More Book Recommendations for January

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Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees 
By Mike Shanahan. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017

Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life
By Matin Durrani and Liz Kalaugher. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2017

Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation
By Alan Burdick. Simon & Schuster, 2017


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Monkeytalk: Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
By Julia Fischer. University of Chicago Press, 2017

Impossible Languages
By Andrea Moro. The MIT Press, 2017

Scientific American Magazine Vol 316 Issue 1This article was published with the title “More Book Recommendations for January” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 316 No. 1 ()
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