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Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
134 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
2) Ocean
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Relaunch edition, American edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dive through sunlit shallows into dark, mysterious depths and discover the wonders of the world's oceans. Meet bizarre-looking fish, see how an octopus moves, explore shipwrecks, and find out how people use and protect the oceans"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans back through four billion years of life on our planet. As the pilgrimage progresses, we join with other organisms at the forty "rendezvous points" where...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2011 Sy Montgomery wrote a feature for Orion magazine
entitled 'Deep Intellect' about her friendship with a
sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the
grief she felt at her death. It went viral, indicating the
widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien
-like creatures. Since then Sy has practised true
immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to
the reefs...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 473 pages, 8 leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 470 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sifting through rich layers of scientific evidence, Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument."
10) Lots of spots
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Little Simon board book edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 14 x 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of poems about animal camouflage and adornment.
12) The tiny seed
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon spotlight ready-to-read edition.
Physical Desc
24 un-numbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Join the tiny seed on an adventure as it becomes a giant flower!"--Cover back.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can't walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers?...
Author
Series
Young elites volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her. Now Adelina Amouteru is turning down the bitter path of revenge. Known and feared as the White Wolf, she searches for other Young Elites to build up her own army. Her goal: strike down the Inquisition Axis who nearly killed her. But make no mistake -- Adelina is no heroine. Her powers are growing beyond her control and she trusts no one. Adelina struggles...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Naturalist Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World. Now he focuses on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisitions on ant wars, the predatory characteristics of wasps, the mating rituals of woodpeckers, or describing an encounter with...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean’s surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling. This man was a freediver, and his amphibious abilities inspired Nestor to seek out the secrets of this little-known discipline. In Deep, Nestor embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A heady overview of the emerging discipline of synthetic biology and the wonders it can produce, from new drugs and vaccines to biofuels and resurrected woolly mammoths. In this authoritative, sometimes awe-inspiring book, geneticist Church and veteran science writer Regis team up to explore how scientists are now altering the nature of living organisms by modifying their genomes, or genetic makeup.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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Description
"As a baby grows in her mother's tummy, a soon-to-be big sister and her family spend nine months preparing for the newest member of the family to arrive."--
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When...
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