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Babylon's Ark
The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
St. Martin's Griffin
THE ASTONISHING STORY OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST ANIMAL RESCUES. When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing:...
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Competition
The Birth of a New Science
Hill and Wang
What do chess-playing computer programs, biological evolution, competitive sports, gambling, alternative voting systems, public auctions, corporate...
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Green
Your Place in the New Energy Revolution
Palgrave Macmillan
Green illustrates and sheds new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every...
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The Thirtymile Fire
A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
Holt Paperbacks
“Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”—National Geographic Adventure The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near...
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Mirroring People
The New Science of How We Connect with Others
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person’s head—to know what they’re thinking and feeling? “Mind reading” is the very heart of...
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Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Holt Paperbacks
“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about [the] second-generation Web.”—Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David...
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Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain injury. Michael...
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Fixing Climate
What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It
Hill and Wang
Dealing with the Root Cause of Global Warming Calls for New Remedies, Says Expert The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth...
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What Is Life?
Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he...
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Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions
Hill and Wang
An Award-Winning Essayist Plies His Craft Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today—a claim supported not only by his prolific and...

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Better
A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Picador
National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But...
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Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition
A Guide for Couples
Holt Paperbacks
REVISED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD ARE YOU GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT? Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples...
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Get Anyone to Do Anything
Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation
St. Martin's Griffin
The legendary leader in the field of human behavior delivers the national bestselling, must-read phenomenon that changed the rules. Utilizing the latest...
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The Number Devil
A Mathematical Adventure
Holt Paperbacks
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who...
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The South Beach Heart Health Revolution
Cardiac Prevention That Can Reverse Heart Disease and Stop Heart Attacks and Strokes
St. Martin's Griffin
“Another masterpiece! The author of The South Beach Diet has taken a sharpshooter’s aim at heart disease, the Normandy Beach for half of all...
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Intuitive Eating, 2nd Edition
A Revolutionary Program That Works
St. Martin's Griffin
We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But...
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The Right Stuff
Picador
From "America’s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of...
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West with the Night
North Point Press
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
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On Being Certain
Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
St. Martin's Press
You recognize when you know something for certain, right? You "know" the sky is blue, or that the traffic light had turned green, or where you were on the...
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Beyond Oil
The View from Hubbert's Peak
Hill and Wang
“This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next.”—Richard E....
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Irreligion
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
Hill and Wang
A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen...
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Fasting and Eating for Health
A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease
St. Martin's Griffin
Precise diet and fasting programs to relieve headache, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis,...
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The Mind of the Market
Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
Times Books
Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy—and why people are so irrational about money How did we make the leap...
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Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Hill and Wang
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated...