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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	The Neuro Revolution How Brain Science Is Changing Our World Zack Lynch with Byron Laursen St. Martin's Griffin Neurotechnology---brain imaging and other new tools for both understanding and influencing our brains---is accelerating the pace of change almost everywhere,...

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Sleights of Mind

What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions

Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde, with Sandra Blakeslee Picador

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world’s greatest magicians to...

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Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Wildflowers Revised and Updated A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D. and Alexander C. Martin, Ph.D., Former Senior Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Illustrated by Rudolf Freund Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

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Trees

Revised and Updated

A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press

Herbert S. Zim and Alexander C. Martin; Revised by Jonathan P. Latimer and Karen Stray Nolting, with David Challinor, Scientist Emeritus, Smithsonian Institution; Illustrated by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press

Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Weeds A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Alexander C. Martin; Illustrated by Jean Zallinger Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	A Little Book of Coincidence Wooden Books John Martineau Walker & Company A most unusual guide to the solar system, A Little Book of Coincidence suggests that there may be fundamental relationships between space, time, and life that...

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Head Cases

Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath

Michael Paul Mason Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Mason deftly conveys the frustrations and inequities of traumatic brain injury . . . [He] performs a valuable service by calling attention to the plight of the brain injured . . . I had come to think of neurological dysfunction as an almost fanciful affliction, its victims like characters in a work of magical realism. Mason has provided a needed, and sobering, account of reality."—Mary Roach, The New York Times Book Review

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Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	The Sky Observer's Guide A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press R. Newton Mayall, Margaret Mayall, and Jerome Wyckoff; Paintings and Diagrams by John Polgreen Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

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Manthropology

The Science of Why the Modern Male Is Not the Man He Used to Be

Peter McAllister St. Martin's Press

Manthropology is the first of its kind. Spanning continents and centuries, it is an in-depth look into the history and science of manliness. From speed and...

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Cradle to Cradle

Remaking the Way We Make Things

William McDonough and Michael Braungart North Point Press

"Our planet is alive and the wondrous web of biodiversity provides us with all we need—clean air, water, soil, and energy, as well as food, medicine, resources. Whatever we do, that's what should be the highest priority for protection and we have to adapt everything else to that end. With this book, McDonough and Braungart open our eyes to the way to genuine sustainability by the study of nature and mimicking her ways. This is a groundbreaking book that should be the Bible for the Second Industrial Revolution."—Dr. David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and author of Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet and The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature

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Enough

Staying Human in an Engineered Age

Bill McKibben St. Martin's Griffin

"In this wise, well-researched, and important book, Bill McKibben addresses the burning philosophical question of the new century, and the one that counts for the long haul: how to control the technoscientific juggernaut before it dehumanizes our species."—E. O. Wilson, author of The Future of Life

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Annals of the Former World

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"No other work explains so well . . . the living principles of geology"—Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times

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Pulitzer Prize - Winner - General Nonfiction

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Basin and Range John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Assembling California John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Control of Nature John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This is the fascinating story of the dream of a completely new aircraft, a hybrid of the plane and the rigid airship - huge, wingless, moving slowly through...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Curve of Binding Energy A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	In Suspect Terrain John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks From the outwash plains of Brooklyn to Indiana’s drifted diamonds and gold In Suspect Terrain is a narrative of the earth, told in four sections of equal...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	The John McPhee Reader John McPhee; Edited with an Introduction by William L. Howarth Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author’s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Oranges John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Rising From The Plains John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a...

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The Second John McPhee Reader

John McPhee; Introduced by David Remnick Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a...

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Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Dowsing A Journey Beyond Our Five Senses Wooden Books Hamish Miller Walker & Company Dowsing is an art used for millennia to find water, minerals and metals, and today employed by builders, plumbers, and electricians the world over. Although it...

Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	Butterflies and Moths A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Robert T. Mitchell and Herbert S. Zim; Illustrated by Andre Durenceau Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.