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. PARROT CULTURE

    PARROT CULTURE
    Our 2,500-Year-Long Fascination with the World’s Most Talkative Bird

    BRUCE THOMAS BOEHRER

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    Introduced to Europe by Alexander the Great, parrots were quickly embraced by Western culture as exotic and astonishing. Over the centuries they would become objects of veneration or figures of folly,... Learn More
  2. WHERE TO WATCH BIRDS IN BRITAIN

    WHERE TO WATCH BIRDS IN BRITAIN

    SIMON HARRAP and NIGEL REDMAN

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    This guide covers the very best birdwatching sites in Britain. Each is considered in terms of habitat, access and birds, allowing birders of all levels to plan successful trips. The book is illustrate... Learn More
  3. THE ATLAS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

    THE ATLAS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge

    KIRSTIN DOW and THOMAS DOWNING

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    This edition of a highly acclaimed Atlas features the outcomes of the UNFCC conference in Copenhagen; the latest developments in climate change research and data on its impacts around the world; new c... Learn More
  4. LEGACY OF THE LUOSHU

    LEGACY OF THE LUOSHU
    The Mystical, Mathematical Meaning of the Magic Square of Order Three

    FRANK J SWETZ
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    This book is the first study of the magic square, or Luoshu, as a cultural artifact and spiritual symbol as well as mathematical expression. A magic square is an arrangement of numbers (with no number... Learn More
  5. NATURE REVEALED

    NATURE REVEALED
    Selected Writings, 1949-2006

    EDWARD O WILSON

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    This collection of the writings of Edward O Wilson, one of the leading biologists and philosophical thinkers of our time, includes many pieces considered to be landmarks in evolutionary biology, ecolo... Learn More
  6. THE ROUTLEDGE GUIDEBOOK TO GALILEO’S DIALOGUE

    THE ROUTLEDGE GUIDEBOOK TO GALILEO’S DIALOGUE

    MAURICE FINOCCHIARO

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    The publication in 1632 of Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernicanmarked a crucial moment in the 'scientific revolution' but also led Galileo to stand trial ... Learn More
  7. DOES ALTRUISM EXIST?

    DOES ALTRUISM EXIST?
    Culture, Genes and the Welfare of Others

    DAVID SLOAN WILSON

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    A treatise, based on the latest developments in evolutionary science, that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society. From an evolutionary viewpo... Learn More
  8. PILGRIMS OF THE AIR

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    The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons

    JOHN WILSON FOSTER

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    This is a story of scarcely credible abundant flocks of birds so vast they made the sky invisible. It is also a record of a collapse into extinction so startling as to provoke a mystery. In the fate o... Learn More
  9. TO THE RIVER

    TO THE RIVER
    A Journey Beneath the Surface

    OLIVIA LAING

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    More than sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play ... Learn More
  10. FISHERS AND PLUNDERERS

    FISHERS AND PLUNDERERS
    Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea

    ALASTAIR COUPER, HANCE D SMITH and BRUNO CICERI

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    Abuses and slavery at sea are largely missing from narratives of environmental exploitation. With vast overprovision of vessels and shortages of fish, labour costs are targeted and young men are traff... Learn More

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