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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earthby James LovelockISBN 0393312399 (0-393-31239-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth'Book summary:Lovelock elaborates on his startling theory of life proposed in 1979 called Gaia. Much scientific work has confirmed Lovelock's theory that Earth is a single organism controlling its own environment, its life sustained by life. Drawings. [via]
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Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biologyby J. S. Medawar, P.B. MedawarISBN 0192830430 (0-19-283043-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexityby Stuart KauffmanISBN 0195111303 (0-19-511130-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity'Book summary:The best treatment I have yet encountered about how order emerges naturally -- and possibly even necessarily -- out of chaos. Profoundly important, and considerably more informed than better-known pop-science treatments of chaos theory. Very highly recommended. [via]
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Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniquenessby Ian TattersallISBN 0156006537 (0-15-600653-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness'Book summary:Monogamy. Bipedalism. Tools. Language. Intelligence. Why on Earth did we develop all those tricks? Though it's trendy to diminish the differences between humans and other species, most of us just can't help noticing our often-striking peculiarities and wondering how they arose. Paleontologist Ian Tattersall's story of human origins is as compelling as a well-designed museum exhibit--no surprise, as he is Curator of Anthropology for the American Museum of Natural History. His prose, while not flashy, is satisfyingly clear and unapologetically fascinated with its topic. Covering genetics, evolutionary theory, primate anatomy, and archaeology, Becoming Human explains how and why our ancestors adapted to their surroundings to produce such clever, talented, immodest progeny. If you find it preposterous that a dumb, skinny ape can go from foraging for fruit and fleeing from lions to splitting the atom and solving Rubik's cube in just five million years, this book might change your mind. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Blood and Gutsby David Katz, Linda AllisonISBN 0316034428 (0-316-03442-8)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Blood and Gutsby Linda AllisonISBN 0316034436 (0-316-03443-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experimentsby Gerald KarpISBN 0471192791 (0-471-19279-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments: ISBN 0471192791 (0-471-19279-1)
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The Chemicals of Lifeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0451624181 (0-451-62418-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Cosmosby Carl SaganISBN 0345331354 (0-345-33135-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmos'Book summary:Cosmos was the first science TV blockbuster, and Carl Sagan was its (human) star. By the time of Sagan's death in 1997, the series had been seen by half a billion people; Sagan was perhaps the best-known scientist on the planet. Explaining how the series came about, Sagan recalled:
I was positive from my own experience that an enormous global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics--the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television.
Sagan's own interest and enthusiasm for the universe were so vivid and infectious, his screen presence so engaging, that viewers and readers couldn't help but be caught up in his vision. From stars in their "billions and billions" to the amino acids in the primordial ocean, Sagan communicated a feeling for science as a process of discovery. Inevitably, some of the science in Cosmos has been outdated in the years since 1980--but Sagan's sense of wonder is ageless. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Cosmos: International Affairs in the Modern Ageby Carl SaganISBN 0394502949 (0-394-50294-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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I was positive from my own experience that an enormous global interest exists in the exploration of the planets and in many kindred scientific topics--the origin of life, the Earth, and the Cosmos, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our connection with the universe. And I was certain that this interest could be excited through that most powerful communications medium, television.
Sagan's own interest and enthusiasm for the universe were so vivid and infectious, his screen presence so engaging, that viewers and readers couldn't help but be caught up in his vision. From stars in their "billions and billions" to the amino acids in the primordial ocean, Sagan communicated a feeling for science as a process of discovery. Inevitably, some of the science in Cosmos has been outdated in the years since 1980--but Sagan's sense of wonder is ageless. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Darwinby Philip ApplemanISBN 0393950093 (0-393-95009-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligenceby George DysonISBN 0201406497 (0-201-40649-7)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence'Book summary:Here's a mesmerizing account of the evolution of machines and thoughts about machines, woven into a story about the evolution of intelligence. Darwin Among the Machines is not so much about how today's intelligence came to be, but about how it may further develop as humanity and computer grow closer together. George Dyson tells the story largely through stories--both historical and legendary--from the lives of scientists and philosophers who paved the way for today's cybernetics revolution, starting with the 17th-century insights of Thomas Hobbes. This book challenges the assumption that nature and machine are opposing forces. Dyson believes them to be allies. [via]
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Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthroughby Rebecca StottISBN 0393325717 (0-393-32571-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Pairing Charles Darwin and a rare species of barnacle as her unlikely protagonists, Rebecca Stott has written an absorbing work of history, a book that guides readers through the treacherous shoals of nineteenth-century biology. Beginning her narrative in the 1820s even before Darwin's Beagle voyage, Stott examines the mystery of why Darwin waited over two decades between formulating his pivotal theory of natural selection and publishing it. Lavishly illustrated, filled with riddles and concepts that challenge our notion of Victorian science, Darwin and the Barnacle is a thrilling account of how genius proceeds through indirectionand how one small item of curiosity contributed to one of science's greatest achievements. 32 illustrations. [via]
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Darwin for Beginnersby Jonathan Miller, Borin Van LoonISBN 0375714588 (0-375-71458-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin for Beginners'Book summary:Sociology, Theology, Christian Studies [via]
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Darwin: Texts Commentaryby Charles Darwin, Philip ApplemanISBN 0393958493 (0-393-95849-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin: Texts Commentary'Book summary:"The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.
