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Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
HardcoverOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From the scientist duo behind True or Poo?, their original New York Times bestselling sensation—a scientifically precise, fully illustrated, utte...
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Middle School Science Education: Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Vol. III, Grades 6-8
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /How to Teach Science for Kids' SuccessThe "Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding" (BFSU) series provides lesson plans that will enable...
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Combining
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalcula...
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Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World is Inspiring Scientific Innovation
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild. "Delightful."—The Gu...
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Echoes of the Ancient Skies: The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"It should be read by anyone even remotely interested in the long saga of the universe's profound and lasting influence on mankind’s development....
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At the Precipice: New Mexico's Changing Climate
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Winner for Nature/EnvironmentAt the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind...
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The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Cicle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Set in nineteenth-century England, The Dragon Seekers chronicles the amazing discoveries of the first fossilists, whose findings in geology and p...
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
HardcoverOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /2020 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist “A superb journalist, in the most honorable tradition of that craft.” —Howard Zinn ...
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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as ...
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The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A captivating exploration of the homing instinct in animals, and what it means for human happiness and survival, from the celebrated naturalist a...
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Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A novelist and a neuroscientist uncover the secrets of human memory.What makes us remember? Why do we forget? And what, exactly, is a memory?With...
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Arguing Science: A Dialogue on the Future of Science and Spirit
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas, and its future. Rupert Sheldrake argues that science needs to fre...
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Humblebee Bumblebee: The Life Story of the Friendly Bumblebees and Their Use by the Backyard Gardener
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Learn the fascinating life story of the bumblebees. Attract pollinating bumblebees to your garden. Capture and observe your own bumblebee colony....
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Minerals: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Minerals existed long before any forms of life, playing a key role in the origin and evolution of life; an interaction with biological systems th...
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Lakes: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /From the mysterious depths of Lake Vostok, Antarctica, to tropical floodplain lakes, inland seas, hydro-reservoirs, and the variety of waterbodie...
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Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how ev...
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Sundials: Design, Construction, and Use / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $44.99Original price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Sundials, which decorate church walls, public plazas, and elegant gardens, are first and foremost astronomical instruments. Before understanding ...
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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Re...
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Fear Of Physics: A Guide For The Perplexed
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /"Assume the cow is a sphere." So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-...
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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occ...
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Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming worldMcKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reportin...
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Modern Quantum Chemistry: Introduction to Advanced Electronic Structure Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The aim of this graduate-level textbook is to present and explain, at other than a superficial level, modem ab initio approaches to the calculati...
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2012 New York Times Top 10 Book of the YearSlate.com 2012 Staff Pick In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddl...
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Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua
PaperbackOriginal price $37.95Original price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This two-part text fills what has often been a void in the first-year graduate physics curriculum. Through its examination of particles and conti...
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