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American Sea Writingby Peter Neill, Nathaniel PhilbrickISBN 1883011833 (1-883011-83-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Arrow of Timeby Roger Highfield, Peter V. CoveneyISBN 1852271973 (1-85227-197-3)
Hardcover, W.H. Allen
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arrow of Time'Book summary:In this book physical chemist Dr Peter Coveney and award-winning science journalist Dr Roger Highfield have questioned our understanding of science with their humorous reinterpretation of the most profound aspect of time - why it points from the past to the future. The author's challenge to scientific preconceptions about the irreversibility of time is designed to link apparently irreconcilable features of science, from Einstein's obsession with causality to chaos theory, from the cause of jet lag to the Monday morning feeling. [via]
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The Best Book of Useless Information Everby Noel BothamISBN 1844541754 (1-84454-175-4)
Hardcover, John Blake
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Book of Useless Information Ever'Book summary:Hot on the heels of the sensational success of the World's Greatest Book of Useless Information, the Official Useless Information Society bring you another essential compendium of everything you never needed but always wanted to know. Were you aware, for example, that cigarettes contain honey? Or that a ferret will die if it cannot find a mate? Would you like to know what Madonna did before she was famous, or how many toothpick accidents there are every year. If you are a lover of the wonderfully pointless, then this is the book for you. [via]
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Big Splash: A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, The Death of Dinosaurs, the Creation of the Oceans, the Nature of the Cosmos, and the Very Future of the Earth Itselfby Louis A. FrankISBN 1559720336 (1-55972-033-6)
Hardcover, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetimeby John NaughtonISBN 1585671843 (1-58567-184-3)
Softcover, Overlook Press, The
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime'Book summary:John Naughton, to judge by this learned but lightly written history of modern communications technology, is deeply interested in just about everything. It mystifies the Irish-born Cambridge University scholar that so few people share his fascination with the Internet--and, he grumps, "the higher you go up the social and political hierarchy the worse it gets."
A Brief History of the Future, whose title is just right, is Naughton's attempt to educate the uninitiated in how the Internet came to be. Although its development occurred in starts and stops over a half-century, the Internet came into its own only in the 1990s, with the arrival of the World Wide Web and widely available software to negotiate it. Each of those innovations, though, drew on work that sometimes extends deep into the past, and Naughton does a good job of tracing technical lineages. Though studded with geekspeak, his narrative doesn't presuppose much background knowledge on his readers' part, unlike Stephen Segaller's worthy Nerds 2.0.1., which covers some of the same ground. Naughton's cast of characters includes such scientific and administrative luminaries as Norbert Wiener, Vannevar Bush, Paul Baran, Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Tim Berners-Lee (but, sad to say, not Al Gore), each of whom made contributions large and small to what Naughton insists is a technological revolution with endless possibilities for the common good.
Well-written and richly detailed, Naughton's book is a fine introduction to the Net, and to the countless, largely unsung innovators who made it possible. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historieby Helge KraghISBN 8779341691 (87-7934-169-1)
Hardcover, Aarhus universitetsforlag
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Hardcover, Aarhus universitetsforlag - Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie: ISBN 8779341691 (87-7934-169-1)
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Darwinian Fairytalesby D.C. StoveISBN 1859723063 (1-85972-306-3)
Hardcover, Ashgate Pub Co
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Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolutionby D.C. Stove, Roger KimballISBN 1594031401 (1-59403-140-1)
Hardcover, Encounter Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution'Book summary:Whatever your opinion of Intelligent Design, youll find Stoves criticism of what he calls Darwinism difficult to stop reading. Stoves blistering attack on Richard Dawkins selfish genes and memes is unparalleled and unrelenting. A discussion of spiders who mimic bird droppings is alone worth the price of the book. Darwinian Fairytales should be read and pondered by anyone interested in sociobiology, the origin of altruism, and the awesome process of evolution. --Martin Gardner, author of Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience[via]More editions of Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution:
The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory Anthologyby Alan Drengson, Yuichi InoueISBN 1556431988 (1-55643-198-8)
Softcover, North Atlantic Books
