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A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate ChangeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Clavin takes the reader back in time and around the world travelogue fashion to explore the progress of evolution and its historic and on-going impact on the development of the human brain.
author: William H. Calvin |
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A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a LifetimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A history and celebration of the scientists and engineers whose vision and determination led to the Internet.
author: John Naughton |
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A Dazzle of DragonfliesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A large-format book with stunning photographs and electronic images. Explains the natural history and folklore of dragonflies. One chapter devoted to their photograpic techniques: film, digital, and e...
author: Forrest L. Mitchell and James L. Lasswell |
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A Dinosaur Named Sue - The Story of the Colossal Fossil: The World's Most Complete T. RexClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the chance discovery, retrieval, and study of the largest, most complete and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found. Learn what the world might have been like during SUE's ...
author: Pat Relf |
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A Drop of Water - A Book of Science and WonderClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A book that combines art and science, with beautiful and stunning photographs of water in its many states: ice, steam, frost, rainbow, and dew. Concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and surfac...
author: Walter Wick |
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A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintockClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
"A brilliant and convincing book" Science 83
author: Evelyn Fox Keller |
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A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North AmericaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A wealth of information written in a compact format by one of America's premier tracking experts; includes tracking techniques, a guide to mammal classification, a anatomical guide to the major foot t...
author: James Halfpenny |
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the CoelacanthClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The tale of the coelacanth, an ancient fish thought to be the direct ancestor of reptiles, its presumed extinction and resurrection.
Includes black & white photographs and illustrations.
author: Samantha Weinberg |
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A Life in the Wild - George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great BeastsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An engaging biography of George Schaller, a naturalist devoted to saving the world's great wild beasts. After a brief overview of his childhood, each chapter is devoted to his work in a different wil...
author: Pamela S. Turner |
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A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical FraudClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Investigates the suspect botanical research of British botanist, John Heslop Harrison, on the Isle of Rum, Scotland and the 1940 hoax - his claim to have found a rare plant on the island. Includes se...
author: Karl Sabbagh |
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A Sand County AlmanacClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A natural history classic by the great naturalist, Aldo Leopold, documenting his observations at his weekend refuge, a Wisconsin farm.
author: Aldo Leopold |
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A Sense of Wonder - Rachel Carson's Love for the Natural World and Her Fight to Defend ItClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Meet Rachel Carson through the superb acting of Kaiulani Lee, whose one-woman stage production inspired this documentary-style movie set at Rachel's seaside cottage in Maine. The film is both inspirat...
author: Sense of Wonder Productions |
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A Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ...
author: Bill Bryson |
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A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic TableClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A powerful biography of the creator of the periodic table of elements and journey into the world of Imperial Russia. Includes black & white photos and illustrations.
author: Michael D. Gordin |
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Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea That Rules the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the search for and discovery of the algorithm... the language that drives computers.
author: David Berlinski |
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Adventures of Sojourner: The Mission to Mars that Thrilled the WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Tells the story of the mission that placed the Sojourner remote-control rover on Mars on July 4, 1997.
author: Susi Trautmann Wunsch |
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Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters: The Early YearsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A moving self-portrait of Jane Goodall from her impressionable years as an animal-loving girl to her coming of age as a scientist studying chimpanzee behavior in the Gombe Reserve , Africa. Beyond Inn...
author: Jane Goodall |
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Alchemy of the MindClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind.
author: Diane Ackerman |
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Almost Astronauts - 13 Women Who Dared to DreamClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the "Mercury 13", thirteen women pilots who aspired to be NASA astronauts in the early 1960's. The prejudice they were up against and their courage and perseverance in the face of it make...
author: Tanya Lee Stone |
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Amateur NaturalistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's 1982 classic, this new edition makes nature accessible to everyone. Bishop begins with the fundamentals of nature study: basic skills, equipment, and rules of co...
author: Nick Baker |
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of Robert J. OppenheimerClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Here is the story of the "father of the atomic bomb" from his early education, to Berkeley, to Los Alamos, to the Institute for Advanced Study. Includes 32 pages of black & white photographs.
author: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin |
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An Alchemy of the MindClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Combines an artist's eye with a scientist's erudition to illuminate, as never before, the magic and mysteries of the human mind.
