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The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins

Luke Rendell - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples...
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The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History

Richard J. King - New Hampshire; 1ST edition
Format: Book

Behold the cormorant: silent, still, cruciform, and brooding; flashing, soaring, quick as a snake. Evolution has crafted the only creature on Earth that can migrate the length of a continent, dive and hunt deep underwater, perch comfortably on a branch or a wire, walk on land, climb up cliff...
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Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of President Donald Trump by the Swamp

Dan Bongino - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of SPYGATE "No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT!" - President Donald J. TrumpAn explosive, whistle-blowing expos, Exonerated: The Failed Takedown of Donald Trump by the Swamp...
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The Power of Time Perception: Control the Speed of Time to Make Every Second Count

Jean Paul A Zogby - Time Lighthouse Publishing
Format: Paperback

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Why the Universe Exists: How particle physics unlocks the secrets of everything

New Scientist - Nicholas Brealey
Format: Paperback

WHY IS THERE ALWAYS SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING? As you read this, billions of neutrinos from the sun are passing through your body, antimatter is sprouting from your dinner and the core of your being is a chaotic mess of particles known only as quarks and gluons. Following the recent...
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The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century

William Rosen - Viking Adult
Format: Book

How a seven-year cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history   In May 1315, it started to rain. It didn’t stop anywhere in north Europe until August. Next came the four coldest winters in a millennium. Two separate animal epidemics...
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Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

Amir D. Aczel - Palgrave Macmillan Trade; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery....
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Math Smart, 3rd Edition: The Savvy Student's Guide to Mastering Basic Math

PRINCETON REVIEW. - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback

NEVER GET CRUNCHED BY NUMBERS AGAIN. Even in a world where every cell phone is also a calculator, basic math competency is a must! In this book, you'll learn how to efficiently solve common problems and effortlessly perform foundational math operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication,...
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StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond

Neil Degrasse Tyson - National Geographic
Format: Print book

This beautifully illustrated companion to celebrated scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular podcast and National Geographic Channel TV show is an eye-opening journey for anyone curious about the complexities of our universe. For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted...
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White Beech: The Rainforest Years

Germaine Greer - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover

One bright day in December sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm one of many in southeast Queensland Australia which after a century of logging clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned...
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This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

Kathleen Mcauliffe - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A riveting investigation of the myriad ways that parasites control how other creatures including humans think, feel, and act. These tiny organisms can only live inside another animal, and as McAuliffe reveals, they have many evolutionary motives for manipulating their host s behavior. Far more...
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Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

Priyamvada Natarajan - Yale Univ Press
Format: Print book

This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled...
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 2015-2016

William M Haynes - CRC Press
Format: Print book

Proudly serving the scientific community for over a century, this 97th edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is an update of a classic reference, mirroring the growth and direction of science. This venerable work continues to be the most accessed and respected scientific...
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Cracking the AP Physics 1 Exam, 2018 Edition

Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5! Ace the AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based Exam with this comprehensive study guide - including 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations, thorough content reviews, targeted exam strategies, and access to our online AP Connect...
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AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World's Weirdest Questions, Most Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena

Mitchell Moffit - Scribner
Format: Paperback

"In their first-ever book, Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown, the [guys] behind the wildly popular YouTube channel AsapSCIENCE, answer your burning questions, explaining the true science of how things work."--Page 4 of cover.
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Tesla: The Life and Times of an Electric Messiah

Nigel Cawthorne - Chartwell Books
Format: Bargain - Hardcover

Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light bulb, but it was his one-time assistant and lifelong arch nemesis,...
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On Gravity: A Brief Tour of a Weighty Subject

A Zee - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A brief introduction to gravity through Einstein's general theory of relativityOf the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments...
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The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

Armand Marie Leroi - Viking; Tra edition
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they live and how they...
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Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gdel

John Stillwell - Princeton University Press
Format: Print book

Elements of Mathematics takes readers on a fascinating tour that begins in elementary mathematics--but, as John Stillwell shows, this subject is not as elementary or straightforward as one might think. Not all topics that are part of today's elementary mathematics were always considered...
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Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree

