By David J. Linden - $21.50 - add to cart

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You've probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain's elega...

By Dorothy L. Cheney - $18.95 - add to cart

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In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, “He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” Baboon Metaphysics is Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth’s fascinating r...

By Candace Savage - $28.00 - add to cart

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The bee may have a brain the size of a grass seed, but in its brief, five-week life it works as a brood nurse, wax producer, comb builder, honey maker, home guard, and floral forager. Bees: Nature'...

By Jerome Groopman (editor) - $16.50 - add to cart

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"The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intel...

By Sylvia Nasar (editor) - $16.25 - add to cart

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Edited by Sylvia Nasar, bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind and former economics correspondent for the New York Times, The Best American Science Writing 2008 brings together the premiere science...

By Joel Berger - $30.95 - add to cart

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At dawn on a brutally cold January morning, Joel Berger crouched in the icy grandeur of the Teton Range. It had been three years since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone after a sixty-year ab...

By Ellis Jones - $9.95 - add to cart

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The only comprehensive guide for socially and environmentally responsible consumers available, this book ranks every product on the shelf from A to F so you can quickly tell the "good guys" from th...

By Cynthia Stokes Brown - $19.95 - add to cart

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Beginning with the very origin of the universe, American Book Award–winning author Brown (Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement) shows that history is more than the written...

By Bruce H. Lipton - $25.95 - add to cart

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With more than 100,000 copies sold of his self-published book, "The Biology of Belief," Bruce Lipton teams up with Hay House to bring his message to an even wider audience. This book is a groundbre...

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 Joe Schwarcz - $24.00 - add to cart

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From the #1 bestselling author – a cornucopia of mind-expanding insights into the science of the real world. Dr. Joe – as he is affectionately known to millions of readers, listeners, viewers, a...

By Ken Forscutt - $19.95 - add to cart

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Ken was born in Winnipeg Manitoba. He completed his flying training in Brandon Manitoba, graduated, and then received his wings and pilot's license in 1967. His flying career has taken him to vario...

By Fred Pearce - $24.95 - add to cart

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A global journey to find the sources of all the stuff in one man's life - and it's social and environmental footprint. Where does everything in our daily lives come from? The clothes on our back...

By Bjorn Lomborg - $15.95 - add to cart

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Lomborg, a political scientist and economist with a conservative approach to environmentalism, presents a work that's likely to garner as much acclaim and disdain as his first book, 2001's The Skep...

By Jay Ingram - $28.00 - add to cart

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From icecaps to hot springs, Discovery Channel's Daily Planet travelled to remote corners of the Earth to find out what we can do to reverse global warming and what people are doing to create a sus...