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The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Eric R Kandel - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal about human nature. This challenging study will not only help transform medical care but also encourage a new humanism based in part on the biological confirmation of individuality.Eric... |
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The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World
Trevor J Cox - W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Format: Print book
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"A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox's] zestful curiosity." -- New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers... |
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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
Susan Wise Bauer - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting road map to the development of modern scientific thought.In the tradition of her perennial bestseller The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer delivers an accessible, entertaining, and illuminating springboard into the scientific education you never had. Far too often, public... |
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The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
Lawrence M. Krauss - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover
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Lawrence Krauss explores the greatest unanswered questions at the forefront of science today, and likely for the coming century and beyond.. Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss explores science's greatest unanswered questions. Three of the most... |
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Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
Eugene Linden
Format: Hardcover
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From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could... |
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic... |
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon." - Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonWith a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about... |
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At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
Michael Brooks - The Overlook Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Free Radicals takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the most controversial areas of modern science The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All are ideas that have revolutionized science -- and all were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises... |
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