Life Sciences
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Why?: What Makes Us Curious
$17.99 Add to cartAstrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics–curiosity–in this “lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account” (Kirkus Reviews) as he… [more below]
- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1476792100
- Language: English
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Anatomy & Physiology: A Complete Introduction
$19.99 Read moreAnatomy & Phsiology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining … [more below]
- Author: Le Vay, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 147360866X
- Language: English
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Dissect Your Dinner
$42.43 Add to cartThis is a complete curriculum about food chemistry for ages 10 to 16. The first half of the book (130 pages) is the student text which gives all the information needed. The text is lively and includes
- Author: McHenry, Ellen Johnston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737476371
- Language: English
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Mastering Your PhD: Survival and Success in the Doctoral Years and Beyond
$29.99 Add to cartThis bestselling book guides PhD students through their graduate years and beyond. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning
- Author: Gosling, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 3031114167
- Language: English
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
$26.00 Add to cartThe New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition!
“Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in- Author: Nye, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074223
- Language: English
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Botany of the Kitchen Garden: The Science and Horticulture of Our Favourite Crops
$30.00 Read moreA comprehensive guide to understanding and improving food crops.
People have been growing fruits and vegetables in domesticated spaces for centuries. In Botany of the Kitchen Garden, H??a Dove exper- Author: Dove, Hélèna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1842467832
- Language: English
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
$19.99 Add to cartDecades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants ma
- Author: Calvo, Paco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074612
- Language: English
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Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia
$43.95 Add to cartAbundantly illustrated with more than 400 color photographs and 200 detailed drawings, this comprehensive guide to the state’s rare and endangered plants provides photographs and botanical illustratio
- Author: Chafin, Linda G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0977962105
- Language: English
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
$22.00 Add to cart“Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero.” –Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk
We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and cli- Author: Goldacre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0865478066
- Language: English
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A Naturalist’s Guide to Wetland Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America
$19.95 Add to cartHere is a comprehensive, significant study of wetlands flora, which encompasses all members of the plant and fungi kingdoms. These include poisonous, hallucinogenic, medicinal, and edible plant life a
- Author: Cox, Donald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0815607407
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
$32.00 Add to cartWhether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning — a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your voca… [more below]
- Author: Bergen, Benjamin K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028292
- Language: English
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Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food
$16.95 Add to cartHow is personality correlated with preference for sweet or bitter foods? What genres of music best enhance the taste of red wine? With clear and compelling explanations of the latest research, Rachel
- Author: Herz, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356604
- Language: English
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Counting Backwards: A Doctor’s Notes on Anesthesia
$15.95 Add to cartFor many of the 40 million Americans who undergo it each year, anesthesia is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, pediatric anesthesiologist Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo delivers
- Author: Przybylo, Henry Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356426
- Language: English
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The Biosphere
$37.99 Add to cart“What Darwin did for life through time, Vernadsky did for life through space on a geological scale.” –Lynn Margulis This classic 1926 book is the first sustained expression of the idea, now widely ac… [more below]
- Author: Vernadsky, Vladimir I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 27 1998
- ISBN10: 038798268X
- Language: English
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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal
$17.00 Add to cartThis work has become a benchmark of popular anthropology and psychology.
Zoologist Desmond Morris considers humans as being simply another animal species in this classic book first published in 1967.- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0385334303
- Language: English
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Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
$20.00 Add to cartWhy have we humans always longed to connect with something larger than ourselves? Even today in our technologically advanced age, more than seventy percent of Americans claim to believe in God. Why, i… [more below]
- Author: Newberg, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 26 2002
- ISBN10: 034544034X
- Language: English
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A Darwinian Survival Guide: Hope for the Twenty-First Century
$34.95 Add to cartHow humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago–and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.
Desp- Author: Brooks, Daniel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 026204868X
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Roses
$33.25 Add to cartOnce upon a time-before the 1860s-people loved old roses like “Pearl of Gold,” “Marchionesse of Lorne,” or “Autumn Damask.” Then along came the hybrid tea roses, which were easier to arrange, more dra… [more below]
- Author: Christopher, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0226105962
- Language: English
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The Earth: Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet Through 50 Creatures
$35.00 Read moreIt is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living organisms that developed in hydrothermal deep-sea vents to the diversity of life today. The ev… [more below]
- Author: Panciroli, Elsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1529413982
- Language: English
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A Little Queer Natural History
$16.00 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature.
From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mu- Author: Davis, Josh L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0226837033
- Language: English
