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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0590451790 (0-590-45179-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'Book summary:When a huge, glowing sea monster attacks and wrecks several ships, Professor Arronaz joins a mission, headed by the mysterious Captain Nemo, to explore the ocean depths and suddenly finds himself a prisoner. Reprint. [via]
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Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychologyby Hilary Rose, Steven RoseISBN 0609605135 (0-609-60513-5)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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All About Seedsby Melvin BergerISBN 0590449095 (0-590-44909-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Angels Fear: Towards An Epistemology Of The Sacredby Mary Catherine BatesonISBN 0553345818 (0-553-34581-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Animal Dreamsby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0613032950 (0-613-03295-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Dreams'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland, comes a powerful story of love and courage in an exotc southwestern landscape. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American myths, thisis a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's greatest commitments. [via]
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Animals in Winterby G. GolderISBN 0590013211 (0-590-01321-1)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animals in Winter'Book summary:While watching winters snows blanket the Earth, what child hasnt wondered, What will the rabbits do? Or the birds? This wonderfully simple Lets-Read-and-Find-Out Science book explains the many ways animals have of coping with harsh weather. Helen K. Davies elegant illustrations perfectly evoke the season.
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Arcadiaby Tom StoppardISBN 0571169341 (0-571-16934-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arcadia'Book summary:[via]Arcadia takes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life. Focusing on the mysteriesromantic, scientific, literarythat engage the minds and hearts of characters whose passions and lives intersect across scientific planes and centuries, it is Stoppards richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and . . . emotion. Its like a dream of levitation: youre instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think youre about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow . . . Exhilarating (Vincent Canby, The New York Times). -
Arctic Dreams : Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscapeby Barry LopezISBN 0553346644 (0-553-34664-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arctic Dreams : Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape'Book summary:Based on 15 extended trips to the Canadian far north over a five-year period, Arctic Dreams celebrates the mysteries of what documentarians fondly call "last frontiers." Such places are everywhere in danger of destruction in the interest of ever-elusive economic progress, but Lopez writes no jeremiads. Instead, he aims to foster a kind of learned understanding of wild places, in this case the vast, scarcely knowable northern landscape. Writing of the natural history of the Arctic and its inhabitants--narwhals, polar bears, beluga whales, musk oxen, and caribou among them--Lopez draws powerful lessons from the land and imparts them assuredly and gracefully. Arctic Dreams deservedly won a National Book Award in 1986 when it was first published. [via]
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The Arm of the Starfishby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0606002901 (0-606-00290-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Atlas of Plantsby Gallimard Jeunesse, Sylvaine Perols, Claude D DelafosseISBN 0590581139 (0-590-58113-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Biogeography: A Study of Plants in the Ecosphereby Joy TivyISBN 0582080355 (0-582-08035-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Blastby Ian Korf, Mark Yandell, Joseph BedellISBN 0596002998 (0-596-00299-8)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blast'Book summary:[via]Sequence similarity is a powerful tool for discovering biological function. Just as the ancient Greeks used comparative anatomy to understand the human body and linguists used the Rosetta stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, today we can use comparative sequence analysis to understand genomes. BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool), is a sophisticated software package for rapid searching of nucleotide and protein databases. It is one of the most important software packages used in sequence analysis and bioinformatics. Most users of BLAST, however, seldom move beyond the program's default parameters, and never take advantage of its full power.