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The Diversity of Lifeby Edward O. WilsonISBN 0393319407 (0-393-31940-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diversity of Life: With a New Introduction'Book summary:Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature, but also our very sanity. In The Diversity of Life, Wilson takes a sweeping view of our planet's natural richness, remarking on what on the surface seems a paradox: "almost all the species that ever lived are extinct, and yet more are alive today than at any time in the past." (Wilson's elegant explanation is a scientific education in itself.) This great variety of species is, of course, threatened by habitat destruction, global climate change, and a host of other forces, and Wilson revisits his oft-stated call for the protection of wilderness and undeveloped land, noting that "wilderness has virtue unto itself and needs no extraneous justification." We should, he continues, regard every species, "every scrap of biodiversity," as precious and irreplaceable, without attempting to quantify that regard with utilitarian measures such as "bio-economics." In short, Wilson offers with this book a simple, workable environmental ethic that extends the work of Aldo Leopold and other conservationists. A remarkably productive and influential scientist, Wilson is also a fine writer, and his survey of biodiversity makes for welcome and instructive reading. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spiritby Al GoreISBN 1594866376 (1-59486-637-6)
Softcover, Rodale Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit'Book summary:What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a big deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must make the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote:
I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environment crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude that I have not gone far enough.... [T]he time has long since come to take more political risks--and endure more political criticism--by proposing tougher, more effective solutions and fighting hard for their enactments.
And the buzz on the street is that Gore actually wrote those words himself.
When Earth in the Balance first came out, it caused quite a stir--and for good reason. It convincingly makes the case that a crisis of epidemic proportions is nearly upon us and that if the world doesn't get its act together soon and agree to some kind of "Global Marshall Plan" to protect the environment, we're all up a polluted creek without a paddle. Myriad plagues are upon us, but the worst include the loss of biodiversity, the depletion of the ozone layer, the slash-and-burn destruction of rainforests, and the onset of global warming. None of this is new, of course, nor was it new in 1992. But most environmentalists will still get a giddy feeling reading such a call to action as written by a prominent politician.
The book is arranged into three sections: the first describes the plagues; the second looks at how we got ourselves into this mess; and the final chapters present ways out. Gore gets his points across in a serviceable way, though he could have benefited from a firmer editor's hand; at times the analogies are arcane and the pacing is odd--kind of like a Gore speech that climaxes at weird points and then sinks just as the audience is about to clap. Still, at the end you understand what's been said. Gore believes that if we apply some American ingenuity, the twin engines of democracy and capitalism can be rigged to help us stabilize world population growth, spread social justice, boost education levels, create environmentally appropriate technologies, and negotiate international agreements to bring us back from the brink. For example, a worldwide shift to clean, renewable energy sources would create huge economic opportunities for companies large and small to design, build, and maintain solar panels, wind turbines, fuel cells, and other ecofriendly innovations.
Gore doesn't mince words when describing just how hard it will be to get out of this jam. Real hope is contingent on a swelling up of concern among the public--and fast. A year into the vice presidency, in an interview with writer Bill McKibben, Gore paraphrased a key passage in his book, "The minimum that is scientifically necessary far exceeds the maximum that is politically feasible." Ah, a political out. Some readers will ask of Gore: what has he done since publishing his book to advance the political feasibility of decisive environmental action? --Chip Giller [via]
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A Field Guide to Germsby Wayne BiddleISBN 140003051X (1-4000-3051-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Field Guide to Germs'Book summary:From the title alone, you know it's going to be good. Biddle delves into anthrax and arboviruses, cholera and chlamydia, diphtheria, dengue, and dysentery, and on through the disease-ridden alphabet to Zika fever. Biddle explains in graphic detail the causes, symptoms and treatments for these germs, and it's all jolly good middle-of-the-night reading. You might become somewhat phobic if you read it from cover to cover, but no one will be more scintillating at parties. [via]
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanthby Samantha WeinbergISBN 1857029062 (1-85702-906-2)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animalsby Peter Schouten, Tim F. FlanneryISBN 1876485779 (1-876485-77-9)
Hardcover, Text Pub
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Gems and Jewelry: All Color Guideby Joel E. AremISBN 0945005091 (0-945005-09-1)
Softcover, Geoscience Pr
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Geologyby Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes, Raymond PerlmanISBN 1582381437 (1-58238-143-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Geology'Book summary:This informative guide covers the five billion years of history that have given the earth its present form, including:[via]
The earth's relation to the rest of the universe
