by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your Price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $17.46 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Jared Diamond
Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michael Pollan
Publisher Comments In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- though this... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Norman Doidge Publisher Comments An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and... (read more) Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jane Goodall
Synopsis As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and the child inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with Dr. Louis Leakey, making scientific breakthroughs with chimpanzees in Gombe, and becoming one of the... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Illustrates, simplifies, and humor-coats the important principles of classical and modern genetics and their experimental bases, with amusing anecdotes about how the ancients tried to explain inheritance and sex determination.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Friday May 9, 2008
by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments If you have ever looked for P-values by shopping at P mart, tried to watch the Bernoulli Trails on "People's Court," or think that the standard deviation is a criminal offense in six states, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Statistics to put you on the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Peter Haggard Publisher Comments The only comprehensive guide to insects of the Pacific Northwest, this handy reference is perfect for hikers, fishers, and naturalists. With coverage from southwestern British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the high desert, it... (read more) Your Price $16.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
Entomology and General Invertebrates by Holley Bishop Publisher Comments Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography. Bees have been making this prized food -- for centuries the world's only sweetener -- for millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Peter Moore Publisher Comments As the world waits once again to see if the latest virus will decimate the population, The Little Black of Pandemics looks at the greatest natural killers of all time. This concise and intelligent look at the most deadly viral and bacterial... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies
by Herve This Publisher Comments Herv This (pronounced Teess) is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a doctorate in... (read more) Your Price $29.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Mark Carwardine Publisher Comments smelliest plant best water-walker longest migration hairiest animal best surfer tiniest mammal longest tongue fastest swimmer sharpest sense of smell strangest society hottest animal flashiest males slimiest animal fastest digger loudest bird call... (read more) Your Price $19.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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