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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

Eugenia Cheng - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth worldIn a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to listeners drowning in the illogic...
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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor

Brian Keating - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

The inside story of a quest to unlock one of cosmology's biggest mysteries, derailed by the lure of the Nobel Prize.What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd...
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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin

Keith Stewart Thomson - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis - our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears,...
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The Shell Collector's Handbook: The Essential Field Guide for Exploring the World of Shells

Kenneth R Wye - Wellfleet Press
Format: Hardcover

All you need to know to log and classify the shells in your collection. Hints, tips and expert advice to help you get started.Over 150 photographs and illustrations make it easy to identify your finds in the field: Gastropods, bivalves, cephalopods and scaphopods. This practical identification...
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GENIUS WITHIN : unlocking our brains' potential

DAVID ADAM - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover

Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how this revolution in neuroscience will help us access the untapped potential locked within us all. What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What...
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Discovering Us: Fifty Great Discoveries in Human Origins

Evan Hadingham - Signature Books
Format: Hardcover

Over the past fifty years, researchers have made extraordinary discoveries that help us to understand who we are, where we came from, and what makes us human. Discovering Us brings our shared history to life and tells the stories behind fifty of the most important human origins discoveries...
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The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves

Arik Kershenbaum
Format: Hardcover

Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders and movie monsters...
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Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and Your Food

Norman C. Ellstrand - University of Chicago Press
Format: eBook

At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious legumes to horny hot peppers, most of humanity's...
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Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning

Sarah Weinman - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology showcasing the future of the true crime genreTrue crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended,...
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James...
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