The impact of Charles Darwins work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This new edition, larger and more varied than the previous ones, includes more of Darwin's own work and also presents the most recent research and scholarship on all aspects of Darwins legacy. The biological sciences, as well as social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature, have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts.
Excerpts from the most important books and articles of recent years confirm this Darwinian heritage. New work by Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Kevin Padian, Eugene C. Scott, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Michael Ruse, Frans de Waal, Noretta Koertge, George C. Williams, George Levine, Stephen Jay Gould, Gillian Beer, Ernst Mayr, and many others illuminates this exciting intellectual history. A wide-ranging new introduction by the editor provides context and coherence to this rich body of engaging material, much of which will be shaping human thought well into the new century.
This edition will be useful to scientists and historians alike: "The Norton Darwin explains Darwinian evolution and illustrates the social and intellectual conflicts of the past two centuries better than any other book that I am aware of." (Charles Taylor, Professor of Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles)
And it will be of great value to the humanities and social sciences as well: "The edition provides the sharpest and most exciting access to Darwin we have ever had. It shows all of us interested in the heart of our intellectual heritage how that heritage is sustained, manipulated, and honored." (James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California)
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The Descent of Womanby Elaine MorganISBN 0285627007 (0-285-62700-7)
Softcover, Souvenir Pr Ltd
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Ecologyby Charles J. KrebsISBN 0321068793 (0-321-06879-3)
Hardcover, Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology'Book summary:This best-selling majors ecology book continues to present ecology as a series of problems for readers to critically analyze. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the book, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concepts in ecology while reinforcing these concepts with research references, examples, and interesting end-of-chapter review questions. Thoroughly updated with new examples and references, the book now features a new full-color design and is accompanied by an art CD-ROM for instructors.
The field package also includes The Ecology Action Guide, a guide that encourages readers to be environmentally responsible citizens, and a subscription to The Ecology Place (www.ecologyplace.com), a web site and CD-ROM that enables users to become virtual field ecologists by performing experiments such as estimating the number of mice on an imaginary island or restoring prairie land in Iowa. For college instructors and students.
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Ecology : The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance, Packageby Charles J. KrebsISBN 0321042891 (0-321-04289-1)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology : The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance, Package'Book summary:This best-selling ecology book continues to present ecology as a series of problems for readers to critically analyze. No other book presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the book, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concepts in ecology while reinforcing these concepts with research references, examples, and interesting end-of-chapter review questions. Thoroughly updated, the book includes new chapters on disease ecology (15) and the human impact on ecosystem health (28). Chapters on conservation biology, community organization, and primary production are extensively revised, and coverage of evolutionary and functional biology is more integrated. Thirty-four new essays provide interesting insights into relevant topics, exploring some of the problems ecologists deal with in their attempt to understand nature. For anyone interested in ecology. [via]
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animalsby Charles Darwin, Philip Prodger, Paul EkmanISBN 0195158067 (0-19-515806-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals'Book summary:"Even cows, when they frisk about from pleasure, throw up their tails in a ridiculous fashion." So writes Charles Darwin in his magnum opus on how humans and animals display such emotions as fear, anger, disdain, and pleasure; it is work that has in most respects been sustained by later scientific research. First published in 1872, Darwin's greatest work was never issued in quite the shape its author intended: bits and pieces were left out of subsequent printings, most of them released after Darwin's death, and later editors made additions to suit the intellectual fashion of their times. This definitive edition, heavily annotated, brings us the book that Darwin would have wanted, and it is essential to any naturalist's library. [via]
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- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: ISBN 0226136566 (0-226-13656-6)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: ISBN 0195112717 (0-19-511271-7)
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Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck?by David M. RaupISBN 0393309274 (0-393-30927-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Field Guide to Germsby Wayne BiddleISBN 0385484267 (0-385-48426-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Field Guide to Germs'Book summary:From the title alone, you know it's going to be good. Biddle delves into anthrax and arboviruses, cholera and chlamydia, diphtheria, dengue, and dysentery, and on through the disease-ridden alphabet to Zika fever. Biddle explains in graphic detail the causes, symptoms and treatments for these germs, and it's all jolly good middle-of-the-night reading. You might become somewhat phobic if you read it from cover to cover, but no one will be more scintillating at parties. [via]
