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From One Cell: A Journey into Life's Origins and the Future of Medicine
Ben Stanger - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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Inside the quest to unlock the mysteries of development -- and find the key to transforming our future.Each of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact,... |
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Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know
David W. Deamer
Format: Hardcover
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It seems likely that scientists will someday discover how life can emerge on habitable planets like the early Earth and Mars. In Origin of Life: What Everyone Needs to Know, David W. Deamer has written a comprehensive guide to the origin of life that is organized in three sections. The first... |
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Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels
Ioan Grillo - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Paperback
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"An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords."--Adam Winkler. From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms,... |
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Más allá de nuestras mentes: Qué pensamos y cómo llegamos a pensarlo (Spanish Edition)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Roca Editorial
Format: Paperback
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Una historia estimulante sobre cómo la imaginación interactua con las facultades psicológicas, -emoción, percepción y razón- para formar la historia de la vida humana. El imaginar (para ver lo que no está presente) es la asombrosa habilidad que ha alimentado el desarrollo y la innovación... |
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Black Hole Survival Guide
Janna Levin - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout her career, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused, alongside her research, on making the science she studies not just accessible, but, perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. And that is what she has done again here, helping us to understand the black hole: perhaps... |
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The Second Chance Club: Hardship and Hope After Prison
Jason Hardy - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague... |
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