The rocks and minerals of which it is made
The effects of glaciers, gravity, volcanoes, and other forces
Illustrated in full color, this guide is valuable for everyone interested in our planet, the ultimate basis of our present society.More editions of Geology:
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The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanitiesby Stephen Jay GhouldISBN 1400051533 (1-4000-5153-3)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities'Book summary:Though this final book is not the most accessible of Stephen Jay Gould's meditations on science and culture, it is a complex and revealing look at one of the late paleontologist's great passions: the unity of human endeavor. The titular hedgehog and fox refer to the classic dichotomy of persistence opposed to agility of thought, which Gould uses as a backbone in comparing, contrasting, and balancing science and the humanities. Unlike many scientists, he does not consider humanities (nor religion) to be inferior to his discipline. Drawing liberally from Renaissance and Scientific Revolution sources, Gould shows that the perceived differences in the two cultures are mostly false. Readers of E.O. Wilson's Consilience will find many similarities here, though Gould emphatically rejects Wilson's conclusion that reductionism is an appropriate way to unite the two cultures and offers examples of when such an approach might fail.
If we discover that a majority of human cultures have favored infanticide under certain conditions, and that such a practice arose for good Darwinian reasons, shall we then claim that we have resolved the question of the rightness of such a practice with a "yea"?
This volume is presented by its editor almost unchanged from the manuscript Gould had finished shortly before his death. The result is a book with such unedited detail that its dense blend of history and philosophy is at times overwhelmingly difficult. Nevertheless, Gould's deeply held conviction that human understanding comes from all our cultural efforts shines through. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0940450275 (0-940450-27-5)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry David Thoreau'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden," one of America's great books, is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay. [via]
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Hidden Histories of Scienceby Robert B. SilversISBN 1590170520 (1-59017-052-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Histories of Science'Book summary:We often think of science as continuously advancing. In this collection of essays, five world-renowned writers explore obscure and neglected episodes in the history of science which suggest instead that the process of understanding the significance of scientific discoveries can be erratic, contradictory, even irrational. Jonathan Miller, Oliver Sacks, and Daniel Kevles show how promising new ideas may at first fail to be noticed or accepted, and then, years after they have been dismissed or forgotten, are recognized in a different form as important. R.C. Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould discuss the ways that words and images used by scientists and popularizers alike, from the murals on the walls of natural history museums to such ubiquitous terms as "adaptation" and "environment," reflect serious and often unacknowledged distortions in the way we conceive of both individual organisms and the natural history of the world.
These essays demonstrate that science is, in the words of Oliver Sacks, "a human enterprise through and through, an organic, evolving, human growth, with sudden spurts and arrests, and strange deviations, too. It grows out of its past, but never outgrows it, any more than we outgrow our childhood." [via]More editions of Hidden Histories of Science:
Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for Godby Chet RaymoISBN 1561012351 (1-56101-235-1)
Softcover, Cowley Pubns
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The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Ageby Edmund Blair BollesISBN 1582431019 (1-58243-101-9)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age'Book summary:It's accepted scientific fact that global climate cooling has taken place in the past. But just over 150 years ago, it was still being argued that there had been a major Ice Age with glaciers and ice sheets extending over much of Northern Europe and Canada.
The Ice Finders is the story of some of the discoveries and arguments behind the great Ice Age debate. The story is told by American popular science writer Edmund Blair Bolles who also wrote Galileo's Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing. He interweaves the separate lives of three main characters--an American naval surgeon turned Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, an English barrister turned geologist Sir Charles Lyell and a Swiss medic turned geologist Louis Agassiz. The connecting cloth is the gathering evidence for the existence of a great Ice Age which swept out of the Alps and Scandinavia and fundamentally altered the landscape of northern Europe.
Kane's two-year-long (1853-5) Greenland expedition was in search of Sir John Franklin and to check on the possibility of an open Arctic Ocean. Bolles uses the narrative of Kane's expedition to break up the more complicated technical arguments between Lyell, Agassiz and many other scientists about the nature of glacial phenomena such as erratics, parallel roads and scratched rock surfaces. Eventually the strands are pulled together when Kane returns to civilisation and publishes an account of travels and observations.