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A Field Guide to Mammals: North America North of Mexicoby Mariner Books Staff, William H. Burt, Richard Philip Grossenheider, Roger Tory PetersonISBN 0395910986 (0-395-91098-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Field Guide to Mammals: North America North of Mexico'Book summary:Descriptions of 380 species include size, weight, color, markings, number of teeth, habitat, habits, and comparisons with similar species. Superb color illustrations and line drawings show 230 animals. Range maps as well as photos of skulls and drawings of animal tracks, dens, nests, and burrows round out the wealth of information given in "the best general guide to all of North America" (Peter Warshall, Whole Earth Review).[via]More editions of A Field Guide to Mammals: North America North of Mexico:
A Field Guide to the Mammals: North America North of Mexicoby William Henry BurtISBN 0395240840 (0-395-24084-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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A General Theory of Loveby Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard LannonISBN 0375709223 (0-375-70922-3)
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The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried To Capture The Code Of Life And Save The Worldby James ShreeveISBN 0345433742 (0-345-43374-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried To Capture The Code Of Life And Save The World'Book summary:The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern sciencethe race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within three years would unravel the complete genetic code of human lifeseven years before the projected finish of the U.S. governments Human Genome Project. Venter hoped that by decoding the genome ahead of schedule, he would speed up the pace of biomedical research and save the lives of thousands of people. He also hoped to become very famous and very rich. Calling his company Celera (from the Latin for speed ), he assembled a small group of scientists in an empty building in Rockville, Maryland, and set to work.
At the same time, the leaders of the government program, under the direction of Francis Collins, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, began to mobilize an unexpectedly unified effort to beat Venter to the prizeknowledge that had the potential to revolutionize medicine and society.
The stage was set for one of the most thrillingand importantdramas in the history of science. The Genome War is the definitive account of that dramathe race for the greatest prize biology has had to offer, told by a writer with exclusive access to Venters operation from start to finish. It is also the story of how one mans ambition created a scientific Camelot where, for a moment, it seemed that the competing interests of pure science and commercial profit might be gloriously reconciledand the national repercussions that resulted when that dream went awry. [via]More editions of The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried To Capture The Code Of Life And Save The World:
How Humans Evolvedby Robert Boyd, Joan B. SilkISBN 0393970760 (0-393-97076-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Human Body: Its Structure and Operationby Isaac Asimov, Anthony RavielliISBN 0451627075 (0-451-62707-5)
Softcover, Mentor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Human Body: Its Structure and Operation'Book summary:The master of science fiction discusses the structure and operation of the human body, from the basic skeleton to the reproductive system, offering up-to-date information in biotechnology, transplant surgery, and more. Reissue. LJ. [via]
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The Human Brainby Isaac AsimovISBN 0452276411 (0-452-27641-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Human Brain: A Guided Tourby Susan GreenfieldISBN 0465007260 (0-465-00726-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functionsby Isaac AsimovISBN 045161867X (0-451-61867-X)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Human Sexual Responseby William H. Masters, Virginia E. JohnsonISBN 0316549878 (0-316-54987-8)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priestby Adrian DesmondISBN 0201959879 (0-201-95987-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest'Book summary:T. H. Huxley (18251895) was Darwins bloody-fanged bulldog. His giant scything intellect shook a prim Victorian society; his Devils gospel of evolution outraged. He put agnostic into the vocabulary and cave men into the public consciousness. Adrian Desmonds fiery biography with its panoramic view of Dickensian life explains how this agent provocateur rose to become the centurys greatest prophet.Synoptic in its sweep and evocative in its details, Desmonds biography reveals the poverty and opium-hazed tragedies of young Tom Huxleys life as well as the accolades and triumphs of his later years. The drug-grinders apprentice knew sots and scandals and breakdowns that signaled a genius close to madness. As surgeons mate on the cockroach-infested frigate Rattlesnake, he descended into hell on the Barrier Reef, but was saved by a golden-haired girl in the penal colony.Huxley pulled himself up to fight Darwins battles in the 1860s, but left Darwin behind on the most inflammatory issues. He devasted angst-ridden Victorian society with his talk of ape ancestors, and tantalized and tormented thousands-from laborers to ladies of society, cardinals to Karl Marxwith his scintillating lectures. Out of his provocations came our image of science warring with theology. And out of them, too, came the Wests new faith-agnosticism (he coined the new word).Champion of modern education, creator of an intellectually dominant profession, and president of the Royal Society, in Desmonds hands Huxley epitomizes the rise of the middle classes as the clawed power from the Anglican elite. His modern godless universe, intriguing and terrifying, millions of years in the making, was explored in his laboratory at South Kensington; his last pupil, H. G. Wells, made it the foundation of twentieth-century science fiction.Touching the crowning achievements and the crushing depths of both the man and his times, this is the epic story of a courageous genius whose life summed up the social changes from the Victorian to the modern age. Written with enormous zest and passion, Huxley is about the making of our modern Darwinian world.[via]More editions of Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest:
