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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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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive...
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Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home but Probably Shouldn't: The Complete and Updated Edition

Theodore Gray - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book

The ultimate Theodore Gray collection, "Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science" collects every one of Gray's dramatic, visually spectacular, and enlightening scientific experiments into one complete volume. Bestselling author Theodore Gray has spent more than a decade...
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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover

"The man who makes physics sexy . . . the scientist they're calling the next Stephen Hawking." - The Times MagazineFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe.What...
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

McKay Jenkins - ?Avery
Format: Hardcover

Are GMOs really that bad?  A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future...
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Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang

Scott M Deitche - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the star reviewed Garden State Gangland comes an in-depth exposé on East Harlem's notorious Purple Gang whose murderous exploits became a media obsession and Mafia lynchpin.In the late 1970s, a string of seemingly unconnected murders had Harlem police and federal...
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The House of Kennedy

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

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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Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species

Mark Elbroch - Stackpole Books
Format: Paperback

The most comprehensive reference guide to mammal tracks and sign for North America. This new edition is more visual, with more than 1300 photos and 450 illustrations for easy comparison and identification of similar sign. Each species account includes information on tracks and trails, scat...
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Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change Hit the West

Daniel Mathews - COUNTERPOINT PR
Format: Hardcove

A troubling story of the devastating ripple effects of climate change told through forest ecologists, professional forest managers, park service scientists, fire bosses, and activists

Climate change manifests in many ways across America, but few as dramatic as the attacks on our western...

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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

Adam Becker - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universeEvery physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed...
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