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Featured Review Little Mahal and the Big Search for a Real Mom by: Jan Uebelherr
The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire and Phosphorus	John Emsley
A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime	John Naughton
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking
A Field Guide to the Invisible	Wayne Biddle
A Photographic Tour of the Universe	Gabriele Vanin
A River Ran Wild	Lynne Cherry
A Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud	Karl Sabbagh
Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold	Tom Shachtman
Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origin of Species	Lynn Margulis
Across the Tibetan Plateau	Robert L. Fleming, Jr.
The Adventures of Pelican Pete: A Bird is Born	Frances Keiser
The Adventures of Pelican Pete: Annie the River Otter	Frances Keiser
The Adventures of Pelican Pete: First Discoveries	Frances Keiser
The Adventures of Pelican Pete: Preening for Flight	Frances Keiser
Advice for a Young Investigator	Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Amazing But True Bird Tales	Allan Zullo
Amazing Whales	Sarah L. Thompson
An Illustrated Guide to Fossil Collecting	Richard Casanova
And the Good Brown Earth	Kathy Henderson
Animals of the Western Rangelands	Ernest H. Elms
Ants!	Brenda Iasevoli
Arabella Miller's Tiny Caterpillar	Clare Jarrett
Awakenings	Oliver Sacks
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character	Daniel J. Kevles
The Bard on the Brain	Paul M. Matthews, M.D.
Basics of Blood Management	Petra Seeber
Bees!	Elizabeth Winchester
Big Yellow Sunflower	Frances Barry
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It	Ken Alibek
Boeing 787 Dreamliner	Guy Norris
The Book of the Cosmos	Dennis Danielson
Born Wild in Glacier National Park	Donald M. Jones
Born Wild in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks	Henry H. Holdsworth
Bugs, Slugs & Other Thugs	Rhonda Massingham Hart
The Cat Owner's Manual	Dr. David Brunner
Cats: Portraits of over 70 Pedigrees	Bruce Fogle
Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans	Lee Dugatkin
Children Of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace Of Human Evolution	Christopher Wills
Civilization And The Limpet	Martin Wells
The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World	Jack Cohen
The Color of Wildness: A Retrospective, 1936-1985	Eliot Porter
Common American Birds	Harry J. Baerg
Common Edible and Useful Plants of the West	Muriel Sweet
Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise	Steve Jones
Countdown: A History of Space Flight	T A Heppenheimer
Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils	J. William Schopf
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated	Steve Jones
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist	William R Maples, Ph.D
Deadly Feasts: The Prion Controversy and the Public's Health	Richard Rhodes
Deep Thinking the Human Condition: New Ideas We Can't Live Without, Vol. 1, Chapters 1-4	S.A. Odunsi
Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate	Ullica Segerstrale
Defending the Cavewoman: And Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology	Harold Klawans
Dewhurst's Textbook of Obstetrics & Gynaecology	D. Keith Edmonds
Did Adam Have a Bellybutton? And Other Tough Questions About the Bible	Ken Ham
Dinosaur Name Poems/Poemas de nombres de dinosaurios	Steven C. Cunningham
Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia	Donald F. Glut
Discovering Sharks and Rays	Nancy Field
The Disposable Male: Sex, Love, and Money	Michael Gilbert
Dogs: Portraits of Over 400 Pedigrees	Bruce Fogle
The Dominium: Sequencing antimatter and gravity effect: Big Bang to black hole	. Hasanuddin
Don't Know Much About® Planet Earth	Kenneth C. Davis
Don't Know Much About® Space	Kenneth C. Davis
Don't Know Much About® The Solar System	Kenneth C. Davis
Don't Touch That Doorknob!: How Germs Can Zap You and How You Can Zap Back	Jack Brown
Dot and Jabber and the Big Bug Mystery	Ellen Stoll Walsh
Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space	Bryan Burrough
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain	Michael Paterniti
Each Living Thing	Joanne Ryder
Earthquakes	Franklyn M. Branley
Eastern Bluebird	Gary Ritchison
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory	Brian Greene
Elephant Reflections	Karl Ammann
Elephas Maximus: A Portrait of the Indian Elephant	Stephen Alter
Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones	David Longshore
The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration	Robert D. Ballard
The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation	Christopher Cerf
Eye Like: Seasons: Change in the Natural World	Play Bac
Eyes and Ears	Seymour Simon
The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life	Paul Davies
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times	Adrienne Mayor
Flashy Fantastic Rain Forest Frogs	Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Flat Earth? Round Earth?	Theresa Martin
Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations	Brian Fagan