In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphroditeby Andrew BrownISBN 0231131461 (0-231-13146-1)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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In the Shadow of Manby Jane GoodallISBN 0395331455 (0-395-33145-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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In the Shadow of Manby Lawick-Goodall, Jane, Barones VanISBN 0395127262 (0-395-12726-2)
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An Introduction to Animal Behaviourby Aubrey ManningISBN 0201044463 (0-201-04446-3)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genomeby Henry GeeISBN 0393050831 (0-393-05083-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome'Book summary:Although sequencing the human genome has brought speculation about all kinds of results--from curing to cloning--another sort of scientific payoff is in the works. In Jacob's Ladder, former UCLA professor Henry Gee shifts focus from the applied science of genomics to the basic research questions that can be addressed with this new information. "To describe the sequencing of the genome as a technical feat," he writes, "is to miss the point." Gee is most excited about the possibilities of understanding what makes us all human, rather than the individual genetic variances that make us individuals. He examines the genome as a motif representing the "pinnacle of human self-knowledge." Further, he claims that the philosophical shadow of Darwin has made us forget that one of the central questions of our being is how all of us are made from nothing, or rather from everything. To redirect thought, he closely describes how genes control the development of every human, both within and before each individual lifetime. While Gee's ideas are large enough to support a book on this by now well-covered subject, general readers will likely be put off by his somewhat dry and academic style. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Jurassic Parkby Michael CrichtonISBN 030734813X (0-307-34813-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jurassic Park'Book summary:Unless your species evolved sometime after 1993 when Jurassic Park hit theaters, you're no doubt familiar with this dinosaur-bites-man disaster tale set on an island theme park gone terribly wrong. But if Speilberg's amped-up CGI creation left you longing for more scientific background and ... well, character development, check out the original Michael Crichton novel. Although not his best book (get ahold of sci-fi classic The Andromeda Strain for that), Jurassic Park fills out the film version's kinetic story line with additional scenes, dialogue, and explanations while still maintaining Crichton's trademark thrills-'n'-chills pacing. As ever, the book really is better than the movie. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Microbe Huntersby P. De KruifISBN 0156027771 (0-15-602777-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Narrow Roads of Gene Land: Evolution of Sexby W. D. HamiltonISBN 0198503369 (0-19-850336-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Natural History of Western Treesby Donald C. Peattie, Paul H. LandacreISBN 0395581753 (0-395-58175-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolutionby Dougal DixonISBN 0449904423 (0-449-90442-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Mothby Judith HooperISBN 0393325253 (0-393-32525-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth'Book summary:Mutant moths and feuding scientiststhe real story behind the most famous experiment in twentieth-century evolutionary biology. H. B. D. Kettlewell was a British doctor who caught butterflies and moths as an all-consuming hobby. He went into the English woods with a missionto catch "evolution in action" among the now-famous peppered moths. His work became "Darwin's missing evidence," a fixture in biology textbooks for half a century. Only recently has new research brought a different story to light. Compellingly told, Of Moths and Men reveals Kettlewell as a deluded scientist who distorted facts and suppressed evidence he didn't like. Tyrannized by his mentor, the powerful E. B. Fordan imperious misogynist and eccentric Oxford don who was a Darwinian zealot determined to crush all enemies in his pathKettlewell ended his life a suicide. A story of hubris and heartbreak, Of Moths and Men reveals as much about the internecine battles of science as it does about the mysteries of evolution. 16 pages of b/w photographs. [via]
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The Origin of Lifeby Aleksandr Ivanovich OparinISBN 0486602133 (0-486-60213-3)
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The Presence of the Pastby Rupert SheldrakeISBN 0394759907 (0-394-75990-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Presence of the Past'Book summary:Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. A world-famous biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behaviour. Rather than being ruled by fixed laws, nature is essentially habitual. All human beings draw upon a collective human memory, and in turn contribute to it. Even individual memory depends on morphic resonance rather than on physical memory traces stored within the brain. Morphic resonance works through morphic fields, which organize the bodies of plants and animals, coordinate the activities of brains, and underlie mental activity. Minds are extended beyond brains both in space and time. This fully-revised and updated edition of The Presence of the Past summarizes the evidence for Dr Sheldrake's controversial theory, reviews new research, and explores its implications for biology, chemistry, physics, psychology and sociology. In place of the mechanistic worldview that has dominated biology since the nineteenth century, this book offers a revolutionary alternative, and opens up a new understanding of life, minds and evolution. [via]
