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Activation of Energyby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 0002154617 (0-00-215461-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Activation of Energy'Book summary:An important Christian philosopher contends that if human energy is channeled in the right direction, "upward and outward," spiritual energy as a motor force in the universe will outdistance technological advance. Index. Translated by René Hague. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Activation of Energy:
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Altered Statesby Paddy ChayefskyISBN 0060107278 (0-06-010727-8)
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Angels Fear: Towards An Epistemology Of The Sacredby Mary Catherine BatesonISBN 0025076701 (0-02-507670-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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At War in Nicaragua: The Reagan Doctrine and the Politics of Nostalgiaby E. Bradford BurnsISBN 0060961880 (0-06-096188-0)
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Atlas of Human Evolutionby C. Loring BraceISBN 0030450217 (0-03-045021-7)
Softcover, Harcourt School
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Lifeby Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles MurrayISBN 0029146739 (0-02-914673-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Best American Science Writing 2000by James GleickISBN 0060957360 (0-06-095736-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Science Writing 2000'Book summary:Avid science readers know the value of good judgment. There's just too much out there to go through it all in one lifetime, so we learn to appreciate the recommendations of those we trust. Editors James Gleick and Jesse Cohen took it upon themselves to select 19 eclectic pieces for The Best American Science Writing 2000, resulting in a delicious, engrossing volume with something for nearly every reader. Whether relying on well-known authors like Stephen Jay Gould and Oliver Sacks or surprising us with a selection from humor publication The Onion ("Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience"), they choose works that combine the best of exposition and aesthetic delight. The scope of topics is broad: physician Atul Gawande reports on medical mistakes, Douglas R. Hofstadter ruminates on natural and artificial intelligence, and Deborah Gordon gives an inside look at southwestern American ant life. Though the editors cheerfully admit that they can't define science writing with any precision, they still please the reader with this important and enjoyable volume. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Best American Science Writing 2005by Alan Lightman, Jesse CohenISBN 0060726423 (0-06-072642-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Science Writing 2005'Book summary:Together these twenty-seven articles on a wide range of today's most current topics in science, from Oliver Sacks, James Gleick, Atul Gawande, and Natalie Angier, among others, represent the full spectrum of scientific writing, proving once again that "good science writing is evidently plentiful" (Scientific American).
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Biomimicryby Janine M. BenyusISBN 0060533226 (0-06-053322-6)
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Complexification: Explaining a Paradoxical World Through the Science of Surpriseby John L. CastiISBN 0060925876 (0-06-092587-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religionby David Hume, Henry D. AikenISBN 0028461800 (0-02-846180-0)
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PSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE¿, AP¿ and Advanced Placement¿ are registered trademarks of the Educational Testing Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights reserved. [via]More editions of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:
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Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Sagaby John R. Horner, Edwin DobbISBN 0060174862 (0-06-017486-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga'Book summary:Dinosaurs fascinate and captivate us, yet we really know relatively little about them--and that only from a fragmentary fossil record painstakingly reconstructed by paleontologists. Dinosaur Lives offers a colorful first-person account of one paleontologist as he uncovers fossilized bones, eggs, and more from the wastelands of Montana. John R. Horner and Edwin Dobb explain the process of prospecting for paleontological clues and what the fossil record tells us about dinosaur anatomy and their behavior. Much of the news is surprising: dinosaurs probably weren't reptiles at all but more closely related to birds, and many were social animals that lived in herds. Especially fascinating is trivia such as the fact that the ostensibly fearsome T. Rex was probably a scavenger akin to a vulture. [via]
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The Earth: An Intimate Historyby Richard A. ForteyISBN 0002570114 (0-00-257011-4)
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Earth's Answer: Explorations of Planetary Culture at the Lindisfarne Conferencesby Michael Katz, William P. Marsh, Gail Gordon ThompsonISBN 0060126329 (0-06-012632-9)
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Earthly Joysby Philippa GregoryISBN 0002253178 (0-00-225317-8)
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The Education of Kokoby Francine Patterson, Eugene LindenISBN 0030635519 (0-03-063551-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Essentials of Biologyby Leland G. JohnsonISBN 0030083966 (0-03-008396-6)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Evolutionby Jay Mathers SavageISBN 0030809657 (0-03-080965-7)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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The Evolution of Man and Societyby C.D. DarlingtonISBN 0045750114 (0-04-575011-4)
