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  • DOGPEDIA
    DOGPEDIA
    PIERCE, JESSICA
    An enchanting, fact-filled treasury for the dog lover in all of us, from A to ZDogpedia is your gateway into the astonishing world of dogs. Featuring dozens of alphabetical entries on topics ranging from the wonders of dog evolution to the intricate ways dogs communicate with humans and each other, this enticing, pocket-friendly collection helps you to see dogs with new eyes an...
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    Q. 180

  • SHARKPEDIA
    SHARKPEDIA
    DANIEL ABEL
    A fun, pocket-size A–Z treasury about sharks, featuring fascinating, little-known facts and captivating illustrationsSharkpedia is an entertaining and enlightening celebration of sharks featuring close to 100 entries, based on the latest knowledge and enriched by original illustrations. Avoiding tired factoids, shark authority Daniel Abel gives new bite to essential information...
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    Q. 190

  • NEUROPEDIA
    NEUROPEDIA
    ERIC H. CHUDLER
    A fun and fact-filled A–Z treasury for anyone with a head on their shouldersNeuropedia journeys into the mysteries and marvels of the three pounds of tissue between your ears—the brain. Eric Chudler takes you on a breathtaking tour of the nervous system with dozens of entries that explore the structure and function of the brain and cover topics such as the spinal cord and nerve...
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    Q. 180

  • PINK
    PINK
    MICHEL PASTOUREAU
    From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to BarbiePink has such powerful associations today that it’s hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it’s only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, ...
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    Q. 410

  • LICHENPEDIA
    LICHENPEDIA
    KAY HURLEY
    An illustrated mini-encyclopedia about the weird and wonderful world of lichensLichenpedia is a delightfully entertaining and beautifully illustrated A–Z treasury about the strange, obscure, and remarkable world of lichens, from their unique and essential roles in nature and the ways they are used in dyeing, brewing, and drug-making to how they have inspired writers and artists...
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    Q. 190

  • COLOR CHARTS
    COLOR CHARTS
    ANNE VARICHON
    A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries. Color Charts describes the many different methods and ingenious devices developed since the fifteenth century by doctors, naturalists, dyers, a...
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    Q. 560

  • THE CHILE PROJECT
    THE CHILE PROJECT
    SEBASTIAN EDWARDS
    How Chile became home to the world's most radical free-market experiment--and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic model--installed in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened during three decades of left-of-center governments--came ...
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    Q. 330

  • INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS
    INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS
    STEPHANIE SCHMITT-GROHÉ / MARTÍN URIBE / MICHAEL WOOD
    An essential introduction to one of the most timely and important subjects in economicsInternational Macroeconomics presents a rigorous and theoretically elegant treatment of real-world international macroeconomic problems, incorporating the latest economic research while maintaining a microfounded, optimizing, and dynamic general equilibrium approach. This one-of-a-kind textbo...
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    Q. 1.500

  • THE LIVES OF FUNGI
    THE LIVES OF FUNGI
    BRITT BUNYARD
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA fascinating and richly illustrated exploration of the natural history of fungiu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eWe know fungi are important, for us as well as the environment. But how they live, and what they can do, remains mysterious and surprising. Filled with stunning photographs, u003ciu003eThe Lives of Fungiu003c/iu003e presents an inside look in...
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    Q. 310

  • A BRIEF WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE
    A BRIEF WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE
    DEGRASSE TYSON, NEIL / STRAUSS, MICHAEL A. / J.RICHARD GOTT
    A pocket-style edition based on the New York Times bestsellerA Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott take readers on an unforgettable journey of exploration to reveal how...
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    Q. 160

  • YELLOW
    YELLOW
    MICHEL PASTOUREAU
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eFrom the acclaimed author of u003ciu003eBlueu003c/iu003e, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau—a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue, black, green, and red—now traces the visual, soci...
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    Q. 410

  • BLUE
    BLUE
    MICHEL PASTOUREAU
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist M...
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    Q. 360

