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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
by John Bradshaw
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Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. In Cat Sense, renowned... (read more)

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Kindred Beings: What 73 Chimpanzees Taught Me about Life, Love, and Connection
Kindred Beings: What 73 Chimpanzees Taught Me about Life, Love, and Connection
by Sheri Speede
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Enter a world of tender friendships, staunch loyalties, violent jealousies — and enduring love. As a child, Sheri Speede knew that she wanted to advocate for animals in any way she could. But it was not until many years after veterinary school,... (read more)

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The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
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From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door. In The Urban Bestiary, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes,... (read more)

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Science: A Discovery in Comics
Science: A Discovery in Comics
by Margreet De Heer
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Explaining different scientific disciplines in clear, colorful chapters, this illustrated primer is a great way to introduce young readers to a complex topic. In her easily accessible style, Margreet de Heer visualizes science and makes it approachable... (read more)

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Zero to Maker: Learn (Just Enough) to Make (Just About) Anything
Zero to Maker: Learn (Just Enough) to Make (Just About) Anything
by David Lang
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Are you possessed by the urge to invent, design, and make something that others enjoy, but dont know how to plug into the Maker movement? In this book, youll follow author David Langs headfirst dive into the Maker world and how he grew to be a... (read more)

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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
by Alexandra Levitt
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Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing... (read more)

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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that... (read more)

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Around the Bay: Man-Made Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region (Center for Land Use Interpretation American Regional Landscape)
Around the Bay: Man-Made Sites of Interest in the San Francisco Bay Region (Center for Land Use Interpretation American Regional Landscape)
by Matthew Coolidge
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The San Francisco Bay can be viewed as a geographic paradox: a place and a void. The collective Bay (composed of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay) both unites and divides the community of the Bay Area, giving identity to the region while... (read more)

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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space
by Lisa Randall
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On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the... (read more)

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An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
by Richard Dawkins
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With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view. His... (read more)

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An Appetite for Wonder CD: An Appetite for Wonder CD
An Appetite for Wonder CD: An Appetite for Wonder CD
by Richard Dawkins
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In his first memoir, Richard Dawkins shares a rare view into his early life, his intellectual awakening at Oxford, and his path to writing The Selfish Gene. He paints a vivid picture of his idyllic childhood in colonial Africa, and later at boarding... (read more)

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Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
by Martin Gardner
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"Informative, original, unexpected, and always charmingly written with his uniquely subtle sense of fun, this final autobiographical work of Martin Gardner, Undiluted Hocus-Pocus, sums up his own life and opinions, in the way that has become so familiar... (read more)

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Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, Fifth Edition
Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, Fifth Edition
by Roger F. Tomlinson
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Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers presents a planning model for designing data and technology systems that will meet any organizations specific needs. Designed for two primary audiences, senior managers who oversee... (read more)

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A Little History of Science
A Little History of Science
by William Bynum
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Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its... (read more)

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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
by John Allen Paulos
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In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical jungle—the pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not... (read more)

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The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America
by Langdon Cook
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In the tradition of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod — a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world... (read more)

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War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict
War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict
by Corey Mead
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A behind-the-scenes look at how the military uses video game technology to train soldiers, treat veterans, and entice new recruits How does the U.S. military train its soldiers for new forms of armed conflict, all within the constraints of diminished... (read more)

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Nonlinear System Identification: Narmax Methods in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains
Nonlinear System Identification: Narmax Methods in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains
by Stephen Billings
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Nonlinear System Identification: NARMAX Methods in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains describes a comprehensive framework for the identification and analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems in the time, frequency, and spatio-temporal domains... (read more)

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Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family
by Shelley Emling
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Published to widespread acclaim, in Marie Curie and Her Daughters, science writer Shelley Emling shows that far from a shy introvert toiling away in her laboratory, the famed scientist and two-time Nobel prize winner was nothing short of an iconoclast... (read more)

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Liverpool University Press - American Tropics: Towards a Lit #2: Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio
Liverpool University Press - American Tropics: Towards a Lit #2: Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio
by Maria Cristina Fumagalli
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‘American Tropics refers to a kind of extended Caribbean, an area that includes the southern USA, the Atlantic littoral of Central America, the Caribbean islands, and northern South America. European colonial powers fought intensively here against... (read more)

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