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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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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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Strange Behavior: Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A master neurologist's clinical tales—both funny and profound—of the evolution of the brain. As a sympathetic—and brilliant—brain detective, Haro...
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The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishin...
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The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A groundbreaking account of the origin and place of meaning in the earthly biosphereWhat is meaning? How does it arise? Where is it found in the ...
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Darwin's Lost Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Evolution/ Science/ Darwin/ Biography Powerfully contradicting the stereotype of "survival of the fittest" and "selfish gene" Darwinism, this is ...
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Curious Naturalists / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Enthusiastic and informal accounts of the exciting discoveries and fascinating observations made by naturalists in the study of the behavior of a...
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Illustrated Guide to Home Biology Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture
PaperbackOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Experience the magic of biology in your own home lab. This hands-on introduction includes more than 30 educational (and fun) experiments that hel...
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Big Pacific: Passionate, Voracious, Mysterious, Violent
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of Earth’s surface—more than all of the planet’s landmasses combined. It contains half of the world’s water, h...
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A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world of atoms, but in the macroscopic world around us In t...
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Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill?: How Electricity and Magnetism Affect Our Health
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Electricity and Magnetism (E&M) underlies many lifesaving medical devices, such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners, neural stimulators, a...
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe.”—The Atlantic The...
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Gerard's Herbal: Selections from the 1633 Enlarged & Amended Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Gerard's Herbal, or The Generall Historie of Plantes, is the fourth gathering in 400 years, in a line of descent from the original folio, the 163...
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The New Science of Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Brain, Mind, and Self
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book explains in layperson's terms a new approach to studying consciousness based on a partnership between neuroscientists and complexity sc...
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The Course of Nature: A Book of Drawings on Natural Selection and Its Consequences
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Humanity is a part of Nature, yet every thinking person at one time or another asks herself or himself, "How did we get here? What makes me diffe...
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The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Most people, when they contemplate the living world, conclude that it is a designed place. So it is jarring when biologists come along and say th...
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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches from Contemporary Writers
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In this dazzling literary collection, writers explore and celebrate their lives with and love for birds—detailing experiences from Alaska to Berm...
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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $24.90Original price $24.90 - Original price $24.90Original price $24.90Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive docume...
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A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A thrilling synthesis from a brilliant scientist who discovered one of the most important chapters in our history." —Sean B. Carroll Big History...
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Whose Egg Is That?
HardcoverOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A nonfiction guessing game that explores the connections between an animal, its eggs, and its habitat.Written by a mammalogist at the Smithsonian...
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Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Credited with discovering more species than Darwin, praised for his “ability to take complex ideas and—seemingly effortlessly— make them accessib...
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Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An essential illustrated guide to the 101 most fascinating virusesThis stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varie...
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The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The great Victorian biologist Thomas Huxley once wrote, "I know of no familiar substance forming part of our every-day knowledge and experience, ...
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Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a wea...
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