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Principles of Developmentby Jim Smith, Peter Lawrence, Rosa Beddington, Thomas Jessell, Elliot Meyerowitz, L. WolpertISBN 0199249393 (0-19-924939-3)
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Principles of Developmentby L. WolpertISBN 0198792913 (0-19-879291-3)
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Rats, Lice and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deby Hans ZinsserISBN 0316988960 (0-316-98896-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rats, Lice and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, De'Book summary:When Rats, Lice and History appeared in 1935, Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events. Although he had published under a pseudonym, virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format. Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats, Lice, and History, which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership.
To Zinsser, scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease, a field of battle. Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy. His goal in Rats, Lice and History was to bring science, philosophy, and literature together to establish the importance of disease, and especially epidemic infectious disease, as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the "biography" of a disease. In his view, infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive. From a human perspective, an invading pathogen was abnormal; from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal.
This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs. Zinsser begins by pointing out that the louse was the constant companion of human beings. Under certain conditionsto wash or to change clothinglice proliferated. The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings, who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human.
Rats, Lice and History is a tour de force. It combines Zinsser's expertise in biology with his broad knowledge of the humanities
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Rosalind Franklin and DNAby Anne SayreISBN 0393320448 (0-393-32044-8)
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In this classic work Anne Sayre, a journalist and close friend of Franklin, puts the record straight. Photographs [via]More editions of Rosalind Franklin and DNA:
The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Natureby Philip BallISBN 0198502435 (0-19-850243-5)
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Sex, Time, and Power: HOw Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolutionby Leonard ShlainISBN 0142004677 (0-14-200467-7)
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A Short Guide to Writing About Biologyby Jan A. PechenikISBN 0316696420 (0-316-69642-0)
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The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soupby Christopher Wills, Jeffrey BadaISBN 0198662769 (0-19-866276-9)
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Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Speciesby Jeffrey H. SchwartzISBN 0471329851 (0-471-32985-1)
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Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationby Robert T. PennockISBN 0262661659 (0-262-66165-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creation'Book summary:The face of creationism has been through some major plastic surgery in the past decade or so. The leading proponents of "intelligent design theory" have left the ranting flat-earth types behind and found respected positions in the academic world from which to launch attacks on mainstream science. Philosopher of science Robert T. Pennock has explored all sides of the ongoing debate, which remains (despite the protestations of many creationists) more about biblical inerrancy than scientific evidence. His book Tower of Babel examines the new directions antievolutionists have taken lately, but goes beyond a mere recounting of recent history by proposing a new avenue of counterattack: linguistics.
The parallels are striking once we look closely: Genesis proclaims that God created all human languages at one stroke, while modern scientific thought proposes linguistic evolution similar in form to genetics. Best of all for scientists, though, linguistic change is much more rapid than biological change, and we have actually observed what might be called "speciation events" to have occurred historically in languages. While not meant to supplant traditional arguments against creationism, Pennock's ideas certainly supplement them and will be useful to educators and researchers alike. His sense of urgency is compelling; he sees the future of scientific education and freedom at stake and argues strongly for a separation between private beliefs and public knowledge. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviorby David AttenboroughISBN 0316057517 (0-316-05751-7)
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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Centuryby Michio KakuISBN 0385484992 (0-385-48499-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century'Book summary:Take it easy: that's Michio Kaku's motto. Given the extraordinary advances science has thrown up in time for the millennium, the only way you could possibly fit them into a single volume is by a correspondingly massive simplification.
