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Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains
Susan Greenfield · Random House Format: Hardcover
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We live in a world unimaginable only decades ago: a domain of backlit screens, instant information, and vibrant experiences that can outcompete dreary reality. Our brave new technologies offer incredible opportunities for work and play. But at what price? Now renowned neuroscientist Susan... |
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Snakemaster: Wildlife Adventures with the Worlds Most Dangerous Reptiles
Austin Stevens · Skyhorse Publishing Format: Hardcover
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Known as the original "Snakemaster" from his various television shows, Austin Stevens is one of the most famous herpetologists in the world. From his show Austin Stevens: Snakemaster on Animal Planet to his many appearances in the media, Stevens is known as an incredibly smart,... |
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The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
Gregory Hickok · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror... |
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The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder
Linda Stratmann · Yale University Press Pages: 344 Format: Print book
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Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann's dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control... |
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The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Daniel Lieberman · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pages: 460 Format: Hardcover
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In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman - chair of the department of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a leader in the field - gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years, even as it shows how the increasing... |
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Dawn of the Neuron: The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems
Michel Anctil · McGill-Queens University Press Pages: 416 Format: Hardcover
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In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals... |
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To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
Steven Weinberg · Harper; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover
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A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg - a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time.In this rich, irreverent, and compelling... |
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The Science of Cheese
Michael Tunick · Oxford University Press Pages: 281 Format: Hardcover
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In an engaging tour of the science and history of cheese, Michael Tunick explores the art of cheese making, the science that lies underneath the deliciousness, and the history behind how humanity came up with one of its most varied and versatile of foods.Dr. Tunick spends his everyday deep... |
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I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science
Marjorie Senechal · Oxford University Press Format: Print book
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In the vein of A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, and Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, this volume tells the poignant story of the brilliant, colorful, controversial mathematician named Dorothy Wrinch. Drawing on her own personal and professional relationship with... |
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live
Marlene Zuk · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football -- or did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern... |
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor J Cox · W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. Pages: 331 Format: Print book
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"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox's] zestful curiosity." -- New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers... |
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