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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
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Viking Adult
December 29, 2004
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Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, ...
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The Road to Reality : A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Roger Penrose
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Knopf
February 22, 2005
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If Albert Einstein were alive, he would have a copy of ...
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin
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Scribner
December 28, 2004
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Starred Review. Philosophers and scientists have long wondered what goes on in the minds of animals, and this fascinating study gives a wealth of illuminating insights into that mystery. Grandin, an animal behavior expert specializing in the design of humane slaughter systems, is autistic, and she contends that animals ...
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Ray Kurzweil
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Viking Adult
September 22, 2005
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Starred Review. Renowned inventor Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines) may be technology's most credibly hyperbolic optimist. Elsewhere he has argued that eliminating fat intake can prevent cancer; here, his quarry is the future of consciousness and intelligence. Humankind, it runs, is at the threshold of an epoch ...
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Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
David Kirby
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St. Martin's Press
March 24, 2005
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Avoiding hyperbole while writing about a possible medical catastrophe is no easy task, but David Kirby has created a fine balance of investigative and personal detail in ...
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The Singing Life of Birds: The Art and Science of Listening to Birdsong
Donald Kroodsma
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Houghton Mifflin
April 4, 2005
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Kroodsma, professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, shares what he's learned from more than three decades of recording and analyzing the songs of birds in this intriguing, instructional book. Using "sonagrams" (also known as sound spectrograms...
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
Simon Singh
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Fourth Estate
January 4, 2005
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A baffling array of science books claim to reveal how the mysteries of the universe have been discovered, but Simon Singh's ...
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel (Great Discoveries)
Rebecca Goldstein
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W. W. Norton & Company
February 1, 2005
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Kurt Gödel is often held up as an intellectual revolutionary whose incompleteness theorem helped tear down the notion that there was anything certain about the universe. Philosophy professor, novelist, and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Goldstein reinterprets the evidence and restores to Gödel's famous idea the meaning he claimed he intended: ...
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Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
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Hill and Wang
February 24, 2005
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For those who wonder why certain countries insist on developing nuclear power, geologist Deffeyes has a possible answer: "World oil production has ceased growing." In this sobering, instructive and somewhat apocalyptic book, Deffeyes (Hubbert's Peak) paint...
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
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Basic Books
April 5, 2005
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Finding out about someone by reading their correspondence is a fundamentally different thing than reading their biography. Letters offer both more intimacy with the subject and at the same time a crucial distance--the exact distance the letter-writer inten...
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