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Crazy for Birds
Misha Maynerick Blaise - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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An exuberant and vibrant illustrated exploration of birds and our relationships with themFrom the Common Swift, which can stay in the air continuously without landing for up to ten months at a time, to the tiny Goldcrest, Europe's smallest bird, which can lay a clutch of a dozen eggs... |
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The Moon
Bill Leatherbarrow - Reaktion Books
Format: Hardcover
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The moon has always been the most obvious feature in our night sky. It is our nearest celestial neighbour, orbiting the earth at an average distance of 384,400 kilometers, and is large enough to display significant detail even to the unaided eye. Our moon has drawn observers since the dawn... |
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Every Breath You Take: Exploring the Science of Our Changing Atmosphere
Broomfield, Mark - PEGASUS BOOKS
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With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air quality is headline news around the world. But even though we breathe in and out every few seconds, few of us really know what's in the air all around us. In Every Breath You Take, air quality specialist--and full-time... |
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A Guide to Eco-Anxiety: How to Protect the Planet and Your Mental Health
Anouchka Grose - Watkins Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A Guide to Eco-Anxiety outlines a manifesto for action, connection and hope. Showing how to harness anxiety for positive action, as well as effective ways to reduce your personal carbon footprint.The most powerful thing we can do to combat climate change is to talk about it and act collectively.... |
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A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapiens
Silvana Condemi - The Experiment
Format: Paperback
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Why aren't we more like other apes How did we win the evolutionary race Find out how "wise" Homo sapiens really are. Prehistory has never been more exciting: New discoveries are overturning long-held theories left and right. Stone tools in Australia date back 65,000 years... |
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Adam Frank - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Brief Answers to the Big Questions
STEPHEN HAWKING - Bantam
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind."Hawking's parting gift to humanity . . . a book every thinking person worried about humanity's... |
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The Science of Hope: Eye to Eye with our World's Wildlife
Wiebke Finkler - ?Exisle Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A breathtaking visual journey exploring why certain animal species capture our attention, and showcasing hopeful conservation efforts around the world.From polar bears to mountain gorillas, penguins to sea otters, certain animals capture our imagination. These are the animals that become... |
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Elemental: How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain
Tim James - Abrams Press
Format: Hardcover
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What is the chemical symbol for a human? What's the strongest acid ever made? Can human beings really spontaneously combust? An exploration of the periodic table in its final form, Elemental answers these questions and more.If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table... |
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Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America
Keith Boykin - Bold Type Books
Format: Hardcover
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After a deadly pandemic, shocking incidents of police brutality, a racial justice crisis, and the fall of a dangerous demagogue, America remains more divided than at any time in decades. At the heart of this national crisis is the fear of a darkening America - a country in which there is no longer... |
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