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• Anthropology
  Bioethics
  Government Regulation
  Nature
  Cosmology
  Archaeology
   
  

  History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History

  Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educational system? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found in excavations of ancient Sumer, a society so ...  > read more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Accident and Trauma
  Disaster Plan
  Social Issues
  Psychology
   
  

  Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

  When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these ...  > read more
• Space Policy
  Human Biology
  Anthropology
  Space Exploration
  Aviation
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Stiff

  An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's ...  > read more
• Brain Injury
  Brain Tumor
  Intelligence
  Psychology Research
  Neuroscience
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

  Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes. In late 2004, leading Western scientists joined ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Cultures
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Lost Treasures
  Origin of Life
   
  

  Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's History

  Seton Lloyd's lively account of Turkey's early history is for the ever-increasing number of people visiting the ancient sites of this fabled land. Written by an archaeologist who has spent much of ...  > read more
• Caving
  Archaeology
  Extreme Survival
  Ancient Civilizations
  Nature
  Anthropology
   
  

  The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

  The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers. Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers ...  > read more
• Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Albert Einstein
  Mathematics
  Space Station
  Space Telescopes
   
  

  The Nature of Space and Time

  Who doesn't love a good argument? When physics heavyweights Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose delivered three sets of back-and-forth lectures capped by a final debate at Cambridge's Isaac Newton ...  > read more
• Trees
  Botany
  Exotic Species
  Forest
  Geography
  Biodiversity
   
  

  National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region (Audubon Society Field Guide)

  More than 300 species of trees are found in the United States and Canada west of the Rocky Mountains, some introduced from other continents but many native to the region. This handsome guidebook ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  Nature
  World Development
  Fossils
  Monkeys
   
  

  The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk

  A firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal ancient site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history.Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, became internationally ...  > read more
• Dogs
  Nature
  Sustainability
  Endangered Animals
  Urbanization
  Land Management
   
  

  A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)

  Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the ...  > read more

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