BLAST is the only book completely devoted to this popular suite of tools. It offers biologists, computational biology students, and bioinformatics professionals a clear understanding of BLAST as well as the science it supports. This book shows you how to move beyond the default parameters, get specific answers using BLAST, and how to interpret your results. The book also contains tutorial and reference sections covering NCBI-BLAST and WU-BLAST, background material to help you understand the statistics behind BLAST, Perl scripts to help you prepare your data and analyze your results, and a wealth of tips and tricks for configuring BLAST to meet your own research needs. Some of the topics covered include:
- BLAST basics and the NCBI web interface
- How to select appropriate search parameters
- BLAST programs: BLASTN, BLASTP, BLASTX, TBLASTN, TBLASTX, PHI-BLAST, and PSI BLAST
- Detailed BLAST references, including NCBI-BLAST and WU-BLAST
- Understanding biological sequences
- Sequence similarity, homology, scoring matrices, scores, and evolution
- Sequence Alignment
- Calculating BLAST statistics
- Industrial-strength BLAST, including developing applications with Perl and BLAST
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Blood of the Isles: Exploring the Genetic Roots of Our Tribal Historyby Bryan SykesISBN 0593056523 (0-593-05652-3)
Hardcover, Bantam
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Blood, Bones and Body Bitesby Nick Arnold, Tony De SaullesISBN 0590138596 (0-590-13859-6)
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Botany for Gardeners: An Introduction and Guideby Brian CaponISBN 0585338523 (0-585-33852-3)
Softcover, Timber Press
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Brief History of Timeby Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0553380168 (0-553-38016-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brief History of Time'Book summary:Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How and why did it begin? Will it come to an end, and if so, how? Hawking attempts to reveal these questions (and where we're looking for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon. Among the topics gracefully covered are gravity, black holes, the Big Bang, the nature of time, and physicists' search for a grand unifying theory. This is deep science; these concepts are so vast (or so tiny) as to cause vertigo while reading, and one can't help but marvel at Hawking's ability to synthesize this difficult subject for people not used to thinking about things like alternate dimensions. The journey is certainly worth taking, for, as Hawking says, the reward of understanding the universe may be a glimpse of "the mind of God." --Therese Littleton [via]
Brother Oddby Dean R. KoontzISBN 0553804804 (0-553-80480-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Cell Membranes and Ion Transportby J. L. Hall, D.A. BakerISBN 0582441927 (0-582-44192-7)
Hardcover, Longman
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Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousnessby William H. CalvinISBN 0595166954 (0-595-16695-4)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Cladeby Mark BudzISBN 0553586580 (0-553-58658-0)
Softcover, Spectra
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Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Lifeby Eric ChaissonISBN 0595007902 (0-595-00790-2)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Culpeper's Complete Herbalby Nicholas CulpeperISBN 0572002033 (0-572-00203-3)
Hardcover, Foulsham & Co Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culpeper's Complete Herbal'Book summary:For more than 300 years, Culpeper's Complete Herbal has been the standard in the field of herbal remedies. It contains a comprehensive description of nearly all herbs, along with descriptions of their medicinal properties and instructions on preparing and using them to treat many different illnesses. Includes precise botanical illustrations to aid in identification. [via]
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Darwinian Evolutionby Antony FlewISBN 0586084428 (0-586-08442-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Dinosaurs to Dodos: An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animalsby Don Lessem, Jan SovakISBN 0590316842 (0-590-31684-2)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogsby Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonISBN 0609802011 (0-609-80201-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dogs Never Lie About Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs'Book summary:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson was, oddly enough, pet-free when he decided to write about their key role in his life. Not to worry, though. In a trice he acquired a troika of pups (a purebred and two mongrels) and a couple of kittens. (The pussycats, alas, play only cameo roles.) In Dogs Never Lie About Love, Masson finds plenty of new things to say about canines--not that there hasn't been a plenitude of pupper reportage in the '90s. Or at least he easily articulates what some of us might already think: "Dogs feel more than I do (I am not prepared to speak for other people)," Masson asserts. "They feel more, and they feel more purely and more intensely." Often, however, he seems to be writing less about animals than humans: "In searching for why we are so inhibited compared with dogs, perhaps we can learn to be as direct, as honest, as straightforward, and especially as intense in our feelings as dogs are." But this book is not just a cozy mix of navel gazing (bestial and human) and long, leash-filled walks. Masson offers several proofs that dogs do take the high moral road--one police pooch, for instance, refused to acknowledge his handler's attack command. A good thing, too, since Masson himself would have been the victim! In more ways than one, Dogs Never Lie About Love is a Milk-Bone masterpiece.--Kerry Fried [via]
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Fauna Britannica : Natural History - Myths and Legend - Folklore - Tales and Traditionsby Stefan BuczackiISBN 0600598675 (0-600-59867-5)
Hardcover, Octopus Publishing Group
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Flanimalsby Ricky Gervais, Rob SteenISBN 0571220770 (0-571-22077-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Germs! Germs! Germs!by Bobbi Katz, Steve BjorkmanISBN 0590672959 (0-590-67295-9)
Hardcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Scienceby Mark JaffeISBN 0609807056 (0-609-80705-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Glory Seasonby David BrinISBN 0553567675 (0-553-56767-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Glory Season'Book summary:Hugo and Nebula award-winning author David Brin is one of the most eloquent, imaginative voices in science fiction. Now he returns with a new novel rich in texture, universal in theme, monumental in scope--pushing the genre to new heights.
