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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New York

The Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, and Other Nobel Prize Winners Answer Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions for Young People

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has honored the world's great geniuses in the most important fields: physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, economics, and world peace. What if children could ask these creative thinkers about some of life's most intriguing mysteries, such as ""Why can't I live on french fries?"" and ""What is love?"" the answers from the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Desmond Tutu, and seventeen other Nobel Prize Laureates are rich with surprise, humor, and of course, wisdom. Every single answer will make readers think...and learn something new.

The Nobel Book of Answers

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Eyewitness books 

With more than 20 million copies sold in 41 languages and more than 88 countries worldwide, DK Eyewitness has been the most trusted series in reference publishing for more then three decades. Visually engaging, informative, and lively, the more than 100 titles in the Eyewitness series focus on subjects that complement students' personal interests and areas of study to make learning simple and fun.
 * The most trusted nonfiction series for teachers, librarians, and parents
 * Perfect for homework help
 * Combination of pictures and text make the series perfect for reluctant readers and ESL students

Arctic and Antarctic

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#hardcover #DK #Dorling-Kindersly #eyewitness #science #reference #animals #mammals

Here is a spectacular and informative guide to the natural world of mammals. Stunning real-life photographs of bushbabies, badgers, wallabies and more offer a unique "eyewitness" view of the natural history of mammal behavior and anatomy. See how newborn mice develop, what the inside of a molehill looks like, what a whale has inside its mouth, how a chinchilla keeps its fur clean, and the only mammals that can fly. Learn how to recognize mammal footprints, why some animals store food in their cheek pouches, why you are a mammal, and how the porcupine frightens its enemies. Discover how camels can walk on sand, what mammals looked like in the Ice Age, why some mammals have spines instead of fur, what whiskers are for, why a wallaby has a pouch, and much, much more!

Mammal

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Eureka! 81 Key Ideas Explained

#hardcover #prentice-hall #science #reference #animals #geography #children's 

Science Explorer

Animals

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Idaho

How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect

In this fascinating book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most resilient creatures—the butterfly—shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our human lives. Butterflies are one of the world’s most beloved insects. From butterfly gardens to zoo exhibitions, they are one of the few insects we’ve encouraged to infiltrate our lives. Yet, what has drawn us to these creatures in the first place? And what are their lives really like? In this groundbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author and science journalist Wendy Williams reveals the inner lives of these “flying flowers”—creatures far more intelligent and tougher than we give them credit for. Monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles each year from Canada to Mexico. Other species have learned how to fool ants into taking care of them. Butterflies’ scales are inspiring researchers to create new life-saving medical technology. Williams takes readers to butterfly habitats across the globe and introduces us to not only various species, but to the scientists who have dedicated their lives to studying them. Coupled with years of research and knowledge gained from experts in the field, this accessible “butterfly biography” explores the ancient partnership between these special creatures and humans, and why they continue to fascinate us today. Touching, eye-opening, and incredibly profound, The Language of Butterflies reveals the critical role they play in our world.

The Language of Butterflies

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#paperback #science #history #noah #flood

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History

Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea.
Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed clear evidence that this inland body of water had once been a vast freshwater lake lying hundreds of feet below the level of the world's rising oceans. Sophisticated dating techniques confirmed that 7,600 years ago the mounting seas had burst through the narrow Bosporus valley, and the salt water of the Mediterranean had poured into the lake with unimaginable force, racing over beaches and up rivers, destroying or chasing all life before it. The rim of the lake, which had served as an oasis, a Garden of Eden for farms and villages in a vast region of semi-desert, became a sea of death. The people fled, dispersing their languages, genes, and memories.

Noah's Flood

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#nonfiction #science #paperback #new #astrophysics #military #educational #neildegrasse #history #nytimesbestseller 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

Accessory to War

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California

A Lift-the-Flaps Body Book

Outside-In

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Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. Includes reading-group guide. Reprint. A best-selling book.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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#paperback #nonfiction #darwin #evolution #science 

Michigan

By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

States the evidence for a theory of evolution, explains how evolution takes place, and discusses instinct, hybridism, fossils, distribution, and classification.

The Origin of Species

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#hardcover #nonfiction #religion #science #firstedition #Hitchens First edition. Missing dust jacket, but pages in excellent condition. 

Minnesota

How Religion Poisons Everything

"A case against religion and a description of the ways in which religion is man-made"--Provided by the publisher.

God Is Not Great

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#hardcover #nonfiction #science #astrophysics #educational #bestseller #socialscience #knowledge 

Indiana

There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in digestive chapters consumable any time and anywhere in the busy day

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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#hardcover #sherlockholmes #nonfiction #science

North Carolina

From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics behind the Great Detective’s Greatest Cases

The Science of Sherlock Holmes

#paperback #fieldguide #science #northatlantic

New Jersey

The North Atlantic Coast

A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide

#hardcover #biography #nonfiction #firstedition #einstein #autobiography #history #science 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

His Life and Universe

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-

Bettina Stiekel (Editor); Jimmy Carter (Intro and Notes by); Paul De Angelis

The Nobel Book of Answers

Barbara Taylor; Geoff Brightling (Photographer)

Arctic and Antarctic

Steve Parker

Mammal

Michael Macrone

Eureka! 81 Key Ideas Explained

Michael J. Padilla; Prentice-Hall Staff

Animals

Wendy Williams

The Language of Butterflies

William Ryan; Walter Pitman

Noah's Flood

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang, Neil Degrasse Tyson

Accessory to War

Claire Smallman

Outside-In

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Charles Robert Darwin

The Origin of Species

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

E.J. Wagner

The Science of Sherlock Holmes

Michael and Deborah Berrill

A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide

Walter Isaacson

Einstein