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We can all be smarter - target your learning with iMinds Specialist Series. Have a particular interest? Recognize gaps in your knowledge? iMinds Specialist works across each of our 12 categories, bringing you targeted information to broaden your mind. Science & Nature, Volume 1 looks at meteorites, the beautiful aurora borealis, the theory of evolution, putting a man on the Moon, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and the science of wind power.

In 1955, on a visit to South Africa, Robert Ardrey became aware of the growing evidence that man had evolved on the African continent from carnivorous, predatory stock - ones who had also, long before man, achieved the use of weapons. A dramatist, Ardrey's interest in the African discoveries sprang less from purely scientific grounds than from the radical new light they cast on the eternal question: Why do we behave as we do? Are we naturally inclined towards war and weapons?

Transcribed from the original lectures recorded at San Francisco State University in 1987, The Nature of Drugs series highlights Shulgin’s engaging lecture style peppered with illuminating anecdotes and amusing asides. Ostensibly taught as an introductory course on drugs and biochemistry, these books serve as both a historical record of Shulgin’s teaching style and the culmination of his philosophy on drugs, psychopharmacology, states of consciousness, and societal and individual freedoms pertaining to their use, both medicinal and exploratory.

Packed with everything you need to know to raise and care for your dog the pack leader’s way, this audiobook is based on the revolutionary teachings of the Mexican-American “Leader of the Pack” Cesar Millan and the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz, also known as “The Father of Pack Leadership”, contained in the first three volumes of The Pack Leader Training Series by Al Parr.

A hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking memoir by the chief wildlife ranger in the number one most popular family vacation destination in the USA, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For over 30 years, Kim DeLozier acted as a referee in the wild, trying to protect millions of park visitors from one of the densest populations of wild black bears in America - and the bears from tourists who get too close.

Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night.

Birding can be an acoustic experience as much as a visual one. Songs and Sounds follows birding guide and nature recordist Rob Porter through various songbird and waterfowl habitats around southern Ontario during the course of a year. Recorded entirely outdoors in both natural and manmade habitats, this audiobook is like any other: you won't just hear about the birds; you will hear from the birds themselves during breeding season, migration, and wintering.

One of the fundamental laws of physics is that a force is met with an equal and opposite force. Since Galileo rescued science from religion, science has done battle with religion: knowledge vs. belief. This audiobook will celebrate the wisdom held by each of these two worlds and attempt to highlight the blind spots that have kept the two sides from forming a partnership.

Everybody gets the sniffles sometime. Not only that but there is the occasional cough, flu, headache, and stomachache. These are just some of the common ailments everybody gets once in a while. A lot of people automatically reach for pharmaceutical remedies. Painkillers, cough medications, and cold tablets are often standard items in a home medicine cabinet. Some people even get into the habit of bringing these little pills along wherever they go.

A collection of 13 award-winning short stories concerning the true adventures of California fish and game wardens and the wildlife-destroying outlaws they pursue. These stories illustrate the wide variety of wildlife-related problems wardens face in California, which has a greater diversity of wildlife and wildlife habitat than any other state and is second only to Alaska in its vast expanses of wilderness.

Volume one of the 12-book Visit the Zoo series opens the world of animals you see in your nearest zoo. Vivid descriptions describe the lifestyles of these fascinating animals - what they eat, how they survive, how they thrive, where they come from, and how they live their day-to-day lives. One hundred and twenty animals are described in the entire Visit the Zoo series, and if you love nature, wildlife, and the animal world, these books provide a primer on each animal described in these 12 books.

It's the first day of snow, and Gabi and her siblings are about to get creative. They have the most brilliant idea: they will build the best snow-woman ever! This book will not only empower your child by sending the message that children can trust their own thinking and ideas, and implement them all by themselves, but will also emphasize the importance of team work.

Connu du monde entier, Hubert Reeves est autant apprécié par ses pairs que par le grand public pour son engagement et ses qualités de transmetteur de savoirs. A la suite de ses nombreuses conférences de vulgarisation, Hubert Reeves a voulu, avec son fils Benoît, réaliser un enregistrement pédagogique des questions qui lui sont le plus souvent posées. Il offre en réponse un propos compréhensible par tous sur une science qui, pour l'appréhender, nécessite ordinairement une formation poussée.