Young Maia is fast approaching a turning point in her life. As a half-caste var, she must leave the clan home of her privileged half sisters and seek her fortune in the world. With her twin sister, Leie, she searches the docks of Port Sanger for an apprenticeship aboard the vessels that sail the trade routes of the Stratoin oceans.
On her far-reaching, perilous journey of discovery, Maia will endure hardship and hunger, imprisonment and loneliness, bloody battles with pirates and separation from her twin. And along the way, she will meet a traveler who has come an unimaginable distance--and who threatens the delicate balance of the Stratoins' carefully maintained, perfect society....
Both exciting and insightful, Glory Season is a major novel, a transcendent saga of the human spirit. [via]More editions of Glory Season:
Going Inside a Tour Around a Single Moment of Consciousnessby John McCroneISBN 0571201016 (0-571-20101-6)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Green Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553572393 (0-553-57239-3)
Softcover, Fanfare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Mars'Book summary:Kim Stanley Robinson has earned a reputation as the master of Mars fiction, writing books that are scientific, sociological and, best yet, fantastic. Green Mars continues the story of humans settling the planet in a process called "terraforming." In Red Mars, the initial work in the trilogy, the first 100 scientists chosen to explore the planet disintegrated in disagreement--in part because of pressures from forces on Earth. Some of the scientists formed a loose network underground. Green Mars, which won the 1994 Hugo Award, follows the development of the underground and the problems endemic to forming a new society. [via]
Green or Bustby James WilkinsonISBN 0563360321 (0-563-36032-1)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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The Hamlyn Guide to Freshwater Fishes of Britain and Europeby Peter S. Maitland, Keith LinsellISBN 0600339866 (0-600-33986-6)
Hardcover, Hamlyn
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The Hamlyn Guide to Shells of the Worldby Arthur Peter Hoblyn OliverISBN 0600343979 (0-600-34397-9)
Hardcover, Hamlyn
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How Do Flies Walk Upside Downby Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, James M. EfflerISBN 0590130897 (0-590-13089-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The Human Body: A First Discovery Bookby Sylvaine Perols, Gallimard JeunesseISBN 0590738763 (0-590-73876-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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Human Instinct: How Our Primeval Impulses Shape Our Modern Livesby Robert WinstonISBN 0553814923 (0-553-81492-3)
Softcover, Bantam Pr Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Human Instinct: How Our Primeval Impulses Shape Our Modern Lives'Book summary:From the ambition to be successful in our careers to what we will have for lunch each day, instinct is the invisible motivating force that shapes our world. But how well do these instincts, our most basic modes of interacting with the world, equip us for modern life? We are driven to pursue material wealth and status. We have an innate impulse to find a mate, to fight to protect our young, and to find food and shelter. In Human Instinct, which accompanies a BBC1 television series, Robert Winston takes us to the forefront of modern science, exploring our instincts and gaining a deeper insight into the wonderful complexity of human nature.[via]More editions of Human Instinct: How Our Primeval Impulses Shape Our Modern Lives:
The Human Story: A New History of Mankind's Evolutionby R. I. M. DunbarISBN 0571191339 (0-571-19133-9)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Imagoby Octavia E. ButlerISBN 0575042397 (0-575-04239-7)
Softcover, Victor Gollancz
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In Search of the Double Helixby John GribbinISBN 0553344323 (0-553-34432-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Inside the Brain: An Enthralling Account of the Structure and Workings of the Human Brainby William CalvinISBN 0595160476 (0-595-16047-6)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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The Intelligence of Dogs : A Guide to the Thoughts, Emoitons, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companionsby Stanley CorenISBN 0553374524 (0-553-37452-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Intelligence of Dogs : A Guide to the Thoughts, Emoitons, and Inner Lives of Our Canine Companions'Book summary:How well to dogs understand language? Why can't Rover read? Can you teach on old dog new tricks? How smart is your dog? Psychologist Stanley Coren answers these questions and more in this enlightening resource for dog owners, potential dog owners, and anyone who loves a good dog story. In the best-selling tradition of The Hidden Life Of Dogs and featured in national media from USA Today and Newsweek to "Charlie Rose" and "Dateline NBC," The Intelligence Of Dogs is an absorbing read that combines heroic stories of dogs with the latest scientific and psychological information and sections on how to: Choose a family dog. Read your dog's body language. Test your dog's smarts. Understand the sophisticated language of the bark. Tailor a training program for best results. And so much more. [via]
