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After a freak wave maroons Joe on a deserted island, he investigates the food chain of the island's ecosystem. He learns to gather food and build shelter, copying other living things and using whatever materials he can find on the island.

Offers a detailed background of the science of climatology and explains how carbon dioxide and water vapor interact to regulate the earth's thermostat arguing that scientific evidence shows that use of fossil fuels has accelerated global warming.

Neil Ruzic recounts how he took charge of his own health after being diagnosed with the deadliest cancer of the lymph system, refusing recommended courses of chemotherapy and radiation and instead investigating cures being developed in the nation's cancer research laboratories.

Retail anthropologist Paco Underhill discusses why people enjoy shopping, how merchants attempt to control their customers, and how shoppers interact with their retail environment.

Traces the migrations of thousands of monarch butterflies who fly from as far north as Canada to fifty forested acres in Mexico each year.

Provides contact information for associations, libraries, publishers, research centers, databases, online services, periodicals, directories, and newsletters that provide information about genealogical and historical family research.

A career memoir of neuroscientist James Fallon, describing how while studying his family's brain scans for research he discovered that his own scan reflected a pattern similar to those in the brains of serial killers, a finding that offered new insights into the role of biology in behavior.

The ways in which knowledge relates to power have been much discussed in radical education theory. New emphasis on the role of gender and the growing debate about subjectivity have deepened the discussion, while making it more complex. In Getting Smart, Patti Lather makes use of her unique integration of feminism and postmodernism into critical education theory to address some of the most vital questions facing education researchers and teachers.

In the timeless tradition of The Horse Whisperer, a powerful novel of explosive passion, healing, and redemption in Big Sky Country.