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Tiny Taxonomy: Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture - Paperback

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by Rosetta S. Elkin (Author)Tiny Taxonomy offers a visually engaging collection of images and texts drawn from a series of contemporary garden installations, which highlight the role of individual plants in landscape architecture. Tiny Taxonomy showcases species that are in cultivation or in profusion, but rarely purposefully planted. A grouping of plants is categorized by common traits derived from an evolution towards feature miniaturization, generating another form of classification. Due ...

Cataclysms on the Columbia: The Great Missoula Floods - Paperback

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by John Eliot Allen (Author), Marjorie Burns (Author), Scott Burns (Author)Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the result of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the end of the last Ice Age left a scabland of buttes, dry falls, and rocky gorges, but it took the detective work of geologi...

Overland to Oregon in the Tracks of Lewis and Clarke: History of the First Emigration to Oregon in 1843

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Henry Lenox (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impor...

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet - Hardcover

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by Andrew Nahum (Editor), Justin McGuirk (Editor), Eleanor Watson (Editor)Designing humanity's future on the Red Planet: the clothes, cutlery and habitats of everyday life on another worldMoving to Mars is the first book ever to thoroughly explore the crucial role that design will play in the collective endeavor to travel to and inhabit Mars. A comprehensive overview of both past and current developments in space travel and colonization, it begins with the evolution of the space suit and rock...

Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Jonathan Slack (Author)The topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media. We've made important advances in our scientific understanding, but despite this the clinical applications of stem cells are still in their infancy and most real stem cell therapy carried out today is some form of bone marrow transplantation. At the same time, a scandalous spread of unproven stem cell treatments by private clinics represents a serious problem, with treatments being offered which are backed by li...

The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas McNamee (Author)Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind. As it begins, The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta while simultaneously explaining the basics of a kitten's physiological and psychological deve...

Aliens: Mystifying True Stories of Alleged Alien Encounters

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Report copyright infringementby Jamie King (Author)Explore captivating true stories of UFO sightings and alien encounters that will leave you questioning if we are truly alone in the universe. A fascinating compendium of reported alien sightings, encounters and abductions, such as the mysterious Belgian UFO wave, the unusual Lubbock lights, and the infamous Roswell incident What did Kenneth Arnold see flying above Mount Rainier? What were the Phoenix Lights? What really happened at the Ba...

On Being a Bear: Face to Face with Our Wild Sibling - Hardcover

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by Rémy Marion (Author), Lambert Wilson (Foreword by)This up-close, captivating look at an iconic animal traces our complex relationship to bears throughout history--and what they can tell us about ourselves. On Being a Bear draws on history, legends, scientific studies, and the author's thirty years of observing bears around the world to offer a richly detailed biography of these iconic animals, including the many ways bears have figured in our lives and imaginations.As author Rémy Marion te...

Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting - Paperback

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by Hilde Østby (Author), Ylva Østby (Author), Sam Kean (Foreword by)A novelist and a neuroscientist uncover the secrets of human memory.What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?With playfulness and intelligence, Adventures in Memory answers these questions and more, offering an illuminating look at one of our most fascinating faculties. The authors--two Norwegian sisters, one a neuropsychologist and the other an acclaimed writer--skillfully interweave history, ...

Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction - Hardcover

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by Britt Wray (Author), George Church (Foreword by)NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by The New Yorker and Science News What happens when you try to recreate a woolly mammoth--fascinating science, or conservation catastrophe? Jurassic Park meets The Sixth Extinction in Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction from acclaimed documentarist and science writer Britt Wray, PhD. In Rise of the Necrofauna, Wray takes us deep into the minds and labs of some of the world's mo...

Caterpillars of North America: Easily Identify 90 Common Butterflies and Moths - Spiral

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by Jaret C. Daniels (Author)Get this handy guide to caterpillars found throughout North America, and learn how to identify them.The metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly or moth is one of nature's most amazing wonders. While their transformations into winged pollinators tend to get much of the attention, caterpillars are fascinating and beautiful. Anyone who wants butterflies in their backyard or garden should hope for caterpillars too!If you see caterpillars in your area, keep this con...

Return to the Sky: The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle - Hardcover

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by Tina Morris (Author), Elizabeth Gray (Foreword by)"Three cheers for this splendid, surprising, inspiring book!"--Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus Alone in a vast wildlife refuge with little direction and no experience, a Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology student found herself responsible for a project of historical importance--to bring the Bald Eagle back from near extinction. In Return to the Sky, Tina Morris, one of the first women to engage in a raptor reintroduction prog...

Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate Politics - Hardcover

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by Chelsea Henderson (Author)It took nearly sixty years for a meaningful climate change bill to run the political gauntlet from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office. Why?From mavericks to party standard-bearers, U.S. Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and presidential candidates have campaigned for four decades espousing their intentions to address the impacts of climatechange.Glacial: The Inside Story of Climate Politics is the firstInside-the-Beltway account to lay bare the machi...

Rewire Your Ocd Brain: Powerful Neuroscience-Based Skills to Break Free from Obsessive Thoughts and Fears - Paperback

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by Catherine M. Pittman (Author), William H. Youngs (Author)Rewire the brain processes that cause obsessions and compulsions--and take back your life If you've ever wondered why you seem to get trapped in an endless cycle of obsessive, compulsive thoughts, you don't have to wonder anymore. Grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience and evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Rewire Your OCD Brain will show you how and why your brain gets stuck in a loop of obsessive thinking, uncertaint...

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by Mark Windschitl (Author), Jessica Thompson (Author), Melissa Braaten (Author)2018 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Ambitious Science Teaching outlines a powerful framework for science teaching to ensure that instruction is rigorous and equitable for students from all backgrounds. The practices presented in the book are being used in schools and districts that seek to improve science teaching at scale, and a wide range of science subjects and grade levels are represented. The book is org...

Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds - Hardcover

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by Sophie A. H. Osborn (Author), Pete Dunne (Foreword by)The story of one woman's remarkable work with a trio of charismatic, endangered bird species--and her discoveries about the devastating threats that imperil them. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we've made--including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction--have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Cro...

Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto - Hardcover

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by Kohei Saito (Author), Brian Bergstrom (Translator)Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs and are nevertheless unable to make ends meet, with no future prospects, while the planet is burning? "[Slow Down] offers more than a diagnosis of the systemic problems that brought us to this moment; it lays out, in clear and well-researched language, how those problems can be thoroughly addressed . . . Slow Down Is that...

The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Other Works - Leather

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by Nikola Tesla (Author), Thomas Commerford Martin (Author), Ken Mondschein (Introduction by)Who was Nikola Tesla? Find out in this comprehensive volume that includes Tesla's autobiography and scientific writings, as well as other works that examine his life and career in detail. Nikola Tesla came from a humble upbringing in what is now Croatia and reached the heights of science and technology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla and Oth...

The Warped Side of Our Universe: An Odyssey Through Black Holes, Wormholes, Time Travel, and Gravitational Waves - Hardcover

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by Kip Thorne (Author), Lia Halloran (Artist)Nearly two decades in the making, The Warped Side of Our Universe marks the historic collaboration of Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne and award-winning artist Lia Halloran. It brings to vivid life the wonders and wildness of our universe's "Warped Side"--objects and phenomena made from warped space and time, from colliding black holes and collapsing wormholes to twisting space vortices and down-cascading time. Through poetic verse and otherworldly painti...

Heart of the Hive: Inside the Mind of the Honey Bee and the Incredible Life Force of the Colony - Hardcover

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by Hilary Kearney (Author), Eric Tourneret (Photographer)Expert beekeeper and swarm-catcher Hilary Kearney offers a unique window into the social lives and biology of these remarkable creatures, accompanied by the photos of world-renowned bee photographer Eric Tourneret. Readers will be awestruck by the hive as superorganism and how the individual bee lives and behaves within it, perfectly suited to each specific job it performs. From their intricate dances and information-rich pheromones t...

The Ultimate Vaccine Timeline: A Fact-Packed History of Vaccines and Their Makers

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Report copyright infringementby Shaz Khan (Author), Pierre Kory (Foreword by)Dive deep into a comprehensive fact-packed history of vaccines that includes information on vaccine manufacturers and their evolution over time. Browse through an extensive series of verifiable and documented facts on vaccines. For well over a century, vaccines have been routinely recommended to billions of people worldwide, mostly children and babies. With an ever-increasing portfolio of vaccines using novel techno...

The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature - Hardcover

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by Ludovic Slimak (Author)A riveting scientific journey exploring the enigma of the Neanderthal and the species' unique form of intelligence. What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in paleoanthropology in which he has ...

Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &c: With an Account of the New Dis

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Report copyright infringementby Edmund Fanning (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important...

Beyond Genius: A Journey Through the Characteristics and Legacies of Transformative Minds - Hardcover

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by Bulent Atalay (Author)An in-depth and unified exploration of genius in the arts and sciences through the life and works of five seminal intellectual and cultural figures: Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Ludwig von Beethoven, and Albert Einstein. Who among us hasn't read Hamlet, listened to the Fifth Symphony, gazed at the Mona Lisa, or marveled at the three laws of physics and the Theory of Relativity and been struck with the same simple question: how on Earth did th...

Wonderdog: The Science of Dogs and Their Unique Friendship with Humans - Paperback

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by Jules Howard (Author)A celebration of dogs, the scientists who've lived alongside them, and how canines have been key to advancements in science for the betterment of all species. Almost everywhere there are humans on planet Earth, there are dogs. But what do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? What do they think of us? Since our alliance first began on the hunt and on the farm, our relationship with dogs has evolved consid...

Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants - Hardcover

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by James T. Costa (Author), Bobbi Angell (Author)Uncover Darwin's most important writings about plants with this important collection featuring expert interpretations and rare illustrations. Charles Darwin is best known for his work on the evolution of animals, but in fact a large part of his contribution to the natural sciences is focused on plants. His observations are crucial to our modern understanding of everything from the amazing pollination process of orchids to the way that vines cli...

Mystical Mushrooms: Discover the Magic & Folklore of Fantastic Fungi - Hardcover

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by Aurora Kane (Author)Mystical Mushrooms defines the beauty of mushrooms by focusing on their magical connections and symbolic meanings through folkloric tales and superstitions throughout the world. Go for a walk in the woods on any given summer day and you may find yourself surrounded in fungi galore as they lay nestled among the ferns and trees. After a rainstorm, peek out in your backyard and you may see tiny spores sprouting from the grass, forming what is known as a fairy ring. Mushro...

Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements - Hardcover

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by Paul Strathern (Author)The wondrous and illuminating story of humankind's quest to discover the fundamentals of chemistry, culminating in Mendeleyev's dream of the Periodic Table. **One of Bill Gates' Top Five Book Recommendations** In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamed would fundamentally change the way we see the world. Framing this histor...

The Emotional Lives of Animals (Revised): A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy -- And Why They Matter - Paperback

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by Marc Bekoff (Author), Jane Goodall (Foreword by)A seminal exploration of animal emotion, sentience, and cognition, revised and expanded to incorporate a surge of new science When award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff penned the first edition of this book in 2007, he predicted that over time our understanding of animal cognition and emotion would grow "richer, more accurate, and possibly different." Since then, not only has the field seen an explosion of new and startling research, but the p...

This Is Climate Change: A Visual Guide to the Facts - See for Yourself How the Planet Is Warming and What It Means for Us - Hardcover

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by Serrer Christian (Author), David Nelles (Author)This Is Climate Change cuts straight to the facts, using infographics on every page to make the reality about our warming planet plain to see. How much do humans contribute to global warming? What do ever-more-frequent storms and floods mean for our homes, forests, coastlines, and crops? And what is happening to our oceans (beyond rising sea levels)? Corroborated by over 100 scientists, This Is Climate Change captures the scope of the present...

Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine: The Curious Stories of 43 Amazing North American Native Plants - Hardcover

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by Tammi Hartung (Author), Panayoti Kelaidis (Foreword by)International Herb Association's 2017 Thomas DeBaggio Book Award Winner 2016 Silver Nautilus Book Award Winner History, literature, and botany meet in this charming tour of how humans have relied on plants to nourish, shelter, heal, clothe, and even entertain us. Did you know that during World War II, the US Navy paid kids to collect milkweed's fluffy white floss, which was then used as filling for life preservers? And Native American...

Waves and Beaches: The Powerful Dynamics of Sea and Coast - Hardcover

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by Kim McCoy (Author), Willard Bascom (Author)The Bestselling Classic Updated for Surfers, Sailors, Oceanographers, Climate Activists, and Those Who Love the Sea First published in 1963 and updated in 1979, this classic was an essential handbook for anyone who studies, surfs, protects, or is fascinated by the ocean. The original author, Willard Bascom, was a master of the subject and included a wealth of information, based on theory and statistics, but also anecdotal observation and personal ...