New Science Books
New arrivals added to our Science Books Collection in the last 7 days
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100 Animals That Can F-cking End You |
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Jun 9, 2022 |
50 things to do in the urban wild |
"Enrich your city lifestyle with 50 illustrated activities and step-by-step projects designed to engage, explore, and appreciate the urban nature and wildlife around you"-- |
Jun 9, 2022 |
A beautiful mind - the life of mathematical genius and Nobel laureate John Nash |
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Jun 20, 2022 |
A Year Unfolding |
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Animal - The Definitive Visual Guide |
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Barron's Painless Biology |
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Jun 9, 2022 |
Breathless - The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus |
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Chasing Plants - Journeys With a Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains |
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Jun 30, 2022 |
Dancing cockatoos and the dead man test - how behavior evolves and why it matters |
"A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity, from tiny wasps to lumbering elephants-and humans. It's time to leave behind the tired nature-versus-nurture debate. In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test, Marlene Zuk asks a more fascinating question: How does behavior evolve, and how is that process similar-and different-in people and animals? Drawing from a wealth of research, including her own on insects, she explores how genes and the environment work together to |
Jun 9, 2022 |
Earthlings - imaginative encounters with the natural world |
"Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life. We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years. More than that, we all-from humans to plants to bacteria-share a planet. We are all Earthlings. Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of Earthling life. She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that |
Jun 6, 2022 |
Elusive - how Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass |
"On July 4, 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN gathered to make a momentous announcement: after nearly a half century of speculation and work, the Higgs boson had been found, and the mystery of mass solved. Not far offstage was the manfor whom the particle had been named: Peter Higgs. The Higgs boson is an anomaly. No other basic particle of physics is named after a person. And in a point of almost supreme irony, it is named after a man whom most physicists would call one of t |
Jun 13, 2022 |
How Fast Did T. Rex Run? - Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science |
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Jun 9, 2022 |
How to speak whale - a voyage into the future of animal communication |
"What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill-the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak-asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend, just off the coast of California. |
Jun 16, 2022 |
Methuselah's zoo - what nature can teach us about living longer, healthier lives |
"A natural history of longevity in a wide variety of species along with an exploration of what we can learn from other species to preserve and extend human health"-- |
Jun 9, 2022 |
Mother Brain - How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood |
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Jun 9, 2022 |
Must Know High School Biology |
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Jun 23, 2022 |
Must Know High School Chemistry |
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Jun 9, 2022 |
Nowhere Left to Go - How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth |
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Jun 13, 2022 |
Painless statistics |
"Provides review and practice in an easy, step-by-step format...[with] clear examples for all topics, including data and distributions, basic probability, confidence intervals, bivariate statistics,...diagrams, charts, and instructive math illustrations"-- |
Jun 16, 2022 |
Penguins - the ultimate guide |
A guide for bird enthusiasts and armchair naturalists covers all eighteen species of the world's penguins and includes discussions on penguin conservation, species profiles, facts, and tips on where to see penguins in the wild. |
Jun 9, 2022 |