JILLIAN SCUDDER - Icon Books
Format: Hardcover

How did the Earth get to be the way it is? Just like all of us, it's a product of its ancestors./p In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling...
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of Hamilton's -- and Burr's -- personal physician, whose dream to build America's first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than two hundred years ago, he didn't just...
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Plight of the Living Dead: What Real-Life Zombies Reveal About Our World--and Ourselves

Matt Simon - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature - and ourselves Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms...
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DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes

Steven J Heine - W W Norton
Format: Print book

One of the world's leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties about our genes.Do you fear what might be lurking in your DNA?Well, now you can find out, and you most likely will. Scientists expect one billion people to have...
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Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science

James A Mahaffey - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

The latest investigation from acclaimed nuclear engineer and author James Mahaffey unearths forgotten nuclear endeavors throughout history that were sometimes hair-brained, often risky, and always fascinating. Whether you are a scientist or a poet, pro-nuclear energy or staunch opponent,...
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The River of Consciousness

Oliver Sacks - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience....
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Astronomy For Dummies

STEPHEN P MARAN - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Your updated guide to exploring the night sky Do you know the difference between a red giant and a white dwarf? From asteroids to black holes, this easy-to-understand guide takes you on a grand tour of the universe. Featuring updated star maps, charts, and an insert with gorgeous full-color...
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Math Word Problems Demystified 2/E

Allan Bluman - McGraw-Hill Professional; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Your solution to MATH word PROBLEMS! Find yourself stuck on the tracks when two trains are traveling at different speeds? Help has arrived! Math Word Problems Demystified, Second Edition is your ticket to problem-solving success. Based on mathematician George Polyas proven four-step process,...
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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To

Dean Burnett - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett.The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it's also messy, fallible, and disorganized. For example, did you know...
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Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics

Eugenia Cheng - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

The hilarious and charming Eugenia Cheng leads us in search of what's bigger than infinity, and smaller than its opposite
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The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir

Steffanie Strathdee - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

A riveting memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Tom Patterson, were vacationing in Egypt when Tom came down...
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Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate

Roland C. Anderson - Timber Press; First American Edition edition
Format: Book

The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends - from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula...
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Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot

Vera Tobin - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Why do some surprises delight -- the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip's benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the intersection of cognitive science and narrative pleasure, Vera Tobin explains how our brains...
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Minerals of the World

Ole Johnsen - Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback

Minerals of the World is an attractive and up-to-date guide to more than 500 minerals from around the world. The succinct text--covering crystallography, properties, names and varieties, structure, diagnostic features, and occurrence--and the discussion of less common minerals not found...
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A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction

Michael J. Ryan - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and humansDarwin developed the theory of sexual selection to explain why the animal world abounds in stunning beauty, from the brilliant...
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Time Travel

James Gleick - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century,...
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The Nature of Nature: The Discovery of SuperWaves and How It Changes Everything

Irving Dardik - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

Generations of researchers have failed to answer our most basic questions about nature -- What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature, visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery...
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The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey

Riccardo Levi-Setti - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet’s prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras—and they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have been unearthed on every continent,...
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The Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O. Wilson - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, Why? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most...
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The Age of Genomes: Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine

Steven Monroe Lipkin - Beacon Press
Format: Print book

A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in historyAlmost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once...
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4th Rock from the Sun: The Story of Mars

Nicky Jenner - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

Mars is ingrained in our culture, from H. G. Wells's 1898 novel The War of the Worlds to Looney Tunes's hapless Marvin the Martian to David Bowie's extraterrestrial spiders. Ancient mythologies defined the planet as a violent harbinger of war, stargazers puzzled over its peculiar...
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The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

Karen Olsson - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspirationKaren Olsson always had an aptitude for math but wasn't exactly a prodigy. And yet when she entered Harvard as an undergraduate she was drawn to it, forcing herself into a discipline...
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QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics

Hans Christian Von Baeyer - Harvard University Press
Format: Print book

Measured by the accuracy of its predictions and the scope of its technological applications, quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories in science -- as well as one of the most misunderstood. The deeper meaning of quantum mechanics remains controversial almost a century after...
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How the World Looks to a Bee: And Other Moments of Science

