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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Explaining what William
McNeill called The Rise of
the West has become the
central problem in the study
of global history. In Guns,
Germs, and Steel Jared
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Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
An April 2007 Significant 7
Editors' Pick: Funny,
engaging, and
oh-so-practical, Send is the
ultimate etiquette handbook
for email, making David
... > full story
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region (Eastern)
For the untrained observer,
it can be quite a challenge
to sort out the many trees
that make up a stand of
older forest in, say, New
... > full story
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
With the singular
intelligence and exuberance
that made Woman an
international sensation,
Natalie Angier takes us on a
“guided twirligig
... > full story
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
"Climate change is the ignored player on the historical stage," writes archeologist Brian Fagan. But it shouldn't be, not if we know what's good for us. We can't judge what future climate change will ... > read more -
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to ... > read more -
Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization.The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising ... > read more -
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art, and Science
The Universe May Be a Mystery,But It's No SecretMichael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made ... > 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 -
Essential Cosmic Perspective with MasteringAstronomy(TM) and Voyager SkyGazer Planetarium Software, The (4th Edition) (MasteringAstronomy Series)
KEY MESSAGE: The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly revised to include more quantitative coverage, an enhanced illustration and photo program, and an unparalleled new ... > read more -
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping ... > read more -
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. ... > read more -
After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing ... > read more -
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