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Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as li...

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In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house is a wilderness -- from the Egyptian meal moths in our kitchen cupboards and the yeast in a sourdough starter, to the camel ...

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Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. From river levees to enormous one-crop fields, we continue to try to reshape nature for our purposes - so much so it s...

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Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future , biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as l...

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"If you have any interest in life beyond your own, you should read this book." -Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Dominant Animal Biologist Rob Dunn's Every Little Thing is the story of man's obsessive quest to catalog life, from ...

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"An extraordinary book...With clarity and charm [Dunn] takes the reader into the overlap of medicine, ecology, and evolutionary biology to reveal an important domain of the human condition."-Edward O. Wilson, author of Anthill and The Fu...

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Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike,...

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Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike,...

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Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike,...

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Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike,...

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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be complete...

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A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is ...

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A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolutionNature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is a...

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A savory account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites us to eat by appetite and rewards by flavor. But what exactly are flavors? Why are some so pleasing while others are not? Delicious is ...

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'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "Don't give up. They are hiding something"' Its 1990, and US labour is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumours of...

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'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "Don't give up. They are hiding something"...' It's 1990, and US labour is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumours of a violent ...

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'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "e;Don't give up. They are hiding something"e;...'It s 1990, and US labour is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumours of a violent...

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'Early in my research, a friend with excellent knowledge of the United Auto Workers internal operations told me, "e;Don't give up. They are hiding something"e;...'It s 1990, and US labour is being outsourced to Mexico. Rumours of a violent...

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“An arresting vision of this relentless natural world” ( New York Times ) by a leading ecologist, who urges us to heed nature’s iron laws  Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use...

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In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn takes us to the edge of biology's latest frontier: our own homes. Every house is a wilderness -- from the Egyptian meal moths in our kitchen cupboards and the yeast in a sourdough starter, to the camel crick...

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It's the dream scenario for many of us after a long week: having the house completely to ourselves. No partners, no parents, no kids, no pets. But as we settle into the couch, something stirs: maybe a mouse darts out from under a cupboard, or...

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Fans of Merlin Sheldrakes Entangled Life and Suzanne Simards Finding the Mother Tree will enjoy Seiferts latest... A perspective-shifting guide to our microfungal matrix.KirkusEven though we cant always see them, fungi exist all around us. From fo...

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This work is not designed to be exclusively a compendium of readily-adapted classroom ideas or engineering techniques, the authors' intent is rather to make a contribution to the repertoire of useful strategies for orchestrating design technology ...

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Dieses Buch lsst einen das eigene Zuhause mit anderen Augen sehen.Selbst wenn die Bden blitzsauber sind und das Haus leer erscheint, sind unsere Huser voller Leben. In Nie allein zu Haus stellt uns der Biologe Rob Dunn die fast 200.000 Arten vor, ...

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Dieses Buch lÿsst einen das eigene Zuhause mit anderen Augen sehen.Selbst wenn die Böden blitzsauber sind und das Haus leer erscheint, sind unsere Hÿuser voller Leben. In Nie allein zu Haus stellt uns der Biologe Rob Dunn die fast 200.000 Arten...

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