August 2020 list by Dan Berube
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Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends
by Roine Magnusson
The stunning and intimate photographs capture the beauty and detail of each bird’s form, as well as their unique character and personality. The accompanying short essays share charming and often-hidden details from birds’ lives.
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The Complete Language of Flowers
by S. Theresa Dietz
The Complete Language of Flowers is a comprehensive and definitive dictionary/reference presenting the history, symbolic meaning, and visual depiction of 1,001 flowers and botanicals from around the world in one volume.
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Empires of the Sky
by Alexander Rose
At the dawn of the twentieth century, when human flight was still considered an impossibility, Germany's Count von Zeppelin vied with the Wright Brothers to build the world's first successful flying machine. As the Wrights labored to invent the airplane, Zeppelin fathered the wondrous airship, sparking a bitter rivalry between the two types of aircraft and their innovators that would last for decades in the quest to control one of humanity's most inspiring achievements.
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Future Minds
by Richard Yonck
In Future Minds, Richard Yonck challenges our assumptions about intelligence-what it is, how it came to exist, its place in the development of life on Earth and possibly throughout the cosmos.
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How the Brain Works: The Facts Visually Explained
by DK Publishing
Drawing on the latest neuroscience research, this visual guide makes the hidden workings of the human brain simple to understand. Illustrated with bold graphics and step-by-step artworks, and sprinkled with bite-sized factoids and question-and-answer features, this is the perfect introduction to the fascinating world of the human brain.
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The Incredible Journey of Plants
by Stefano Mancuso
Beautifully illustrated, in this accessible, absorbing overview, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of plant neurobiology, presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture.
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Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist
by Dave Doroghy
Dave Doroghy's sister gave him 15,000 honey bees as a Christmas gift and he spent the next two years learning everything he needed to know to keep that beehive alive and well. Show Me the Honey describes his misadventures in beekeeping with self-deprecating humour and lightheartedness.
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The Stars in Our Pockets
by Howard Axelrod
Drawing on his personal experiments with solitude in the woods and virtual-reality environments, the author of The Point of Vanishing discusses the mind’s ability to adapt and the cognitive environmental changes that threaten mental diversity.
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Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings
by Valerie Trouet
Tells engaging stories about the science of dendrochronology, the study of tree growth rings. From studying tree rings, scientists can learn about the past climate on earth, and sometimes tree-ring data provide evidence of natural events that affected human history.
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