Science and Nature
Science and Nature
Cleaning your carpets with a carpet shampooer is not the best way to kill bed bugs, because it doesn’t clean beneath the surface. Steam cleaning your carpets is effective for deep carpet cleaning, which is where the bugs like to stay in between traveling to and from your bed.
Science & Technology; Mathematics; Natural History

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  1. THE WALNUT TREE

    THE WALNUT TREE

    CHARLES HULBERT-POWELL

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    This book is chock-full of practical advice on choosing, planting, maintaining and pruning walnut trees, as well as information on different varieties and their habitats; the nuts in their different s... Learn More
  2. PASTA FOR NIGHTINGALES

    PASTA FOR NIGHTINGALES
    A 17th-Century Handbook of Bird-Care and Folklore

    GIOVANNI PIETRO OLINA

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    The first-ever English translation of a seventeenth-century ornithology text, complete with historic watercolour illustrations. The watercolours, created for the seventeenth-century scholar and art co... Learn More
  3. THE AGE OF THE HORSE

    THE AGE OF THE HORSE
    An Equine Journey through Human History

    SUSANNA FORREST

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    Fifty-six million years ago, the proto-horse was a ‘twelve-pound runt’ that balanced on feet with four toes. The first glimpse we have of what he looked like and how he was evolving are in images ... Learn More
  4. EATING ANIMALS

    EATING ANIMALS

    JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

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    Faced with an inability to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating traditions and the fictions involved with creating them. Travelling to the... Learn More
  5. TILL THE COWS COME HOME

    TILL THE COWS COME HOME
    The Story of Our Eternal Dependence

    PHILIP WALLING

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    To tell the story of the relationship between humankind and cattle is to tell the story of civilisation itself. Since the beginning, cattle have tilled our soils, borne our burdens, fed and clothed us... Learn More
  6. PATHFINDERS

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    The Golden Age of Arabic Science

    JIM AL-KHALILI

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    For more than 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, this study reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who pr... Learn More
  7. MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS

    MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS

    GERALD DURRELL

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    The first book in Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy: a bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu, encompassing the family’s many eccentric hangers-on and the ceasele... Learn More
  8. LANDMARKS

    LANDMARKS

    ROBERT MACFARLANE

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    Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, S... Learn More
  9. THE INVENTION OF NATURE

    THE INVENTION OF NATURE
    The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

    ANDREA WULF

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    Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. More things are named after him than anyone else: towns, ... Learn More
  10. COD

    COD
    A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

    MARK KURLANSKY

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    The Cod. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions triggered by it, national diets based on it and economies and livelihoods have depended on it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treas... Learn More

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