By Deborah L. Martin - $21.95 - add to cart

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Grab a front row seat for the sights and sounds of feeding, nesting, and bathing birds right in your backyard using these tips shared by experienced birders. Whether the aim is to attract tiny humm...

By James Case - $17.50 - add to cart

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When we interview for a job, play a pickup game of basketball or check our mutual funds, we're competing with other people. Writer and business consultant Case, who has a Ph.D. in mathematics, surv...

By Seymour Percy - $17.95 - add to cart

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One of the most important unsolved problems of current physics, astronomy, and cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy. These two invisible components of the universe seem to control...

By David Burch - $21.95 - add to cart

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From Library Journal Physicist, author of books on marine navigation, and columnist, Burch is primarily concerned here with coastal and sheltered water situations. Although basic chart reading, re...

By J. R. Leibowitz - $24.95 - add to cart

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Most "art and science" books focus on the science of perspective or the psychology of perception. Hidden Harmony does not. Instead, the book addresses the surprising common ground between physics a...

By Cecil Kuhne - $15.00 - add to cart

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The latest book in the Near Death series of adventure anthologies offers a spellbinding collection of the greatest writing about surviving mountaineering disasters.

By Dorling Kindersley - $27.95 - add to cart

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Breathtaking, powerful, and all-encompassing in its sheer scope and visual impact, Ocean sweeps you away on an incredible journey into the depths of our astonishing marine world. As the site where ...

By Dean Crawford - $19.95 - add to cart

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A sleek hunter of the seas, the shark has struck fear into the hearts of men since the days of the first fishermen. Dean Crawford now explores here the long relationship between shark and man, reve...

By Chris Mooney - $16.50 - add to cart

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One of the leading environmental journalists and bloggers working today, Chris Mooney delves into a red-hot debate in this examination of hurricane science and the politics and culture wars surroun...

By Forest Gregg - $18.95 - add to cart

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The benefits of straight vegetable oil (SVO) as an alternate fuel for diesel engines are many. SVO is cheap, carbon-neutral, uses a waste product, and does not depend upon centralised corporate inf...

By Leonard Susskind - $30.99 - add to cart

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What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know ...

By Paul Davies - $17.95 - add to cart

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In the successor to his provocative bestseller The Mind of God, the cosmologist Paul Davies tackles another big question: Why does the universe seem so well suited for life? One popular explanation...

By Alan Weisman - $18.95 - add to cart

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Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first...

By Dallas Murphy - $17.00 - add to cart

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In To Follow the Water, critically acclaimed author Dallas Murphy artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist...

By Richard Ellis - $29.50 - add to cart

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The author of The Book of Sharks, Imagining Atlantis, and Encyclopedia of the Sea turns his gaze to the tuna—one of the biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals and the source of so...