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Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet by John Bradshaw Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Kindred Beings: What 73 Chimpanzees Taught Me about Life, Love, and Connection by Sheri Speede Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.90 Sale - Hardcover
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Science: A Discovery in Comics by Margreet De Heer Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $19.99 New - Hardcover
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Zero to Maker: Learn (Just Enough) to Make (Just About) Anything by David Lang Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites by Alexandra Levitt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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) by Matthew Coolidge Synopsis 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) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Higgs Discovery: The Power of Empty Space by Lisa Randall Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper
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An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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An Appetite for Wonder CD: An Appetite for Wonder CD by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments "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) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Thinking about GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers, Fifth Edition by Roger F. Tomlinson Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $54.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Little History of Science by William Bynum Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos Publisher Comments In this lively volume, mathematician John Allen Paulos employs his singular wit to guide us through an unlikely mathematical junglethe pages of the daily newspaper. From the Senate and sex to celebrities and cults, Paulos takes stories that may not... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America by Langdon Cook Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict by Corey Mead Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Nonlinear System Identification: Narmax Methods in the Time, Frequency, and Spatio-Temporal Domains by Stephen Billings Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $145.00 New - Hardcover
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Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science's First Family by Shelley Emling Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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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 by Maria Cristina Fumagalli Publisher Comments ‘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) Your price: $144.75 New - Hardcover
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