Genre search:Science & Nature

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paperback, 1999
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Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, History, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
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Gus

Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies

by Jared M. Diamond
Paper Book, 1999
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History, Environmentalism, Cajamarca, Incas, Food Production, Disease, Colonialism, Domestication, Zoonoses, Australia, New Guinea — 4 more, Africa, China, Americas, Polynesia
Collection
Greg

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paperback, 1980
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Sacred Geometry and Architecture, Earth Mysteries and Archaeo-Astronomy, Mathematics, Philosophy
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Don

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari
Paperback, 2018
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History, Agricultural Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Economics, Industrial Revolution, Religion
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Gifts

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
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Environmentalism, Socioeconomics
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond
Hardcover, 2004
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Environmentalism, Socioeconomics, Easter Island, Anasazi, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Vikings, Norse and Germanic Studies, Europe, Greenland — 1 more, Bibliography
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Gifts

Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson
Paperback, 1962
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Environmentalism, Pesticides, Toxicology
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Gifts

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman
Hardcover, 2007
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Ecology and Natural History, Extinction, Mayan Civilization, Environmental Crisis, Bibliography
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Gifts

The Nature of the Universe

by Lucretius
Paper Book, 1951
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Classics, Lucretius, Epicureanism, Graeco-Roman Philosophy
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Gifts

Lucretius: Of the nature of things

by Titus Lucretius Carus
Paper Book, 1916
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Graeco-Roman Philosophy, Graeco-Roman World, Epicureanism, Poetry
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Rowan

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

by Edward R. Tufte
Paperback, 2001
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Information Studies, Sacred Geometry and Architecture, Earth Mysteries and Archaeo-Astronomy, Graphs, Graphics
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Don

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
Paperback, 2015
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Healing Arts, Brain, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mind-Body, Yoga, Bibliography, Resources, Psychotherapy
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Gifts

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Paperback, 2015
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Ecology and Natural History, Botany, Indigenous Teachings, Indigenous Philosophy, Human Ecology, Nature, Human-Plant Relationships, Potawotomi, Potawotami Life & Social Customs, Ecophilosophy
Collection
Anna

Spook : science tackles the afterlife

by Mary Roach
Paper Book, 2006
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Death and Dying, Mediumship, Ectoplasm, NDEs, Near Death Experiences, Search for the Soul, Ghosts and Hauntings, Life After Death, Afterlife, Bibliography
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Gifts

Tao of Physics

by Fritjof Capra
Paperback, 1977
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New Science, Physics, Eastern Mysticism
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Don

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

by Carl Sagan
Paperback, 1977
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Human Genetic History, Human Evolution, Brain, Bibliography
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Gifts

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate_Discoveries from A Secret World

by Peter Wohlleben
Hardcover, 2016
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Ecology and Natural History, Environmentalism, Trees, Mycorrhizae, Aerosols, Mycelial Web, Mutualism
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Anna, Don

The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world

by Peter Wohlleben
Paper Book, 2016
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Ecology and Natural History, Trees, Mycorrhizae, Aerosols, Mycelial Web, Mutualism
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Gifts, In Storage

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

by Edward R. Tufte
Paperback, 1997
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Information Studies, Sacred Geometry and Architecture, Earth Mysteries and Archaeo-Astronomy, Graphs, Graphics
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Don

The better angels of our nature : why violence has declined

by Steven Pinker
Paper Book, 2011
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Peace & Conflict Resolution, Violence, History, Charts
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Don

The Mind's I : fantasies and reflections on self and soul

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paper Book, 1981
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Consciousness Studies, Soul, Mind, Self, Brain, Evolution, Language, Perception, Anthologies
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Gifts

The dancing wu li masters : an overview of the new physics

by Gary Zukav
Paper Book, 1979
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New Science, New Physics
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Don

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

by Richard Louv
Paperback, 2008
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Ecophilosophy, Activism, Children's Activities, Bibliography, Back to the Land Movement, Outdoor Education, Play, Nature Spirituality, Environmentalism
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Gifts

The Death of Forever: A New Future for Human Consciousness

by Darryl Reanney
Paperback, 1991
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Consciousness Studies, Death, Fear of Death, Time, Bibliography, Quantum Physics, Cosmology
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Gifts

The golden ratio : the story of phi, the world's most astonishing number

by Mario Livio
Paper Book, 2002
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Golden Ratio, Sacred Geometry and Architecture, Earth Mysteries and Archaeo-Astronomy, Sacred Geometry, Architecture, Number
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Don

Descartes' error : emotion, reason and the human brain

by Antonio R. Damasio
Paper Book, 2004
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Consciousness Studies, Neurobiology, Brain Research
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Gus