The result is an interesting read and good introduction for the general reader to many of the main characters of 19th-century earth science and their disputations. It also contains notes, a bibliography and index to assist the reader. Historians of science will doubtless argue that too much is factionalised in the interest of popularisation. --Douglas Palmer [via]
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Infinity and the Mindby Rudy RuckerISBN 3764330341 (3-7643-3034-1)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinity and the Mind'Book summary:A study of infinity in all its forms and its implications for the human mind. Within the realm of "Mindscape", part of a universe, the book shows that mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic, and so much is revealed about the powers of the mind and its limitations. [via]
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Intimate Behavior: A Zoologist's Classic Study of Human Intimacyby Desmond MorrisISBN 1568361637 (1-56836-163-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Introducing Stephen Hawkingby Oscar Zarate, J. P. McEvoy, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840466391 (1-84046-639-1)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Introducing Stephen Hawkingby Stephen W. Hawking, Richard Appignanesi, Oscar Zarate, J. P. McEvoyISBN 1874166250 (1-874166-25-0)
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John James Audubon: Writings and Drawingsby John James Audubon, Christoph IrmscherISBN 188301168X (1-883011-68-X)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings'Book summary:John James Audubon's indelible portraits of American birds have long since cemented his reputation as one of our truly magical realists. Yet the artist, who was born in Haiti in 1785 and died 66 years later on his 30-acre estate in upper Manhattan, was not only a sublime featherhead but a trailblazing nature writer and diarist. Doubters should take a gander at the Library of America's splendid Writings and Drawings. This new compendium features 64 full-color plates, most of them from the Ornithological Biography, which demonstrate the compositional and dramatic brilliance that Audubon brought to his work: seldom has the black vulture, or Coragyps atratus, looked so elegant or sleekly satisfied, and his colloquium of ruby-throated hummingbirds (a.k.a. Archilochus colubris) is an almost comical study in group dynamics. Yet it's the texts--journals, letters, diaries, a brief memoir, and a pair of essays on artistic technique--that are the true revelation here.
Audubon was not, for the record, a kind of starry-eyed precursor to the Sierra Club, leaving nature untouched by human hands. It's telling that in his self-portrait, the artist is gripping neither palette nor paintbrush but a flintlock rifle. Gunning down his ornithological subjects was a necessary prelude to portraying them. Still, Audubon had quite a few of what we moderns would call conflicted moments, during which his admiration for, say, the Mississippi kite would temporarily halt the killing spree. Here the sight of a mother attempting to rescue its chick manages to stay his itchy trigger finger--for a millisecond, anyway:
My feelings at that moment I cannot express. I wished I had not discovered the poor bird; for who could have witnessed, without emotion, so striking an example of that affection which none but a mother can feel; so daring an act, performed in the midst of smoke, in the presence of a dreaded and dangerous enemy. I followed, however, and brought both to the ground at one shot, so keen is the desire of possession!