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Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligenceby Joseph Chilton PearceISBN 006250732X (0-06-250732-X)
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The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Manby David AttenboroughISBN 0002198274 (0-00-219827-4)
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The First Humans: Human Origins and History to 10,000 B.C.by American Museum of Natural History, Goran BurenhultISBN 0062502654 (0-06-250265-4)
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Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyISBN 0020252706 (0-02-025270-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankenstein'Book summary:Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image & but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. [via]
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus With Connectionsby Mary . ShelleyISBN 0030564727 (0-03-056472-7)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates: An Evolutionary Perspectiveby Warren F. WalkerISBN 0030642396 (0-03-064239-6)
Hardcover, Saunders College Pub
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Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903by Herbert SpencerISBN 0029775906 (0-02-977590-6)
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A History of the Mindby Nicholas HumphreyISBN 0060975563 (0-06-097556-3)
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Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Whyby Ellen DissanayakISBN 0029078857 (0-02-907885-7)
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Human Energyby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 0002113201 (0-00-211320-1)
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In the Shadow of Manby Jane GoodallISBN 0002113570 (0-00-211357-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shadow of Man'Book summary:[via]World-renowned primatologist, conservationist, and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodalls account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in the wild might shed light on the behavior of our closest living relatives. Accompanied by only her mother and her African assistants, she set up camp in the remote Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania. For months the project seemed hopeless; out in the forest from dawn until dark, she had but fleeting glimpses of frightened animals. But gradually she won their trust and was able to record previously unknown behavior, such as the useand even the making of tools, until then believed to be an exclusive skill of man. As she came to know the chimps as individuals, she began to understand their complicated social hierarchy and observed many extraordinary behaviors, which have forever changed our understanding of the profound connection between humans and chimpanzees.In the Shadow of Man is one of the Western worlds great scientific achievements (Stephen Jay Gould) and a vivid, essential journey of discovery for each new generation of readers.More editions of In the Shadow of Man:
Inheritance and Natural Historyby R.J. BerryISBN 0002190842 (0-00-219084-2)
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Intelligent Universeby Fred HoyleISBN 0030700833 (0-03-070083-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intelligent Universe'Book summary:Intelligent Universe (Fred Hoyle). This 256-page hardcover was published in 1983 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. [via]
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Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolutionby E. N. K. ClarksonISBN 0045600082 (0-04-560008-2)
Softcover, G. Allen & Unwin
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Invertebrate Zoologyby Edward E. Ruppert, Robert D. BarnesISBN 0030266688 (0-03-026668-8)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invertebrate Zoology'Book summary:Revision of best-selling introduction to the biology of invertebrates through a survey by groups. The author emphasizes adaptive morphology and physiology while covering anatomical ground plans and basic developmental patterns. Rich illustrations, systematic resumes, and extensive citations make it a valuable reference source. [via]
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Invertebrate Zoologyby Joseph G. Engemann, Robert W. HegnerISBN 002333780X (0-02-333780-X)
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Invertebrate Zoology: A Functional Evolutionary Approachby Robert D. Barnes, Richard S. Fox, Richard FoxISBN 0030259827 (0-03-025982-7)
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King Solomon's Ringby Konrad LorenzISBN 0061319767 (0-06-131976-7)
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The Last Continentby Terry PratchettISBN 0061059072 (0-06-105907-2)
Softcover, Harper Prism
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Continent'Book summary:Something is seriously amiss at Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning.
A professor is missing--and not just any professor. The Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography. Also the University Librarian, who transmuted (you know how things change!) into an ape (a handy configuration for a librarian, don't you think?) so long ago that no one exactly remembers his name, least of all himself.
But fear not, the search is on! The Lecturer in Recent Runes and the Chair of Indefinite Studies, as well as the Dean and the Archchancellor, will follow the trail wherever it leads--even to the other side of Discworld, where the Last Continent, Fourecks, is under construction.
Imagine a magical land as bald as a baby's bottom, where there are no trees; where rain is but a myth; where there are precious few animals (and few of them precious). You have just imagined Fourecks (EcksEcksEcksEcks) where even the ordinary is strange (the four legged duck, for example,) as though evolution is being hurried up with the intention of sorting things out as soon as possible.
