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Recent Biology Texts at Boreham

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Doctors by Nature

The astonishing story of how animals use medicine and what it can teach us about healing ourselves.

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Survival Kit for the Physiology Student

This book is designed to ease the pain of the physiology student when preparing for exams, and, more importantly, while studying.

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How Life Works

In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far richer, more ingenious affair than we had guessed.

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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

Becoming Earth is an exhilarating journey through the hidden workings of our planetary symphony—its players, its instruments, and the music of life that emerges—and an invitation to reexamine our place in it

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Kingdom of Play: what ball-bouncing octopuses, belly-flopping monkeys, and mud-sliding elephants reveal about life itself

In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them.

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Eat the Weeds: A Forager's Guide to Identifying and Harvesting 274 Wild Foods

Eat the Weeds presents 274 wild foods and helps you to find, identify, and harvest them.

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Plants with Purpose: Twenty-Five Ecosystem Multitaskers

Illustrated throughout with 200 beautiful color photographs of plants in their various stages of development and showcasing their multiple applications, Plants with Purpose will encourage readers to experiment with their gardening for a deeper engagement with plant life and the environment.