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Heaven on Earth: How Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, and Galileo Discovered the Modern World

L. S. Fauber - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A vivid narrative that connects the lives of four great astronomers as they discovered, refined, and popularized the first major scientific discovery of the modern era: that the Earth moves around the Sun.Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light...
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Matthew Walker PhD - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

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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A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

Dave Goulson - Picador, 2014. 2014
Format: Print book

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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Throwaway Nation: The Ugly Truth about American Garbage

Jeff Dondero - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It's befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet...
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The Science of Rick and Morty: The Unofficial Guide to Earth's Stupidest Show

Matt Brady - Atria Books
Format: Paperback

Explore the real science behind the Cartoon Network phenomenon Rick and Morty - one of television's most irreverent, whip-smart, and darkly hilarious shows - and discover how close we are to Rick's many experiments becoming a reality. Adult Swim's Rick and Morty is one of the smartest...
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Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

Sy Montgomery - ?Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

Adam Frank - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own.Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity's coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance...
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Annalee Newitz - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history -- and figure out why people abandoned them.In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating...
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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

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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Galileo: And the Science Deniers

Mario Livio - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really need this story now, because we're living through the next chapter...
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