Experience the terror as the University's bold would-be rescuers encounter the cowardly Wizard Rincewind, a Mad Dwarf armed with a crossbow, Death, Death of Rats, and even a Creator or two.
Feel the passion as the bizarre denizens of the Last Continent learn what happens when rain falls out of the sky and rivers actually fill with water. (It utterly spoils regattas, for one thing.)
Thrill to the promise of next year's regatta, in remote, rustic Didjabringabeeralong. It'll be absolutely gujeroo. [via]
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Laws of the Game: How the Principles of Nature Govern Chanceby Ruthild Winkler, Eigen, Manfred and Winkler, RuthildISBN 0060909714 (0-06-090971-4)
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Liars, Lovers, and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Areby Terrence J. Sejnowski, Steven R. QuartzISBN 0060001496 (0-06-000149-6)
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Looking Glass Universe: The Emerging Science of Wholenessby John Briggs, F. David PeatISBN 0006369294 (0-00-636929-4)
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Talesby Oliver SacksISBN 0060970790 (0-06-097079-0)
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The Map That Changed the Worldby Simon WinchesterISBN 0060501812 (0-06-050181-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Map That Changed the World'Book summary:Once upon a time there lived a man who discovered the secrets of the earth. He traveled far and wide, learning about the world below the surface. After years of toil, he created a great map of the underworld and expected to live happily ever after. But did he? Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) tells the fossil-friendly fairy tale life of William Smith in The Map That Changed the World.
Born to humble parents, Smith was also a child of the Industrial Revolution (the year of his birth, 1769, also saw Josiah Wedgwood open his great factory, Etruria, Richard Arkwright create his first water-powered cotton-spinning frame, and James Watt receive the patent for the first condensing steam engine). While working as surveyor in a coal mine, Smith noticed the abrupt changes in the layers of rock as he was lowered into the depths. He came to understand that the different layers--in part as revealed by the fossils they contained--always appeared in the same order, no matter where they were found. He also realized that geology required a three-dimensional approach. Smith spent the next 20 some years traveling throughout Britain, observing the land, gathering data, and chattering away about his theories to those he met along the way, thus acquiring the nickname "Strata Smith." In 1815 he published his masterpiece: an 8.5- by 6-foot, hand-tinted map revealing "A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales."
Despite this triumph, Smith's road remained more rocky than smooth. Snubbed by the gentlemanly Geological Society, Smith complained that "the theory of geology is in the possession of one class of men, the practice in another." Indeed, some members of the society went further than mere ostracism--they stole Smith's work. These cartographic plagiarists produced their own map, remarkably similar to Smith's, in 1819. Meanwhile the chronically cash-strapped Smith had been forced to sell his prized fossil collection and was eventually consigned to debtor's prison.
In the end, the villains are foiled, our hero restored, and science triumphs. Winchester clearly relishes his happy ending, and his honey-tinged prose ("that most attractively lovable losterlike Paleozoic arthropod known as the trilobite") injects a lot of life into what seems, on the surface, a rather dry tale. Like Smith, however, Winchester delves into the strata beneath the surface and reveals a remarkable world. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geologyby Simon Winchester, Soun VannithoneISBN 0060931809 (0-06-093180-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology'Book summary:Once upon a time there lived a man who discovered the secrets of the earth. He traveled far and wide, learning about the world below the surface. After years of toil, he created a great map of the underworld and expected to live happily ever after. But did he? Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman) tells the fossil-friendly fairy tale life of William Smith in The Map That Changed the World.
Born to humble parents, Smith was also a child of the Industrial Revolution (the year of his birth, 1769, also saw Josiah Wedgwood open his great factory, Etruria, Richard Arkwright create his first water-powered cotton-spinning frame, and James Watt receive the patent for the first condensing steam engine). While working as surveyor in a coal mine, Smith noticed the abrupt changes in the layers of rock as he was lowered into the depths. He came to understand that the different layers--in part as revealed by the fossils they contained--always appeared in the same order, no matter where they were found. He also realized that geology required a three-dimensional approach. Smith spent the next 20 some years traveling throughout Britain, observing the land, gathering data, and chattering away about his theories to those he met along the way, thus acquiring the nickname "Strata Smith." In 1815 he published his masterpiece: an 8.5- by 6-foot, hand-tinted map revealing "A Delineation of the Strata of England and Wales."
