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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
by William Stolzenburg  
Powells.com Staff Pick What would our world look like without without wolves, giant cats, and other preying animals? William Stolzenburg examines the absence of once-prominent predators and how that affects our global ecosystem. There are a lot of alarmist books coming out...
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The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge
by Jamie James Publisher Comments On September 11th, 2001 while exploring a Burmese jungle, Dr. Joe Slowinski was bitten by a krait, one of the most poisonous snakes in the world. His colleagues kept him alive for 26 hours with mouth-to-mouth respiration, waiting for medical help that...
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Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0
by Brian Clegg Publisher Comments In biological terms human beings haven’t evolved in 100,000 years – but thanks to our amazing brains we are able to upgrade ourselves to add capabilities that have taken other creatures millions of years to evolve. Thanks to this “...
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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
by Maggie Jackson Synopsis Jackson explores the erosion of deep, sustained attention--the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress--and offers the cutting-edge solutions needed to cure, not just live with, an epidemic of inattention....
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A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
by Nathan Hodge Publisher Comments Two Washington, D.C., defense reporters do for nukes what Sarah Vowell did for presidential assassinations in this fascinating, kaleidoscopic portrait of nuclear weaponry. In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Sharon Weinberger and...
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Dewalt Electrical Professional Reference - 2008 Code
by Paul Rosenburg Synopsis The most comprehensive reference tool for professionals working in the electrical industry has been updated. The DEWALT Electrical Professional Reference 2008 Edition has been revised to reflect the regulations and requirements contained in the National...
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Tuna: A Love Story
by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments The author of The Book of Sharks, Imagining Atlantis, and Encyclopedia of the Sea turns his gaze to the tuna — one of the biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals and the source of some of the world's most popular delicacies —...
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U.S. Army Special Forces Handbook
by Department Of The Army Publisher Comments The essential guide to the operations of the Green Berets, America's most versatile and fascinating soldiers. This handbook reveals the techniques and tactics that make the U.S. Army Special Forces some of the most elite and highly skilled soldiers in...
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Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America with CD (Audio)
by Ted Floyd Publisher Comments This new field guide provides a suite of modern tools to effectively aid in the identification of more than 750 species of birds across North America. It introduces a "whole bird" approach by concisely gathering a collection of information about birds...
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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
by Frederick Burkhardt Publisher Comments Charles Darwin is a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough, this is a fascinating insight into Darwin's life as...
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Jane's Guns Recognition Guide (Jane's Guns Recognition Guide)
by Richard Jones Publisher Comments The most comprehensive, authoritative guide to identifying firearms includes: Pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, machine guns, bolt-action and automatic rifles, and shotgunsTechnical specificationsManufacturers and brand names indexFirearm safety...
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Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
by Doug Macdougall Publisher Comments Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting, writes Doug Macdougall. It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper. In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious...
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Processing Water, Wastewater, Residuals, and Excreta Processing for Health and Environmental Protection
by Nicolas G. Adrien Publisher Comments * Defines over 25,000 key and ordinary terms related to water treatment, wastewater treatment, excreta disposal, residuals processing, and environmental health, including principles as well as proprietary and non-proprietary technologies. * Includes 1...
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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
by Gerd Gigerenzer Publisher Comments Why is split second decision-making superior to deliberation? Gut Feelings delivers the science behind Malcolm Gladwell's Blink Reflection and reason are overrated, according to renowned psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Much better qualified to help us make...
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Energy for Sustainability: Technology, Planning, Policy
by John Randolph Publisher Comments Energy for Sustainability is the first undergraduate textbook on renewable energy and energy efficiency with a unique focus on the community scale. Written by two of the foremost experts in the field, it is a pedagogically complete treatment of energy...
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Superconductivity
by K. H. (edt) Bennemann Publisher Comments Conceived as the definitive reference in a classic and important field of modern physics, this extensive and comprehensive handbook systematically reviews the basic physics, theory and recent advances in the field of superconductivity. Leading...
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Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang
by Paul J Steinhardt Publisher Comments Two world-renowned scientists present an audacious new vision of the cosmos that steals the thunder from the Big Bang theory. --Wall Street Journal The Big Bang theory--widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe--posits...
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Beating the Devil's Game: A History of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation
by Katherine Ramsland Publisher Comments First time in paperbackessential reading for the millions of fans of CSI and Cold Case Files. Katherine Ramsland, a renowned expert in criminology, traces the story of the evolution of forensic science &&from thirteenth-century Chinese studies of...
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Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA and What-If Reviews
by Dennis P. Nolan Publisher Comments This book describes the application of major safety reviews used in the process industries (principally petroleum, petrochemical, chemical industries, nuclear installations, utility systems, and medical facilities). It provides guidance on qualitative...
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest
by Craig Childs Publisher Comments In this landmark work on the Anasazi tribes of the Southwest, naturalist Craig Childs dives head on into the mysteries of this vanished people. The various tribes that made up the Anasazi people converged on Chaco Canyon (New Mexico) during the 11th...
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