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• Cosmology
  Big Bang
  Astrophysics
  Air Quality
  Early Humans
  Urbanization
   
  

  The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

  Cool, classy, articulate, and brilliant--rarely do all of those adjectives apply at once to an astrophysicist. But Neil de Grasse Tyson is no ordinary scientist; as the director of New York City's ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Early Humans
  Origin of Life
  Cultures
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
   
  

  The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

  In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four ...  > read more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Evolutionary Biology
  Cultures
  Evolution
   
  

  The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins

  Described as "by far the best book of its kind" (Henry McHenry, Evolution) and "the best introduction to the problems and data of modern palaeoanthropology yet published" (R. A. Foley, Antiquity), ...  > read more
• Black Holes
  Albert Einstein
  Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Statistics
  Earth Science
   
  

  Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity

  The goal of this unique book is to provide the tools for readers to become active participants in carrying out their own investigations about curved spacetime near Earth and black holes. To that end, ...  > read more
• Land Management
  Urbanization
  Energy Policy
  Government Regulation
  Environmental Policy
  Sustainability
   
  

  Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy

  Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy examines the history, current practice, and unmet needs of land use planning and regulation in the United States. Rutherford H. Platt, a ...  > read more
• Geochemistry
  Chemistry
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Biochemistry
  Organic Chemistry
  Astrophysics
   
  

  Introductory Chemistry Essentials and CW Access Card Package (2nd Edition)

  Focus on Chemistry develops a systematic approach to problem solving that will guide students through the process of solving chemical problems. Problem solving skills are emphasized throughout each ...  > read more
• Nature
  Origin of Life
  Charles Darwin
  Evolutionary Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Cosmology
   
  

  History of Life

  The living world today contains all kinds of creatures that do unexpected things-- we have come to expect that there were complex and unusual ways of life in the past, and that evolution took some ...  > read more
• Extinction
  Global Warming
  Dinosaurs
  Early Climate
  Fossils
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions

  This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass ...  > read more
• Personalized Medicine
  Genetics
  Human Biology
  Genes
  Human Evolution
  Biology
   
  

  Human Molecular Genetics, Third Edition

  Following the completion of the Human Genome Project the content and organization of the third edition of Human Molecular Genetics has been thoroughly revised.* Part One (Chapters 1-7) covers basic ...  > read more
• Forest
  Trees
  Ecology
  Nature
  Land Management
  Evolution
   
  

  Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

  An original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through a study of the patterns we see today.Landscape is much more than scenery to be ...  > read more

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