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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
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January 15, 2008
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Oliver Sacks on Your Inner Fish Since the 1970 publication of Migraine, neurologist Oliver Sacks's unusual and fascinating case histories of "differently brained" people and phenomena--a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome, a community of people born totally colorblind, musical hallucinations, to name a few--have been marked by extraordinary compassion and ...
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Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
by Kenneth R. Miller
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 (75 customer reviews)
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Viking Adult
June 12, 2008
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Thoroughly enjoyable and informative, this new book by Miller (...
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Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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(21 customer reviews)
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Ecco
June 24, 2008
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Starred Review. As wide-ranging as it is deep, and as entertaining as it is informative, the latest offering from UC...
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Leonard Susskind
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(77 customer reviews)
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Little, Brown and Company
July 7, 2008
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Cosmology has been sexy since Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and Stephen Hawking stormed onto the scene three decades ago, popularizing science for the masses. In ...
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In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA
by James Schwartz
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(5 customer reviews)
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Harvard University Press
April 30, 2008
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Starred Review. Understanding the nature of genetic inheritance was essential for evolution to be accepted as the dominant paradigm in biology. In a masterful work, science writer Schwartz looks at the science and the personalities behind that understandin...
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by Leonard Mlodinow
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(228 customer reviews)
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Pantheon
May 13, 2008
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Amazon Guest Review: Stephen Hawking Published in 1988, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time became perhaps one of the unlikeliest bestsellers in history: a not-so-dumbed-down exploration of physics and the universe that occupied the London Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks. Later successes include ...
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Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
by David Michaels
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(21 customer reviews)
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Oxford University Press, USA
April 23, 2008
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"In Doubt Is Their Product, David Michaels gives a lively and convincing history of how clever public relations has blocked one public health protection after another. The techniques first used to reassure us about tobacco were adapted to reassure us about asbestos, lead, vinyl chloride-and risks to nuclear facilities ...
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
by Michael Brooks
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(67 customer reviews)
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Doubleday
August 12, 2008
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Product Description When we look to the "anomalies" that science can’t explain, we often discover where science is about to go. Here are a few of the anomalies that Michael Brooks investigates in 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: Homeopathic remedies seem to have biological effects ...
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
by Irene M. Pepperberg
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(206 customer reviews)
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Harper
October 28, 2008
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Alex is the African gray parrot whose ability to master a vocabulary of more than 100 words and answer questions about the color, shape and number of objects...
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
by Carl Zimmer
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 (29 customer reviews)
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Pantheon
May 6, 2008
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When most readers hear the words E. coli, they think tainted hamburger or toxic spinach. Noted science writer Zimmer says there are in fact many different strains of E. coli, some coexisting quite happily with us in our digestive tracts. These rod-shaped bacteria were among the first organisms to ...
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