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King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus Rex

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Report copyright infringementby Mark P. Witton (Author)A marvelously illustrated look at everything we now know about the fearsome king of the dinosaurs Continue the adventure with the dazzling IMAX film T.REX narrated by Sam Neill Tyrannosaurus rex is the world's favorite dinosaur, adored by the public and the subject of intense study and debate by paleontologists. This stunningly illustrated book brings together everything we have learned about T. rex--the "King of the Tyrant Lizards"--sinc...

Chemistry 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Chemistry's Key Concepts

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)Get to grips with the essential topics in chemistry today through 100 key ideas, each explained clearly in just 100 words. As part of a series, this book introduces 100 key areas of chemistry, such as gas laws, fusion, ionic bonding, DNA, and the pH scale, and explains each topic in just 100 words. Perfect for getting your head around big ideas clearly and quickly, or refreshing your knowledge on the fundamentals of how the world works, this book co...

Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth

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Report copyright infringementby Karen G. Lloyd (Author)A biologist's firsthand account of the hunt for life beneath earth's surface--and how new discoveries are challenging our most basic assumptions about the nature of life on Earth Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth's crust--from methane seeps in the ocean floor to the highest reaches of Arctic permafrost--and it is unlike anything seen on the surface. Intraterrestrials shares what scientists are learning about these str...

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Close (Author)The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story--"kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable" (Patchen Barss)--of the physicists that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb Although Henri Becquerel didn't know it at the time, he changed history in 1896 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. The rocks emitted something that exposed the plates: it was the first documented evidence of spontaneous rad...

The Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

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Report copyright infringementby Leor Zmigrod (Author)Named a best book of the year by The Guardian and The Telegraph Why do some people become radicalized? How do ideologies shape the human brain? And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas? In The Ideological Brain, Leor Zmigrod reveals the deep connection between political beliefs and the biology of the brain. Drawing on her own pioneering research, she uncovers the complex interplay between biology and environment that predisposes s...

The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-Of-The-Century America

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Report copyright infringementby David Baron (Author)This New York Times headline was no joke. In the early 1900s, many Americans actually believed we had discovered intelligent life on Mars, as best-selling science writer David Baron chronicles in The Martians, his truly bizarre tale of a nation swept up in Mars mania. At the center of Baron's historical drama is Percival Lowell, the Boston Brahmin and Harvard scion, who observed "canals" etched into the surface of Mars. Lowell devised a gran...

Princeton Review AP Chemistry Premium Prep, 27th Edition: 7 Practice Tests + Digital Practice Online + Content Review

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Report copyright infringementby The Princeton Review (Author)PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5--WITH THE MOST PRACTICE ON THE MARKET! Equip yourself to ace the newly-digital AP Chemistry Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Includes 7 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content reviews. Techniques That Actually Work- Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test- Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically- Ess...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevon Owen (Author) Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 17, 2025

Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary

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Report copyright infringementby Agust?n Fuentes (Author)Why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap than we may realize. Sex Is a Spectrum offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the biology of sex, drawing on the latest science to explain why the binary view of t...

Princeton Review AP Biology Premium Prep, 28th Edition: 6 Practice Tests + Digital Practice Online + Content Review

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Report copyright infringementby The Princeton Review (Author)PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5--WITH THE MOST PRACTICE ON THE MARKET! Ace the newly-digital AP Biology Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. Includes 6 full-length practice exams (more than any other major competitor), timed online practice, and thorough content reviews. Techniques That Actually Work Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logi...

The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs: The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time on Earth

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Report copyright infringementby Riley Black (Author)The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs tells the 230-million-year epic of these staggeringly fascinating prehistoric creatures, covering their small beginnings, spectacular golden periods, and stunning evolutionary success--before an unthinkable asteroid event brought everything to a screeching halt. But this history digs deeper, using numerous recent fossil discoveries and fresh understandings of genetics and evolution to show how we've glea...

The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map

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Report copyright infringementby Alex Hutchinson (Author)New York Times-bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behavior and help us find meaning. Off the beaten path, following unmarked trails, we are wired to explore. More than just a need to get outside, the search for the unknown is a primal urge that has shaped the history of our species and continues to mold our behavior in ways we ...

The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions

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Report copyright infringementby Ersilia Vaudo (Author), Vanessa Di Stefano (Translator)When Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, the Earth held its breath. That one small step forever changed our view of what was possible, sparking a dramatic expansion of humankind's cosmic awareness. When we gain a new perspective, a transformation begins, profoundly altering the understanding of the world our human experience had previously granted us.In The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolut...

Princeton Review AP Physics 1 Premium Prep, 12th Edition: 5 Practice Tests + Digital Practice Online + Content Review

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Report copyright infringementby The Princeton Review (Author)PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5--WITH THE MOST PRACTICE ON THE MARKET! Ace the newly-digital AP Physics 1 Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Includes 5 full-length practice exams with answer explanations, timed online practice, and thorough content reviews. Techniques That Actually Work- Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test- Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically- Essential tactics to ...

Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World - Hardcover

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by Laurence C. Smith (Author)An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction). Rivers, more than any road, technology, or political leader, have shaped the course of human civilization. They have opened frontiers, founded cities, settled borders, and fed billions. They promote life, forge peace, grant power, and can...

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Report copyright infringementby Michel-Yves Bollore (Author), Olivier Bonnassies (Author)After four years of research in partnership with over twenty scientists and esteemed experts, this book explores one of the most significant questions we face: the existence or non-existence of a creator God. For more than four centuries, the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and Freud created the impression that we could explain the workings of the Universe without the idea of a cre...

