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  • Think
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    Think

    This accessible guide to critical thinking will help you think like a scientist, see through most scams at first glance, and learn how your own brain can trip you up. This fresh and exciting approach to science, skepticism, and critical thinking will...
    $34.99

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  • The Way of Science
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    The Way of Science

    How science can convey a profound sense of wonder, connectedness, and optimism about the human condition. Most people appreciate science on an obvious level. Modern medicine, electric lighting, rapid transportation, and long-distance communication are...
    $40.99

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  • Biology Under the Influence
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    Biology Under the Influence

    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it...
    $193.00

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  • The Biology of Small Mammals
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    The Biology of Small Mammals

    The Biology of Small Mammals is the first exploration of the lives of small mammals undertaken in decades. Mammalogist Joseph F. Merritt offers an engaging, in-depth discussion about a diverse array of small mammals, from the rare Kitti's hog-nosed bat...
    $137.00

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  • Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers
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    Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers

    ''Here is a new and different kind of armchair guide to the lives of some of the more common insects that people may encounter and some that they won't. In an easy-to-read style it opens a window on a part of the invertebrate world about which most of us...
    $51.99

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  • The Nature of Our Humanity
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    The Nature of Our Humanity

    This book addresses a current, frontline issue in the perennial exchange between science and religion. Jersild surveys the contemporary scene in genetic research and the visionary goals of a number of scientists concerning the human future. He focuses on...
    $54.99

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  • Genetically Engineered Foods:
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    Genetically Engineered Foods:

    Advances in biotechnology have the potential to bring foods containing proteins derived from genes of non-food origin into the marketplace. Assessing the potential allergenicity of these transgenic proteins as part of the overall food safety evaluation...
    $44.99

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  • Dead Epidemiologists
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    Dead Epidemiologists

    The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world. It shouldn't have. Since this century's turn, epidemiologists have warned of new infectious diseases. Indeed, H1N1, H7N9, SARS, MERS, Ebola Makona, Zika, and a variety of lesser viruses have emerged almost...
    $193.00

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  • Extinction and Radiation
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    Extinction and Radiation

    In the geological blink of an eye, mammals moved from an obscure group of vertebrates into a class of planetary dominance. Why? J. David Archibald's provocative study identifies the fall of dinosaurs as the factor that allowed mammals to evolve into the...
    $150.00

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  • 2025 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook
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    2025 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook

    The Southeastern Vegetable Extension Workers (SEVEW) Group is proud to offer the 2 25 Southeastern U.S. Vegetable Crop Handbook. We are excited to provide growers, crop advisers, county educators, Extension agents, and specialists throughout the...
    $55.99

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  • Your Kid Belongs Here
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    Your Kid Belongs Here

    A compassionate and comprehensive guide to parenting neurodivergent children. Your Kid Belongs Here is a heartfelt, practical guide to parenting children in a world not designed for them-or their parents. Combining personal stories, research, and helpful...
    $119.00

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  • Wildflowers of the Adirondacks
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    Wildflowers of the Adirondacks

    Covering more than six million acres of protected wilderness, the Adirondacks, with their landscape of high peaks, verdant wetlands, majestic trees, and lush carpets of flowers, is a pristine paradise for nature-lovers. The only available identification...
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  • Quantitative Analyses in Wildlife Science
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    Quantitative Analyses in Wildlife Science

    Over the past fifty years, wildlife science has become increasingly quantitative. But to wildlife scientists, many of whom have not been formally trained as biometricians, computer modelers, or mathematicians, the wide array of available techniques for...
    $162.00

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  • Johns Hopkins Neurology
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    Johns Hopkins Neurology

    Dr. Daniel Drachman, along with various illustrious colleagues, details the development of the Johns Hopkins Neurology Department from its inception in 1969 to the present. This highly illustrated, full-color work documents major innovations over the...
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  • Mammalogy
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    Mammalogy

    There are more than 6,400 species in the class Mammalia, including the blue whale'the largest animal that has ever lived'and the pygmy shrew, which weighs little more than a dime. Such diversity among mammals has allowed them to play critical roles in...
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  • Freshwater Fishes of North America
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    Freshwater Fishes of North America