Subtitled How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond, Visions assumes that, by and large, scientists get to do whatever they like, that all technologies are consumer technologies, and that consumers welcome anything and everything science throws at them. Kaku gets away with this frankly dodgy strategy by dint of sheer hard work. He has based his predictions on interviews with more than 150 renowned working scientists; he integrates these interviews with a huge body of original journalistic material; and, above all, he roots that mass of information on an entirely reasonable model of what the purpose of science will be in the third millennium. Up until now, science has expended its efforts on decoding most of the fundamental natural processes--"the dance," as Kaku puts it, of elementary particles deep inside stars and the rhythms of DNA molecules coiling and uncoiling within our bodies. Science's task now, Kaku believes, is to cross-pollinate advances thrown up by the study of matter, biology, and mind--modern science's three main theaters of endeavor. "We are now making the transition from amateur chess players to grand masters," he writes, "from observers to choreographers of nature." Then again, he also believes that "the Internet ... will eventually become a 'Magic Mirror' that appears in fairy tales, able to speak with the wisdom of the human race." Kaku, in short, deserves a good slapping--but he also deserves to be read. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Visions : How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyondby Michio KakuISBN 0385484984 (0-385-48498-4)
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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Centuryby Michio KakuISBN 0198500866 (0-19-850086-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century'Book summary:As the twentieth century draws to a close, the fundamental elements of matter and life - the particles of the atom and the decoding of the nucleus of the cell - have been discovered, and one of the great chapters of scientific discovery has drawn to a close.
In many ways, however, this is but a preface to an even more far-reaching scientific revolution that will take place in the next century, as we make the transition from unravelling the secrets of nature to becoming the masters of nature.
In VISIONS, physicist Michio Kaku looks to this future and guides the reader through the science of the next century. What makes his vision of this future so compelling is that it is based on the pioneering efforts by theoreticians and the groundbreaking research that is going on in the labs right now. Science, for all its breathtaking change, evolves slowly. Dr. Kaku asserts that, using today's knowledge, we can confidently predict the direction of science through the next century.
In the first section of the book, he explores the evolution and development of computers and artificial intelligence. He offers a window on how computer science will evolve after the year 2020, when the principle that has governed the industry's technological process since the 1950's, Moore's Law, reaches its limits. Next, he discusses biogenetics, the second great scientific revolution, and reveals how the completion of the decoding of the genetic structure of DNA will allow us to conquer the devastating genetic diseases that have plagued the human race throughout our history and allow us to alter and reshape our genetic inheritance. The final section of the book takes us yet further into the future, as we see how quantum physicists are perfecting new ways of harnessing the matter and energy of the Universe.
A spellbinding narrative that brings together the cutting-edge research of today's foremost scientists to explore the science of tomorrow, VISIONS is an exhilarating adventure into the future of our planet and ourselves. [via]More editions of Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century:
Why God Won't Go Away : Brain Science and the Biology of Beliefby Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, Vince RauseISBN 0345440331 (0-345-44033-1)
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Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Beliefby Eugene G. D'Aquili, Vince Rause, Andrew NewbergISBN 034544034X (0-345-44034-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief'Book summary:Over the centuries, theories have abounded as to why human beings have a seemingly irrational attraction to God and religious experiences. In Why God Won't Go Away authors Andrew Newberg, MD, Eugene D'Aquili, MD, and Vince Rause offer a startlingly simple, yet scientifically plausible opinion: humans seek God because our brains are biologically programmed to do so.
Researchers Newberg and D'Aquili used high-tech imaging devices to peer into the brains of meditating Buddhists and Franciscan nuns. As the data and brain photographs flowed in, the researchers began to find solid evidence that the mystical experiences of the subjects "were not the result of some fabrication, or simple wishful thinking, but were associated instead with a series of observable neurological events," explains Newberg. "In other words, mystical experience is biologically, observably and scientifically real.... Gradually, we shaped a hypothesis that suggests that spiritual experience, at its very root, is intimately interwoven with human biology." Lay readers should be warned that although the topic is fascinating, the writing is geared toward scientific documentation that defends the authors' hypothesis. For a more palatable discussion, seek out Deepak Chopra's How to Know God, in which he also explores this fascinating evidence of spiritual hard-wiring. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine Watcherby Thomas LewisISBN 0192860631 (0-19-286063-1)
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The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcherby Lewis ThomasISBN 0192177354 (0-19-217735-4)
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