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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Report copyright infringementby John Green (Author)John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest infectious disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 20...

A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19

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Report copyright infringementby Edna Bonhomme (Author)A deeply reported, insightful, and literary account of humankind's battles with epidemic disease, and their outsized role in deepening inequality along racial, ethnic, class, and gender lines--in the vein of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body. Epidemic diseases enter the world by chance, but they become catastrophic by human design. With clear-eyed research and lush prose, A History of the World in Six Plagues shows that through...

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Gee (Author)By the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history of humanity on the brink of decline.A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Selection We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more than ten thousand years, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. In the middle of this century population growth will stop, and the number of people on Earth will start to decline - f...

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)Did the universe start with a Big Bang? Is light a wave, a particle - or both? Is a "Theory of Everything" possible? Explaining the key milestones in the field of science in a clear and simple way, The Science Book answers these questions and more besides, and is the perfect introduction to the subject. Untangling knotty theories and shedding light on abstract concepts, entries unpack each complex idea with a combination of easy-to-follow explanation...

The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce E. Chaplin (Author)"From Joyce Chaplin's engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges." --Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Revolutionary "[Chaplin's] expansive claims for the Franklin stove's importance click into place." --Dan Piepenbring, Harper's "A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascinating, innovative man and his inventions." --Charles C. Mann, bestselling author of The Wizard and the Prophet and 1491The surpr...

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science - Paperback

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by Carl Sagan (Author)A fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. "Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man's march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent robots, the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and abov...

The Hidden Language of Cats: How They Have Us at Meow - Hardcover

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by Sarah Brown (Author)Descended from shy, solitary North African wild cats, domestic cats set up homes with devoted owners all over the world by learning how to talk to us. This book translates--in case you missed anything. A renowned cat behavior scientist of over thirty years, Dr. Sarah Brown has been at the forefront of research in the field, discovering how cats use tail signals to interact with each other and their owners. Now, she reveals the previously unexplored secrets of cat commun...

The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Jebelli (Author)From Joseph Jebelli, PhD, neuroscientist and author of In Pursuit of Memory, a groundbreaking exploration of the science of doing nothing and its benefits for the brain and body We are constantly told to make the most of our time. Work harder, with more focus. Stop procrastinating. Optimize. To be happy, creative, and successful requires discipline. The most important thing is to be efficient with every precious hour. But what if all that...

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Report copyright infringementby Dk (Author)Combining simple, stylish graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Physics is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry for knowledge. Compact and clear, this book covers the core concepts of physics in a refreshing and highly accessible way - from gravitational fields and momentum to general relativity and the mysteries of quantum uncertainty. Using simple diagrams and directly worded explanations, each ...

The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Egnor (Author), Denyse O'Leary (Author)A neuroscientist and surgeon makes an argument for the existence of a spiritual human soul in this eye-opening book. Many scientists and doctors believe that there is no such thing as the soul. That there is no part of us that persists beyond death. We are not spiritual in any respect. We are made up of cells and tissue, and completely controlled by a material organ in our heads: the brain. In this groundbreaking ...

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Pinker (Author)From one of the world's most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other's thoughts about each other's thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or "out there," is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives. Co...

Surviving Climate Anxiety: A Guide to Coping, Healing, and Thriving

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Doherty (Author)Learn how to cope with and heal from climate anxiety in this groundbreaking guide by "the most prominent American advocate of ecopsychology" (New York Times). With climate disasters mounting and solutions feeling ever more elusive, eco-anxiety is rapidly becoming one of the biggest mental health threats of our time. Surviving Climate Anxiety is the essential guide to coping with the psychological impacts of persistent environmental crisi...

Why Brains Need Friends: The Neuroscience of Social Connection

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Report copyright infringementby Ben Rein (Author)"An exquisite book that reminds us our minds aren't soloists but symphony players: we are wired for connection."--David Eagleman, PhD, author of Incognito and Livewired A neuroscientist's guide to boosting your brain health by living a more connected life, and thriving in a post-interaction world Headlines have made clear that we are in a crisis of loneliness, but the conversation has yet to explore how spending less time with others can impact...

Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals about the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize

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Report copyright infringementby Justin Gregg (Author)A playful deep dive into anthropomorphism (our peculiar tendency to humanize the nonhuman) that will resonate with anyone who has thrown a birthday party for their dog. Bestselling science writer Justin Gregg explores the science behind our instinct to see ourselves in the creatures and objects around us. Ours is a world filled with emotional support alligators, a woman who married her briefcase, and Soviet super babies that drink dolphin ...

Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion

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Report copyright infringementby Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Author), Awo Fatokun Faniyii (Foreword by), Keri Facer (Afterword by)The inevitable is coming fast. We know it in our bones--and it's past time to face it. The highly anticipated follow-up to Hospicing Modernity: how we activate responsibility, nurture care, and grow up in the face of collapse--includes reflections, exercises, and prompts Climate collapse, social crisis, the decline of modernity: colonialism, capitalism, and our fu...

The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Wade (Author)Societies that ignore social disintegration and collapsing birth rates are putting their future in peril. So why are we ignoring the signs??In The Origin Of Politics, Nicholas Wade explains how our political systems compete with a more ancient set of rules for organizing society--those developed by evolution. Modern ideologies are in constant tension with structures inherent in human social behavior, such as the family, the tribe, and male...