Glass, Don - INDIANA UNIV PR


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Brain Bytes: Quick Answers to Quirky Questions About the Brain

Eric H Chudler - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book

Neuroscience in small bits for the brain-curious.From magazine covers to Hollywood blockbusters, neuroscience is front and center. This popular interest has inspired many questions from people who wonder just what is going on in the three pounds of tissue between their ears.In Brain Bytes,...
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If Our Bodies Could Talk: A Guide to Operating and Maintaining a Human Body

James Hamblin - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover

"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called...
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Digest of Education Statistics 2015

DEPARTMENT EDUCATION - BERNAN PRESS
Format: Print book

The Digest's purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school.
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Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of

Robert M. Hazen - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

An enchanting biography of the most resonant -- and most necessary -- chemical element on Earth.Carbon is everywhere: in the paper of this book and the blood of our bodies. It's with us from beginning to end, present in our baby clothes and coffin alike. We live on a carbon planet, and we are carbon...
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Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle

Andreas Wagner - Current
Format: Hardcover

"Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature's many innovations - some uncannily perfect - call for natural principles that accelerate life's ability to innovate."Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations...
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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain

SARAH-JAYNE BLAKEMORE - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Award-winning neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore explains the developmental journey our brains take during adolescence and how the experience of these years determines the adults we become. Risk taking, intense relationships, going to bed and getting up late--what is going on in teenagers'...
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Oaks in the Urban Landscape: Selection, Care and Preservation

Costello, Laurence - University of California
Format: Print book

This publication offers a comprehensive look at the management of oaks in urban areas. As development moves into oak woodland areas, more and more oaks are becoming urban oaks. Oaks are highly valued in urban areas for their aesthetic, environmental, economic and cultural benefits. However,...
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How to be Human: Consciousness, Language and 48 More Things that Make You You

New Scientist - Nicholas Brealey
Format: Hardcover

New from New Scientist: an eye-opening, full-color exploration of the true nature of human nature.What is it that makes us human? Is it language, imagination, morality, or is it that we cook and wear shoes? Or perhaps we are less human than we think (Neanderthal and Denisovan genes can be found...
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Pandas

Jill Caravan - New Line Books
Format: Book

72 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
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Roadside Geology of Utah

Felicie Williams - Mountain Press Publishing Company; Second edition
Format: Paperback

Arches National Park. Bryce Canyon. Zion. When one thinks of Utah, it s rocks and iconic landforms preserved in a nearly endless list of national parks and monuments come immediately to mind. Perhaps more so than any other state, Utah is built for geologic exploration, and geologists/authors...
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Quantum Fuzz: The Strange True Makeup of Everything Around Us

Michael S Walker - Prometheus Books
Format: Print book

Quantum physics has turned our commonsense notion of reality on its head. This accessible book describes in layperson's terms the strange phenomena that exist at the quantum level--a world of tiny dimensions where nothing is absolutely predictable, where we rethink causality, and information...
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Rust: The Longest War

Jonathan Waldman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback

Rust has been called "the great destroyer," the "pervasive menace," and "the evil." "This look at corrosion - its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating it - is wide-ranging and consistently engrossing" (The New York...
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The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Diane Ackerman - W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed ... radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable." Ackerman...
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How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff - DK
Format: Hardcover

Explore answers to questions on 70 topics in the areas of matter, physics, energy, chemistry, life science, earth science, technology, and the universe.How Science Works uses clear, easy-to-understand graphics to answer common questions and explain difficult concepts--not only the core...
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We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

M. Scott Carpenter - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

• Published for the fiftieth anniversary of the Mercury program: Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASA’s manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo. In We Seven, first published in 1962, the astronauts take...
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CSET Math Test Preparation 2018-2019: CSET Mathematics Study Guide and Practice Test Questions for the CSET Math Subtest I, II, II

CSET Math Exam Prep Team - Trivium Test Prep
Format: Paperback

Imagine a study guide actually designed for teachers! Because we know you've got a busy life, we've developed a study guide that isn't like other certification materials out there. With Cirrus Test Prep's unofficial CSET Math Test Preparation 2018 - 2019: CSET Mathematics...
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Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science

