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The View from Lazy Point
A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

Picador
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern Long...
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The Viral Storm
The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

Times Books
Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic...
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American Anthrax
Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack

Times Books
From Jeanne Guillemin, one of the world's leading experts on anthrax and bioterrorism, the definitive account of the anthrax investigation It was the most...
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The Believing Brain
From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Times Books
Bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and...
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Beyond Boundaries
The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives

Times Books
A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality Imagine living in a world...
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The Emotional Calendar
Understanding Seasonal Influences and Milestones to Become Happier, More Fulfilled, and in Control of Your Life

Times Books
A leading Harvard psychiatrist reveals how our emotional lives are profoundly shaped by the seasons, and how to recognize our own seasonal patterns and...
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The Wolf in the Parlor
The Eternal Connection between Humans and Dogs

Henry Holt and Co.
A man and puppy exhumed from a 12,000-year-old grave sends a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer on a journey to the dogs Of all the things hidden...
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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions About How the World Works

Holt Paperbacks
Amazing and intriguing questions and answers from the team behind the international phenomenon Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? The popular-science magazine...
  
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Emotional Awareness
Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance

Holt Paperbacks
Two leading thinkers engage in a landmark conversation about human emotions and the pursuit of psychological fulfillment At their first meeting, a remarkable...
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The Perfect Scent
A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York

Picador
The Perfect Scent is the thrilling inside story of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents....
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The Number Devil
A Mathematical Adventure

A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
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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Emotions Revealed, Second Edition
Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

Holt Paperbacks
“A tour de force. If you read this book, you’ll never look at other people in quite the same way again.”—Malcolm Gladwell Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman...
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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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How to Ace Calculus
The Streetwise Guide

Times Books
Written by three gifted—and funny—teachers, How to Ace Calculus provides humorous and readable explanations of the key topics of calculus without...
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Women Who Think Too Much
How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life

Holt Paperbacks
“Groundbreaking research . . . Women Who Think Too Much tells why overthinking occurs, why it hurts people, and how to stop.” —USA Today ...
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The Language of Mathematics
Making the Invisible Visible

Holt Paperbacks
"The great book of nature," said Galileo, "can be read only by those who know the language in which it was written. And this language is mathematics." In The...
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The Lady Tasting Tea
How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

Holt Paperbacks
An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that...
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Escape from Freedom

Holt Paperbacks
If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of...
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Why We Love
The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

Holt Paperbacks
"If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature to its roots,...
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The Devil's Teeth
A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

Holt Paperbacks
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators-and the strange...
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Why People Believe Weird Things
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Holt Paperbacks
Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New...
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How to Ace the Rest of Calculus
The Streetwise Guide, Including Multi-Variable Calculus

Times Books
The sequel to How to Ace Calculus, How to Ace the Rest of Calculus provides humorous and highly readable explanations of the key topics of second and third...
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The White Cascade
The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

Holt Paperbacks
“Krist does wonders . . . [He] describes the frantic rescue efforts . . . and the malevolent, unending storm. In a thrilling, climactic chapter, he conjures...
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The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Holt Paperbacks
The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...