Life Sciences
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman, a playful, passionate guide to the science all around us. The Canon is an ebullient celebration of science that stands to become a clas… [more below]
- Author: Angier, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0547053460
- Language: English
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12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature’s Lessons in Happiness
$21.99 Read moreDiscover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE ‘A lyrical and life-affirming book tha- Author: Corbett, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 140594921X
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$14.99 Read moreDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high q
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1509827692
- Language: English
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The Story of Vermont: A Natural and Cultural History, Second Edition
$27.95 Read moreIn this second edition of their classic text, Klyza and Trombulak use the lens of interconnectedness to examine the geological, ecological, and cultural forces that came together to produce contempora… [more below]
- Author: Klyza, Christopher McGrory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1611684021
- Language: English
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Animal Music: Sound and Song in the Natural World
$21.95 Read moreThe first anthology on animal music and communication, with contributions from leading scientists, researchers and musicians.
Ever since the accidental discovery of whale song in 1967, the idea of comp
- Series: Strange Attractor Press
- Author: Fischer, Tobias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 1907222340
- Language: English
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The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
$21.50 Add to cartA deeply reported look at home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on our culture and on individual lives
You swab your cheek or spit in a vial, then send it away to a lab somewhere. Week… [more below]- Author: Copeland, Libby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1419747932
- Language: English
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50 Ways to Help Save the Bees
$14.95 Read moreIf you like to eat your fruits and vegetables (and even if you don’t ), you should value our planet’s bees. Yet, because of environmental pollution, loss of green spaces, and a general disregard for t
- Author: Coulthard, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1682686264
- Language: English
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Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved
$16.95 Read more“The irresistible enthusiasm of Great Adaptations couldn’t come at a better time.”–David P. Barash, Wall Street Journal
“Be very amazed.”–Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words and Becoming Wild How on- Author: Catania, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0691228477
- Language: English
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From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
$19.00 Add to cartA Wired Most Fascinating Book of the Year
“An important book that reminds us that navigation remains one of our most underappreciated arts.”
–Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s- Author: Bond, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260414
- Language: English
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The Social Lives of Animals
$30.00 Read moreA rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is
- Author: Ward, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600835
- Language: English
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The Science of Compost: Life, Death and Decay in the Garden
$14.95 Read moreThe Science of Compost: Life Death and Decay in the Garden takes you on a journey into the underworld of composting. Doberski explains the science of what goes on but also promotes interest in the liv… [more below]
- Author: Doberski, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1914902939
- Language: English
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The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age
$30.99 Read moreFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life.
From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging doe
- Series: Plant Paradox #4
- Author: Gundry MD, Steven R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 006288817X
- Language: English
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Octopuses
$10.99 Read more- Series: Amazing Animals
- Author: Riggs, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1682771261
- Language: English
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Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels in Your Own Backyard, Eastern North American Species
$24.95 Read moreIn lively, accessible prose, John Himmelman explains the intricacy of moths’ life cycle, their importance in nature, and how just a tiny handful of the many moth species are truly pests to humans. He
- Author: Himmelman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 081177211X
- Language: English
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Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
$17.99 Read more“A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling autho
- Author: Metzl, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1728214130
- Language: English
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Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
$15.95 Read moreAn “endlessly fascinating” (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson’s twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds
- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1631496670
- Language: English
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Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
$18.95 Add to cartA leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think
What makes you the way you are–and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neu- Author: Mitchell, Kevin J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 0691204152
- Language: English
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Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
$46.58 Read moreA revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyond
By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together thr- Author: Harris, William A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0691211310
- Language: English
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Moving Between Worlds: A Guide to Embodied Living and Communicating
$29.95 Read moreDaily explorations to enhance embodied communication
Communication is a fundamental human activity, and as much as 90% of all communication is non-verbal. Yet awareness of embodied intelligence in comm
- Author: Olsen, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0819580899
- Language: English
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
$17.95 Read moreWhat happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie
- Author: Ashcroft, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 039334679X
- Language: English