John Brockman - Harper Perennial
Format: Print book

The newest addition to John Brockman's Edge.org series explores life itself, bringing together the world's leading biologists, geneticists, and evolutionary theorists - including Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, J. Craig Venter, and Freeman Dyson.Scientists' understanding...
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Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience

David J. Linden - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A spirited collection of essays by cutting-edge neuroscientists that irreverently explores the quirky and counterintuitive aspects of brain function Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function...
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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

- Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the world-renowned physicist, cofounder of the World Science Festival, and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes this captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose.Brian Greene takes readers on a breathtaking journey from the big bang to the end of time...
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Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe

Alan Hirshfeld - Bellevue Literary Pr
Format: Print book

NBC News "Top Science and Tech Books of the Year" selectionScientific American/FSG "Favorite Science Books of the Year" selectionNature.com "Top Reads of the Year" selectionKirkus Reviews "Best Books of the Year" selectionDiscover magazine "Top...
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Euclid's Elements

AU Euclid - Green Lion Press
Format: Paperback

The classic Heath translation, in a completely new layout with plenty of space and generous margins. An affordable but sturdy student and teacher sewn softcover edition in one volume, with minimal notes and a new index/glossary.
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How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

Benedict Carey - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today - and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness,...
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life

Helen Czerski - W W Norton
Format: Print book

A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos...
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The Math of Money: Making Mathematical Sense of Your Personal Finances

Morton D. Davis - Copernicus; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001 edition
Format: Print book

This lively and practical introduction to the mathematics of money invites us to take a fresh look at the numbers that underpin our financial decisions. Morton D. Davis talks about strategies to use when we are required to bet against the odds (purchasing auto insurance) or choose to bet against...
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What Stands in a Storm: A True Story of Love and Resilience in the Worst Superstorm in History

Kim Cross - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller - A Perfect Storm on land - that chronicles Americas biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying...
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Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

Laura J. Snyder - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see the world.On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek -- a cloth salesman, local bureaucrat, and self-taught natural philosopher -- gazed...
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The Genius of Birds

Jennifer Ackerman - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds....
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Cracking the AP Calculus BC Exam, 2018 Edition: Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5

David S Kahn - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5. Ace the AP Calculus BC Exam with this comprehensive study guide - including 3 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, access to our AP Connect online portal, and targeted strategies for every question type.Written by the experts at The Princeton...
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Extinction and Evolution: What Fossils Reveal About the History of Life

Niles Eldredge - Firefly Books Ltd.
Format: Book

"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly...
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

SABINE HOSSENFELDER - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A contrarian argues that modern physicists' obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories...
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Math with Bad Drawings: Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality

Ben Orlin - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious reeducation in mathematics-full of joy, jokes, and stick figures-that sheds light on the countless practical and wonderful ways that math structures and shapes our world. In Math With Bad Drawings, Ben Orlin reveals to us what math actually is; its myriad uses, its strange...
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The Quotable Darwin

Charles Darwin - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words -- the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds...
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Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees

Bob Berman - Little Brown & Co
Format: Hardcover

From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood...
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Europe: A Natural History

Tim Flannery - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it. In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist...
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The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Come From

Edward Dolnick - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human history, babies were surprises. People knew the basics: men and women had sex, and sometimes babies followed. But beyond that the origins of life...
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Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide

Gene S Helfman; George H Burgess - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback

Answering every conceivable question about sharks, authors Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess describe the fascinating biology, behavior, diversity (there are more than 1,000 species worldwide) , and cultural importance of sharks, their close relationship to skates and rays, and their...
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Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition

NORMAN MACLEAN - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours...
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The Secret Life of the Mind: How Your Brain Thinks, Feels, and Decides

MARIANO SIGMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind.Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international...
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At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise

Michael Brooks - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Free Radicals takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial areas of modern science The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science -- and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises...
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Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You

CATHERINE CARVER - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers--some live for less than a day, others remember battles for decades, but all are essential in protecting us from disease. This hidden army is our immune system, and without it we could not survive...
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Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High

