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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 Rum Affair: A True Story of Botanical Fraud	Karl Sabbagh
Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold	Tom Shachtman
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
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
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 (Audubon Field Guide)	Harry J. Baerg
Common Edible and Useful Plants of the West	Muriel Sweet
Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference	James E. Eckenwalder
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
Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia	Donald F. Glut
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 Touch That Doorknob!: How Germs Can Zap You and How You Can Zap Back	Jack Brown
Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space	Bryan Burrough
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain	Michael Paterniti
The Dynamic Great Lakes	Barbara Spring
Eastern Bluebird (Wild Bird Guides)	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
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
Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations	Brian Fagan
Focus on Minerals	Jerry Wermund
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
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
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
How Do You Light a Fart?: And 150 Other Essential Things Every Guy Should Know about Science	Bobby Mercer
The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior	Craig Stanford
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 (Rocks, Minerals and Gemstones)	David Allan
Illustrated Guide to Fossil Collecting (Fossils & Dinosaurs)	Richard L. Casanova
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: How the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit Revolutionized Crime Investigation	Don DeNevi
Introduction to California's Beaches and Coast (California Natural History Guides)	Gary Griggs
It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions	Richard Lewontin
Know Your Poisonous Plants	Wilma Roberts James
Koalas: Moving Portraits of Serenity	Joanne Ehrich
The Last Word: Questions and Answers from the Popular Column on Everyday Science	Mick O'Hare
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
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: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist	Zakaria Erzinclioglu
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 M. Conrader
The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero	Robert Kaplan
Old Radio Sets	Jonathan Hill
On the Farm	David Elliott
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
Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein	John W. Moffat
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World	Amir D. Aczel
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 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
Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science	Royston Roberts
Sharks	Martin Kasso
Shots in the Dark: True Crime Pictures	Gail Buckland
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World	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: 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
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
The Way from Science to Soul	Casey Blood, PH.D.
We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change	Tim Flannery
What Are the Odds?: The Chances of Extraordinary Events in Everyday Life	Jefferson Hane Weaver
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
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
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