author: Diane Ackerman |
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An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Sacks reveals through seven anecdotes the lives of seven extraordinary people with neurological disorders. Through these stories he illlustrates how the brain works to define our individual worlds an...
author: Oliver Sacks |
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An Inconvenient Truth - A Global Warning (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Vice President Al Gore's eye-opening and compelling documentary that delivers the message that global warming is a real and present danger. Also encourages each individual to become part of the soluti...
author: Al Gore |
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global WarmingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. A...
author: Al Gore |
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An Owl in the House - A Naturalist's DiaryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Naturalist Bernd Heinrich stumbled upon a young Great Horned Owl in the Vermont woods and decided to care for it and eventually help it return to the wild. He kept a diary of the owlet's growth and ...
author: Bernd Heinrich |
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Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of EvolutionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A novel presentation of a comprehensive look at evolution. The reader is invited to journey back through time, four billion years, with forty stops along the way at which the reader meets a common anc...
author: Richard Dawkins |
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Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An adaptation of "Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists" by Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer. Tells the story of cosmology, its history, the new discoveries, and the questions and contr...
author: Alan Lightman |
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Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's WildlifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The Smithsonian Institution's one-stop guide to the animals of the world. Over 2,000 species listed. Great photographs. Includes information about classification, evolution, and habitats.
author: Edited by David Burnie & Don E. Wilson |
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Animals on the Edge - Science Races to Save Species Threatened with ExtinctionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A sobering but hopeful look at the plight of endangered animals throughout the world, and what scientists and volunteers are doing to insure their survival. Profiles the specific research projects as ...
author: Sandra Pobst, Todd K. Fuller |
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Animals Up Close - Zoom in on the World's Most Incredible CreaturesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Part of the "Insiders" series, this volume takes a look at inventions throughout time and the technology behind them, from the wheel to bionics. State-of-the-art 3-D illustrations. Concise, engaging ...
author: Igor Siwanowicz |
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Annals of the Former WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In the late 1970's, John McPhee began a series of journeys back and forth across the United States, traveling with prominent geologists and attempting to describe a cross-section of the continent at a...
author: John McPhee |
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Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical TalesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Sacks reveals through seven anecdotes the lives of seven extraordinary people with neurological disorders. Through these stories he illlustrates how the brain works to define our individual worlds an...
author: Oliver Sacks |
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AntsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Discusses the importance of ants, their classification and origins, colony life cycle, behavior, and communication. Includes both black & white and color photographs.
author: Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson |
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern LandscapeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A celebration of the Arctic, its land, wildlife, people, and light. Also a story of discovery and exploration, a history of the people who ventured there and why, and of present-day scientists who stu...
author: Barry Lopez |
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Are We Alone? Scientists Search for Life in SpaceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the possibility of life on other planets and introduces us to some scientists around the world devoting their lives to finding the answer.
author: Gloria Skurzynski |
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Artificial Life: The Quest for New CreationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An account of the development of artificial intelligence, artificial life, the resulting impact across the sciences, and the power of the computer. Includes discussion of software, robots, smart mole...
author: Steven Levy |
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Assembling CaliforniaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Over a span of 15 years, John McPhee made many geological field trips with tectonicist Eldridge Moores, and this book is the result. A cross-section in human and geologic time, this fourth volume in ...
author: John McPhee |
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Asteroid ImpactClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Drawing on well-respected theories from the fields of physics, geology, astronomy and paleontology, the author recreates the sequence of events surrounding the asteroid hitting Earth 65 million years ...
author: Douglas Henderson |
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Astronomy - Out of This World!Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Planets, stars, galaxies - the universe is enormous, and chock full of interesting things. Green divides the universe into chapters - The Sun, The Solar System, Inner Circle, Gas Giant Gang, Rising S...
author: Dan Green |
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Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and BeyondClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A cosmic tale from the Big Bang, to the birth of the atom, to the emergence of life on Earth that begins and ends with water. From the author of the bestselling "The Physics of Star Trek."
author: Lawrence Maxwell Krauss |
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Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809 - 1882Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The complete and unexpurgated autobiography edited by Darwin's granddaughter provides a look into Darwin's mind, character, a personal account of his education, explorations of the natural world, his ...
author: Charles Darwin, edited by Nora Barlow |
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Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Darwin's classic autobiography, written in simple, straightforward language. Covers a range of issues not known to those who have only read his Origin of Species. Appendix containing letters adds muc...
author: Charles Darwin |
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