  • RED
    RED
    MICHEL PASTOUREAU
    u003cpu003eu003cbu003eA beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color red throughout the agesu003c/bu003eu003c/pu003eu003cpu003eThe color red has represented many things, from the life force and the divine to love, lust, and anger. Up through the Middle Ages, red held a place of privilege in the Western world. For many cultures, red was not just one color of ...
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    Q. 405

  • WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE: AN ASTROPHYSICAL TOUR
    WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE: AN ASTROPHYSICAL TOUR
    DEGRASSE TYSON, NEIL
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    Q. 400

  • THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD
    THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD
    JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL
    A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtak...
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    Q. 300

  • THE GREAT ESCAPE: HEALTH WEALTH
    THE GREAT ESCAPE: HEALTH WEALTH
    ANGUS DEATON
    The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the wo...
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    Q. 190

  • THE PHILOSOPHER, THE PRIEST
    THE PHILOSOPHER, THE PRIEST
    STEVEN NADLER
    In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the authentic version, and who painted it? Is the man in the painting--and in its ...
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    Q. 180

  • THE LITTLE BIG NUMBER
    THE LITTLE BIG NUMBER
    DIRK PHILIPSEN
    In one lifetime, GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, has ballooned from a narrow economic tool into a global article of faith. It is our universal yardstick of progress. As The Little Big Number demonstrates, this spells trouble. While economies and cultures measure their performance by it, GDP ignores central facts such as quality, costs, or purpose. It only measures output: more ...
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    Q. 300

  • TESLA : INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRICAL AGE
    TESLA : INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRICAL AGE
    CARLSON, W. BERNARD
    Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying ...
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    Q. 200

  • HOW TO CLONE A MAMMOTH
    HOW TO CLONE A MAMMOTH
    BETH SHAPIRO
    Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. "In How to Clone a Mammoth," Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to antici...
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    Q. 250

  • THE GLOBALIZATION OF INEQUALITY
    THE GLOBALIZATION OF INEQUALITY
    FRANÇOIS BOURGUIGNON
    In "The Globalization of Inequality," distinguished economist and policymaker Francois Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India, and Brazil, and the exponentially increasing inequality within countries. Exploring globalization'...
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    Q. 280

  • A CENTURY OF GENOCIDE
    A CENTURY OF GENOCIDE
    ERIC D. WEITZ
    Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented?Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the...
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    Q. 250

  • LIFE OF A YOUNG PLANET
    LIFE OF A YOUNG PLANET
    ANDREW H. KNOLL
    Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian expl...
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    Q. 200

  • FLATLAND
    FLATLAND
    EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT
    In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimens...
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    Q. 135

  • CELLS TO CIVILIZATION
    CELLS TO CIVILIZATION
    ENRICO COEN
    Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself—from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations. What are the connections between evolving microbes, an egg that develops into an infant, and a child who learns to walk and talk? Award-winning scientist Enrico Coen synthesizes the growth of living systems and creative pro...
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    Q. 200

  • EXTINCTION
    EXTINCTION
    DOUGLAS H. ERWIN
    Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out—a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains a mystery. But there are many competing theories. Some blame huge volcanic eruptions that covered an area as large as the cont...
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    Q. 200

  • MASS FLOURISHING: HOW GRASSROOTS
    MASS FLOURISHING: HOW GRASSROOTS
    EDMUND PHELPS
    In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820s and 1960s, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-...
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    Q. 200

  • CLIMATE SHOCK
    CLIMATE SHOCK
    GERNOT WAGNER
    If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate ...
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    Q. 280

  • WOULD YOU KILL THE FAT MAN?
    WOULD YOU KILL THE FAT MAN?
    DAVID EDMONDS
    A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he will topple onto the line and, although he will die, his chunky body will stop ...
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    Q. 150

  • THE FUTURE OF THE BRAIN : ESSAYS BY THE WORLD S LEADING NEUROSCIENTISTS
    THE FUTURE OF THE BRAIN : ESSAYS BY THE WORLD S LEADING NEUROSCIENTISTS
    MARCUS, GARY F
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    Q. 250