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Evolution
The Story of Life on Earth

Hill and Wang
An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this...
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When Oil Peaked

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In two earlier books, Hubbert’s Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil...
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Irreligion
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

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Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? The mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for...
  
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The Stuff of Life
A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA

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Let’s face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien...
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Good Germs, Bad Germs
Health and Survival in a Bacterial World

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Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises...
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Competition
The Birth of a New Science

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What do chess-playing computer programs, biological evolution, competitive sports, gambling, alternative voting systems, public auctions, corporate...
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Creatures of Accident
The Rise of the Animal Kingdom

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The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This “vertical”...
  
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Many Worlds in One
The Search for Other Universes

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A Leading Figure in the Development of the New Cosmology Explains What It All Means Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most...
  
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Wildfire and Americans
How to Save Lives, Property, and Your Tax Dollars

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Three years after Roger Kennedy retired as director of the National Park Service, from his Santa Fe home he watched as the Cerro Grande Fire moved across the...
  
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Chasing Hubble's Shadows
The Search for Galaxies at the Edge of Time

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Chasing Hubble’s Shadows is an account of the continuing efforts of astronomers to probe the outermost limits of the observable universe. The book derives its...
  

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Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

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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...
  
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The Organic Machine
The Remaking of the Columbia River

Hill and Wang
The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. In this pioneering study,...
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Beyond Oil
The View from Hubbert's Peak

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“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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A Very Different Age
Americans of the Progressive Era

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The early twentieth century was a time of technological revolution in the United States. New inventions and corporations were transforming the economic...