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The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain
John Kounios · Random House
Pages: 274
Format: Print book
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In a book perfect for readers of Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit, David Eagleman's Incognito, and Leonard Mlodinow's Subliminal, the cognitive neuroscientists who discovered how the brain has aha moments - sudden creative insights - explain how they happen, when... |
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Art and Architecture of Insects
David M. Phillips · ForeEdge
Format: Print book
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Clad in spiked and scaled armor, lance-like pincers at the ready, alien creatures are in our gardens, our floorboards, and our bedsheets. David M. Phillips has taken his life-long love of insect biology and microscopy and produced a mesmerizing look into the hidden world of the insect form.... |
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Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
Gernot Wagner · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually... |
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Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
John Pickrell · Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence -- bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more -- has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed... |
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The Secret History of Kindness: Learning from How Dogs Learn
Melissa Holbrook Pierson · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, surprising look at man's best friend and what the leading philosophies of dog training teach us about ourselves.Years back, Melissa Holbrook Pierson brought home a border collie named Mercy, without a clue of how to get her to behave. Stunned after hiring a trainer whose... |
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Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
Jerry A. Coyne · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical... |
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