    When the first volume of Freshwater Fishes of North America was published, it was immediately hailed as the definitive reference in the field. Readers have been fervently awaiting the next volume in this encompassing three-book set ever since. Now...
    $260.00

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  • Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia
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    Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia

    In Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Virginia, the foremost experts on Commonwealth fishes bring their decades of field experience to readers, offering a complete reference to the fishes of the entire state of Virginia. Gathering information that until...
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  • Frogfishes
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    Frogfishes

    Unique among the world's fishes, frogfishes display a bizarre combination of attributes and behaviors that make them a subject of fervent study. Through cunning and trickery, they turn would-be predators into prey; they "walk" across the ocean...
    $266.00

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  • Wildlife in Airport Environments
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    Wildlife in Airport Environments

    The pilot watches the instrument panel and prepares for touchdowna routine landing until a burst of birds, a coyote, or a herd of deer crosses the runway! Every year, pilots experience this tension and many aircraft come into direct contact with birds...
    $171.00

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  • Mammal Teeth
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    Mammal Teeth

    In this unique book, Peter S. Ungar tells the story of mammalian teeth from their origin through their evolution to their current diversity.Mammal Teeth traces the evolutionary history of teeth, beginning with the very first mineralized vertebrate...
    $225.00

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  • The Other Saber-tooths
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    The Other Saber-tooths

    Like the better-known Smilodon, or saber-tooth cat, the scimitar-tooth cats of the New World were fierce predators that killed and consumed the largest of North America's species. This volume synthesizes all currently known information about the...
    $256.00

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  • The Evolution of Obesity
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    The Evolution of Obesity

    In this sweeping exploration of the relatively recent obesity epidemic, Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin probe evolutionary biology, history, physiology, and medical science to uncover the causes of our growing girth. The unexpected answer? Our own...
    $72.99

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  • Wildlife Management and Conservation
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    Wildlife Management and Conservation

    Wildlife Management and Conservation presents a clear overview of the management and conservation of animals, their habitats, and how people influence both. The relationship among these three components of wildlife management is explained in chapters...
    $229.00

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  • Terrestrial Vertebrates of Pennsylvania
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    Terrestrial Vertebrates of Pennsylvania

    This review of Pennsylvania's conservation efforts is the first book to focus exclusively on the state's vertebrates of concern.The 133 species of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals discussed in this book are Pennsylvania's most vulnerable...
    $125.00

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  • Wildlife Damage Management
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    Wildlife Damage Management

    Whether you are a student in a wildlife degree program or a professional wildlife biologist, you will find all the up-to-date information on wildlife damage in the pages of this clear, comprehensive text. Wildlife Damage Management includes topics such...
    $182.00

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  • Wildlife Damage Management
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    Wildlife Damage Management

    Whether you are a student in a wildlife degree program or a professional wildlife biologist, you will find all the up-to-date information on wildlife damage in the pages of this clear, comprehensive text. Wildlife Damage Management includes topics such...
    $182.00

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  • Ecology of Estuarine Fishes
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    Ecology of Estuarine Fishes

    This comprehensive reference book details the life history and ecology of the fish species that occupy the estuarine and coastal habitats along the eastern United States and Canada. Kenneth W. Able and Michael P. Fahay draw on their own studies and other...
    $287.00

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  • Urban Carnivores
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    Urban Carnivores

    With over half of the world's human population now living in cities, human-carnivore interaction in urban areas is a growing area of concern and research for wildlife managers, conservationists, urban planners, and the public at large. This volume brings...
    $166.00

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  • Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America
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    Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America

    Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America has been hailed as a classic since the first edition was published in 1942. A must-have for professional biologists, birders, waterfowl enthusiasts, and wildlife managers, this fully revised and updated edition...
    $109.00

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  • The Rise of Horses
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    The Rise of Horses

    One of the world's leading experts on horse evolution traces the origins, evolution, and diversification of the equines.Long domesticated, related to rhinoceroses, and descended from a creature the size of a hare, horses are a fascinating study in...
    $152.00