Focus on Minerals	Jerry Wermund
From Seed to Pumpkin	Wendy Pfeffer
The Future Is Wild	Dougal Dixon
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters	Matt Ridley
Give Peas a Chance: Organic Gardening Cartoon Science	Peter Barbarow
God's Creation Series: Fish, Bugs & Birds	Michael Carroll
God's Creation Series: Rocks and Plants	Michael Carroll
God's Creation Series: Sky and Sea	Michael Carroll
God's Creation Series: Space and Time	Michael Carroll
Goin' to the Zoo / Vamos al Zoologico	William J. Adams
The Goldilocks Enigma	Paul Davies
Gravitation: Master Key to the Universe	Karel Havel
Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever	Hal Hellman
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity	Roy Porter
Gretchen Asks, "How Do Cars Work?"	Angel Neuschwander
Hardworking Puppies	Lynn Reiser
Heisenberg Probably Slept Here: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century	Richard P. Brennan
Hello, My Name is Baker	Deborah J. Hall
Help Your Parents Save the Planet!	Play Bac
Here's What I Know So Far: Doc's Story	Diane Till
Hiking Tropical Australia: Queensland and Northern New South Wales	Lew Hinchman
History of the Disorders of Cardiac Rhythm	Berndt Lüderitz, M. D.
Honey in a Hive	Anne Rockwell
How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life	Roberta Golinkoff
The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior	Craig Stanford
Hurricane & Tornado (DK Eyewitness Books)	Jack Challoner
Hurricane Katrina: Through the Eyes of Storm Chasers	Jim Reed
If Trees Could Talk: Stories about Wisconsin Trees	R. Bruce Allison
Illustrated Guide to Common Rocks and Their Minerals	V. Brown
Insectlopedia	Douglas Florian
Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles	Kathryn Lasky
Intimate Strangers: Unseen Life on Earth	Cynthia Needham
Intimate Universe (Tlc Adventures for Your Mind)	Anthony Smith
Into the Minds of Madmen	Don DeNevi
Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology	James R. Chiles
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions	Richard Lewontin
Know Your Poisonous Plants	Wilma Roberts James
The Last Word: Questions and Answers from the Popular Column on Everyday Science	Mick O'Hare
Leaf Man	Lois Ehlert
Let's Have Fun: Learning to Recycle with Terry the Trashman	Terry LeBlanc
Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biology	Margaret Lowman
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth	Richard Fortey
Little Green Frogs	Frances Barry
Little Mahal and the Big Search for a Real Mom	Jan Uebelherr
Lives of the Trees - An Uncommon History	Diana Wells
Living To 100: Lessons In Living To Your Maximum Potential At Any Age	Thomas T. Perls
Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs	Douglas Florian
Logical Universe: A Layman's Reality	Michael Jones
Loons: Diving Birds of the North	Donna Love
Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution	Alison Jolly
Maggots, Murder, and Men	Dr. Zakaria Erzinçlioðlu
The Making of the Fittest	Sean B. Carroll
Mammoths on the Move	Lisa Wheeler
Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts	Terry Burham
The Meme Machine	Susan Blackmore
Merde: Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Socio-Historical Coprology	Ralph A Lewin
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit	John Douglas
Minds, Machines, and the Multiverse: The Quest for the Quantum Computer	Julian Brown
Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species	Sarah Hrdy
The Mummies of Urumchi	Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Mummy Congress : Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead	Heather Pringle
Munching Maggots, Noah's Flood & TV Heart Attacks: And Other Cataclysmic Science Moments	Karl Kruszelnicki
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny	Robert Wright
Northwoods Wildlife Region	Jay and Constance Conrader
The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero	Robert Kaplan
Old Radio Sets	Jonathan Hill
On the Farm	David Elliott
Our Earth	Anne Rockwell
Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story	Lisa Westberg Peters
Our Stars	Anne Rockwell
Outside and Inside Mummies	Sandra Markle
The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction 1959-1991	Peter Matthiessen
Poop: A Natural History of the Unmentionable	Nicola Davies
Radar, Hula Hoops, and Playful Pigs: 67 Digestible Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life	Joe Schwarcz
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe	Peter Ward
Reading God's World	Angus J. L. Menuge (editor)
Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein	John W. Moffat
The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe
Robo Sapiens: Evolution of a New Species	Peter Menzel
Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life	Stephen Jay Gould
The Sacred Landscape	Fredric Lehrman
The Science of Aliens	Clifford Pickover
The Science of Disorder: Understanding the Complexity, Uncertainty, and Pollution of Our World	Jack Hokikian Ph.D
The Science Times Book of Archaology	Nicholas Wade
The Secret Life of the Brain	Richard Restak, M.D.
Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science	Royston Roberts
Sharks	Martin Kasso
Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures	Gail Buckland
The Skeptical Environmentalist	Bjørn Lomborg
Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power	E.C. Krupp
Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability	Michael K Stone
Snakes!	Lisa Jo Rudy
The Solar System: Earth	Isaac Asimov
The Solar System: Jupiter	Isaac Asimov
The Solar System: Mars	Isaac Asimov
The Solar System: The Moon	Isaac Asimov
The Solar System: The Sun	Isaac Asimov
The Solar System: Venus	Isaac Asimov
Space and the American Imagination	Howard McCurdy
Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World	Richard Conniff
Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures	Anthony Aveni
States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are	Roberta Conlan
Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist	William Laurance
The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon	Stephen L Sass
Sunshine Makes the Seasons	Franklyn M. Branley
T. Rex	Vivian French
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments	George Johnson
The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife	Channa Bambaradeniya
The Theory of Creation	Jim Schicatano
They Walk the Earth: The Extraordinary Travels of Animals on Land	Seymour Simon
This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age	William E Burrows
Tigers in the Snow	Peter Matthiessen
Tigress	Nick Dowson
The Tiniest Tiger	Joanne L. McGonagle
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference	Malcolm Gladwell
Top to Bottom Down Under	Ted Lewin
Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism	Roger T. Pennock
Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the	Peter Breggin
Transients: Mammal-Hunting Killer Whales of British Columbia, Washington, and Southeastern Alaska	John K B Ford
Tweedle Dee Dee	Charlotte Voake
Ultimate Rose (American Rose Society)	American Rose Society
Under the Wild Western Sky	Jim Arnosky
The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation	John Horgan
Uneversaurus	Professor Aidan Potts
The Universe and Beyond	Terence Dickinson
Up, Down and Around	Katherine Ayres
Up, Down, and Around	Katherine Ayres
The Upright Ape	Dr. Aaron G. Filler
The Virus Within: A Coming Epidemic	Nicholas Regush
Viruses, Plagues and History	Michael Oldstone
Visiting the Farm / Visitando la Granja	William J. Adams
Voyage To The Milky Way	Donald Goldsmith
Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat	Hans Christian von Baeyer
Water Dance	Thomas Locker
The Way from Science to Soul	Casey Blood, PH.D.
We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change	Tim Flannery
Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom	Jose Aruego
What Are the Odds?	Jefferson Hane Weaver
What Evolution Is	Ernst Mayr
What Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe, the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race	John Maddox
What Science Is and How It Works	Gregory N. Derry
What's Eating You? Parasites - The Inside Story	Nicola Davies
Where Do Chicks Come From?	Amy E. Sklansky
Why Life Events Are Predestined and How Our Universe Originated	Pikwah Pia Fields
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time	Michael Shermer
Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life	Steven N. Austad
Winged Migration - The Jr. Edition	Stephane Durand
Within Reason : Rationality and Human Behavior	Donald B Calne
World Cities New York (World Cities Series)	Alan Balfour
The World Without Us	Alan Weisman
Yes, We Have No Neutrons: An Eye-Opening Tour through the Twists and Turns of Bad Science	A K Dewdney