Biology
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Biology Essentials for Dummies
$12.99 Add to cartBiology Essentials For Dummies (9781119589587) was previously published as Biology Essentials For Dummies (9781118072677). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is th
- Author: Kratz, Rene Fester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1119589584
- Language: English
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AI & Aliens: the truthful analysis
$10.95 Add to cartOf the five main questions science had to answer about our world and our place in it, Charles Darwin explained the origin of the variety of life on Earth, and, as presented in his book FREEDOM, biolog
- Author: Griffith, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1741290945
- Language: English
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Psilocybin Producers Guide
$17.95 Add to cartAll-new editions of four popular guides to altering consciousness
— These underground classics from the 1970s have been rewritten and repackaged with new illustrations and photos, and designed for ea- Author: Gottlieb, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0914171925
- Language: English
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Live Long and Evolve: What Star Trek Can Teach Us about Evolution, Genetics, and Life on Other Worlds
$16.95 Add to cartAn engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchise
In Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual planets, meet diverse beings, and encounter unique civi- Author: Noor, Mohamed A. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0691203938
- Language: English
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
$30.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species
“A wondrou- Author: Vince, Gaia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465094902
- Language: English
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Blood: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBlood is vital to most animals. In mammals it transports oxygen and food, carries away waste, and contains the white cells that attack invading microbes. Playing a central role in life, it has had pro… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Cooper, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199581452
- Language: English
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A Lab of One’s Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
$17.99 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detour… [more below]
- Author: Colwell, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1501181297
- Language: English
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Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
$16.99 Add to cartThis “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself.
It may be a wonderfu- Author: Riskin, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1476707553
- Language: English
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The Goldilocks Enigma
$16.95 Add to cartThe Goldilocks Enigma is Paul Davies’s eagerly awaited return to cosmology, the successor to his critically acclaimed bestseller The Mind of God. Here he tackles all the big questions, including the b… [more below]
- Author: Davies, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0547053584
- Language: English
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At the Water’s Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore But Then Went Back to Sea
$18.99 Add to cartEverybody Out of the Pond
At the Water’s Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life’s transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to … [more below]- Author: Zimmer, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856239
- Language: English
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Common Ground: A Naturalist’s Cape Cod
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Common Ground was first published, Annie Dillard praised Robert Finch’s essays for “their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality.” New readers will have a chance to discover that Finch… [more below]
- Author: Finch, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0393311791
- Language: English
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California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide
$70.00 Read moreWinner of the CBHL Award of Excellence
California is one of the most ecologically rich and diverse regions of North America, and home to hundreds of species of mushrooms. In California Mushrooms, myc- Author: Desjardin, Dennis E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1604693533
- Language: English
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So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World
$35.00 Add to cartA biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature’s breathtaking complexity
The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different fr- Author: Parthasarathy, Raghuveer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691200408
- Language: English
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Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality
$30.00 Read moreInspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you.
David J. Linden has devoted his career to understa- Author: Linden, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541698886
- Language: English
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The Shock Of Change that understanding the human condition brings
$10.95 Add to cartAs biologist Jeremy Griffith explains in THE Interview (which psychiatrist Professor Harry Prosen described as “the most important interview of all time”), while we humans lacked the explanation for o
- Author: Griffith, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1741290775
- Language: English
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Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life / ]Ctimothy J. Jorgensen
$22.95 Read more- Author: Jorgensen, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 069124815X
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Body
$25.99 Add to cartThe first detailed account of the way in which our bodies preserve their stability against the many disturbing forces they encounter, suggesting that the lessons to be derived from the body’s wisdom m… [more below]
- Author: Cannon, Walter B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0393002055
- Language: English
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Tragedy in Mouse Utopia: An Ecological Commentary on Human Utopia
$18.70 Add to cartIndifference to behavioral needs of the young caused Mouse Utopia to self-destruct. Can Human Utopia avoid a similar fate? Yes. How? By confronting the Sorcerer. Will we? In time?
- Author: Vallentyne, J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 02 2006
- ISBN10: 1412056330
- Language: English
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
$19.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
“Gives you all the context you need to understand the science of immunity. … An Elegant Defense left me with [a] sense of awe.” –Bill Gates, Gates Notes Summer Reading List
The Pu
- Author: Richtel, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0062698494
- Language: English
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Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe topic of stem cells has a high profile in the media. We’ve made important advances in our scientific understanding, but despite this the clinical applications of stem cells are still in their infa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Slack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198869290
- Language: English
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