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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 with an
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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
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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
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The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)
This classic, bestselling
study of the !Kung San,
foragers of the Dobe area of
the Kalahari Desert
describes a people's
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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a ... > 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 -
Field Adventures in Paleontology
Have you ever wondered what it's really like to dig for dinosaur bones on Alaska's North Slope? To excavate cave fossils high in the mountains of Colorado? To hunt for trilobites in the Utah ... > read more -
The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
Traveling to the desolate rock-strewn deserts of northen Kenya, where the temperature can hit a brutal and dry 130 degrees, would be enough of a trip, but scientist Alan Walker also takes us on a ... > read more -
The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds
There is a sense of mystery that surrounds hummingbirds: Why are they so small? What makes it possible for them to hover? Why are they so colorful? Do they ever rest? This book gives the often ... > read more -
Elemental Geosystems
This book gives readers an accessible, systematic, non-mathematical, and visually appealing start in physical geography. It features a distinctive, holistic integration of human-Earth relationships, ... > read more -
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
In 1898 John H. Patterson arrived in East Africa with a mission to build a railway bridge over the Tsavo River. What started out as a simple engineering problem, however, soon took on almost mythical ... > read more -
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95% of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 65 ... > read more -
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times.
Since fossils have presumably existed for millions of years, why don't we see much paleontological thought from ancient writers? Classics scholar Adrienne Mayor suggests that we can, in fact, learn ... > read more -
The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)
In 1532, when Pizarro conquered Peru, the Inca realm was one of the largest empires on earth, graced by gold masterpieces, towns with great palaces and temples, and an impressive network of roads. ... > read more
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