Despite this triumph, Smith's road remained more rocky than smooth. Snubbed by the gentlemanly Geological Society, Smith complained that "the theory of geology is in the possession of one class of men, the practice in another." Indeed, some members of the society went further than mere ostracism--they stole Smith's work. These cartographic plagiarists produced their own map, remarkably similar to Smith's, in 1819. Meanwhile the chronically cash-strapped Smith had been forced to sell his prized fossil collection and was eventually consigned to debtor's prison.
In the end, the villains are foiled, our hero restored, and science triumphs. Winchester clearly relishes his happy ending, and his honey-tinged prose ("that most attractively lovable losterlike Paleozoic arthropod known as the trilobite") injects a lot of life into what seems, on the surface, a rather dry tale. Like Smith, however, Winchester delves into the strata beneath the surface and reveals a remarkable world. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas for the Twenty-First Centuryby Howard RheingoldISBN 0062510592 (0-06-251059-2)
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Mind of the Ravenby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0060930632 (0-06-093063-2)
Softcover, Cliff Street Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind of the Raven'Book summary:Beyond croaking, "Nevermore," what exactly do ravens do all day? Bernd Heinrich, biology professor at the University of Vermont and author of Ravens in Winter, has spent more than a decade learning the secrets of these giants of the crow family. He has observed startlingly complex activities among ravens, including strong pair-bonding, use of tools, elaborate vocal communication, and even play. Ravens are just plain smart, and we can see much of ourselves in their behavior. They seem to be affectionate, cranky, joyful, greedy, and competitive, just like us. And in Mind of the Raven, Heinrich makes no bones about attributing emotions and intellect to Corvus corax--just not the kind we humans can understand. He mostly catalogs their behaviors in the manner of a respectful anthropologist, although a few moments of proud papa show through when he describes the pet ravens he hand-raised to adulthood.
Heinrich spends hundreds of loving hours feeding roadkill fragments to endlessly hungry raven chicks, and cold days in blinds watching wild ravens squabble and frolic. He is a passionate fan of his "wolf-birds," a name he gave them when he made the central discovery of the book: that ravens in Yellowstone National Park are dependent on wolves to kill for them. Mind of the Raven offers inspiring insight into both the lives of ravens and the mind of a truly gifted scientist. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-birdsby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0061136050 (0-06-113605-0)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-birds'Book summary:Beyond croaking, "Nevermore," what exactly do ravens do all day? Bernd Heinrich, biology professor at the University of Vermont and author of Ravens in Winter, has spent more than a decade learning the secrets of these giants of the crow family. He has observed startlingly complex activities among ravens, including strong pair-bonding, use of tools, elaborate vocal communication, and even play. Ravens are just plain smart, and we can see much of ourselves in their behavior. They seem to be affectionate, cranky, joyful, greedy, and competitive, just like us. And in Mind of the Raven, Heinrich makes no bones about attributing emotions and intellect to Corvus corax--just not the kind we humans can understand. He mostly catalogs their behaviors in the manner of a respectful anthropologist, although a few moments of proud papa show through when he describes the pet ravens he hand-raised to adulthood.
Heinrich spends hundreds of loving hours feeding roadkill fragments to endlessly hungry raven chicks, and cold days in blinds watching wild ravens squabble and frolic. He is a passionate fan of his "wolf-birds," a name he gave them when he made the central discovery of the book: that ravens in Yellowstone National Park are dependent on wolves to kill for them. Mind of the Raven offers inspiring insight into both the lives of ravens and the mind of a truly gifted scientist. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Permutation Cityby Greg EganISBN 006105481X (0-06-105481-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Permutation City'Book summary:The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.
The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy.
The good news is that there is a way out. By law, every Copy has the option of terminating itself, and waking up to normal flesh-and-blood life again. The bail-out is on the utilities menu. You pull it down...
The bad news is that it doesn't work. Someone has blocked the bail-out option. And you know who did it. You did. The other you. The real you. The one that wants to keep you here forever.
