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The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of LifeAre We Alone in the Universe? In this provocative and far-reaching book, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life. Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled earth. It was warm...
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Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So TiredWinner of a British Medical Association Book AwardA Brain Pickings Best Science Book of the Year Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns may be the most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks we inherit, but these clocks...
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Living at Micro Scale: The Unexpected Physics of Being SmallKermit the Frog famously said that it isn't easy being green, and in Living at Micro Scale David Dusenbery shows that it isn't easy being small--existing at the size of, say, a rotifer, a tiny multicellular animal just at the boundary between the visible...
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Are You a Spider?Did you know that when a spiders web is damaged, a spider will often eat the remaining silk before making a new one? Young children will make many amazing discoveries about spiders in this captivating account.Author: Judy AllenPublisher: Turtleback BooksPublished: 05/16/2003Pages: 31Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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Student Edition, Spanish 2012Author: Hmd HmdPublisher: Holt McDougalPublished: 11/03/2011Pages: 1120Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780547689814Language: SpanishAudience: Young AdultThis title is only available via back order
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The Frog ScientistThe critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field book about how one boy's interest in backyard science inspired a career in scientific discovery.When Tyrone Hayes was growing up in South Carolina, he didn't worry about pesticides. He just liked to collect frogs. Tyrone's interest in...
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Extreme Scientists: Exploring Nature's Mysteries from Perilous Places"Kids who need convincing that science isn't all white coats and test tubes will have their eyes opened here." --The BulletinScientists in the Field to the extreme! When Paul Flaherty goes to work, he climbs into a four-engine WP-3D Orion turboprop plane and heads...
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Boying Up: How to Be Brave, Bold and BrilliantThe star of "The Big Bang Theory" and author of the #1 bestseller "Girling Up" puts her Ph.D. to work to talk to teen boys about the science and pressures of growing up male in today's world.Author: Mayim BialikPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 05/14/2019Pages: 224Binding Type:...
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The Theory of EvolutionAll living plants and animals, including man, are the modified descendants of one or a few simple living things. A hundred years ago Darwin and Wallace in their theory of natural selection, or the survival of the fittest, explained how evolution could have happened,...
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Darwin's FinchesDavid Lack's classic work on the finches of the Galapagos Islands (Darwin's Finches) was first published in 1947; few books have had such a great impact on evolutionary biology, indeed it is still one of the most succinct and fascinating treatises ever written about...
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Janice VanCleave's Biology for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments That Really WorkWhat's the effect of osmosis on a raisin? How is water transported through plant stems? What's the best way to grow penicillin? How are butterflies different from moths? Now you can discover answers to these and other fascinatingquestions about biologythe study of living organisms....
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Nature's Mind: Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and IntelligenceThe co-discoverer of the "split brain" theory tells how science is recasting the age-old question of nature versus nurture to create a startling new view of human behavior. Recent discoveries suggest that natural selection affects not only physical characteristics but also mental processes, from...
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FrogsCroak if you love frogs Amazing amphibians leap from the pages of this easy nonfiction reader featuring incredible cut-paper frogs in every color, shape, and size.Author: Laura DriscollPublisher: Penguin Young Readers GroupPublished: 09/28/1998Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.07w x 0.13dISBN: 9780448418391Audience: Ages...
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Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and SocietyMany people believe that, at its core, biological sex is a fundamental, diverging force in human development. According to this overly familiar story, differences between the sexes are shaped by past evolutionary pressures--women are more cautious and parenting-focused, while men seek status to attract...
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Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious MindDeceit, lying, and falsehoods lie at the very heart of our cultural heritage. Even the founding myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the story of Adam and Eve, revolves around a lie. Our seemingly insatiable appetite for stories of deception spans the extremes of culture...
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Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from QuantaAccessible, essential coverage of the latest findings in challenging, speculative, and cutting-edge science, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning leaders in scientific journalism at Quanta Magazine "If you're a science and data nerd like me, you may be interested in Alice and Bob Meet the Wall...
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Echinoderm PaleobiologyThe dominant faunal elements in shallow Paleozoic oceans, echinoderms are important to understanding these marine ecosystems. Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left a rich and, for science, extremely useful...
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Spit: What's Cool about DroolThe title says it all. It's yucky. It's gooey It makes your food chewy Ptooey Ptooey Oh, spit. Ew Nasty Ew Gross But spit is no spitball joke. Drool is cool It's one of the most amazing fluids in your body. In Spit, renowned...
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Synthetic: How Life Got MadeIn the final years of the twentieth century, émigrés from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Armed with the latest biotechnology...
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Essentials of Landscape EcologyHuman activity during the Anthropocene has transformed landscapes worldwide on a scale that rivals or exceeds even the largest of natural forces. Landscape ecology has emerged as a science to investigate the interactions between natural and anthropogenic landscapes and ecological processes across a wide...
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