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  • Explaining Abnormal Behavior
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    Explaining Abnormal Behavior

    Highly readable and accessible, this book describes how research in cognitive science is transforming the way scientists and clinicians think about abnormal behavior. Bruce Pennington draws on work from multiple disciplines to identify compelling links...
    $125.00

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  • The Neuropsychiatry of Limbic and Subcortical Disorders
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    The Neuropsychiatry of Limbic and Subcortical Disorders

    Limbic and subcortical brain regions mediate fundamental functions such as memory, emotion, motivation and mood. Limbic and subcortical systems also play a key neurobiological role in other important aspects of human experience, such as substance abuse,...
    $241.00

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  • Molecular Genetics and the Human Personality
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    Molecular Genetics and the Human Personality

    This volume explores the era of study made possible by the pace of discovery im the field of molecular genetics. It seeks to offer an authoritative introduction to and discussion of the controversial field of molecular genetics and human personality. It...
    $231.00

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  • Insights From Insects
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    Insights From Insects

    "Insects get a bum rap." So says world-renowned entomologist Gilbert Waldbauer, whose enthusiasm and engrossing writing on the subject of insects have been praised by the "New York Times Book Review", the "Times Literary Supplement", and many other...
    $42.99

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  • Liberation Biology
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    Liberation Biology

    In this forward-looking book, Ronald Bailey, science writer for "Reason" magazine, argues that the coming biotechnology revolution, far from endangering human dignity, will liberate human beings to achieve their full potentials by enabling more of us to...
    $52.99

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  • Liberation Biology
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    Liberation Biology

    In this forward-looking book, Ronald Bailey, science writer for "Reason" magazine, argues that the coming biotechnology revolution, far from endangering human dignity, will liberate human beings to achieve their full potentials by enabling more of us to...
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  • Of Molecules and Men
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    Of Molecules and Men

    Though written forty years ago, this succinct, lucid explication of the scientific facts remains the perfect primer for the lay reader curious about the ongoing biological revolution and is amazingly prescient in light of recent developments. It is a...
    $32.99

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  • Of Molecules and Men
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    Of Molecules and Men

    Though written forty years ago, this succinct, lucid explication of the scientific facts remains the perfect primer for the lay reader curious about the ongoing biological revolution and is amazingly prescient in light of recent developments. It is a...
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  • Humanhood
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    Humanhood

    Taking a critical look at some of the recent controls over human life, health, and death, Fletcher draws a vivid picture of contemporary biological needs and ethical responsibility. Genetic engineering, foetal research, abortion, suicide, human...
    $60.99

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  • Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals
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    Evolution and Ethics Science and Morals

    These two essays by the famous 19th-century champion of Darwin's theory of evolution tackle a subject that is still a major focus of ethical debates today: the relation of science as a whole, and specifically evolutionary ideas, to ethics and morality...
    $30.99

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  • Biology of Anxiety Disorders
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    Biology of Anxiety Disorders

    Under normal circumstances, anxiety is a biological warning system that enables a person to anticipate and avoid harm and failure. Recent advances in the physiology and pharmacology of the central nervous system, and technical advances (imaging in...
    $86.99

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  • Social Neuroscience
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    Social Neuroscience

    This compelling volume provides a broad and accessible overview of the emerging field of social neuroscience. Showcasing an array of cutting-edge research programs, leading investigators present new approaches to the study of how the brain influences...
    $137.00

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  • The Molecular Foundations of Psychiatry
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    The Molecular Foundations of Psychiatry

    This text offers a detailed introduction to molecular biology, genetics, and neurobiology relevant to psychiatry. Generously illustrated chapters are organised to be read at both an introductory and at a more advanced level. Both beginners and advanced...
    $234.00

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  • Green Hermeticism
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    Green Hermeticism

    A series of gatherings took place in 2006 to discuss the contemporary relevance of the ancient sacred science of hermeticism, or alchemy. This book is a partial record of those meetings, focusing on finding a spiritual and cultural path for the healing...
    $46.99

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