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The Ocean's Menagerie

How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

de Drew Harvell ...

**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

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**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on
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Ocean Outbreak

Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease

de Drew Harvell ...

Winner of the Sustainability Science Award 2020, Ecological Society of AmericaWinner of the PROSE Award (Biological Sciences category) 2020, Association of American PublishersThere is a growing crisis in our oceans: mysterious outbreaks of infectious disease are on the rise. Marine epidemics can cause mass die-offs of wildlife from the bottom to the top of food chains, impacting the health of ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

Winner of the Sustainability Science Award 2020, Ecological Society of AmericaWinner of the PROSE Award (Biological Sciences category) 2020, Association of American PublishersThere is a growing crisis in our oceans: mysterious outbreaks of infectious disease are on the rise. Marine epidemics can cause mass die-offs of wildlife from the bottom to the top of food chains, impacting the health of
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The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses

Edición de Ralph Tollrian, C. Drew Harvell ...

Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the inducible defenses used by vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats has largely developed along independent lines. Ralph Tollrian and Drew Harvell seek to change ... Leer más

$86.39 USD

Inducible defenses--those often dramatic phenotypic shifts in prey activated by biological agents ranging from predators to pathogens--are widespread in the natural world. Yet research on the inducible defenses used by vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats has largely developed along independent lines. Ralph Tollrian and Drew Harvell seek to change
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A Sea of Glass

Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk

de Drew Harvell ...

Series Libro 13 - Organisms and Environments
"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The GuardianWinner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment CategoryIt started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell’s eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The GuardianWinner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment CategoryIt started with a glass octopus. Dusty, broken, and all but forgotten, it caught Drew Harvell’s eye. Fashioned in intricate detail by the father-son glassmaking
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The Ocean's Menagerie

How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

de Drew Harvell ...

Narrado por Andi Arndt ...

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6 hora 52 minutos

**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

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**A Nature Best Book of 2025 • A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift PickAn elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologist**Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on
... Leer más

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Blueprints

How Mathematics Shapes Creativity

de Marcus du Sautoy ...

Narrado por Mark Elstob ...

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13 hora 2 minutos

An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” ... Leer más

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An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the artsWhen Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses something very weird to do it: not simply “eye of newt and toe of frog,” but the number seven. And when Hamlet claims, “To be or not to be, that is the question,”
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The Stones of Britain

A History of Britain through its Geology

de Jon Cannon ...

'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly ... Leer más

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'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly
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Trinity

The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

de Frank Close ...

Narrado por Anthony Howell ...

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20 hora 56 minutos

Brought to you by Penguin.'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the ... Leer más

$21.99 USD

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Brought to you by Penguin.'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the
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Churchill's Killing House

The Origins of World War II's Legendary Commando Fighting Force

de Monty Halls ...

Narrado por Monty Halls ...

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11 hora 8 minutos

Brought to you by Penguin.In the summer of 1940, Britain was under siege. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France had already fallen, and the British army had been routed on the continent, leading to the chaotic evacuation at Dunkirk.In the rubble of the Allie’s crumbled defence, Inverailort House was established as a new symbol of defiance. Signed off by Churchill himself, this austere ... Leer más

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Brought to you by Penguin.In the summer of 1940, Britain was under siege. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France had already fallen, and the British army had been routed on the continent, leading to the chaotic evacuation at Dunkirk.In the rubble of the Allie’s crumbled defence, Inverailort House was established as a new symbol of defiance. Signed off by Churchill himself, this austere
... Leer más

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Slow Motion Ghosts

de Jeff Noon ...

Narrado por Dean Williamson ...

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13 hora 11 minutos

'Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' Guardian‘Constantly surprising’ Spectator**A viciously occult murder.A curious clue left on the body.The soundtrack to the murder still playing...**_____________It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police ... Leer más

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'Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' Guardian‘Constantly surprising’ Spectator**A viciously occult murder.A curious clue left on the body.The soundtrack to the murder still playing...**_____________It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police
... Leer más

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The Only Cure

Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing

de Mark Solms ...

Narrado por Mark Solms ...

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11 hora 47 minutos

Once dismissed as unscientific, psychoanalytic therapy is proving to be among our most effective medical treatments of any kind—outperforming psychiatric drugs and rivalling vaccines in its power to prevent and heal. Why does it work so well?Perhaps because one of the most controversial figures in psychology was right all along. Neuroscience now confirms much of what Sigmund Freud conjectured over ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

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Once dismissed as unscientific, psychoanalytic therapy is proving to be among our most effective medical treatments of any kind—outperforming psychiatric drugs and rivalling vaccines in its power to prevent and heal. Why does it work so well?Perhaps because one of the most controversial figures in psychology was right all along. Neuroscience now confirms much of what Sigmund Freud conjectured over
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The Hidden Seasons

A Calendar of Nature’s Clues

de Tristan Gooley ...

Narrado por Tristan Gooley ...

Series series Natural Navigation
Completo

9 hora 1 minutos

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs**: Learn to spot the endlessly unfolding clues and signs that reveal the hidden ways nature changes every day of the year**We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs**: Learn to spot the endlessly unfolding clues and signs that reveal the hidden ways nature changes every day of the year**We all notice the flowers of spring, longer days of summer, colors of autumn, and snowfalls of winter. But have you observed the way that water tends to run clearest in June? Did you know that
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