The Chimp and the River by David Quammen
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Category: Science and Nature
The real story of AIDS-how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human, and then infected more than 60 million people-is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. E ...Show more
The Beak of the Finch: Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
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Category: Science and Nature
The Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University scientists--evolutionary biologists--engaged in an extraordinary investigation. They are watching, and recording, evolution as it is occurring--now--among the very species of Gal pagos finches that inspired Darwin's early musings on the o ...Show more
Life's Grandeur : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould
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Category: Science and Nature
Argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth. This book states that if we wish to see grandeur in life, we must discard our selfish and anthropocentric view of evolution and learn to see it as Darwin did, as the unfathomably rich source of ...Show more
What the Dog Knows by Cat Warren
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Category: Science and Nature
"Taking the reader from crime scenes to training sites and science labs, talking and working with other handlers and trainers, and interviewing animal psychologists, forensic anthropologists, breeders, and scent researchers, Warren explains how working dogs can capture the hidden worlds their noses know ...Show more
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by K Anders Ericsson
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Category: Science and Nature
Mozart wasnâe(tm)t born with perfect pitch.Most athletes are not born with any natural advantage.Three world-class chess players were sisters, whose success was planned by their parents before they were even born.Anders Ericsson has spent thirty years studying The Special Ones, the geniuses, sports star ...Show more
The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard
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Category: Science and Nature
What would you do if you were sitting quietly in your living room, when two mysterious strangers appeared from out of nowhere - and then told you they were 'ascended masters' who had come to reveal some shocking secrets of existence and teach you the miraculous powers of advanced forgiveness? Would you ...Show more
Yearbook of Astronomy 2018 by Brian Jones; Richard S. Pearson
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Category: Science and Nature
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin; Lyudmila Trut
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Category: Science and Nature
Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs-they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken-imagine speedin ...Show more
Mathematics in 10 Lessons : the grand tour by Jerry P. King
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Category: Science and Nature
This book introduces mathematics in a far more enlightened manner. Ten essential lessons for the general reader with little knowledge of the subject provide lucid explanations to make it more palatable for the wary mind. The uninitiated will even begin to enjoy the unravelling of a topic that previously ...Show more
Color Atlas of Small Animal Anatomy - The Essentials by Thomas O. McCracken; Robert A. Kainer; David Carlson (As told to)
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Category: Science and Nature
This new resource provides a basic foundation in small animal anatomy for students of veterinary medicine, animal science, and veterinary technology. Extraordinary accuracy and beautiful original artwork make this a truly unique learning tool that includes the anatomy of all organ systems in the dog, ca ...Show more
The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans De Waal
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Category: Science and Nature
In this engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers an illuminating new perspective on human nature. Bringing together his pioneering research on primate behaviour, the latest findings in evolutionary biology and insights from moral philosophy, de Waal explains that we don't ne ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees - What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben; Tim Flannery (Foreword by); Jane Billinghurst (Translator)
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Category: Science and Nature
The first book in New York Times bestselling author Peter Wohlleben's The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy. Book two, The Inner Life of Animals, is available now, and the third book, The Secret Wisdom of Nature, is coming in Spring 2019. Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester an ...Show more