Mike Power - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

The very first thing ever bought or sold on the Internet was marijuana, when Stanford and MIT students used ARPANET to cut a deal in the early ’70s. Today, you can order any conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. In Drugs Unlimited, Mike Power tells the tale of drugs...
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Solar System: A Visual Exploration of the Planets, Moons, and Other Heavenly Bodies that Orbit Our Sun

Marcus Chown - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book

Never before have the wonders of our solar system been so immediately accessible to readers of all ages. This beautiful book presents a new and fascinating way to experience our planetary neighborhood. With hundreds of stunning photographs and graphics, as well as fascinating text by the award-winning...
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Dragonflies: Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land

Pieter van Dokkum - Yale University Press
Format: Print book

Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing the stages of this striking insect's...
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The Society of Genes

Itai Yanai - Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Nearly four decades ago Richard Dawkins published The Selfish Gene, famously reducing humans to survival machines whose sole purpose was to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. How these selfish genes work together to construct the organism, however, remained a mystery. Standing...
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

Venki Ramakrishnan - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule"Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end."--Siddhartha Mukherjee,...
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

H Alan Day - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Print book

He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity...
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The Germ Files: The Surprising Ways Microbes Can Improve Your Health and Life

Jason Tetro - Doubleday Canada
Format: Print book

SOME GERMS ARE OUT TO GET US. . . . But we shouldn't let a delinquent, pathogenic minority taint our view of the other 99.9 per cent. The microbes living on and inside us outnumber the cells in our bodies three to one. Many provide services on which our well-being, our moods, our very...
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Eureka: Discovering Your Inner Scientist

Chad Orzel - Basic Books
Format: Book

Even in the twenty-first century the popular image of a scientist is a reclusive genius in a lab coat, mixing formulas or working out equations inaccessible to all but the initiated few. The idea that scientists are somehow smarter than the rest of us is a common, yet dangerous, misconception,...
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Deported Americans: Life after Deportation to Mexico

Beth C. Caldwell - Duke University Press Books
Format: Hardcover

When Gina was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, in 2011, she left behind her parents, siblings, and children, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Despite having once had a green card, Gina was removed from the only country she had ever known. In Deported Americans legal scholar and former public...
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Cracking the SAT Subject Test in Biology E/M, 16th Edition: Everything You Need to Help Score a Perfect 800

Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 800. Equip yourself to ace the SAT Subject Test in Biology with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide--including 2 full-length practice tests, thorough reviews of key biology topics, and targeted strategies for every question type....
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Six Impossible Things: The Mystery of the Quantum World

John Gribbin - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

A concise and engaging investigation of six interpretations of quantum physics.Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described...
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Time 100 ideas that changed the world : history's greatest breakthroughs, inventions and theories

Richard Lacayo - Time Books
Format: Print book

Describes the one hundred greatest discoveries, inventions, and concepts created by humankind, from the creation of the spirit world in prehistoric cave paintings to the development of the World Wide Web.
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Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine

James R Valcourt - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks...
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The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover's Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World

Andy Sharpless - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

The planet will be home to more than billion people by and were already seeing critical levels of famine around the world mirrored by growing obesity in developed nations In The Perfect Protein Andy Sharpless maintains that protecting wild seafood can help combat both issues because seafood...
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No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Daniel J Kennefick - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became...
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The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Gino Segrè - Henry Holt and Company
Format: Print book

Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction...
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Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

Greta Thunberg - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

"An extraordinary account of how one family rose, with unshakable moral clarity, to the tremendous responsibility of being alive at the moment when our immediate collective decisions will determine the fate of life on Earth. They share their story of courage not because they want our accolades,...
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The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna

Mira Ptacin - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

A young writer travels to Maine to tell the unusual story of America's longest-running camp devoted to mysticism and the world beyond.They believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna -- an otherworldly community in the woods...
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The Stress Gene : The Lifelong Impact of Early Life Adversity and How to Break the Cycle

Daniel P Keating - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Why are we the way we are? Why do some of us find it impossible to calm a hair-trigger temper or to shake chronic anxiety? The debate has always been divided between nature and nurture, but as psychology professor Daniel Keating demonstrates in Born Anxious, new science points to a third...
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A Rough Ride to the Future

