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The Naked Man
A Study of the Male Body

Thomas Dunne Books
Following on the international success of The Naked Woman, Desmond Morris investigates another intriguing evolutionary success story. The Naked Man is a study...
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Poison Pills
The Untold Story of the Vioxx Drug Scandal

Thomas Dunne Books
To the millions of Americans who suffer from chronic pain and arthritis, Vioxx seemed like a miracle. One of the most widely promoted and prescribed pain...
  
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Babylon's Ark
The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
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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Junk Science
An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
“A passionate, minutely informed, and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today—a clarion call to action that...
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Perfect Figures
The Lore of Numbers and How We Learned to Count

Thomas Dunne Books
An intoxicating trip through the history, the poetry, and the surprising secret meanings of numbers
  
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The Hive
The Story of the Honeybee and Us

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social,...
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Beyond Coincidence
Amazing Stories of Coincidence and the Mystery Behind Them

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Beyond Coincidence recounts and analyzes more than two hundred amazing stories of synchronicity, the likes of: Laura Buxton, age ten, releases a balloon...
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The World Without Us

Thomas Dunne Books
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of...
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Beyond the Wild Blue
A History of the U.S. Air Force, 1947-2007

Thomas Dunne Books
The second edition of Beyond the Wild Blue, an update of the popular history originally released in 1997, is a fascinating look at sixty turbulent years of Air...
  
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The Horse
A Miscellany of Equine Knowledge

Thomas Dunne Books
The Horse is an informative gallop through everything to do with the horse: evolution, history, biology, breeds, behavior, training, competition, health, and...

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The Living Great Lakes
Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
If fresh water is to be treasured, the Great Lakes are the mother lode. No bodies of water can compare to them. One of them, Superior, is the largest lake on...
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Arousal
The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
In this fascinating and provocative book, Dr. Michael Bader offers a groundbreaking new theory of sexual desire. Drawing on his twenty-five years as a...
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The Naked Woman
A Study of the Female Body

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Internationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour...
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Tears of the Cheetah
The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
The history of life on Earth is dominated by extinction events so numerous that over 99.9% of the species ever to have existed are gone forever. If animals...
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The Parrot's Theorem
A Novel

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great...
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Dinner at the New Gene Café
How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the...
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Alcohol
The World's Favorite Drug

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Alcohol is everywhere. Walk down any street in the western world and before long your feet will kick against an empty beer can, or your attention will be...
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Blood and Guts
A History of Surgery

Thomas Dunne Books
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible. But...