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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 -
Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications
“The core technologies of Ajax are quite straightforward; the hard part is applying them in the real world. Fortunately, the authors have been putting Ajax into practice since long ... > read more -
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 -
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe
"Do you feel lucky? Well do ya?" asked Dirty Harry. Paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee think all of us should feel lucky. Their rare Earth hypothesis predicts that while simple, ... > read more -
The Essential Cosmic Perspective Media Update with Astronomy Place website, Skygazer Planetarium Software, eBook CDROM and Astronomy media workbook (3rd Edition)
The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Third Edition Media Update features a new an effective learning program that uses chapter openers, headers, callouts in the text, and highly-visual chapter ... > read more -
Seeing in the Dark : How Amateur Astronomers Are Discovering the Wonders of the Universe
In Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur ... > read more -
The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began
In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph ... > read more -
Birding by Ear: Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides(R))
BIRDING BY EAR uses an educational and entertaining method for learning bird songs. Instead of merely providing a catalog of bird song samples, BIRDING BY EAR actually teaches. This proven method has ... > read more -
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found—until now. ... > read more -
Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: A Field Guide to the Northeastern United States (Jeffrey Glassberg Field Guide Series)
Many of us have stopped to pick bunches of wildflowers or have admired them as they flourished in fields, hiking trails, and roads. Always appreciated but not always recognized, now these beauties ... > read more
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