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The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSpanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’...Categorized as:
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![Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, Jonathan Yen]()
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, Jonathan Yen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn alternative cover for this ASIN can be found here.The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic... -
![Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Christine Clemmensen]()
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake, Christine Clemmensen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThere is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes... -
![Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross]()
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA scientific journey to the center of the new female body.The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men... -
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![Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist by Linda Skeers]()
Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist by Linda Skeers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the story of a woman who dared to dig, explore, and discover. This is the story of Dinosaur Lady.Mary Anning loved scouring the beach near her home in England for shells and fossils. She fearlessly climbed over crumbling cliffs and rocky peaks, searching for new specimens. One day, something caught Mary's eye.Bones. Dinosaur Bones...Categorized as:
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![I am Jane Goodall by Brad Meltzer]()
I am Jane Goodall by Brad Meltzer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWe can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Learn all about Jane Goodall, the chimpanzee scientist... -
![Let Sleeping Vets Lie by James Herriot]()
Let Sleeping Vets Lie by James Herriot
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWith two years experience behind him, James Herriot still feels privileged working on the beautiful Yorkshire moors as assistant vet at the Darrowby practice. Time to meet yet more unwilling patients and a rich cast of supporting owners... -
![Vet in Harness by James Herriot]()
Vet in Harness by James Herriot
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Yorkshire dales have never seemed more beautiful for James - now he has a lovely wife by his side, a partner's plate on the gate and the usual menagerie of farm animals, pets and owners demanding his constant attention and teaching him a few lessons along the way... -
![Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan]()
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island by Will Harlan
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCarol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She wrestles alligators, eats roadkill, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built by hand in an island wilderness. A combination of Henry David Thoreau and Jane Goodall, Carol is a self-taught scientist who has become a tireless defender of sea turtles on Cumberland Island, a national park off the coast of Georgia... -
![The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan]()
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA master reporter’s landmark work of contemporary ecology.The Great Lakes hold 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, and they provide food, work, and weekend fun for tens of millions of Americans. Yet they are under threat as never before... -
![The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte]()
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen Brusatte
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA sweeping and revelatory new history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us Though humans claim to rule the Earth, we are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals...Categorized as:
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![The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell]()
The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings.In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book, Katherine Rundell tells us how and why... -
![A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson, Lars Hamberger]()
A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson, Lars Hamberger
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis completely revised edition of the beloved international classic is now entirely in color, with historic, never-before-seen photos in every chapter and an entirely new text... -
![The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett]()
The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag by Jim Corbett
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMost of Jim Corbett's books contain collections of stories that recount adventures tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya. This volume, however, consists of a single story, often considered the most exciting of all Corbett's jungle tales. He gives a carefully-detailed account of a notorious leopard that terrorized life in the hills of the colonial United Provinces... -
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![Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon]()
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives todayHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get... -
![The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee]()
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom 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, about the transformation of medicine through our radical new ability to manipulate cells... -
![The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen]()
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen,... -
![Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by David Burnie]()
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth by David Burnie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith an extensive catalog at its heart, Prehistoric Life profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail. The story starts in earnest 3.8 billion years ago, with the earliest-known form of life on Earth, a bacteria that still exists today, and journeys through action-packed millennia, charting the appearance of new life forms as well as devastating extinction events...Categorized as:
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![The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean, Henry Leyva]()
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean, Henry Leyva
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling... -
![Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan]()
Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insights into the brains of humans & beasts, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends and their amazing links to recent discoveries... -
![Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles by Patricia Valdez]()
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles by Patricia Valdez
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor fans of Ada Twist: Scientist comes a fascinating picture book biography of a pioneering female scientist--who loved reptiles!Back in the days of long skirts and afternoon teas, young Joan Procter entertained the most unusual party guests: slithery and scaly ones, who turned over teacups and crawled past the crumpets...Categorized as:
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![Gray's Anatomy The Classic Collector's Edition by Henry Gray]()
Gray's Anatomy The Classic Collector's Edition by Henry Gray
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings780 illustrations, with 172 in color. THE CLASSIC COLLECTOR'S EDITION... -
![Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean]()
Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it... -
![Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb]()
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWinner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science WritingIn Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers... -
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![The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman, Luís Oliveira Santos]()
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease by Daniel E. Lieberman, Luís Oliveira Santos
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease... -
![The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen]()
The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhy have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever... -
![The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father by Jim Wight]()
The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father by Jim Wight
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNo one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant memoir, Jim Wight talks about his father--the beloved veterinarian whom his family had to share with half the world... -
![The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden]()
The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis entirely new diary is composed in a similar style to the Country Diary, with Edith Holden's thoughts, anecdotes, and writings interspersed with poetry, mottoes, and her exquisite watercolor paintings of flowers, plants, birds, butterflies and landscape scenes... -
![Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne]()
Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his “big book on species” still lay on his study desk in the form of a huge pile of manuscript... -
![Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne]()
Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWeaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book explains the truth about, and the beauty of, evolution...
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