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|  | Life's Matrix by Philip Ball
Part exploration, part celebration, this natural history elucidates the science behind the versatile essential compound, water, and explains how the substance functions in the body, in nature, and across the universe. This book reverently illustrates both its importance in everyday life and its potential to advance space colonization. AUTHOR: Philip Ball
PUBLISHER: University of California Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | Wild Health by Cindy Engel
Cindy Engel, an environmental scientist, describes the ways in which animals stay healthy in the wild: elephants seek out salt licks to supplement their diet, monkeys repel insects with poisonous millipedes, birds use herbs to keep parasites from their nests. Engel goes on to explicate ways in which humans can profit from these lessons in natural eating and healing. AUTHOR: Cindy Engel
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Dictionary of Science by National Textbook Company Staff
This comprehensive dictionary presents clear, accurate definitions of terms from all branches of science. Science enthusiasts will appreciate having easy access to key terms from biology, chemistry, genetics, botany, physics, and other disciplines in one pocket-sized book. AUTHOR: National Textbook Company Staff
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Trade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Schaum's Outline of Introductory Surveying by J. R. Wirshing, R. H. Wirshing
With 375 problems fully solved step by step, and clear, well-illustrated coverage of the practices and applications of surveying, this powerful study guide can help you master your course with less study time. Perfect for independent study, it gives you full coverage of the entire subject, from trigonometry for surveyors through drawing maps. With Schaum's, you know you're getting a quality product, and this study guide for beginning courses in surveying is the best there is. AUTHOR: J. R. Wirshing, R. H. Wirshing
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill Trade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Follow the Swallow by Julia Donaldson, Martin Ursell
Description not available.As one creature passes it on to the next, Chack the blackbird's message to his friend Apollo the swallow undergoes major changes. AUTHOR: Julia Donaldson, Martin Ursell
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Feejee Mermaid & Other Essays in Natural & Unnatural History by Jan Bondeson
In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the animal kingdom.Throughout he recounts -- and in some instances solves -- mysteries of the natural world which have puzzled scientists for centuries. Heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings, the book presents astounding tales from across the rich folklore of animals: a learned pig more admired than Sir Isaac Newton by the English public, an elephant that Lord Byron wanted to employ as his butler, a dancing horse whose skills in mathematics were praised by William Shakespeare, and, of course, the extraordinary creature known as the Feejee Mermaid. This object became the foremost curiosity of London in the 1820s and later in the century toured the United States under the management of P. T. Barnum. Bearing a striking resemblance to a wizened and misshapen monkey with a fishtail, the mermaid was nonetheless proclaimed a genuine specimen by experts. AUTHOR: Jan Bondeson
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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