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Introduction to Bioinformaticsby Teresa Attwood, David Parry-SmithISBN 0582327881 (0-582-32788-1)
Softcover, Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co
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Just Like a Woman: How Gender Science Is Redefining What Makes Us Femaleby Dianne R. HalesISBN 055337818X (0-553-37818-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Life in the Rainforestsby Lucy BakerISBN 0590461311 (0-590-46131-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pantsby Bruce Degen, Joanna ColeISBN 059040024X (0-590-40024-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus Gets Cold Feetby Tracey West, Bruce DegenISBN 0590397249 (0-590-39724-9)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus Gets Eaten: A Book About Food Chainsby Bruce Degen, Joanna Cole, Patricia Relf, Scholastic Productions, Carolyn BrackenISBN 0590484141 (0-590-48414-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus Goes Upstreamby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590922327 (0-590-92232-7)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus Going Batty: A Book About Batsby Joanna Cole, Nancy E. Krulik, Scholastic Productions, Bruce Degen, Bob OstromISBN 0590738720 (0-590-73872-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus Hops Home : A Book about Animal Habitatsby Joanna Cole, Patricia Relf, Nancy StevensonISBN 0590484133 (0-590-48413-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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The Magic School Bus in a Pickleby Nancy E. Krulik, Bruce DegenISBN 0590393774 (0-590-39377-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus in the Arctic: A Book About Heatby Joanna Cole, Anne Schreiber, Scholastic Productions, Bruce Degen, Art RuizISBN 0590187244 (0-590-18724-4)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floorby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590414313 (0-590-41431-3)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Magic School Bus Plants Seedsby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590222961 (0-590-22296-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Make Vol. 7 : Technology on Your Timeby Mark FrauenfelderISBN 0596527187 (0-596-52718-7)
Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Make Vol. 7 : Technology on Your Time'Book summary:[via]If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our project-based quarterly for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer.
MAKE Volume 07 is the Backyard Biology issue, with DNA extraction, plant grafting, home mycology lab, snail cryogenics, and more. Also, learn how to make your own Stirling engine, install a video camera on a model rocket, make a head-mounted water cannon, and dozens of other projects to satiate your inner maker.More editions of Make Vol. 7 : Technology on Your Time:
Mastering Perl for Bioinformaticsby James D. Tisdall, Lincoln D. SteinISBN 0596003072 (0-596-00307-2)
Softcover, O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
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Mendel's Dwarfby Simon MawerISBN 0609601067 (0-609-60106-7)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Patternby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0553346830 (0-553-34683-0)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Mind Hacksby Tom Stafford, Matt Webb, Steven JohnsonISBN 0596007795 (0-596-00779-5)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind Hacks'Book summary:[via]The brain is a fearsomely complex information-processing environment--one that often eludes our ability to understand it. At any given time, the brain is collecting, filtering, and analyzing information and, in response, performing countless intricate processes, some of which are automatic, some voluntary, some conscious, and some unconscious.
Cognitive neuroscience is one of the ways we have to understand the workings of our minds. It's the study of the brain biology behind our mental functions: a collection of methods--like brain scanning and computational modeling--combined with a way of looking at psychological phenomena and discovering where, why, and how the brain makes them happen.
Want to know more? Mind Hacks is a collection of probes into the moment-by-moment works of the brain. Using cognitive neuroscience, these experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception, and more throw light on how the human brain works. Each hack examines specific operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, we pick up clues about the architecture and design of the brain, learning a little bit more about how the brain is put together.
