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  • Crash Course Guides: Biology

    Crash Course Guides: Biology

    Available: Apr 20, 2027
    Author: Joan Marie Galat
    Publisher: Penguin Random House

    Explore the science of life with this visually driven, fast-paced, and accessible guide featuring Crash Course’s signature smart and funny voice. Perfect for students, nonfiction readers, and lifelong learners.

    Biology is the study of living organisms. Offering breadth and depth, this guide covers big subjects like anatomy and ecology while digging into fundamental ideas and concepts. Topics include biological organization, the cell cycle, genetics, reproduction, the different systems of the human body, natural selection, evolution, and more.

    Readers will enjoy the highly designed full-color pages. Engaging visuals, sidebars, infographics, and other features make information fun and digestible. This comprehensive primer thoughtfully breaks down key ideas and puts them in broader context to highlight real-world relevance.

    Discover how biology helps people understand themselves—and their relationship with all living and nonliving things—better.

  • Sale! Give Yourself a Pep Talk

    Give Yourself a Pep Talk

    Original price was: $28.00.Current price is: $20.00.

    by Joan Marie Galat

    Discover 100 motivational pep talks designed to help you deal with everyday challenges. Each vignette offers encouraging words that offer strategies to rejuvenate weary spirits, cope with unsolved problems, and achieve conscientious living. Along the way, discover how to appreciate your individuality, choose which experiences define you, and enjoy your own story—to live an inspiring life.

    “A timely and uplifting publication, Give Yourself a Pep Talk is a recommended read that offers a welcome pause for all of us who are leading increasingly busy and stressful lives.” —Rod Adachi, MSW, retired executive director and registrar of the Alberta College of Social Workers

    “This book could be a guidepost for living a better life.” —Amy J. L. Baker, PhD, researcher, author, coach