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A Short History of Nearly Everything
From primordial nothingness
to this very moment, A Short
History of Nearly
Everything reports what
happened and how humans
figured it out. To
accomplish this daunting
... > full story
The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
On dry land, most organisms
are confined to the surface,
or at most to altitudes of a
hundred meters—the
height of the tallest trees.
In the oceans, though, livin ... > full story
What to Eat
How do we choose what to
eat? Buffeted by health
claims--should we, for
example, restrict our intake
of carbs or fats or both? Is
organic food better for
us?--we become confused and
tune out. In supermarkets we
... > full story
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
An individual ant, like an
individual neuron, is just
about as dumb as can be.
Connect enough of them
together properly, though,
... > full story
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Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
A visual odyssey that will change the way we see our planet, this remarkable book, companion to the acclaimed Discovery Channel/ BBC series, is an enduring and awe-inspiring record of one of the most ... > read more -
An Unquiet Mind
From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American Universities - a remarkable personal ... > read more -
Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a ... > read more -
Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics)
The undisputed leader in medical pharmacology, without equal. Updated to reflect all critical new developments in drug action and drug-disease interaction. This is the “desert island” ... > read more -
National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition
When National Geographic published its first Atlas of the World more than 35 years ago, the world was indeed a different place. In order to cover today's world--including its oceans, stars, climate, ... > read more -
Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea
A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eightyoung fishermen, some of whom would never set foot ... > read more -
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
Spencer Wells traces human evolution back to our very first ancestor in The Journey of Man. Along the way, he sums up the explosive effect of new techniques in genetics on the field of evolutionary ... > read more -
Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens
Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought ... > read more -
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
This classic paperback is available once again--and exclusively--from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from ... > read more -
A Sand County Almanac
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau ... > read more
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