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  • The Dancing Bees

    Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

    by Tania Munz ...
    "A triumph of science writing, a well crafted, deeply researched story of politics, ethics, and the fascinating lives of humans and bees." —Jonathan Eig, New York Times–bestselling authorWe think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators—and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886–1982 ... Read more

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    The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe

    by Mike Croissant ...
    The white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler’s hometown is now told for the first time through the eyes of the men on the airplanes – as well as the innocent Austrians under the bombs – in this groundbreaking true story of the aerial bombing and its aftermath from retired CIA officer Mike Croissant.Foreword by Richard Overy, author of The Bombers and the BombedIn April ... Read more

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  • Time in Maps

    From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

    Edited by Kären Wigen, Caroline Winterer ...
    "As wide-ranging, imaginative, and revealing as the maps they discuss, these essays . . . track how maps—interpreted broadly—convey time as well as space." —Richard White, Stanford UniversityMaps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense ... Read more

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  • 101 Facts You Didn't Know About Space

    by Mark S. Thompson ...
    The author of A Space Traveller's Guide to the Solar System shares 101 fascinatingly fun facts sure to change how you see outer space—and Earth.Did you know a compost heap generates as much energy as the Sun? Or that dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate? Maybe you have not been into space but if you have then you will know that astronauts have feet as soft as babies! 101 Facts You Didn't ... Read more

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  • Sacred Geometry

    An A–Z Reference Guide

    by Marilyn Walker ...
    "Walker takes us on a fascinating and enjoyable wander through the confluence of science, nature, and spirituality without getting us lost." ―Terence McKeown, documentary filmmaker, producer of Planet Hunters , Playing God with Planet Earth , and Stonehenge UncoveredWhen science and spirituality coalesce, secrets of the natural world a... ... Read more

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  • Two Trains Leave Paris

    Number Problems for Word People

    by Taylor Frey, Mike Wesolowski ...
    Entertaining word problems that let verbal types master the language of math!Math is a universal language, but it's also the least understood and most undervalued subject taught in school. Two Trains Leave Paris: Number Problems for Word People offers an opportunity to experience math like never before.You must use the Pythagorean Theorem to figure out how far apart two ex-lovers are when they ... Read more

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  • The Red Atlas

    How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

    by John Davies, Alexander J. Kent ...
    The "utterly fascinating" untold story of Soviet Russia's global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian).From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mexican Heartland

    How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000

    by John Tutino ...
    A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuriesThe Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the ... Read more

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  • The Extreme Life of the Sea

    by Stephen R. Palumbi, Anthony R. Palumbi ...
    "A fascinating exploration of this vast mysterious universe. Wonderfully written, it will grab you from page one and carry you all the way through." ―Philippe CousteauThe ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world—the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures ... Read more

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  • The Reader Over Your Shoulder

    A Handbook for Writers of English Prose

    by Robert Graves, Alan Hodge ...
    "The best book on writing ever published" (Patricia T. O'Conner, author of Woe Is I).When Robert Graves and Alan Hodge decided to collaborate on this manual for writers, the world was in total upheaval. Graves had fled Majorca three years earlier at the start of the Spanish Civil War, and as they labored over their new project, they witnessed the fall of France and the evacuation of Allied forces ... Read more

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  • Ancient Perspectives

    Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

    Edited by Richard J. A. Talbert ...
    "Contains must-read essays for all those interested in the history of these earliest forms of cartography . . . A truly wonderful read." —John Hessler, Library of Congress, The PortolanAncient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient ... Read more

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  • Bird Brain

    An Exploration of Avian Intelligence

    by Nathan Emery ...
    Why birds are smarter than we thinkBirds have not been known for their high IQs, which is why a person of questionable intelligence is sometimes called a "birdbrain." Yet in the past two decades, the study of avian intelligence has witnessed dramatic advances. From a time when birds were seen as simple instinct machines responding only to stimuli in their external worlds, we now know that some ... Read more

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