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  • Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex

    Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex

    $29.99

    In delightful watercolor comics of pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed echidna penis, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland takes us on a wild biodiversity ride through queerness, infidelity, consent, divorce, sex change, and even sexual cannibalism in the animal world. Poking the Squid illustrates the splendid diversity of nature’s eroticism. For too long, science…

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  • Insectopolis: A Natural History

    Insectopolis: A Natural History

    $35.00

    This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity’s connection to them throughout the ages. Kuper’s thrilling visual feast layers history and science, color and design, to tell the remarkable tales of dung beetles navigating by the…

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  • Cells at Work! Picture Book 1: The Great Bacteria vs. White Blood Cell Battle!

    Cells at Work! Picture Book 1: The Great Bacteria vs. White Blood Cell Battle!

    $13.99

    These innovative full-color edutainment books are baby’s first manga! Based on the groundbreaking series Cells at Work!, these beginner-level comics take kids on an exiting adventure while learning about the human body. The mega-hit anime and best-selling manga is now an edutainment picture book series! Red Blood Cell, White Blood Cell, and their team guide…

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  • Cells at Work! Cat 1

    Cells at Work! Cat 1

    $13.99

    What keeps your feline friend purring? Find out as the neurons behind the bestselling Cells at Work! manga take you inside kitty’s body in this new science-made-simple series purr-fect for every cat lover! Red Blood Cell, White Blood Cell (Neutrophil), and their team put on their cat ears as they work, day and night, to…

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    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)

    $27.99

    Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. #1 New York Times Bestseller The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution–a #1 international bestseller–that explores the ways in which biology…

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  • The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

    The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

    $32.00

    Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees–written and charmingly illustrated by the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist“I love everything Amy Stewart has ever created, but this book is my favorite yet. I’m giving this book to everyone I know. Because it, like…

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    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3: The Masters of History

    $29.99

    This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History–The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion–or something else entirely–that unites us? Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But…

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  • The Mushroom Fan Club

    The Mushroom Fan Club

    $17.95

    Appeared on Best of 2018 lists from Quill & Quire and the Globe and Mail! “Although the fungi are anthropomorphized with cartoon eyes and goofy grins, the research behind the book is real.”–The Globe & Mail 100 Best Books of 2018 “Gravel turns adventures in mushroom hunting into scintillating reading material.”–Quill & Quire Best Kids’…

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    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization

    $27.99

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…

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  • Club Microbe

    Club Microbe

    $17.95

    It’s a germ’s world. We’re just living in it!In Club Microbe, Elise Gravel teaches young readers that germs live all around us–and even inside of us! Guided by Gravel in this formidable introduction to the fascinating world of microorganisms, we learn that some microbes get a bad rep for making us sick, but that most…

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    Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1)

    $40.00

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for readers of all ages. One hundred thousand years ago,…

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    The Cartoon Guide to Biology

    $23.99

    From New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner comes this comprehensive and humorous cartoon guide to topics in biology Did you faint when your middle school science teacher asked you to dissect a frog? Do you think DNA stands for “Don’t Know the Answer”? Do you still cling…

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    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3: The Masters of History

    $40.00

    This third volume of the illustrated adaptation of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, Sapiens: A Graphic History–The Masters of History, tackles the question of the driving force of humanity’s fate: is it empire, money, religion–or something else entirely–that unites us? Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But…

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    Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth

    $15.95

    An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader Illustrated by the brilliant duo Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, this volume is written by the noted comic author and professor of biology Jay Hosler. Evolution features the same characters introduced in the highly regarded The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics…

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    Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization

    $40.00

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…

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    The Body Factory: From the First Prosthetics to the Augmented Human

    $18.95

    A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him. The subject of the painting introduces himself as Ambroise Paré, the French barber-surgeon who revolutionized the…

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