The aesthetic and taxidermal impulses have torn apart many a naturalist since then (although, to be sure, the stricken diarist was later annoyed to discover that another animal had cut in on his action: "What was my mortification, when I found that some quadruped had devoured both!") Elsewhere, Audubon records the topography of the Mississippi Valley in vivid detail, or grumbles about the tight job market: "Visited several Public Institutions where I cannot say that I Was very politely received; in one or Two Notable ones (Not Willing to Mention Names) I was invitd to Walk in and then out in very quick order." Audubon's early-19-century orthography, which the editors have meticulously retained, may take some Getting Used To. And the sheer piling up of avian corpses can seem almost comical to a modern reader. Still, Audubon worshipped pretty thoroughly, and very productively, at the shrine of the natural world. And let's recall his verdict on Liverpool's industrial landscape, which he observed during a 1826 visit: "Naked streets look dull." If only there'd been a long-billed curlew on hand! --James Marcus [via]More editions of John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings:
Let's Save Antarctica!by Eliot Porter, James N. BarnesISBN 090910445X (0-909104-45-X)
Softcover, Greenhouse Publications
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Life 1by Darcy Lockman, Michelle Kobayashi, Keiko SuenobuISBN 1595329315 (1-59532-931-5)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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Life 1by Keiko SuenobuISBN 1595329323 (1-59532-932-3)
Softcover, Tokyopop
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life 1'Book summary:Ayumu is faced with more than school woes--she solemnly floats from class to class in an attempt to deal with Manami's suicide attempt. When Ayumu befriends a classmates in a seedy restaurant, the two realize they have more in common than just school. Later, Ayumu tries to blend in with the other girls, but she cannot stand watching Manami wasting away because of her recent breakup--as she begins to gather some information about what went wrong in the relationship, she discovers something shocking about Manami's boyfriend... [via]
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The Life Of The Beeby Maurice MaeterlinckISBN 1404313486 (1-4043-1348-6)
Hardcover, IndyPublish.com
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Living Jewels: The Natural Design of Beetlesby Poul Beckmann, Ruth KaspinISBN 3791325280 (3-7913-2528-0)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Living Jewels: The Natural Design of Beetles'Book summary:A presentation of close-up studio photographs of one of the most varied and beautiful species on the planet: the beetle. The range of shapes and colours featured should be a source of inspiration to professional designers and a visual wonder to the general reader. As the introduction explains, beetles were deified in Ancient Egypt, used for necklaces and brooches by the Amazonian Indians of Peru, and worn live, tethered to gold chains, by fashionable ladies in Victorian times. The photographs here provide evidence of why beetles have been such a valuable commodity to various cultures. [via]
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Living Jewels: The Natural Design of Beetlesby PrestelISBN 3791329928 (3-7913-2992-8)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub
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Lucretius on the Nature of Thingsby Lucretius, Cyril BaileyISBN 1417913983 (1-4179-1398-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucretius on the Nature of Things'Book summary:1926. Lucretius was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view. His poetry is knit into a whole and vivified through all its parts by the fearless desire for truth, the consciousness of a great purpose, and a deep reverence for nature-felt almost as a personal presence-which has caused this bitter opponent of religion to be universally recognized as one of the most truly religious of the world's poets. [via]
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Margaret Mee in Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests Diaries of an English Artist Reveal the Beauty of the Vanishing Rainforestby Margaret Mead, Tony MorrisonISBN 1869901088 (1-869901-08-8)
Hardcover, Intl Specialized Book Service Inc
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Natural World of Bugs and Insectsby Rod Preston-Mafham, Ken Preston-MafhamISBN 1571452885 (1-57145-288-5)
Hardcover, Advantage Pub Group
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The Nature of the Physical Worldby Arthur S. EddingtonISBN 1417907185 (1-4179-0718-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nature of the Physical World'Book summary:1929. The course of Gifford Lectures that Eddington delivered in the University of Edinburgh in January to March 1927. It treats of the philosophical outcome of the great changes of scientific thought which have recently come about. The theory of relativity and the quantum theory have led to strange new conceptions of the physical world; the progress of the principles of thermodynamics has wrought more gradual but no less profound change. The first eleven chapters are for the most part occupied with the new physical theories, with the reasons which have led to their adoption, and especially with the conceptions which seem to underlie them. The aim is to make clear the scientific view of the world as it stands at the present day, and, where it is incomplete, to judge the direction in which modern ideas appear to be tending. In the last four chapters I consider the position which this scientific view should occupy in relation to the wider aspects of human experience, including religion. Contents: The Downfall of Classical Physics; Relativity; Time; The Running-Down of the Universe; Becoming; Gravitation-the Law; Gravitation-the Explanation; Man's Place in the Universe; The Quantum Theory; The New Quantum Theory; World Building; Pointer Readings; Reality; Causation; and Science and Mysticism. [via]
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Nemesisby Richard MullerISBN 1555844219 (1-55584-421-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Nemesis - The Death Star: The Story of a Scientific Revolutionby Richard Muller, Luis AlvarezISBN 1555841732 (1-55584-173-2)
Hardcover, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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On the Nature of Thingsby Titus Lucretius Carus, John Selby WastonISBN 1573921793 (1-57392-179-3)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Penguin Islandby Anatole FranceISBN 1426404050 (1-4264-0405-0)
Softcover, Bibliobazaar
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Penguin Island'Book summary:This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including the Kindle, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display.