James Lovelock - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author of The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelockthe great scientific visionary of our agepresents a radical vision of humanitys future Now in his 95th year, James Lovelock has been hailed as the man who conceived the first wholly new way of looking at life on earth since Charles...
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Arithmetic

Paul Lockhart - Belknap Press
Format: Hardcover

Because evolution endowed humans with a complement of ten fingers, a grouping size of ten seems natural to us, perhaps even ideal. But from the perspective of mathematics, groupings of ten are arbitrary, and can have serious shortcomings. Twelve would be better for divisibility, and eight...
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Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production

Nicolette Hahn Niman - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Book

For decades it has been nearly universal dogma among environmentalists and health advocates that cattle and beef are public enemy number one. But is the matter really so clear cut? Hardly, argues environmental lawyer turned rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman in her new book, Defending Beef....
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The Strange Order of Things: The Making of the Cultural Mind

ANTONIO DAMASIO - PANTHEON
Format: Print book

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection on the origins of life, feelings, mind, and culture that spans chemistry, biology, psychology, anthropology, and sociology, offering a new way of understanding who we are and how we behave.We descend biologically, psychologically,...
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Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe

Robin Kerrod - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

The latest photos from Hubbles recent discoveries, with fascinating new and updated information. After 17 years, 25,000 astronomical targets and more than 700,000 images, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) continues to return images and data that amaze astronomers. Within the past few months...
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

David Quammen - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences to reexamine...
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

Sam Kean - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims...
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014

Deborah Blum - Mariner Books
Format: Print book

"Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity." - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "A stimulating compendium." - Kirkus Reviews Pulitzer...
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The Book of Calendars

Frank Parise - Gorgias Pr Llc
Format: Print book

The book provides easy-to-use tables that translate the calendars of over sixty civilizations into the Julian and Gregorian calendars. An indispensable tool for scholars.
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The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life

Rodney R Dietert - Dutton
Format: Print book

The origin of asthma, autism, Alzheimer's, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, and even some kinds of depression is now clear. Award-winning researcher on the microbiome, professor Rodney Dietert presents a new paradigm in human biology that has emerged in the midst of the ongoing...
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Ten Million Aliens: A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom

Simon Barnes - Marble Arch Press
Format: Print book

This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures - weird, wonderful, and everything in between - are inextricably linked.Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together:...
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Riding Home: The Power of Horses to Heal

Tim Hayes - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

Riding Home:The Power of Horses to Heal is the first and only book to scientifically and experientially explain why horses have the extraordinary ability to emotionally transform the lives of thousands of men, women and children, whether they are horse lovers, or suffering from deep psychological...
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The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain

John Kounios - Random House
Format: Print book

In a book perfect for readers of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, David Eagleman's Incognito, and Leonard Mlodinow's Subliminal, the cognitive neuroscientists who discovered how the brain has aha moments - sudden creative insights - explain how they happen, when...
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Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design

Stephen C. Meyer - HarperOne; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

“Signature in the Cell is a defining work in the discussion of life’s origins and the question of whether life is a product of unthinking matter or of an intelligent mind. For those who disagree with ID, the powerful case Meyer presents cannot be ignored in any honest debate....
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Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe

Bob Berman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in betweenThe overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90 percent of the universe's 70 billion...
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Idiot's Guides: The Cosmos

Christopher De Pree - ALPHA
Format: Book

Idiots Guides The Cosmos is a fascinating and easy-to-understand exploration of the universe. Dozens of stunning, full-color photos highlight the latest discoveries and beauty of space, including the solar system, the Sun, the asteroid belt, the Milky Way, various star types, black holes,...
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How to Read the Solar System: A Guide to the Stars and Planets

Paul Abel - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A fresh and essential guide to understanding and interpreting the wonders of our solar system, from two intrepid young astronomers who are the hosts of the popular BBC television series, "The Sky at Night."What exactly is the solar system? We've all learned the basics at school...
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The Origins of Creativity

EDWARD O WILSON - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. "Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding," begins Edward...
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A New History of Life: The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

Joe Kirschvink - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover

Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life--but scientific advances of recent decades have radically altered that. Now two pioneering scientists draw on their years of experience in paleontology,...
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Americas Top-Rated Cities 2015: A Statistical Handbook

