The Natural History of Us

Animal Cognition 101, Paperback - Erin Colbert-White

307,99 RON

This concise overview provides a scientific yet highly accessible introduction to the science of animal cognition. Written for undergraduate colleg...

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Going for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers in the War Against Nazi Germany, Paperback - James M. McCaffrey

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that follow...

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Dragonflies and Damselflies: A Natural History, Hardcover - Dennis Paulson

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. A lavishly illustrated introduction to the world's dragonflies and damselfliesDragonflies and damselflies are often called birdwatchers' insects. L...

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Nature Beyond Solitude: Notes from the Field, Paperback - John Seibert Farnsworth

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. John Seibert Farnsworth's delightfuleld notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature beyond Solitude, Farnsworth lets us pee...

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Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food, Hardcover - Aaron S. Gross

658,99 RON

How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eatin...

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Beehive, Hardcover - Jorey Hurley

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. Acclaimed author Jorey Hurley shows us how bees make and store honey in this bold and graphic picture book that includes informative backmatter on ...

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Faceworld, Paperback - Marion Zilio

136,99 RON

We have long accepted the face as the most natural and self-evident thing, believing that in it we could read, as if on a screen, our emotions and ...

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On the Origin of Species, Hardback - Charles Darwin

125,99 RON

Initially received with muted applause Darwin's The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognised as the breakthrough scienti...

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Medieval Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 4, Hardcover - Peter Adamson

157,99 RON

DescriptionPeter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the...

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Why We Belong: Evangelical Unity and Denominational Diversity, Paperback - Anthony L. Chute

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDenominations. The word itself often sparks strong reactions, causing us to wonder if there are merits to our factions and if it's possi...

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Water: A Natural History, Paperback - Alice Outwater

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continu...

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The Renaissance: A Captivating Guide to a Remarkable Period in European History, Including Stories of People Such as Galileo Galilei, M, Paperback - C

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Renaissance, then keep reading... "Renaissance" is the French word for "rebirth, ...

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Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Marlene Zuk

50,99 RON

DescriptionWhat is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds-of-paradise to the ant...

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The Grand Canyon Expedition: The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, Hardcover - John Wesley Powell

66,99 RON

DescriptionExplore one of the nation's greatest natural wonders and celebrate the 100th birthday of Grand Canyon National Park with this grand voya...

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Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History, Paperback - William H. McNeill

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping Together in Time one of th...

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The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains, Hardcover - Joseph LeDoux

182,99 RON

A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings to...

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On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins, Hardcover - Mark Hallett

217,99 RON

Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars fascinate us like few other creatures. They are enduring symbols of natural majesty and power...

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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape, Paperback - William Wyckoff

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose w...

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The Big Book of Amaro, Hardcover - Matteo Zed

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. Amaro, translated literally as "bitter, " is an herbal liqueur traditionally enjoyed as a digestif. Delightfully complex and bittersweet, it's also...

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Historic Photos of the Presidio, Hardcover - Rebecca Schall

197,99 RON

Situated at the mouth of the Golden Gate is the Presidio of San Francisco, one of the nation's most famous former U.S. Army bases, currently a Nati...

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Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe, Hardcover - Johnjoe McFadden

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham's razor changed our world by sho...

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Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space, Hardcover - Stephen Prickett

171,99 RON

Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our ...

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Florida's Rivers: A Celebration of Over 40 of the Sunshine State's Dynamic Waterways, Hardcover - Doug Alderson

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. The rivers in Florida are steeped in a rich natural and cultural history. They are avenuesthrough time, allowing us to wrap ourselves in a rich his...

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Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design, Paperback - Whitney Quesenbery

376,99 RON 403,99 RON

Reducere. We all tell stories. It's one of the most natural ways to share information, as old as the human race. This book is not about a new technique, but ...

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Portraits of Cuba, Hardcover - Daniel Duncan

379,99 RON

Scenes from Havana to Santiago Through an abundance of dynamic photographs, Portraits of Cuba depicts the experiences of Cubans of different ages a...

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Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, Hardcover - Mary Anne Andrei

239,99 RON

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first t...

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Natural History of Fairies, Hardback - Emily Hawkins

125,99 RON

Fairies are all around us - you just need to look carefully and you'll see signs of them everywhere. Written and compiled by the esteemed botanist ...

