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You Are the Universe: Discovering Your Cosmic Self and Why It Matters
Deepak Chopra · Harmony
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with leading physicist Menas Kafatos to explore some of the most important and baffling questions about our place in the world. What happens when modern science reaches a crucial turning point that challenges everything we know... |
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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
Simon LeVay · Oxford University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
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What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? Neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain.... |
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A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier
David Welky · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 512
Format: Print book
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A remarkable true story of adventure, betrayal, and survival set in one of the world's most inhospitable places.In 1906, from atop a snow-swept hill in the ice fields northwest of Greenland, hundreds of miles from another human being, Commander Robert E. Peary spotted a line of mysterious... |
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mindEmotions feel automatic to us; that's why scientists have long assumed that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today,... |
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