Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator 0190673095, 9780190673093

Quarks to Culture: How We Came to Be 9780231544139

Quarks to Culture explores the rhythm within what Tyler Volk calls the “grand sequence,” a series of levels of sizes and

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Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It 9780520974364

To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development and innovation through th

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The World's Greatest Book: The Story of How the Bible Came to Be 9781496478344, 9781945470011, 1496478347

Welcome to the fascinating story of how we got the world’s greatest book—the Bible. It is a captivating story that inclu

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The Invented reality : how do we know what we believe we know? : contributions to constructivism [1st ed.] 0393017311

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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be 9780691228891

The little-known history of how the Sahara transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the

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The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself 9780300206227

Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. I

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The Milestones of Science: How We Came to Understand the Universe 1633888487, 9781633888487

If we were to judge humanity’s greatest accomplishments, science is almost certainly at the top of the list. The Milesto

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Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? 9780567670434, 9780567670465, 9780567670441

In Ancient Israel Lester L. Grabbe sets out to summarize what we know through a survey of sources and how we know it by

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Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball 0691180210, 9780691180212

Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to re

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Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball 9780691188980

This book narrates the symbiotic relationship of human judgment (scouting) and statistics (scoring) in baseball, showing

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