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Never Home Alone. From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, Paperback - Rob Dunn

77,99 RON

The surprising science of the creepers, crawlers, wrigglers and runners that call our homes, home

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Harvestman: Collected Lyrics and Poems, Hardcover - Steve Von Till

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. Poetry. Music. Steve Von Till's poems are lamentations--elegies for the loss of wildness, songs of hope, chants of spirit, and dreams of survival. ...

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Walden & Civil Obedience, Paperback - Henry David Thoreau

50,99 RON 54,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNo nineteenth-century American writer can claim to be as modern as Henry David Thoreau. His central preoccupations - the illusory nature...

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Flights of Passage: An Illustrated Natural History of Bird Migration, Hardcover - Mike Unwin

273,99 RON

DescriptionA visually stunning, photographically driven celebration of bird migration--one of the great marvels of the natural world The vast trans...

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Insight Guides Explore Shanghai (Travel Guide with Free Ebook), Paperback - Insight Guides

56,99 RON

DescriptionINSIGHT GUIDES EXPLORE SHANGHAI Let us guide you on every step of your travels...Focused travel guides featuring the very best routes an...

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Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators, Paperback - U. S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. (NAVWEPS 00-80T-80) This textbook presents the elements of applied aerodynamics and aeronautical engineering which relate directly to the problems ...

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Chakras: Chakras for Beginners - Awaken Your Internal Energy and Learn to Radiate Positive Energy and Start Healing, Paperback - Michael Williams

47,99 RON 51,99 RON

Reducere. Second Edition with more Great Content Now Available "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." -...

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The Beginning of the End, Paperback - Michael Snyder

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. The Beginning of the End is the first novel by Michael T. Snyder, the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. If you want to know what things in A...

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Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies, Paperback - Barbara Hurd

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book de...

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Wired for Culture. The Natural History of Human Cooperation, Paperback - Mark Pagel

80,00 RON

What explains the staggering diversity of cultures in the world? Why are there so many languages, even within small areas? Why do we rejoice in rit...

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Ace: The Story of Lt. Col. Ace Cozzalio, Paperback - Rex Gooch

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Bronze Medal Winner: 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Ace is the story of Ace Cozzalio, a bold and courageous U.S. Army helicopter pilot flyi...

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Why We Hurt: The Natural History of Pain, Paperback - Frank T. Vertosick Jr

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. A top neurosurgeon and acclaimed author's unique and highly readable study of the paradox of pain, with fascinating anecdotes on childbirth, migrai...

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Deep Play, Paperback - Diane Ackerman

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. With A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman let her free-ranging intellect loose on the natural world. Now in Deep Play she tackles the re...

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The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal, Paperback - Henry Nicholls

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Yet in spite of humankind's evident obs...

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Creative Evolution: Humanity's Natural Creative Impulse, Paperback - Arthur Mitchell

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. Creative EvolutionBy Henri BergsonTranslated by Arthur MitchellThe history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us...

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Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution, Paperback - Bruce T. Moran

183,99 RON

DescriptionAlchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...

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Nicaragua, 1961-1990, Volume 2: The Contra War, Paperback - David Francois

103,99 RON

DescriptionIn 1979, the Sandinista government established itself in power in Managua, the capitol of Nicaragua. It found the country ruined by the ...

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My Enemy's Tears: The Witch of Northampton, Paperback - Karen Vorbeck Williams

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. She was real. She was rich and beautiful. She was tried as a witch in 1675--and survived. Based on the lives of Mary Bliss Parsons and Sarah Lyman ...

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Infinite in All Directions: Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April-November 1985, Paperback - Freeman J. Dyson

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. Infinite in All Directions is a popularized science at its best. In Dyson's view, science and religion are two windows through which we can look ou...

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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains) - Alan E. Sparks

177,99 RON 190,99 RON

Reducere. The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians. Still on the trail of wolves, we are now led into the western Carpathian and the Sudeten M...

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¡viva George!: Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the Us-Mexico Border, Paperback - ***

241,99 RON 258,99 RON

Reducere. Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's bir...

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Politics and Climate Change: A History, Paperback - Andy May

133,99 RON

This book is a brief history of the human-caused climate change debate from its origins in the 19th century until today. The goal is to put the pol...

