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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos - Riverhead Books
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 point... |
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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature
P W Atkins - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants... |
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Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
Sarah Brayne
Format: Hardcover
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The scope of criminal justice surveillance, from the police to the prisons, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, health, and marketing. While law enforcement's use of big data... |
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Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity
Edward Slingerland - Broadway Books
Format: Paperback
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A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneityan ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understandand why it is so essential to our well-being Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting Or be charming and relaxed... |
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Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World
John Freeman - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.In the past... |
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The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters
Sean B Carroll - Princeton University Pres, 2016.
Format: Print book
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How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll... |
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