The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind

by Julian Jaynes
Paper Book, 1976
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Consciousness Studies, Psychology, Symbolism, Symbols, Bicameral mind
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Don

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

by Sherwin B. Nuland
Hardcover, 1994
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Death and Dying, Aging, Suicide
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Gifts

The Phenomenon of Man

by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hardcover, 1959
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Philosophy, Human Evolution, Life, Noosphere, Matter, Consciousness, Cosmogony, Biology, Energy, Mind, Soul — 4 more, Spirit, Biosphere, Physics, Omega Point
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Gifts

The Illustrated Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

by Richard Dawkins
Paperback, 2012
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Adversarial Books, Scientists Against Mythology, Scientists Against Occultism, Scientists Against Religion, Atheism, Skepticism
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Don

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

by William McDonough
Paperback, 2002
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Environmentalism, Ecophilosophy, Sustainability
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Gus

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

by Bryan Sykes
Paperback, 2002
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Human Genetic History, Prehistory, European Prehistory, Genetics, Human Genetics, Mitochondrial DNA
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Anna

Plagues and peoples

by William Hardy McNeill
Ebook, 1998
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Anthropology, Pandemics, Plagues, Ebola, AIDS
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Gifts

Cadillac desert : the American West and its disappearing water

by Marc Reisner
Paper Book, 1993
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Environmentalism, Politics, Water Politics
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Gus

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

by Amy Stewart
Hardcover, 2009
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Herbalism, Toxicology, Toxins, Toxic Plants, Poisonous Plants
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Anna

Underland : a deep time journey

by Robert Macfarlane
Paper Book, 2019
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Subterranean Mysteries, Paris Catacombs, Glaciers, Caves, Bronze Age, Nuclear Waste
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Don

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

by John Kelly
Paperback, 2006
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Dark and Middle Ages, Plague, Black Death, Anti-Semitism
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Gifts

Landscape and Memory

by Simon Schama
Hardcover, 1995
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Ecology and Natural History, Mythology, Landscape, Pagan Religion, Tree Worship, Robin Hood, Mountains, Forests, Germanic Tribes, Arcadia, Nile — 3 more, Art, Bibliography, Nature Worship
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Gifts

Why Evolution Is True

by Jerry A. Coyne
Hardcover, 2009
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Scientists Against Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Darwin, Darwinism, Scopes Trial, Anti-Creationism
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Don

Sex at dawn : how we mate, why we stray, and what it means for modern relationships

by Christopher Ryan
Paper Book, 2010
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Gender Studies, Human Evolution, War, Marriage, Homosexuality, Anthropology, Sexuality, Love, Relationships, Orgasm, Bibliography
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Gifts

A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets (Peterson Field Guides)

by Donald H.;Pasachoff Menzel, Jay M.
Paperback, 1990
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Astronomy, Astrology, Divination, Star Names, Planets, Constellations, Comets, Meteors, Time, Calendars, Moon — 6 more, Sky Atlas, Double Stars, Variable Stars, Galaxies, Nebulae, Sky Maps
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Gifts

Earth in the balance : ecology and the human spirit

by Albert Gore
Paper Book, 1992
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Environmentalism, Earth Spirituality
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Gifts

When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Paperback, 1996
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Ecology and Natural History, Animals, Emotions, Compassion, Cruelty, Justice, Ecophilosophy
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Gus

The female brain

by Louann Brizendine
Paper Book, 2006
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Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Psychology, Hormones
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Gus

In The Shadow Of Man

by Jane Goodall
Paperback, 2010
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Women's Studies, Jane Goodall, Animal Behavior, Primatology
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Don

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hardcover, 1996
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Consciousness Studies, Creativity, Psychology
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Gifts

Survival, Evasion and Escape: Department of the Army Field Manual FM 21-76.

by Department of the Army
Paperback, 1969
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Sustainability and Survival, Survival, Evasion, Navigation, Food, Water, Firemaking, Cold Weather, Tropics, Deserts, Survival at Sea — 5 more, Escape, Capture, Prisoner of War, Interrogation, Escape from POW camps
Collection
Don

Steps to an ecology of mind

by Gregory Bateson
Paper Book, 1972
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Ecophilosophy, Mind
Collection
Gus

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

by Terence McKenna
Paperback, 1993
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Drugs and Entheogens, Herbalism, Human Evolution
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Gus, In Storage

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

by Terence McKenna
Hardcover, 1992
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Drugs and Entheogens, Herbalism, Human Evolution, Hallucinogenic Drugs and Religious Experience
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Gifts
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