive, often delicious, occasionally poisonous, but always interesting: the New York Times best-selling author of Stuff Matters show us the secret lives of liquids: the shadow counterpart of our solid "stuff."We all know that without water we couldn't... |
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Iwgara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Enrique Salmón - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover
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The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath - known in the Rarmuri tribe as iwgara - has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmn builds on this concept of connection... |
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Pre-Algebra: The Easy Way
Caryl Lorandini - Barrons Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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This new edition in Barron's Easy Way Series contains everything students need to prepare themselves for an algebra class. Pre-Algebra: The Easy Way provides key content review, short quizzes, and practice tests to help students master pre-algebra.Chapters focus on fractions, integers,... |
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This Is the Voice
John Colapinto - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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There's no shortage of books about public speaking or language or song. But until now, there has been no book about the miracle that underlies them all - the human voice itself. And there are few writers who could take on this surprisingly vast topic with more artistry and expertise... |
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Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant - Get Lifted Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals, and the earth through her personal journey to becoming a wildlife ecologist. . Growing up in the diverse and bustling California Bay Area, renowned wildlife ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant... |
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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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Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Sy Montgomery - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants - turtles - and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives... |
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