Natural Causes, Hardcover

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How does a rainbow form? What causes it to snow? What makes the wind blow? This adorable reference book introduces young children to every aspect o...

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An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely...

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The QI team have blown your socks off, made your jaw drop and knocked you sideways. Now they return with 1, 234 brand-new mind-blowing facts that w...

When reclusive, blind violin pedagogue Daniel Jacobus is invited to speak at a seemingly innocuous symposium on Baroque music at a prestigious musi...

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A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? S...

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Reducere. Humanity's impact on the natural world can have disastrous effects. The Great Pacific Garbage Patchshines a light on the giant accumulation of garb...

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Reducere. Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely...

Vaccine reluctance and refusal are no longer limited to the margins of society. Debates around vaccines' necessity -- along with questions around t...

Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner uncovers dark secrets in his small Devon village in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series. J...

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The equine hoof is a complex marvel of natural engineering, built to withstand tremendous forces and able to adapt to an astonishing range of envir...

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In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion p...

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