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Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories From the Animal Kingdom (11 Edition) by Jennifer S. Holland Publisher Comments It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . " Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction 2: Build a Secret Agent Arsenal by John Austin Publisher Comments If youre a budding spy, what better way to conceal your clandestine activities than to miniaturize your secret agent arsenal? MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction 2 provides fully illustrated step-by-step instructions for building 30 different spy weapons and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris Publisher Comments A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Best American Science Writing 2002 by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments If, as Matt Ridley suggests, science is simply the search for new forms of ignorance, then perhaps it follows that with science's advances come new questions. Will human genetic engineering become commonplace? Will human cloning ever be safe? Are there... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Essence of Chaos by Edward Lorenz Publisher Comments Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Two Cultures by C P Snow Publisher Comments The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterized by a split between two cultures--the arts or humanities on one hand, and the sciences on the other--has a long history. The reissue of The Two Cultures and its... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Legal Alchemy: The Use & Misuse of Science in the Law by David L Faigman Synopsis More than ever before, lawyers and politicians must wrestle with scientific research and employ scientific thinking, and the results are often less-than-enlightened. Faigman explores ways American legal systems incorporate this far-reaching knowledge... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Backyard Ballistics by William Gurstelle Staff Pick As tempting as it sounds to spend the afternoon with the two digital puppies wrestling under Lara Croft's wife-beater, nothing is really more entertaining than plain ol' throwing rocks at stuff. Or, better still, shooting said rocks out of a homemade... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel Staff Pick "An account of the man who developed the technology which allowed sailors to determine their longitude at sea. If you don't know where you are, it's hard to know where you're going, whether you've gotten there or if you've missed your target. If, while... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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