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Penguin Island (1908; French: L'Ile des Pingouins) is a satirical fictional history by Nobel Prize winning French author Anatole France.
Penguin Island is written in the style of a sprawling 18th and 19th century history book, concerned with grand metanarratives, mythologizing heroes, hagiography and romantic nationalism. It is about a fictitious island of penguins that exists on the northern coast of Europe. The history begins when a wayward Christian missionary monk accidentally lands on the island and sees the penguins as a sort of Greek pre-Christian pagan society. Partly blind, he mistakes the penguins for people and baptizes them. This mistake causes a problem for The Lord (God) who normally only allows people to be baptized, so he resolves it by converting the penguins to people and giving them a soul. Thus begins the penguin history and from there forward the history mirrors that of France (and largely Western Europe including Britain). From the Migration Period ("Dark Ages") when the Germanic tribes incessantly fought among one another for territory; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne ("Draco the Great") and conflicts with Viking raiders ("porpoises"); to the Renaissance (Erasmus); and up to the modern era with motor cars, and even a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything starts again in an endless cycle.
The longest chapter and probably most well known is a satire of the Dreyfus affair.
- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Plants of the Rocky Mountainsby Linda KershawISBN 1551050889 (1-55105-088-9)
Softcover, Lone Pine Pub
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Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National ParksISBN 0937512028 (0-937512-02-8)
Softcover, Wheelwright Pub
Find This BookBook summary:This compact volume includes 213 species of trees, shrubs and wildflowers found in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Perfect for the backpack or glove compartment, beautiful full-color photographs make plant identification easy for even the novice naturalist, and recently updated botanical information will be appreciated by the more experienced. Historical uses, plant dimensions and relationships to other plants and animals are also part of the informative text accompanying each photograph. The book's index lists both common and scientific names for easy reference. [via]
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Review for Clep General Natural Science ExaminationISBN 1560300035 (1-56030-003-5)
Softcover, Comex Systems
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A Sand County Almanac Illustratedby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0915024152 (0-915024-15-2)
Hardcover, Trails Media Group Inc
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The Seasby Samantha HuntISBN 1931561850 (1-931561-85-0)
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustaceanby Trevor Corson, Jim SollersISBN 0060555599 (0-06-055559-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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In revelations from the laboratory and the sea that are by turns astonishing and humorous, the lobster proves itself to be not only a delicious meal and a sustainable resource but also an amorous master of the boudoir, a lethal boxer, and a snoopy socializer with a nose that lets it track prey and paramour alike with the skill of a bloodhound.
The Secret Life of Lobsters is a rollicking oceanic odyssey punctuated by salt spray, melted butter, and predators lurking in the murky depths. [via]
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The Selfish Geneby Richard DawkinsISBN 0199291152 (0-19-929115-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Selfish Gene'Book summary:Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel's work was rediscovered, we turn it around and imagine that "our" genes build and maintain us in order to make more genes. That simple reversal seems to answer many puzzlers which had stumped scientists for years, and we haven't thought of evolution in the same way since.