David Garoogian - Grey House Pub
Format: Paperback

Americas Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 100 cities that have been cited as the best for business and living in the United States.
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America

Bryan Sykes - Liveright; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA. The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded...
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Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates

Julia Fischer - The University of Chicago Press
Format: Print book

Monkey see, monkey do - or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates - their sociality, their intelligence, their communication - really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the human bias inherent in this...
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

Graham Farmelo - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteries One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between...
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At the Mercy of the Mountains: True Stories Of Survival And Tragedy In New York's Adirondacks

Peter Bronski - Lyons Press; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

In this compelling book, award-winning adventure writer and former Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue team member Peter Bronski chronicles true stories of survival and tragedy, from famous historical cases during the early 20th century, to modern tales of harrowing struggle in the mountains...
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Breakfast with Einstein: The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects

Chad Orzel - BenBella Books
Format: Paperback

Your alarm goes off, and you head to the kitchen to make yourself some toast and a cup of coffee. Little do you know, as you savor the aroma of the steam rising from your cup, that your ordinary morning routine depends on some of the weirdest phenomena ever discovered. The world of quantum...
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The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole

Robert Hodgson - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover

Alan Lightman: "A masterpiece of storytelling, bringing to life in rich detail not only the world of science but also the men and women who inhabit that world."George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance: "If you want to know how science really works, this is your...
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Human Medical Experimentation: From Smallpox Vaccines to Secret Government Programs

Frances R. Frankenburg MD - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover

Intended for students and general readers alike, this encyclopedia covers the history of human medical experimentation, for better and worse, from the time of Hippocrates to the present.* Offers readers a broad understanding of human experimentation* Reviews experimentation from the point...
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Chasing the Sun: How the Science of Sunlight Shapes Our Bodies and Minds

Linda Geddes - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating look at how humans' relationship with the sun continues to shape our bodies, attitudes, and societies.Our biology is set up to work in partnership with the sun. Little wonder then that humans have long worshipped and revered our nearest star: life itself arose on earth because...
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life

Alex Bellos - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid, a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining narrative.From triangles, rotations and power laws, to cones, curves and the dreaded calculus, Alex takes you on a journey of mathematical...
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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight

Vanessa Potter - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover

In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,...
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Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen

Philip Ball - University Of Chicago Press
Format: Hardcover

If offered the chance - by cloak, spell, or superpower - to be invisible, who wouldn't want to give it a try? We are drawn to the idea of stealthy voyeurism and the ability to conceal our own acts, but as desirable as it may seem, invisibility is also dangerous. It is not just an optical...
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Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology

David Shier - McGraw-Hill Education

Designed for the one-semester anatomy and physiology course, Hole's Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology assumes no prior science knowledge and supports core topics with clinical applications, making difficult concepts relevant to students pursuing careers in the allied health...
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Deep Space: Beyond the Solar System to the End of the Universe and the Beginning of Time

Govert Schilling - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Govert Schilling explores the mysteries of space that lie beyond our solar system on this mind-bending trip to nebulae, galaxies, black holes, and the edge of the observable universe.Join Govert Schilling on a journey across the universe that will ignite the imagination. The trip begins...
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Snakes & reptiles : a portrait of the animal world

Andrew Cleave - New Line Books
Format:  book_printbook : EnglishView all editions and formats

An informative series that provides, in a concise format, better understanding of animals and their habitats. Fascinating in its diversity, the natural world comes to life on the pages of these spec tacularly illustrated volumes.
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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

Simon Garfield - Canongate Books
Format: Hardcover

SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016OBSERVER SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing...
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Nations of the World 2015: A Political, Economic, and Business Handbook

World of Information - Grey House Pub; 14 edition
Format: Print book

This comprehensive handbook profiles 231 nations and self-governing territories around the world in an easy-to-access, single-volume format. More than 2,000 pages present political, economic and business information not found in any other reference work of its kind.
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The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority

Robert P. Crease - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating look at key thinkers throughout history who have shaped public perception of science and the role of authority.When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact Why have scientific facts become easy to deny And what can we do about it In The Workshop and the World, philosopher...
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Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information

