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Kingdom of Play

What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself

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This “delightful…compelling” (Scientific American) and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play “will fill you with joy and wonder” (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus).Acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in ... Leer más

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This “delightful…compelling” (Scientific American) and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play “will fill you with joy and wonder” (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus).Acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in
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Weird Life

The Search for Life That Is Very, Very Different from Our Own

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“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—NatureIn the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors.But might there be life stranger than the ... Leer más

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“Weird indeed, and not a little wonderful.”—NatureIn the 1980s and 1990s, in places where no one thought it possible, scientists found organisms they called extremophiles: lovers of extremes. There were bacteria in volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, single-celled algae in Antarctic ice floes, and fungi in the cooling pools of nuclear reactors.But might there be life stranger than the
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Nel regno del gioco

Quello che ci rivelano sulla vita i polpi che giocano a palla, le scimmie che si lanciano dagli alberi, gli elefanti che fanno lo scivolo nel fango

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Perché gli animali giocano? Cosa distingue il gioco degli uomini da quello degli animali? Ma soprattutto che cos’è esattamente il gioco? A cosa «serve» quest’attività misteriosa, altrettanto imperscrutabile dell’«“entanglement” quantistico o della materia oscura»? Un radicato pregiudizio ha a lungo svilito l’attività ludica degli animali, riducendola ad aspetto «frivolo e di scarsa importanza», ... Leer más

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Perché gli animali giocano? Cosa distingue il gioco degli uomini da quello degli animali? Ma soprattutto che cos’è esattamente il gioco? A cosa «serve» quest’attività misteriosa, altrettanto imperscrutabile dell’«“entanglement” quantistico o della materia oscura»? Un radicato pregiudizio ha a lungo svilito l’attività ludica degli animali, riducendola ad aspetto «frivolo e di scarsa importanza»,
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Stormchasers

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Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price."In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding of hurricanes was directly built on the risks and sacrifices of living, breathing heroes," writes Hampton Sides (author of ... Leer más

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The New Time Travelers

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This “delightful…compelling” (Scientific American) and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play “will fill you with joy and wonder” (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus).Acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in ... Leer más

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This “delightful…compelling” (Scientific American) and revelatory look at the science behind why animals play “will fill you with joy and wonder” (Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus).Acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in
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The Birth of the West

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The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Leer más

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The Genius of Birds

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Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal

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This funny, "extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out, the truth is stranger—and far more interesting—than we have been led to believe.If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, ... Leer más

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