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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their ... > read more -
National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders & Related Species of North America (National Wildlife Federation Field Guide)
National Wildlife Federation’s new all-photographic field guide to North American insects, spiders, and related species, is the most up-to-date of its kind, and lets both amateur and expert ... > read more -
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the ... > read more -
Plagues and Peoples
No small themes for historian William McNeill: he is a writer of big, sweeping books, from The Rise of the West to The History of the World. Plagues and Peoples considers the influence of infectious ... > read more -
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As ... > read more -
The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time
Here is the first complete portrait of the legendary flying dragons of deep time–the pterosaurs–designed for non-specialists, yet founded on the real science of these bizarre creatures. ... > read more -
The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese
From Maine to Arizona, and back again, Margaret and Karl and their dog, Godfrey, travel across America in search of green pastures, simple tradition, and the perfect goat cheese. ... > read more -
The ELegant Universe
There is an ill-concealed skeleton in the closet of physics: "As they are currently formulated, general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right." Each is exceedingly accurate in its ... > read more -
Convert It!
This book is the leading how-to resource for electric car conversions. It combines Brown's years of professional automotive experience with down-to-earth language even an automotive beginner can ... > read more -
Diseases of Trees and Shrubs, Second Edition (Comstock Book)
Praise for the First Edition-- Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Division Award Winner (Life Sciences) "One of the ten best horticultural books of the century."--The ... > read more
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