Why are there miles and miles of "unused" DNA within each of our bodies? Why should a bee give up its own chance to reproduce to help raise her sisters and brothers? With a prophet's clarity, Dawkins told us the answers from the perspective of molecules competing for limited space and resources to produce more of their own kind. Drawing fascinating examples from every field of biology, he paved the way for a serious re-evaluation of evolution. He also introduced the concept of self-reproducing ideas, or memes, which (seemingly) use humans exclusively for their propagation. If we are puppets, he says, at least we can try to understand our strings. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Shark: Stories of Life and Death from the World's Most Dangerous Watersby Clint Willis, Nathaniel MayISBN 1560253975 (1-56025-397-5)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beautyby Kenneth Libbrecht, Patricia RasmussenISBN 0896586308 (0-89658-630-8)
Hardcover, Motorbooks Intl
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Sweetness & Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybeeby Hattie EllisISBN 1400054060 (1-4000-5406-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Tree: A New Vision Of The American Forestby Jim BalogISBN 1402728182 (1-4027-2818-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Ultimate Book of Useless Informationby Keith Waterhouse, Richard LittlejohnISBN 1904034764 (1-904034-76-4)
Hardcover, Blake Publishing, Limited, John
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Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidenceby Steven Jay Lynn, Etzel Cardena, Stanley C. KrippnerISBN 1557986258 (1-55798-625-8)
Hardcover, Amer Psychological Assn
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Vikings: The North Atlantic Sagaby National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), William W. Fitzhugh, Elisabeth I. WardISBN 1560989955 (1-56098-995-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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In The Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, some three dozen scholars examine the growing archaeological evidence of the Viking presence in the New World--including such items as a Norse coin excavated in Maine, runic stones from the Canadian Arctic, and farming implements found in Newfoundland. The contributors consider the sometimes friendly, sometimes warlike history of Viking interactions with the native peoples of northeastern North America (whom the Norse called skraelings, or "screamers"); compare the archaeological record with contemporary sagas and other records of exploration; and argue for the need to better document the Viking contribution to New World history.
"As an historical and cultural achievement," write the editors, "the Viking Age and its North American medieval extension stand out as one of the most remarkable periods in human history." This oversized, heavily illustrated volume celebrates that little-understood time. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Volcano: The Eruption of Mount St. Helensby Longview Publishing Company StaffISBN 0914842544 (0-914842-54-4)
Softcover, Madrona Pub
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 0385027672 (0-385-02767-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researchesby Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Janet Browne, E. J. BrowneISBN 014043268X (0-14-043268-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches'Book summary:"The Voyage of the Beagle" is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to "The Origin of Species". This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the "Victorian age: The Origin of Species". This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs. If you enjoyed "The Voyage of the Beagle", you might enjoy Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the Worldby Charles DarwinISBN 0375756809 (0-375-75680-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1420922610 (1-4209-2261-0)
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David Thoreau, Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 1590300882 (1-59030-088-2)
Hardcover, Shambhala Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden; Or, Life in the Woods'Book summary:In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, his most important work, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. Since its first publication on August 9, 1854, by Ticknor and Fields, the work has become a classic, beloved for its message of living simply and in harmony with nature.
This special 150th anniversary edition of Walden features exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, one of America's leading engravers and woodblock artists. McCurdy's engravings bring the text to lifeand illuminate the spirit of Thoreau's prose. Also included is a foreword by noted author, environmentalist, and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams, who reflects upon Thoreau's message that as we explore our world and ourselves, we draw ever closer to the truth of our connectedness. [via]More editions of Walden; Or, Life in the Woods:
What's So Funny About Science?: Cartoonsby Sidney HarrisISBN 0913232424 (0-913232-42-4)
Softcover, William Kaufmann
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What's So Funny About Science?: Cartoons from American Scientistby Sidney HarrisISBN 0913232394 (0-913232-39-4)
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White Ibis: Wetland Wandererby Keith L. BildsteinISBN 1560982233 (1-56098-223-3)
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Brevisima Historia Del Tiempo/a Brief History of Timeby Stephen Hawking, Leonard MlodinowISBN 8484326373 (84-8432-637-3)
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De La Naturaleza De Las Cosasby LucrecioISBN 8437604133 (84-376-0413-3)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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Genoma: La Autobiografia De Una Especie En 23 Capitulosby Matt RidleyISBN 8430604146 (84-306-0414-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Historia Del Tiempoby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 8420639710 (84-206-3971-0)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Historia del tiempo / A Brief History of Time: del big bang a los agujeros negros / From Big Bangs to the Black Holesby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 9879317114 (987-9317-11-4)
Softcover, Distal S R L
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Dom Oba II D'Africa, O Principe Do Povo: Vida, Tempo E Pensamento De Um Homem Livre De Corby Eduardo da SilvaISBN 8571647232 (85-7164-723-2)
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Vom Wesen Des Weltallsby Titus Lucretius CarusISBN 3379004340 (3-379-00434-0)
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Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historieby Helge KraghISBN 8779341683 (87-7934-168-3)
Hardcover, Aarhus universitetsforlag
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