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A complete illustrated survey of fragrant flowers and plants, from a celebrated gardening expert and an award—winning botanical photographer.
Popular garden writer Ken Druse offers a complete survey of fragrance in the garden, in a major work filled with new knowledge. He arranges both familiar and unusual garden plants, shrubs, and trees into twelve categories, giving gardeners a vastly expanded palate of scents to explore and enjoy, and he also...
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In Wonders of Life: Exploring the Most Extraordinary Force in the Universe, the definitive companion to the Discovery Science Channel series, Professor Brian Cox takes us on an incredible journey to discover the most complex, diverse, and unique force in the universe: life itself.
Through his voyage of discovery, international bestselling author Brian Cox explains how the astonishing inventiveness of nature came about and uncovers the milestones...
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It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Mller-Wille and Hans-Jrg Rheinberger offer a succinct cultural history of the scientific concept of heredity. They outline the dramatic changes the idea has undergone since the early modern period and describe the political and technological developments...
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A Fresh Twist on Vintage Flower Meanings & Arrangements
"This book is enchanting to the eyes, inspiring for the mind, and refreshing for the soul." -Maggie Hyde, Petal Back Farm
#1 New Release in Flower Arranging, Plant & Animal Photography, Photograpy Equipment & Techniques, Nature Literary Criticism, Victorian Literary Criticism, and Botany of Flowers
This floriography guide is a gorgeous and inspired combination of vintage Victorian flower meanings,...
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The new phenomenon of pandemic billionaires has been the quirky result of the terrible Covid pandemic that first emerged at the end of 2019 in China and spread quickly to the rest of the world. The lethal virus then underwent various mutations, ending up with the more transmissible but less lethal Omicron variant by 2022. By early 2023, the last country that practised the strict zero-covid policy of extensive lockdowns, China, has reopened for travels.When...
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"All thinking men are atheists," Ernest Hemingway famously wrote. True? Here are quips, quotes, and questions from a distinguished assortment of geniuses and jokers, giving readers a chance to decide for themselves....
When I think of all the harm [the bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
Oscar Wilde
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer....
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Memoirs of a Zoo Keeper Think you know what it's like to be a zoo keeper? Think again! Dive into the laugh-out-loud world of several different zoo keepers who navigate the unexpected chaos and heartwarming moments of their daily lives. Get ready for a wild ride through the wonders (and occasional mishaps) of the animal kingdom. But this book is more than just funny anecdotes. It's a window into the fascinating intelligence and social lives of zoo...
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This exciting, timely book combines cutting-edge findings in neuroscience with examples from history and recent headlines to offer new insights into who we are. Introducing the new science of cultural biology, born of advances in brain imaging, computer modeling, and genetics, Drs. Quartz and Sejnowski demystify the dynamic engagement between brain and world that makes us something far beyond the sum of our parts.
The authors show how our humanity...
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Este libro está diseñado para estudiantes que quieran aprender y apreciar temas biológicos básicos mientras estudian las menores unidades de la biología: moléculas y células. La biología celular y molecular es una disciplina dinámica. Hay miles de oportunidades en los campos médicos, farmacéuticos, agricultores, e industriales. Además de prepararte para una diversidad de trayectorias profesionales, entender la biología molecular y celular...
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The brain can be weighed, measured, scanned, dissected, and studied. The mind that we conceive to be generated by the brain, however, remains a mystery. It has no mass, no volume, and no shape, and it cannot be measured in space and time. Yet it is as real as neurons, neurotransmitters, and synaptic junctions. It is also very powerful.
-from Brain Wars
Is the brain "a computer made of meat," and human consciousness a simple product of electrical...
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Roses are known as 'the Queen of Flowers'. Roses are always in demand as they are the only flowers that are associated with beauty, fragrance and eternal love. Regarded as the most important cut flower world-wide, commercially as well as aesthetically, roses are traditionally grown as perennial woody shrubs. Generally the growth habit of the rose plant is to grow as an erect shrub; however trailing roses or climber roses with stems having prickles...
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Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage. Michael Paul Mason is one of an elite group of experts who coordinate care in the complicated aftermath of tragic injuries that can last a lifetime. On the road with Mason, we encounter survivors of brain injuries as they struggle to map and make sense of the new worlds they inhabit.
Underlying each...
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Drawing upon recent neuroscience research, Teach me Right: the neuroscience of learning explores the complexities of the adolescent brain and the barriers this period of neurological development creates towards learning in the classroom. Teach me Right: the neuroscience of learning introduces the Think 4 approach, a revolutionary approach to engaging adolescent learners in learning using 4 simple strategies, technology, socialisation, fast-paced environment...
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An investigation of life science and world religions, and how the two intersect. In Life Science and Religions, Kieran Burns uses Christianity's story of the fall of Adam and Eve and the curse of painful childbirth as a starting point to explore the relationship between religion and life science. Over the course of this study, Burns covers Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Taoism. He discusses topics such as evolution,...
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Why do we jump in fear at the sight of a snake and marvel at the beauty of a sunrise? These impulsive reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our evolutionary past-we fear snakes because of the danger of venom, and we welcome the assurances of sun as the predatory dangers of night disappear. According to evolutionary biologist Gordon Orians, many of our aesthetic preferences-from the kinds of gardens...
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I see soil in a new light, and I wonder about my own lawn and garden. What have I sprinkled on my backyard? Is somebody using my home, my food, to recycle toxic waste? It seems unbelievable, outlandish -- but what if it's true?
A riveting expose, Fateful Harvest tells the story of Patty Martin -- the mayor of a small Washington town called Quincy -- who discovers American industries are dumping toxic waste into farmers' fields and home gardens by...
78) On Evolution
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Essays from the award-winning geneticist on evolutionary biology-from protein electrophoresis to the recent ability to scan entire genomes.
John Avise is one of the most distinguished evolutionary biologists of our time. His groundbreaking work with mitochondrial DNA created the entire discipline of phylogeography and his work on the Pleistocene refugia hypothesis redirected scientific thinking about patterns of distribution. Spanning a remarkable...
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Almost 200 million human beings, mostly civilians, have died in wars over the last century, and there is no end of slaughter in sight.
The Most Dangerous Animal asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why all human beings have the potential to be hideously cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we our own worst enemy? The book shows us that war...
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The study of genetics has come a long way since the discovery of the structure of DNA in the 1950s. With the advent of new technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9, scientists have been able to manipulate genes in ways that were once unimaginable. The implications of these breakthroughs are far-reaching and profound, touching on everything from healthcare to agriculture to ethics."The Genetics Revolution" is a book that explores the latest developments in...
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