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Weeds of the West
by Tom Whitson
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Learning to identify unwanted plants around the home, farm or ranch will be much easier with this book published by the Western Society of Weed Science and co-sponsored by the Cooperative Extension of the United States. Weeds of the West will help you... ( read more)
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
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A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race.
Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... ( read more)
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What Evolution Is (Science Masters Series)
by Ernst Mayr
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At once a spirited defense of Darwinian explanations of biology and an elegant primer on evolution for the general reader, "What Evolution Is" poses the questions at the heart of evolutionary theory and considers how improved understanding of evolution... ( read more)
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How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer
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From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... ( read more)
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The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout
by Thomas P. Quinn
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Esteemed fisheries expert Quinn distills essential information about salmon, steelhead, and cutthroat trout from the vast scientific literature.... ( read more)
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Edward Abbey
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"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey... ( read more)
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Kinship with All Life: Simple, Challenging, Real-Life Experiences Showing How Animals Communicate with
by J Allen Boone
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Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience?Example after example in this unique classic -- from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly -- resounds with entertaining and inspiring... ( read more)
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
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With The Stuff of Thought, linguist Steven Pinker returns to the themes of language and human nature to examine how words express the workings of our minds. Dealing with many aspects of human cognitive and social evolution, Pinker demonstrates his... ( read more)
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Emerging Viruses
by Stephen S Morse
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New epidemics such as AIDS and "mad cow" disease have dramatized the need to explore the factors underlying rapid viral evolution and emerging viruses. This comprehensive volume is the first to describe this multifaceted new field. It places viral... ( read more)
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The Meme Machine
by Susan J. Blackmore
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What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes, songs, ways of plowing a field or... ( read more)
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Original Essays | June 16, 2009
By Robert Wright
On September 11, 2001, I was scheduled to start teaching a graduate seminar at Penn called "Religion and Human Nature." But religion and human...
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