National Geographic Rarely Seen - Photographs of the Extraordinary by National Geographic Staff; Stephen Alvarez (Foreword by)
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: National Geographic Collectors Ser.
This New York Timesbestseller features striking images of places, events, natural phenomena, and manmade heirlooms seldom seen by human eyes. It's all here- 30,000-year-old cave art sealed from the public; animals that are among the last of their species on Earth; volcanic lightning; giant crystals that ...Show more
Columbus in Space - A Voyage of Discovery on the International Space Station by The European Space Agency Staff
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Category: Science & Natural History
In 2008, Europe's first space laboratory was launched to the International Space Station. Ten years later, the Columbus laboratory is still circling 400 km above our heads at 28,800 km/h, providing scientists a place to run out-of-this-world experiments on everything from cold plasma technology that wil ...Show more
The Elements: 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle by Gray Theodore
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Elements
This title offers the most beautiful periodic table puzzle available! This gorgeous and challenging 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle of Theodore Gray's photographic periodic table is based on the bestseller, "The Elements". "The Elements", by Theodore Gray, both the hardcover print book and the ebook app for th ...Show more
This is Improbable, Too: Synchronized Cows, Speedy Brain Extractors and More WTF Research by Marc Abrahams
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Category: Science & Natural History
Marc Abrahams collects the odd, the imaginative and the brilliantly improbable. Here he turns to research on the ins and outs of the very improbable evolutionary innovation that is the human body (brain included): What's the best way to get a monkey to floss regularly? How much dandruff do Pakistani sol ...Show more
Is There Life on Mars?: The 20 Big Universe Questions by Stuart Clark
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Category: Science & Natural History
Is There Life On Mars? will help you start to answer 20 of the most perplexing and fascinating questions about the universe, such as: Why do the planets stay in orbit? Was Einstein right? What is Dark Matter? Are we made from Stardust? Is there cosmological evidence for God? Distilling the wisdom and re ...Show more
Horse Rescue: Inspiring Stories of Second-Chance Horses and the Lives They Changed by Joanne Schoenwald
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Category: Science & Natural History
Horses are powerful beyond their physical measures. Through their unique bond to people, horses have the ability to heal, teach, and change lives. A person might rescue a horse, but so often it ends up being the other way around. And sometimes the deepest transformations come when we least expect them. ...Show more
Extraterrestrial - The Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth by Avi Loeb
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Category: Science & Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
"Provocative and thrilling ... Loeb asks us to think big and to expect the unexpected."--Alan Lightman, New York Times bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams and Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineHarvard's top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visite ...Show more
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
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Category: Science & Natural History
World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a long-ter ...Show more
Apocalypse Now: Technology and the Threat of Disaster by Oliver Letwin
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Category: Science & Natural History
An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats. 'Entertaining and insightful' - Evening Standard 'One of the most important books of the year... Compelling' - Jamie Bartlett, Literary Review 'Timely' - New Statesman As the world becomes be ...Show more
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Category: Science & Natural History
An award-winning poet's nonfiction debut - essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support and inspire us. "What the peacock can do is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life." The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindn ...Show more
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani
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Category: Science & Natural History
In the tradition of Richard Dawkin's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden processes which have underpinned human evolution, revealing how much we have in common with far-flung species, and why cooperation is key to why we are the way we ar ...Show more
Some Assembly Required by Neil Shubin
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Category: Science & Natural History
An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity. "Fossils, DNA, ...Show more