The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants
Peter D'Amato has been
raising carnivorous plants
for three decades, and his
nursery, California
Carnivores, houses the
world's largest collection
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Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rockets and Space Probes
In the 1960s and 1970s deep
space missions were
dispatched in pairs in case
one was lost in launch or
failed during its journey.
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Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope--and How to Find Them
A superb guidebook described
in Bookwatch as 'the home
astronomer's "bible"', Turn
Left at Orion provides all
the information beginning
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Postcards from Mars: The First Photographer on the Red Planet
The first photographic tour
of the surface of another
planet has now been
accomplished. Those who
thrilled to the lunar beauty
of Full Moon and the IMAX
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The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ... > read more -
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
Plants have transformed our planet over the last 470 million years as they invaded the land and diversified into the astonishing variety we know today. But their influence has reached even further: ... > read more -
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate Change
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to the Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book ... > 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 -
Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
A visual odyssey that will change the way we see our planet, this remarkable book, companion to the acclaimed Discovery Channel/ BBC series, is an enduring and awe-inspiring record of one of the most ... > read more -
Understanding Weather and Climate (4th Edition)
The fourth edition of Understanding Weather and Climate has been thoroughly updated throughout. Every part of the text has been examined and updated to ensure currency and clarity.Integrating the ... > read more -
The Limits to Growth
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ... > read more -
The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable ... > 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 -
Monkey Portraits
Book Description:We share about 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, our closest biological cousins. And never have the similarities between simians and humans been so amusingly and brilliantly ... > read more
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