Mind Hacks begins your exploration of the mind with a look inside the brain itself, using hacks such as "Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Turn On and Off Bits of the Brain" and "Tour the Cortex and the Four Lobes." Also among the 100 hacks in this book, you'll find:
- Release Eye Fixations for Faster Reactions
- See Movement When All is Still
- Feel the Presence and Loss of Attention
- Detect Sounds on the Margins of Certainty
- Mold Your Body Schema
- Test Your Handedness
- See a Person in Moving Lights
- Make Events Understandable as Cause-and-Effect
- Boost Memory by Using Context
- Understand Detail and the Limits of Attention
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Mind Performance Hacksby Ron Hale-EvansISBN 0596101538 (0-596-10153-8)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind Performance Hacks'Book summary:[via]You're smart. This book can make you smarter.
Mind Performance Hacks provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively.
Grounded in current research and theory, but offering practical solutions you can apply immediately, Mind Performance Hacks is filled with life hacks that teach you to:
- Use mnemonic tricks to remember numbers, names, dates, and other flotsam you need to recall
- Put down your calculator and perform complex math in your head, with your fingers, or on the back of a napkin
- Spark your creativity with innovative brainstorming methods
- Use effective systems to capture new ideas before they get away
- Communicate in creative new ways-even using artificial languages
- Make better decisions by foreseeing problems and finding surprising solutions
- Improve your mental fitness with cool tricks and games
While the hugely successful Mind Hacks showed you how your brain works, Mind Performance Hacks shows you how to make it work better.
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The Mind's Iby Hofstadter, Douglas R. & Dennett, Daniel C., Daniel C. DennettISBN 0553345842 (0-553-34584-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind's I'Book summary:Ever wondered who you are? Who you really are? This collection of writings and reflections by some of today's most notable thinkers is designed to enliven this most central, and most baffling, question in the philosophy of mind. In some ways, the questions posed and bantered about in this book are at the heart of all philosophical reasoning. They are the ultimate questions about the self. The Mind's I contains an astonishing variety of approaches to answering the question, "Who am I?" Between the covers of this book one encounters the literary erudition of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges alongside the analytic rigor of John Searle. There are sophisticated metaphorical pieces (such as "The Princess Ineffabelle" by Polish philosopher and writer Stanislaw Lem), intriguing dialogues (like Raymond Smullyan's "Is God a Taoist?"), and serious but engaging philosophical essays from a host of thinkers (see Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?").
Editors Hofstadter and Dennett--leading lights in the study of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind--follow each selection with a short reflection designed to elaborate on their main themes. The Mind's I admirably broadens their fields to a more general audience. The book's essays are grouped into six categories, each successively raising the philosophical stakes by introducing new levels of complexity. Ultimately, one confronts some of the thorniest questions in modern philosophy here, such as the nature of free will, our place in the metaphysical world, and the possibility of genuine artificial intelligence. The book closes with a playful and perplexing piece by Robert Nozick, an adequate summation to The Mind's I. He writes, "Perhaps God has not decided yet whether he has created, in this world, a fictional world or a real one.... Which decision do you hope for?" --Eric de Place [via]
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Minding the Body, Mending the Mindby Joan BorysenkoISBN 0553345567 (0-553-34556-7)
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The New Killer Diseases : How the Alarming Evolution of Mutant Germs Threatens Us Allby Elinor Levy, Mark FischettiISBN 0609609947 (0-609-60994-7)
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No Dodosby Amanda WallworkISBN 0590467697 (0-590-46769-7)
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Not of Woman Bornby Constance AshISBN 0606166718 (0-606-16671-8)
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Omnivoreby Piers AnthonyISBN 0571088481 (0-571-08848-1)
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Our Wildlife in Perilby Dorothy Dunphy, Total Environment Centre (Sydney, N.S.W.)ISBN 058950374X (0-589-50374-X)
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Pleistocene Geology and Biology, with Especial Reference to the British Islesby R.G. WestISBN 0582446201 (0-582-44620-1)
Hardcover, Longman
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western Worldby Larry ZuckermanISBN 0571199518 (0-571-19951-8)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World'Book summary:During the 17th and 18th centuries, the potato was berated, feared, and loathed. It was blamed for everything from population explosions to population implosions, not to mention social upheaval and financial despair. Yet now, with the luxury of hindsight, Larry Zuckerman regards the potato as a saving grace for Western civilization, a crop that protected populations from starvation, encouraged self-sufficiency, and improved the lives of ordinary people. The potato's roller-coaster journey from dreary boiled peasant food into the most widely consumed vegetable on the planet is chronicled in this refreshing history lesson. The Potato goes way beyond the usual scope of spud history, which commonly focuses on the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Although this disaster is a key event in the book, the potato's broader influence in the Western world was far more complex--changing the shape of agrarian societies, triggering world emigration, and even influencing social-welfare reforms. Snippets from journals, newspaper editorials, and government documents make this a convincing and fascinating glimpse of four centuries' worth of a vegetable to which we normally wouldn't give a second thought. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Private Lessonsby Barbara BoswellISBN 0553443119 (0-553-44311-9)
