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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions About How the World Works

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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

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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 Mind of the Market
How Biology and Psychology Shape Our Economic Lives

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"[A] captivating raconteur of all the greatest hits of behavioral, evolutionary and neuropsychology . . . Fascinating."—Los Angeles Times Book Review How did...
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Red Moon Rising
Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age

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“In his exuberant narrative of the superpower space race . . . [Brzezinski] tells the story of American and Soviet decisions with remarkable dramatic—even...
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The Thirtymile Fire
A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal

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“Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”—National Geographic Adventure The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near...
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Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder

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“Perfectly placed to tell us what’s really new about [the] second-generation Web.”—Los Angeles Times Business visionary and bestselling author David...
  
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The White Cascade
The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

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“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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How to Fossilize Your Hamster
And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist

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Outrageously entertaining and educational experiments from the team behind the phenomenal international bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps? How can you...
  
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What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed, Second Edition
A Practical, Compassionate, and Helpful Guide

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A clinical psychologist and expert on depression updates the book that has helped thousands with its combination of professional advice and comfort ...
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Why Darwin Matters
The Case Against Intelligent Design

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“Shermer is savage about the shortcomings of intelligent design and eloquent about the spirituality of science . . . An invaluable primer.” —Los Angeles...

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The Number Devil
A Mathematical Adventure

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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

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“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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Women Who Think Too Much
How to Break Free of Overthinking and Reclaim Your Life

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“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

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"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

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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

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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

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"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

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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

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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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The Outermost House
A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

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The seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the classic book about Cape Cod, “written with simplicity, sympathy, and beauty” (New York Herald...
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

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“Delightful . . . Easy to understand and hard to resist, it’s sex education at its prime—accurate, comprehensive, and hilarious.”...
  
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On the Wild Edge
In Search of a Natural Life

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“Opinionated and iconoclastic, Petersen writes with humor and a well-honed craft that will delight fans of Edward Abbey.” —Library Journal (starred review) ...
  
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White Hunters
The Golden Age of African Safaris

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East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: The sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bony highlands,...
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Between Therapist and Client
The New Relationship

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Perhaps the most important aspect of the therapeutic process is the relationship between therapist and client. For years, two major schools of thought have...