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Race to Save the Lord God BirdClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A story sweeping 200 years of history including artists, specimen collectors, lumber barons, plume hunters, pioneering biologists, and the parts they all played in the Ivory-billed Woodpecker's presum...
author: Phillip Hoose |
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Reading the Forested Landscape - A Natural History of New EnglandClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from pre-colonial days to the present. Each chapter addresses a form of forest disturbance common in New England (fire, logging, blight), ...
author: Tom Wessels |
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Relativity - The Special and the General Theory: A Clear Explanation that Anyone Can UnderstandClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An explanation of the Special and General Theories of Relativity by Einstein himself. He states that it is written for readers who are ?"nterested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the m...
author: Albert Einstein |
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Return to Wild America - A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural SoulClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Scott Weidensaul retraces Roger Tory Peterson's and James Fisher's coastline hugging journey of North America to document the changes that have taken place in wild America fifty years later. Written t...
author: Scott Weidensaul |
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Riddle of the DinosaurClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Updated theories about dinosaurs based on new evidence. Also a history of paleontologists search to unearth the natural history of the dinosaurs.Includes 34 black & white illustrations and 7 full-colo...
author: John Noble Wilford |
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Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient EgyptClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
author: James Cross Giblin |
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Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the search for the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, for which the Clay Institute put up a $1 million prize in 2001, and of the mathematicians who have worked to solve it. Also a rare inti...
author: Karl Sabbagh |
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and CulturesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fascinating exploration of handedness in nature, humans and cultures; its origin and significance. Includes historical accounts and anecdotes and such musings as why mirrors reflect left-right but n...
author: Chris McManus |
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Rising From the PlainsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
McPhee profiles David Love, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and their travels together across Wyoming studying the rock in roadcuts of the interstate and the geologies these roadcuts repr...
author: John McPhee |
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Rock, Paper, Scissors - Game Theory in Everyday LifeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Fisher takes the mathematical concepts of game theory and applies them to the problem of non-cooperation between people. From individual relationships to global warming, resource depletion, and confl...
author: Len Fisher |
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Rocket Boys: A MemoirClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An entertaining memoir of Hicham's hard-life boyhood in a West Virginia mining community and his struggle to find his place until one evening changed his life, and those of his friends, and led to his...
author: Homer H. Hickam, Jr. |
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Rocks and Minerals -
A Gem of a Book!Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
"Imagine the ground beneath your feet as the home of a crowd of crystal-cool characters, each with their own personality. This book is your essential guide to the underworld beings who are the buildin...
author: Dan Green |
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNAClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Biography of Rosalind Franklin that brings to light her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA. Includes sixteen pages of black & white photographs.
author: Brenda Maddox |
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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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