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Chimpanzees in Context: A Comparative Perspective on Chimpanzee Behavior, Cognition, Conservation, and Welfare

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century. In this book, rising and veteran scholars take a fascinating comparative approach to the culture, behavior, and cognition of both wild and captive chimpanzees.

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Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

Extinction Studies focuses on the ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring how extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each chapter in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, and why it matters.

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Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future

By Jeffrey Kiehl

A compassionate take on the psychological factors fueling climate-change denialism and what we can do to turn indifference into action.

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Cycles: How We Will Live, Work and Buy

By Maddy Dychtwald

Named Book of the Year by the National Community Colleges Association, Cycles approaches the idea that age is becoming less relevant in defining who we are and how we live as life expectancy increases and the pressures to live a linear lifestyle fade. As we enter a new era, a lifestyle revolution has drastically transformed who we are and what we do, both as people and as consumers.

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Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers

By Ugo Corte

A thrilling ethnography of big wave surfing in Hawaii that explores the sociology of fun. Straight from the beaches of Hawaii comes an exciting new ethnography of a community of big-wave surfers. Oahu's Waimea Bay attracts the world's best big wave surfers-men and women who come to test their physical strength, courage, style, knowledge of the water, and love of the ocean.

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Naked and Unafraid: 5 Keys to Abandon Smallness, Overcome Criticism, and Be All You Are Meant to Be

By Kevin Gerald

"NAKED AND UNAFRAID encourages Christians to experience the rewards of living a vulnerable and expansive life, to not let self-criticism or the criticism of others determine who they are or what they do"--

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One Small Barking Dog: How to Live a Life That's Hard to Ignore

By Ed Gungor

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Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data, Updated Edition

By Zeljko Ivezic, Andrew J. Connolly, Jacob T. Vanderplas

Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy is the essential introduction to the statistical methods needed to analyze complex data sets from astronomical surveys such as the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, the Dark Energy Survey, and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.