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Chasing Ghosts, Texas Style
On the Road with Everyday Paranormal

Thomas Dunne Books
Part high-adventure tale, part autobiography, this page-turner recounts the eerie experiences that convinced brothers Brad and Barry Klinge, founders of...
  
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The Evolutionary World
How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization

Thomas Dunne Books
“One of the master naturalists of our time” (American Scientist) reveals how evolutionary theory explains and affects not just the natural world but our...
  
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The Vertical Farm
Feeding the World in the 21st Century

Thomas Dunne Books
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The Fate of Nature
Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth

Thomas Dunne Books
“What capacity for good lies in the hidden depths of people?” Starting with this question, award-winning author Charles Wohlforth sets forth on a...
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The End
Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, pandemics, cosmic radiation, gamma bursts from space, colliding comets, and asteroids – these catastrophic events...
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In Search of Time
The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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,...