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The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
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This alphabetized bestiary is an entertaining overview of the critters that share our planet. Fun reading no matter your knowledge level, with The Book of Animal Ignorance, you'll laugh and learn your way through the animal kingdom.
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The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos
by Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams
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In this strikingly original book, a world-renowned cosmologist and an innovative writer of the history and philosophy of science uncover an astonishing truth: Humans actually are central to the universe. What does this mean for our culture and our...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
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While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial...
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The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us about Innovation
by Frans Johansson
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Sharing vivid stories from the domains of business, science, art, and politics about "intersections"--the space in which established ideas clash and combine with insights to create new ideas--Johansson reveals how readers can turn ideas into path...
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What Are You Optimistic About? Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
by John Brockman
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The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently...
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I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter
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Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange...
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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
by John Brockman
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The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious examples. Here, leading thinkers discuss ideas - whether they...
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Backyard Ballistics
by William Gurstelle
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As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling
under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain
ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade...
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, BC and Alaska
by Andy Mackinnon
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This is a revised edition of our bestselling book Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast marking the 10th anniversary of publication. This superb reference book features 794 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, aquatic plants, grasses, ferns, mosses and...
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Oregon Trees & Wildflowers: An Introduction to Familiar Species of Trees, Shrubs and Wildflowers
by James Kavanagh
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Oregon Trees and Wildflowers is an accessible reference to familiar trees and wildflowers found in this state. This durable folding guide, printed on laminate material, is an essential resource for any level of nature explorer. The...
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Chainsaws: A History
by David Lee
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A first-ever book on the worldwide history of the chainsaw, an invention that transformed the forest industry and eventually became the indispensable companion of every red-blooded country dweller....
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Small Wonder: Essays
by Barbara Kingsolver
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In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have. Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood,...
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