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The Rebirth of Natureby Rupert SheldrakeISBN 0553351575 (0-553-35157-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Receptorsby Richard M. RestakISBN 0553374419 (0-553-37441-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Receptors'Book summary:What if there were a pill that could change you from an introvert to the exuberant extrovert you always wanted to be? A capsule to make you more assertive, creative, or intelligent? What is you could "design" your own brain? Who would you be? Only a few years ago such possibilities seemed the stuff of science fiction, but in today's laboratory remarkable new advances in brain research are making such transformations a reality. In Receptors, famed neuropsychiatrist Richard Restek leads us on an exhilarating--and sometimes disquieting--scientific adventure into this bold new frontier. He shows us how break-through discoveries are enabling neuroscientists to decode the mysteries of the human brain, holding out the exciting possibility of relieving, and ultimately even curing, conditions such as memory loss, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson's, and even Alzheimer's disease. He documents the likelihood that in the very near future, it will be possible to alter our own brains, to choose the personality we want. How we cope with such godlike power is one of the fascinating questions he poses in this challenging and thought-provoking book. From the levitating ointments of medieval "witches" to the magic mushrooms of southern Mexico, from the LSD of the psychedelic age to the latest discoveries of today's psychopharmacologists, Dr. Restak provides a vivid and lucid account of humanity's unceasing effort to understand and harness the powers of the mind--and the possibility that solutions to some of the brain's deepest mysteries may be close at hand. [via]
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Red Marsby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553560735 (0-553-56073-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Mars'Book summary:Red Mars opens with a tragic murder, an event that becomes the focal point for the surviving characters and the turning point in a long intrigue that pits idealistic Mars colonists against a desperately overpopulated Earth, radical political groups of all stripes against each other, and the interests of transnational corporations against the dreams of the pioneers.
This is a vast book: a chronicle of the exploration of Mars with some of the most engaging, vivid, and human characters in recent science fiction. Robinson fantasizes brilliantly about the science of terraforming a hostile world, analyzes the socio-economic forces that propel and attempt to control real interplanetary colonization, and imagines the diverse reactions that humanity would have to the dead, red planet.
Red Mars is so magnificent a story, you will want to move on to Blue Mars and Green Mars. But this first, most beautiful book is definitely the best of the three. Readers new to Robinson may want to follow up with some other books that take place in the colonized solar system of the future: either his earlier (less polished but more carefree) The Memory of Whiteness and Icehenge, or 1998's Antarctica. --L. Blunt Jackson [via]
Relicby Douglas PrestonISBN 0606117865 (0-606-11786-5)
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The Secret Family: 24 Hours Inside the Mysterious World of Our Minds and Bodiesby Not AvailableISBN 0606196374 (0-606-19637-4)
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Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Tools and Databasesby Scott Markel, Darryl LeonISBN 059600494X (0-596-00494-X)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Soil Micro-Organismsby Timothy R. G. GrayISBN 0582441609 (0-582-44160-9)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doomby Walter AlvarezISBN 0606293043 (0-606-29304-3)
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Level 1, Penguin Readersby Jules VerneISBN 0582854946 (0-582-85494-6)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Level 1, Penguin Readers'Book summary:A huge and dangerous sea monster is terrifying sailors. But Aronnax and his friends discover that the 'monster' is really the Nautilus, a submarine with a mysterious captain. Captain Nemo takes the three men on a miraculous journey beneath the oceans of the world - but there is no escape from the submarine. [via]
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Unraveling Animal Behaviourby Marian Stamp DawkinsISBN 0582218756 (0-582-21875-6)
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The Velvet Claw: A Natural History of the Carnivoresby David MacDonaldISBN 0563208449 (0-563-20844-9)
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Veniss Undergroundby Jeff VandermeerISBN 0553383566 (0-553-38356-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Veniss Underground'Book summary:In his debut novel, literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer takes us on an unforgettable journey, a triumph of the imagination that reveals the magical and mysterious city of Veniss through three intertwined voices. First, Nicholas, a would-be Living Artist, seeks to escape his demons in the shadowy undergroundbut in doing so makes a deal with the devil himself. In her fevered search for him, his twin sister, Nicola, spins her own unusual and hypnotic tale as she discovers the hidden secrets of the city. And finally, haunted by Nicolas sudden, mysterious disappearance and gripped by despair, Shadrach, Nicolas lover, embarks on a mythic journey to the nightmarish levels deep beneath the surface of the city to bring his love back to light. There he will find wonders beyond imagining&and horrors greater than the heart can bear.
