How Birds Evolve. What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity, Hardback - Douglas J. Futuyma

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When and where did the ancestors of modern birds evolve? What enabled them to survive the meteoric impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? How did the...

What are the Chances of That? discusses chance and the importance of understanding how it affects our lives. It goes beyond a mathematical approach...

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In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience....

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Angela E. DouglasIllustration(s): 70 b/w illus. 13 tables.Number of pages: 352Publication date: 202...

The potential of fMRI is extraordinary. It allows us to observe brain activity in real time, build an understanding of thoughts and motivations, an...

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Reducere. An engaging journey into the biological principles underpinning a beloved science-fiction franchiseIn Star Trek, crew members travel to unusual pla...

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Graham Martin takes the reader deep into the world of birds from a new perspective, with a 'through birds' eyes' approach to ornithology that goes ...

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Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest--revealing that nearly ev...

Introduces readers to the theory and application of modern numerical approximation techniques. Providing an accessible treatment that only requires...

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A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the worldPublisher: The History Press...

In Materializing Poverty, anthropologist Erin Taylor explores how residents of a squatter settlement in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, use thei...

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A tour around your everyday brain functions, from language to sleep, what can disrupt them and how to protect them.Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ge...

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Be the change and learn how privilege, unchecked and unconscious biases and allyship are the key to making diversity and inclusion a reality.

The number of French Jews killed during the Holocaust has been massively underestimated. Claire Zalc explains why: the Vichy regime terminated the ...

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