Paul A Offit - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover

Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding, and nave in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter the celebrities, the advocates, the lobbyists,...
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

Patricia Wiltshire - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist.From mud tracks on a quiet...
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How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11

Janet Napolitano - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future.Created in the wake of the greatest tragedy to occur on U.S. soil, the Department of Homeland Security was handed a sweeping...
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Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth

Juan Enriquez - Current
Format: Hardcover

"We are the primary drivers of change. We will directly and indirectly determine what lives, what dies, where, and when. We are in a different phase of evolution; the future of life is now in our hands."Why are rates of conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding...
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The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

Sam Kean - Back Bay Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

From the author of the bestsellers The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinist's Thumb, fascinating tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience. Early studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike-strokes, seizures, infectious diseases,...
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Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation

Alan Burdick - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

"Time" is the most commonly used noun in the English language; it's always on our minds and it advances through every living moment. But what is time, exactly? Do children experience it the same way adults do? Why does it seem to slow down when we're bored and speed by as we get older?...
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The Brilliant History of Color in Art

Victoria Finlay - J Paul Getty Museum
Format: Hardcover

The history of art is inseparable from the history of color. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of characters, eye-opening details, and unexpected detours through the annals of human civilization and scientific discovery. Enter critically...
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The Human Body Book

Steve Parker - DK
Format: Hardcover

Combining up-to-the-minute descriptions and illustrations of the body's physical structure, chemical workings, and potential problems, The Human Body Book is the ultimate all-in-one guide perfect for families and students alike. With updated content and illustrations throughout - including...
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Indian Herbalogy of North America: The Definitive Guide to Native Medicinal Plants and Their Uses

Alma R. Hutchens - Shambhala
Format: Paperback

For more than twenty years this pioneering work had served as a bible for herbalists throughout the world. It is an illustrated encyclopedic guide to more than two hundred medicinal plants found in North America, with descriptions of each plant's appearance and uses, and directions...
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Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River

Robert Twigger - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind’s tales. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Red Nile navigates a meandering course through...
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

Beth Shapiro - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction....
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The Atom: A Visual Tour

Jack Challoner - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover

An accessible and engaging guide to the atom, the smallest, most fundamental constituent of matter.Until now, popular science has relegated the atom to a supporting role in defining the different chemical elements of the periodic table. In this book, Jack Challoner places the atom at center...
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Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

Jules Howard - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Print book

As you read these words, Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business: eating, reproducing, thriving . . . Yet, the life of almost every single organism draws nearer to certain death. On the other hand, "suicide" inside the mitochondria...
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The Mini Farming Bible: The Complete Guide to Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

Brett L. Markham - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Book

When Brett Markham published a small black and white handbook about how to run a successful mini farmhe never dreamed how popular the book would soon become. In 2010 Skyhorse Publishing Inc. published Bretts book in full color with over a hundred of the authors own photographsand Mini...
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Beginning algebra

K Elayn Martin-Gay - Pearson/Prentice Hall
Format: Hardcover

Elayn Martin-Gay's developmental math textbooks and video resources are motivated by her firm belief that every student can succeed. Martin-Gay's focus on the student shapes her clear, accessible writing, inspires her constant pedagogical innovations, and contributes to the popularity and effectiveness...
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Wolves

Leonard Lee III Rue - New Line Books
Format: Hardcover

An informative series that provides, in a concise format, better understanding of animals and their habitats. Fascinating in its diversity, the natural world comes to life on the pages of these spec tacularly illustrated volumes.
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100 most important science ideas : key concepts in genetics, physics and mathematics

Mark Henderson; A J Crilly; Joanne Baker - Firefly Books
Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats

"Highly recommended for high school, college, or university libraries. And since readers with no scientific background would also find the information fascinating, the book would be a great addition to the circulating collections in public libraries." -- Library Journal 100 Most...
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The Mystery of Sleep: Why a Good Night's Rest Is Vital to a Better, Healthier Life

MEIR KRYGER - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative and accessible guide to what happens when we shut our eyes at night We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about how sleep affects us In the past forty years, scientists have discovered that our sleep (or lack of it) can affect nearly...
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