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New Titles - Science
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Reason and Wonder: Why Science and Faith Need Each Other
ER Priest · Templeton Press Pages: 211 Format: Paperback
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Often science and religion are seen as completely separate entities. Science exists in the realm of fact, whereas religion exists in the realm of faith. Conversations about genes, psychology, or even the meaning of life occur in silos. But as Eric Priest, Keith Ward, David Myers, N. T. Wright,... |
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Being the Change: How to Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
PETER KALMUS · New Society Publishers Pages: 384 Format: Paperback
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Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome.We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens.Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father... |
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Viruses: More Friends Than Foes
Karin Mo?lling · World Scientific Publishing Company Pages: 420 Format: Paperback
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Influenza, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or killers. Well-known virologist and cancer researcher Karin Moelling describes surprising insights about a completely new and unexpected world of viruses. Viruses are ubiquitous,... |
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Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
Richard Dawkins · Random House Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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The legendary biologist, provocateur, and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades, Richard Dawkins has been... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos · Riverhead Books Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also... |
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Solving Everyday Problems with the Scientific Method: Thinking Like a Scientist
Don K Mak · World Scientific Publishing Company Pages: 332 Format: Paperback
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This book describes how one can use The Scientific Method to solve everyday problems including medical ailments, health issues, money management, traveling, shopping, cooking, household chores, etc. It illustrates how to exploit the information collected from our five senses, how to solve... |
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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight
Vanessa Potter · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,... |
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Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality
Jules Howard · Bloomsbury Sigma Pages: 288 Format: Print book
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As you read these words, Planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, each going about their own business: eating, reproducing, thriving . . . Yet, the life of almost every single organism draws nearer to certain death. On the other hand, "suicide" inside the mitochondria... |
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