The Secret Life of Water 9780743289825, 9780743290326, 9781451656862, 074328982X

A small adventure beginning with a tiny little water crystal has spread to people all over the world, creating a growing

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The Secret Life of Water
9780743289825, 9780743290326, 9781451656862, 074328982X

From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of

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Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, l

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Come along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban species—from intelligent crows to backyard lichens—and discover th

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The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carré was alive. Secr

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Special advisers are a key part of the government, yet who they are and what they do is much misunderstood. Key advisers

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Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneti

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Many coders are unfamiliar with the underlying technologies that make their programs run. But why should you care when y

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Anaconda tells the unexpected story of the world's largest snake. Written by Jesús Rivas, the undisputed expert on

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