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"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
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Darwin's Race is the most ambitious adventure race ever attempted, pitting twelve hardened racers against each other and the daunting elements of the world's deepest and unexplored gorge. The first to reach the top of the 22,000-foot Kuk Sur will claim a $2 million prize and the first summit of one of the last remaining unclaimed Himalayan mountain peaks. Connor Michaels, haunted by his brother's mysterious death on Kuk Sur six years earlier, decided...