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Nature and Science April 2017
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Beginning beekeeping : everything you need to make your hive thrive!
by Tanya Phillips
Filled with full-color photos, a practical guide provides the basics for getting started with beekeeping, teaching readers how to foster and maintain healthy, vibrant hive colonies, as well as how to incorporate the various techniques and practices for keeping bees using conventional, as well as more natural, practices.
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Pandora's lab : seven stories of science gone wrong
by Paul A. Offit
Exploring the most fascinating and significant scientific missteps, a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases; an expert on vaccines, immunology and virology; and the co-inventor of a rotavirus that has saved thousands of lives presents seven cautionary lessons to separate good science from bad.
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| The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion SearlsIn this first-ever biography of Hermann Rorschach, Damion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries and a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach’s family, friends, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the Inkblots test’s creation, its controversial reinvention, and its remarkable endurance and what it all reveals about the power of perception. |
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| The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease by Meredith WadmanUntil the 1960s, children regularly suffered (and frequently died) from measles, mumps, rubella, diptheria, pertussis, polio, and more. Thanks to immunizations, this is no longer the case. While researchers benefited from advances in tissue culture, they also owed their success to a steady supply of test subjects in orphanages and schools, asylums and prisons. |
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Sibley birds east : field guide to birds of eastern North America
by David Sibley
Compact and comprehensive, this guide features 650 bird species, plus regional populations, found east of the Rocky Mountains. Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations--more than 4,601 in total--with descriptive captions pointing out the most important field marks.
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Audubon North American birdfeeder guide
by Robert Burton
An illustrated handbook of bird identification provides tips on the art of birdwatching, closeup illustrations, locator maps, birding etiquette, essential equipment, and tips on the best ways to attract, feed, and observe various bird species in one's own backyard
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