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| Green Phoenix: Restoring the Tropical Forest of Guanacaste, Costa Rica | |||
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| Like the mythical phoenix, a tropical dry forest ecosystem has arisen from the pastures and remnant forests in Guanacaste Province in Costa Rica. Through extensive interviews and on-site research, William Allen has provided a fascinating account of the only known example of successful ecosystem restoration | |||
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| NY: Oxford, 2001. 310pp. $35.00. ISBN 0195108930. | |||
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| Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So | ||
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| A sequel to Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland, the 1884 literary gem that has remained a favorite of mathematics teachers and their students to this day, Stewart's Flatterland successfully guides the reader along a more modern and complex landscape. | ||
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| Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2001. 304pp. $25.00. ISBN 0738204420 | ||
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| Star Struck: One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy | ||
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| Based on an exhibition at the Huntington Library, this beautiful volume contains amazing pictures of elegant historical astronomical art, book excerpts, and instruments. The very gracefully written text gives an excellent portrayal of the development of astronomy in Western culture as a whole | ||
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| Seattle: University of Washington, 2001. 169pp. $39.95. ISBN 0295980966 | ||
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| Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity | ||
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| This book brings together knowledge from genetics and connects it in a lyrical way to the essence of life. The volume is very well written and the genetics is accurate | ||
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| Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine | ||
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| Although vaccination is the most efficient and cost-effective way to fight a pandemic virus, there is no effective HIV vaccine, despite the causative agent having been identified some 17 years ago and the fact that over 35 million people worldwide are now infected with HIV | ||
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| NY: Norton, 2001. xvii+440pp. $27.95. ISBN 0393050270 | ||
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