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My Plastic Brain: One Woman's Yearlong Journey to Discover If Science Can Improve Her Mind

Caroline Williams · Prometheus Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Using herself as a guinea pig, a science journalist explores "neuroplasticity" to find out whether she can make meaningful, lasting changes to the way her brain works.

In books like THE HAPPINESS PROJECT, THE NO-SPEND YEAR, and THE YEAR OF YES, individuals have tried a specific...
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The Well-Gardened Mind: The Healing Power of Plants, Earth, and the Outdoors

Sue Stuart-Smith · SCRIBNER BOOKS CO
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the "real" life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Gardening...
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Now: The Physics of Time

R Muller · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

"Now" is a simple yet elusive concept.

You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers, priests, and modern-day physicists from...

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The Story of Life in 10 1/2 Species

Marianne Taylor · The MIT Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

If an alien visitor were to collect ten souvenir life forms to represent life on earth, which would they be? This is the thought-provoking premise of Marianne Taylor's The Story of Life in 10 and a Half Species. Each life forms explains a key aspect about life on Earth. From the sponge...
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The Next Species: The Future of Evolution in the Aftermath of Man

Michael Tennesen · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction.A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders: North America

Susan Rayfield · Knopf
Pages: 992
Format: Leather Bound

The most comprehensive field guide available to the insects and spiders of North America--a must-have for any enthusiast's day pack or home library--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 700 full-color identification...
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DNA Is Not Destiny: The Remarkable, Completely Misunderstood Relationship between You and Your Genes

Steven J Heine · W W Norton
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

One of the world's leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties about our genes.

Do you fear what might be lurking in your DNA?

Well, now you can find out, and you most likely will. Scientists expect one billion...

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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice

Scott Ellsworth · Dutton
Format: Hardcover

In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street....
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A Republic Under Assault: The Left's Ongoing Attack on American Freedom

Tom Fitton · Threshold Editions
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tom Fitton's first two New York Times bestselling books, The Corruption Chronicles and Clean House, exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of Obama's two terms. Now, in Fitton's latest investigative probe, he identifies the four major forces posing a continued threat to American...
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We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, from the Womb to Alzheimer's

D. F. Swaab · Random House Inc
Pages: 417
Format: Hardcover

A vivid account of what makes us human. Based groundbreaking new research, We Are Our Brains is a sweeping biography of the human brain, from infancy to adulthood to old age. Renowned neuroscientist D. F. Swaab takes us on a guided tour of the intricate inner workings that determine our potential,...
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