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  Supernavigators - Exploring the...

  David Barrie

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  A globetrotting voyage of discovery celebrating the navigational superpowers of animals—by land, sea, and sky 
  Animals plainly know where they're going, but how they get there has remained surprisingly mysterious—until now. 
  In Supernavigators, award-winning author David Barrie catches us up on the cutting-edge science. Here are astounding animals of every stripe: Dung beetles that steer by the light of the Milky Way. Ants and bees that rely on patterns of light invisible to humans. Sea turtles and moths that find their way using Earth's magnetic field. Humpback whales that swim thousands of miles while holding a rock-steady course. Birds that can locate their nests on a tiny island after crisscrossing an ocean. 
  The age of viewing animals as unthinking drones is over. As Supernavigators makes clear, a stunning array of species command senses, skills—and arguably, types of intelligence—beyond our own. Weaving together interviews with leading animal behaviorists and the groundbreaking discoveries of Nobel Prize–winning scientists, David Barrie reveals these wonders in a whole new light.

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  The Woman Who Swallowed a...

  Rob Myers

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  Drawing from real medical journal cases, a doctor shares true stories about strange symptoms and perplexing patients.   Those in the medical profession know that sometimes the cases that come into emergency rooms or doctor’s offices can be highly unusual—and depending on how things go, the results can be either tragic or comic. This collection of stories reveals some of the oddest and most memorable case histories, from the woman who claims she was brushing her teeth when she swallowed her toothbrush—but in fact was a bulimic using it to induce vomiting—to the man whose routine elective back surgery revealed he’d been carrying a bullet around in his body for years.   From the funny to the frightening, these documented memorable medical mysteries make for fascinating reading.  

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  The Fisherman's Ocean - How...

  David Ross

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  This volume “clearly explains how marine science can help saltwater anglers catch more and bigger fish . . . comprehensive yet accessible” (Booklist). Here at last, in layman’s terms, is a fisherman's guide to the habitat and behavior of saltwater fish. The author, an oceanographer and avid fly fisherman, explains the marine environment and the factors that affect where game fish congregate—everything from how they move with tides and currents to what they see, smell, taste, and hear.   The copiously illustrated text covers inshore and offshore habitat and will prove invaluable to anyone who fishes in saltwater, whether in the surf, on the flats, or out at sea. The ocean is vast. It pays to be educated.

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  Erikson Eskimos & Columbus -...

  James Robert Enterline

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  This revealing analysis of Medieval cartography and native American travel upends conventional narratives about discovering the New World. 
   
  For generations, American schools have taught children that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. But evidence shows that Leif Erikson set foot on the continent centuries earlier. As debate continues over which explorer deserves the credit, early maps of North America suggest that we may be asking the wrong questions. How did medieval Europeans have such specific geographic knowledge of North America, a land even their most daring adventurers had not yet discovered?  
   
  In Erikson, Eskimos, and Columbus, James Robert Enterline presents new evidence that traces this knowledge to the cartographic skills of indigenous people of the high Arctic, who, he contends, provided the basis for medieval maps of large parts of North America. Drawing on an exhaustive chronological survey of pre-Columbian maps, including the controversial Yale Vinland Map, this book boldly challenges conventional accounts of Europe’s discovery of the New World.

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  Passive Income Freedom - Ideas &...

  J.P. Edwin

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  "If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die." -Warren Buffett 
  Are you tired of not having enough money to make ends meet?  
  Are you sick of your 9-5 job and putting all your energy into making someone else rich?  
  If you have answered yes to any of these questions, you have come to the right place. 
  Three years ago, I was in the exact same position as you, I was fed up, tired, unable to spend any time with my family because I always had to work overtime to make ends meet. But when I got sick and tired of being sick and tired, I decided to make a change and that is when my passive income journey began, and I haven’t looked back since. 
  I have got some good news for you, if you apply the strategies outlined in this book, slugging it out in a job you can’t stand will be a thing of the past.There are a multitude of ways you can make plenty of money online in the 21st century. In this book you will learn about some of the most popular passive income methods these include the following: 
  Blogging 
  Digital real estate 
  Amazon Kindle 
  Fulfilment by Amazon 
  And much more 
  If you want to experience the financial freedom that multitudes of people are achieving worldwide, this is the book for you.

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  Forerunners of Mammals -...

  Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan

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  An in-depth look at the origin and evolutionary radiation of the synapsids. 
   
  About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth’s ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles, that eventually gave rise to mammals. It further showcases the remarkable evolutionary history of the synapsids in the Karoo Basin of South Africa and the environments that existed at the time. By highlighting studies of synapsid bone microstructure, it offers a unique perspective of how such studies are utilized to reconstruct various aspects of biology, such as growth dynamics, biomechanical function, and the attainment of sexual and skeletal maturity. A series of chapters outline the radiation and phylogenetic relationships of major synapsid lineages and provide direct insight into how bone histological analyses have led to an appreciation of these enigmatic animals as once-living creatures. The penultimate chapter examines the early radiation of mammals from their nonmammalian cynodont ancestors, and the book concludes by engaging the intriguing question of when and where endothermy evolved among the therapsids. 
   
  “Ever since Nick Hotton’s book from the 1980s we have needed an update on the biology of therapsids, and it has been Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan and her students and associates who through their bone histological work have made the greatest progress in this field.” —Martin Sander, Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn 
   
  “Forerunners of Mammals is full of meticulous detail . . . [I]t also contains a number of excellently rendered illustrations of some of the animals covered in the book, and the final chapter is a discussion of the evolution of endothermy that anyone with a background in biology might find of interest. . . . Recommended.” —Choice 
   
  “Forerunners of Mammals will take interested readers beyond the classic jaw-to-ear appreciation of therapsids, towards a deeper appreciation of the ancestry of mammals.” —Journal of Mammalian Evolution 
   
  “This volume represents a state-of-the-art contribution to our understanding of the paleobiology of how mammals arose, and what factors contributed to their evolutionary radiation and eventual success. It is highly recommended for anyone interested in these topics, and will be accessible to readers with minimal background in bone histology and synapsid paleontology.” —Quarterly Review of Biology

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