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"Describes swimming with sharks for scientific study and as part of a tour group, the dangers involved, the gear needed, and what scientists have learned from their quests"--Provided by publisher.

Text and color photographs explore ghost hunters, those that study the paranormal and unexplained events.

A how-to primer on safe ghost removal with accounts of the author's most dangerous spirit confrontations.

Traces the history of scientific speculation regarding intelligent extraterrestrial life.

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.