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Updated July 24, 2025
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Evolution Evolving : The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity
Andrews, David.
Ebook
A new account of the central role developmental processes play in evolution A new scientific view of evolution is emerging--one that challenges and expands our understanding of how evolution works. Recent research demonstrates that organisms differ greatly in how effective...
The Little Book of Weather
Scaife, Adam.
Ebook
A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's weather Packed with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color...
Serendipity : The Unexpected in Science
Pievani, Telmo.
Ebook
ID Handbook of European Birds
van Duivendijk, Nils.
Ebook
A groundbreaking two-volume illustrated reference book covering all of Europe's birds Would you like to be able to identify any bird species in Europe, in all plumages, in every season? ID Handbook of European Birds is the resource for you. This identification...
The Gull Guide : North America
Ayyash, Amar.
Ebook
The definitive photographic guide to North American gulls Gull identification can be challenging for even the most seasoned birder. While these birds are common to coasts, lakes, and rivers, they exhibit remarkable plumage changes related to age, which is sometimes complicated...
The Heart of the Wild : Essays on Nature, Conservation, and the Human Future
Minteer, Ben A.
Ebook
Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human world The Heart of the Wild brings together some of today's leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about...
The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs
Paul, Gregory S.
Ebook
An authoritative illustrated guide to the fearsome predators that dominated the Mesozoic world for 180 million years New discoveries are transforming our understanding of the theropod dinosaurs, revealing startling new insights into the lives and look of these awesome...
Evaluating climate change impacts
Lyubchich, Vyacheslav
Ebook
Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and quantifying climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted perspective of ecosystem, social, and infrastructure resilience, given through a lens of statistics and data science. It provides a multi-disciplinary view on the implications...
Terrible Beauty : Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul
Schendler, Auden.
Ebook
The clock in the sun : how we came to understand our nearest star
Sokolsky, Pierre
Ebook
On the surface of the Sun, spots appear and fade in a predictable cycle, like a great clock in the sky. In medieval Russia, China, and Korea, monks and court astronomers recorded the appearance of these dark shapes, interpreting them as omens of things to come. In Western Europe, by contrast, where...
Color in Nature
Marshall, Justin.
Ebook
A marvelously illustrated guide to color in the natural world Recent years have seen tremendous strides in the fields of vision, visual ecology, and our own multilayered experience of color in life and the world. These advances have been driven by astonishing discoveries in...
The Restless Cell : Continuum Theories of Living Matter
Hueschen, Christina.
Ebook
An essential introduction to the physics of active matter and its application to questions in biology In recent decades, the theory of active matter has emerged as a powerful tool for exploring the differences between living and nonliving states of matter. The Restless Cell...
Niche Construction : How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution
Odling-Smee, John.
Ebook
The Lives of Bats : A Natural History
Reeder, DeeAnn M.
Ebook
A wonderfully illustrated guide to the natural history of the world's bats Bats are the second-largest order of mammals and inhabit almost every corner of the globe, but these secretive creatures are often maligned and misunderstood. With more than 1,400 species worldwide,...
Eye Beyond the Sky : 27 Telescopes and Space Probes, from Hooker to JWST
Wang, Jie.
Ebook
This book highlights stories of the most important 13 ground-based observatories and 14 space probes in human history, leading readers through each significant step of human's astronomical observation journey. From the earliest Hooker Telescope and the Mount Wilson Observatory, to the latest FAST...
Macroevolutionaries : reflections on natural history, paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
Lieberman, Bruce S.
Ebook
One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, they take up the tradition of Gould's acclaimed essays on natural history, offering a series...
Introductory Lectures on Higher-Spin Theories
Fredenhagen, Stefan.
Ebook
The book offers a pedagogical introduction to higher-spin gauge theories. These theories build upon fundamental gauge theories that are crucial for understanding core interactions. Electromagnetism and nuclear forces are associated with gauge fields of spin 1, while gravity can be conceptualized...
What Walks This Way : Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
Russell, Sharman Apt.
Ebook
Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.
Mathematical Theory of Black Holes in Higher Dimensions
Nedkova, Petya.
Ebook
This book portraits the mathematical theory which lies behind black hole solutions in spacetimes with an extra dimension. Step by step the authors build a comprehensive picture of the main concepts and tools necessary to understand these geometries. In this way the book addresses questions like:...
Physics and Technology of Ultracold Atomic Gases
Roberto Onofrio
Ebook
This book is based on lecture notes originally developed for introductory graduate courses offered by the authors at Dartmouth College and the University of Padova. The first two chapters analyze quantum degenerate gases and various cooling and trapping techniques for atoms. The remaining three...
Position and Motion of Celestial Bodies
Fukushima, Toshio.
Ebook
This book is a systematic introduction to astrometry and celestial mechanics. It consists of five parts: Observational astrometry, theoretical astrometry, basics of celestial mechanics, orbital dynamics, and rotational dynamics. The book is unique in various aspects. First, it discusses...
Handbook of Quantum Gravity
Bambi, Cosimo.
Ebook
The search for a theory of quantum gravity is one of the most important and fascinating problems in modern theoretical physics. While we do not have yet a complete theory of quantum gravity, significant advancements have been done in the past decades. In this handbook, every section is dedicated to...
Galaxies
Graur, Or.
Ebook
An eminently readable overview of the history and physics of galaxies. In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies,...
Open Quantum Systems : Foundations and Theory
Vacchini, Bassano.
Ebook
The proposed book is a bridge between the foundations of quantum mechanics and the theory of open quantum systems. The treatment of open quantum systems is a rapidly growing subject, of interest to an ever-increasing number of scientists. The main focus is on overcoming the idealization of...
The Topological Model of Genome and Evolution : Understanding the Origin and Nature of Life
Chhaya, Pradeep.
Ebook
This book deals with the missing link in the domain of functional genomics viz. genomic architecture. It begins with a deconstruction of the Darwinian paradigm using the proposed model of modified involuted manifolds. It recasts the process of natural selection as a process of information...
Make: Radio : hands-on adventures in the hidden universe of radio waves
Jansson, Fredrik
Ebook
The Land Is Our Community : Aldo Leopold's Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium
Millstein, Roberta L.
Ebook
A contemporary defense of conservationist Aldo Leopold's vision for human interaction with the environment. Informed by his experiences as a hunter, forester, wildlife manager, ecologist, conservationist, and professor, Aldo Leopold developed a view he called the land ethic. In a classic...

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