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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
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 (1,916 customer reviews)
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Crown
February 2, 2010
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of ...
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
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(277 customer reviews)
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W. W. Norton & Company
August 2, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: With her wry humor and inextinguishable curiosity, Mary Roach has crafted her own quirky niche in the somewhat staid world of science writing, showing no fear (or shame) in the face of cadavers, ectoplasm, or sex. In Packing for Mars, Roach ...
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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(518 customer reviews)
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Scribner
November 16, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010: "In 2010, about six hundred thousand Americans, and more than 7 million humans around the world, will die of cancer." With this sobering statistic, physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee begins his comprehensive and eloquent "biography" of one of the most virulent ...
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
by Sam Kean
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(239 customer reviews)
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Little, Brown and Company
July 12, 2010
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Science magazine reporter Kean views the periodic table as one of the great achievements of humankind, "an anthropological marvel," full of stories about our connection with the physical world. Funny, even chilling tales are associated with each element, a...
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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality
by Manjit Kumar
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 (76 customer reviews)
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W. W. Norton & Company
May 24, 2010
Hardcover
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Starred Review. With vigor and elegance, Kumar describes the clash of titans that took place in the world of physics in the early 20th century, between physicists who did and those who did not believe in the quantum...
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The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking
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 (555 customer reviews)
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Bantam
September 7, 2010
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Amazon.com Review
Stephen Hawking on The Grand Design How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty years ago I wrote A Brief History of Time, to try to explain where the universe came from, and where it is going. But that book ...
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The Mind's Eye
by Oliver Sacks
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 (99 customer reviews)
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Knopf
October 26, 2010
Hardcover
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Sacks, a neurologist and practicing physician at Columbia University Medical Center, and author of ten popular books on the quirks of the human mind (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) focuses here on creative people who have learned t...
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The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind
by Melvin Konner
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(10 customer reviews)
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
May 31, 2010
Hardcover
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It's been a long time coming but it was worth the wait. Mel Konner's wonderful new book shows that you simply must think about our biological past to understand our psychological present. ...
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Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
by Jonathan Weiner
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(66 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Ecco
June 22, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2010: With the bookshelves full of deathless vampires these days, it's refreshing to read about immortality in the real world for a change. In Long for This World, Jonathan Weiner, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, has ...
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Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
by Alex Bellos
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(44 customer reviews)
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Free Press
June 15, 2010
Hardcover
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At last, a math book for people who think they don't like math. Alex Bellos's self-proclaimed "Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math" delivers on its promise. You'll meet the numerologist who persuaded Puff Daddy to change his name, a ...
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