By turns beautiful, horrifying, delicate, and powerful, Veniss Underground explores the limits of love, memory, and obsession in a landscape that defies the boundaries of the imagination. This special edition includes the short stories The Sea, Mendeho, and Moonlight ; Detectives and Cadavers ; and A Heart for Lucretia and the novella Balzacs War, offering a complete tour of the fantastic world of Veniss. [via]More editions of Veniss Underground:
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The Very Hungry Caterpillarby Eric CarleISBN 0590733257 (0-590-73325-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'Book summary:Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week.
This board book edition of what is surely a classic picture book is glossy, sturdy and ideal for curious little hands to get to grips with. (Ages 9 months to 2 years)--Susan Harrison [via]
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Voyages of Discovery : Three Centuries of Natural History Explorationby Anthony RiceISBN 0609605364 (0-609-60536-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voyages of Discovery : Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration'Book summary:Voyages is a mesmerizing visual record of some of the most significant, and beautiful, discoveries in the history of natural science exploration. Superb artwork and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories of the explorers, naturalists, artists, and photographers behind these images entwine in a fascinating study of human achievement and natural wonder. Handpicked from the vast archives of the Natural History Museum in London, the illustrations and artworks contained in Voyages form a rare and beautiful collection, most of which has never been in the public eye.
Highlights include Sir Hans Sloane's 1687 voyage to Jamaica, where he collected and recorded plant specimens, cocoa among them, which are preserved to this day; Maria Sybilla Merian's personal sojourn to Surinam in 1699 to record in brilliant detail butterflies and exotic insects; Darwin's fateful trip to the Galápagos Islands, on which he cataloged finches and fossils; William Bartrams's fanciful yet detailed documentation of North American wildlife; and Matthew Flinder's mapping of Australia, where he was accompanied by perhaps the greatest of all natural science artists, Ferdinand Bauer.
Surveying one millennium of discovery and exploration, Voyages inspires and awes with its beauty and history, and carries us forward into the exhilarating possibilities of the next.
The Natural History Museum in London is a repository for some of the most exciting and comprehensive collections of natural science specimens, illustrations, and artworks to be found anywhere in the world. It holds 68 million specimens, some of which are several centuries old; close to half a million works of art on paper, comprising one of Britain's largest art collections and representing all the great natural history artists; and one million books, including rare, richly illustrated antique volumes. Together they constitute an unrivaled resource, consulted daily by scientists and historians worldwide. [via]More editions of Voyages of Discovery : Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration:
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0590101129 (0-590-10112-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The White Plagueby Frank HerbertISBN 0575032405 (0-575-03240-5)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The White Plague'Book summary:[via]What if women were an endangered species?
It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening pace and life on Earth faces extinction, panicked people and governments struggle to cope with the global crisis. Infected areas are quarantined or burned to the ground. The few surviving women are locked away in hidden reserves, while frantic doctors and scientists race to find a cure. Anarchy and violence consume the planet.
The plague is the work of a solitary individual who calls himself the Madman. As government security forces feverishly hunt for the renegade scientist, he wanders incognito through a world that will never be the same. Society, religion, and morality are all irrevocably transformed by the White Plague.More editions of The White Plague:
The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Everywomanby Peter Redgrove, Penelope ShuttleISBN 0586085351 (0-586-08535-1)
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El Autobus Magico Planta Una Semillaby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 059022851X (0-590-22851-X)
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