In Animal Weapons, Douglas J. Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal...
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Auteur: Emlen, Douglas J.Sommaire:Genre: Pets and animals, War and military -
Auteur: Fritzsche, PeterSommaire:World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilians made up the vast majority of those killed by war. On Europe's home front, the war brought the...
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Auteur: Leslie, IanSommaire:In Curious, Ian Leslie argues that true curiosity - the sustained quest for understanding that begets insight and innovation - is becoming increasingly difficult to harness in our wired world. We...
Genre: Psychology, Social science -
Auteur: Ross, RandySommaire:When it comes to qualities such as passion, enthusiasm, energy, and creativity, the majority of the American workforce could be described as "severely lacking." Too many people just go through the...
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Auteur: Appleman, Roy EdgarSommaire:Appleman's book clears up one of the nagging mysteries of the Korean War: the fate of the 7th U.S. Division's Task Force Faith between November 27 and December 1, 1950, when Chinese forces...
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Auteur: Kaiser, DavidSommaire:In the 1970s, a small group of physicists in Berkeley decided to explore the wilder side of science, pursuing a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Unlikely as it may seem, this quirky...
Genre: Math and science, Social science -
Auteur: Rogers, AdamSommaire:Adam Rogers reveals alcohol as a miracle of science, going deep into the pleasures of making and drinking booze--and the effects of the latter. He also brings to life the motley characters and...
Genre: Food and drink, Math and science -
Auteur: Kozol, JonathanSommaire:In the most personal book of his career, Jonathan Kozol tells the story of his father's life and work as a noted specialist in brain disorders and his ability to narrate his descent into Alzheimer...
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Auteur: Waal, F. B. M. deSommaire:What separates a human mind from an animal's? Is it the design of tools, sense of self, or grasp of past and future? These claims have been disproved outright by the study of animal cognition....
Genre: Psychology, Math and science -
Auteur: Browne, DavidSommaire:The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip has been the subject of countless books- but none like So Many Roads. Drawing on new interviews with surviving members and people in their inner circle along...
Genre: Music, Biographies and autobiographies -
Auteur: Welch, H. GilbertSommaire:Exposing the overdiagnosis of everything from high blood pressure to prostate and breast cancers, Dr. Welch traces the social, ethical, and economic ramifications of some of the worst excesses of...
Genre: Medicine, health and fitness -
Auteur: Mandis, Steven G.Sommaire:In What Happened to Goldman Sachs, Columbia Business School professor and former Sachs executive Steven Mandis charts the evolution of Goldman Sachs from an ethical standard to a legal one and...
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Auteur: Friedman, AndrewSommaire:"Knives at Dawn" follows the U.S. culinary team at The Bocuse d'Or, the world's most prestigious cooking competition.
Genre: Food and drink -
Auteur: Taber, George M.Sommaire:The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses, amid its illustrious artifacts, two bottles of wine: a 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon and a 1973 Chateau Montelena...
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Auteur: Standage, TomSommaire:Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on...
Genre: History and geography, Food and drink