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The Cipher, Paperback - Molly Brodak

59,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. Molly Brodak's The Cipher is a deft and unsparing study of the limits of knowledge and belief, and of what solace can be found within those limits....

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Slow Down: 50 Mindful Moments in Nature, Hardcover - Rachel Williams

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. Slow down to watch 50 nature stories that command calm and foster mindfulness All around us, nature is working wonders. Every day, hour by hour, ma...

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Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics, Hardcover - Moritz Epple

376,99 RON

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable found...

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Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth, Hardcover - Helen Pilcher

135,99 RON

DescriptionIn this post-natural history guide, Helen Pilcher invites us to meet key species that have been sculpted by humanity.We are now living t...

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365 More American English Idioms: An Idiom a Day - Michael Digiacomo

60,99 RON 65,99 RON

Reducere. Including... The EXPLANATION of each idiom. USAGE NOTES to learn the history and/or way to use the idiom The STRUCTURE showing the grammar usage of...

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RV and Travel Trailer Preppers Long Term Survival Bug Out Skills Camping Guide: Grid Down, The Worst Day In US History, Paperback - Ron Foster

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThere will possibly come a day I woefully imagine in the near future when you might find yourself in a darkened world alongside a road. ...

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Beginning with Guppies - Bob Hole

34,99 RON

DescriptionA quick and easy guide to guppies and setting up a small home aquarium. Perfect for first-time guppy keepers.About the AuthorBob Hole ha...

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Sacred Trees - Nathaniel Altman

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionSince the dawn of history, trees have played a central role in the survival of humanity and the flowering of myriad cultures. Not surpri...

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Weather Almanac, Paperback - Eric Sloane

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn addition to his roles as a celebrated artist and folklorist, Eric Sloane was TV's first weatherman and an author whose popular books ...

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The Sceptical Investor: How Contrarians Bet Against the Market and Win - And You Can Too, Paperback - John Stepek

91,99 RON

DescriptionEveryone wants to be a contrarian investor. From the hedge funds who bet against the US housing market in the run up to 2008, to George ...

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In Amazonia: A Natural History, Paperback - Hugh Raffles

271,99 RON

DescriptionThe Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has...

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Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier, Paperback - Jeffrey A. Lockwood

136,99 RON

In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky M...

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Southern Appalachian Celebration: In Praise of Ancient Mountains, Old-Growth Forests, and Wilderness, Hardcover - James Valentine

225,99 RON 241,99 RON

Reducere. With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural ...

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The Magick of Faeries: Working with the Spirits of Nature, Paperback - Cassandra Eason

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Discover how to work magick with faeries and elemental spirits From the world of the wee folk to the history and lore of faeries, explore all thing...

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Wild at Heart: America's Turbulent Relationship with Nature, from Exploitation to Redemption, Hardcover - Alice Outwater

144,99 RON

Description"Through a narrative that roams in unexpected directions through surprising details and history, then periodically grounds itself by loo...

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Georgia's Amazing Coast: Natural Wonders from Alligators to Zoeas, Paperback - David Bryant

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. Fun and learning come together in Georgia's Amazing Coast, an inviting collection of one hundred short, self-contained features about the flora, fa...

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Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy, Paperback - Melissa Milgrom

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. Taxidermy is everywhere these days--from hip restaurants to posh clothing stores. Yet few realize that behind these "stuffed" animals is a world of...

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U.S. Guide to Venomous Snakes and Their Mimics, Paperback - Scott Shupe

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe definitive reference for differentiating venomous snakes from their harmless look-alikes. This easy-to-use guide is the most compreh...

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The Swahili People and Their Language: A Teaching Handbook, Paperback - Dainess Mashiku Maganda

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. History is a testament to what happened to a people or a place. It shows how things were and their transformation while explaining why the changes ...

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Natural Remote Viewing: A practical guide to the mental martial art of self-discovery, Paperback - Jon Noble

66,99 RON 71,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWe are all, to some extent, natural psychics; it is an innate ability. Natural Remote Reviewing offers a concise and practical introduct...

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Magical Crows, Ravens and the Celebration of Death, Paperback - Andrew Steed

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. Description"Magical Crows, Ravens and the Celebration of Death" takes us on the inevitable journey many of us dread most. It takes us past the sorr...

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