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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong · Ecco
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, and vastly entertaining examination of the most significant revolution in biology since Darwin - a "microbe's-eye view" of the world that reveals... |
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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Luke Dittrich · Random House
Pages: 440
Format: Print book |
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"Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King"* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M., a man who forever altered our understanding of how memory works - and whose treatment raises deeply... |
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Biocode: The New Age of Genomics
Dawn Field · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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The living world runs on genomic software - what Dawn Field and Neil Davies call the biocode - the sum of all DNA on Earth. In Biocode, they tell the story of a new age of scientific discovery the growing global effort to read and map the biocode, and what that might mean for the future.... |
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Tipping Point for Planet Earth: How Close Are We to the Edge?
Anthony D Barnosky · St Martin'S Press, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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Tipping Point for Planet Earth explains why Earth is headed for a tipping point, a change so fast, dramatic, and unexpected that humanity will reel at the consequences.Midway through this century, there will be more than nine billion people on the planet. Already we are using most of the arable... |
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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
Matt Ridley · Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 360
Format: Print book |
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world.The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy,... |
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You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice
Tom Vanderbilt · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 305
Format: Print book |
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"From the best-selling author of Traffic, a brilliant and entertaining exploration of our personal tastes--why we like the things we like, and what it says about us,"--NoveList.From the tangled underpinnings of our food taste to the complex dynamics of our playlists, our preferences... |
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Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History
John Grant · Zest Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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Galileo, Einstein, Curie, Darwin, Hawking - we know the names, but how much do we really know about these people? Galileo gained notoriety over his battle with the Vatican, but did you know that this "father of modern science" was also an accomplished lute player? And Darwin... |
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The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg
Tim Birkhead · Bloomsbury
Pages: 304
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Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary. As she grows into adulthood, only a few of her eggs mature, are released into the oviduct, and are fertilized by sperm... |
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