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Popperby Bryan MageeISBN 0006329934 (0-00-632993-4)
Hardcover, Collins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Popper'Book summary:Karl Popper has been hailed as the greatest philosopher of all time and as a thinker whose influence is ackowledged by a variety of scholars. This work demonstrates Popper's importance across the whole range of philosophy and provides an introduction to the main themes of philosophy itself. [via]
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Languageby John McWhorterISBN 006052085X (0-06-052085-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language'Book summary:There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human environment. Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from languages around the world, including pidgins, Creoles, and nonstandard dialects. [via]
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Preyby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060536985 (0-06-053698-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prey'Book summary:In Prey, bestselling author Michael Crichton introduces bad guys that are too small to be seen with the naked eye but no less deadly or intriguing than the runaway dinosaurs that made 1990's Jurassic Park such a blockbuster success.
High-tech whistle-blower Jack Forman used to specialize in programming computers to solve problems by mimicking the behavior of efficient wild animals--swarming bees or hunting hyena packs, for example. Now he's unemployed and is finally starting to enjoy his new role as stay-at-home dad. All would be domestic bliss if it were not for Jack's suspicions that his wife, who's been behaving strangely and working long hours at the top-secret research labs of Xymos Technology, is having an affair. When he's called in to help with her hush-hush project, it seems like the perfect opportunity to see what his wife's been doing, but Jack quickly finds there's a lot more going on in the lab than an illicit affair. Within hours of his arrival at the remote testing center, Jack discovers his wife's firm has created self-replicating nanotechnology--a literal swarm of microscopic machines. Originally meant to serve as a military eye in the sky, the swarm has now escaped into the environment and is seemingly intent on killing the scientists trapped in the facility. The reader realizes early, however, that Jack, his wife, and fellow scientists have more to fear from the hidden dangers within the lab than from the predators without.
The monsters may be smaller in this book, but Crichton's skill for suspense has grown, making Prey a scary read that's hard to set aside, though not without its minor flaws. The science in this novel requires more explanation than did the cloning of dinosaurs, leading to lengthy and sometimes dry academic lessons. And while the coincidence of Xymos's new technology running on the same program Jack created at his previous job keeps the plot moving, it may be more than some readers can swallow. But, thanks in part to a sobering foreword in which Crichton warns of the real dangers of technology that continues to evolve more quickly than common sense, Prey succeeds in gripping readers with a tense and frightening tale of scientific suspense. --Benjamin Reese [via]
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Primate Behavior and the Emergence of Human Cultureby Jane Beckman LancasterISBN 003091311X (0-03-091311-X)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060199660 (0-06-019966-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Summer'Book summary:There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.
The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Ringby Stephen BaxterISBN 0061056944 (0-06-105694-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ring'Book summary:Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time.
It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very string of the cosmos.
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The Search for Eveby Michael H. BrownISBN 0060160551 (0-06-016055-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for Eve'Book summary:Presenting the latest findings and techniques in the search for the beginning of the human family, this book describes the methods which have evolved, from paleoanthropology to DNA analysis, and includes in-depth interviews with scientists who have worked in the field. Michael Brown is a journalist who has been nominated for 3 Pulitzer Prize awards. He has also written "Laying Waste" and "The Toxic Cloud". [via]
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Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Originsby Carl ZimmerISBN 0061196673 (0-06-119667-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins'Book summary:From the savannas of Africa to modern-day labs for biomechanical analysis and molecular genetics, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins reveals how anthropologists are furiously redrawing the human family tree. Their discoveries have spawned a host of new questions: Should chimpanzees be included as a human species? Was it the physical difficulty of human childbirth that encouraged the development of social groups in early human species? Did humans and Neanderthals interbreed? Why did humans supplant Neanderthals in the end? In answering such questions, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins sheds new light on one of the most important questions of all: What makes us human?
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The Sociobiology Debate: Readings on Ethical and Scientific Issuesby Arthur L. CaplanISBN 0060106336 (0-06-010633-6)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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Starseed: The Third Millennium Living in the Posthistoric Worldby Ken CareyISBN 0062501380 (0-06-250138-0)
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The Survival of the Wisestby Jonas SalkISBN 006013738X (0-06-013738-X)
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Teranesiaby Greg EganISBN 0061059803 (0-06-105980-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Teranesia'Book summary:Welcome to Teranesia,
the island of butterflies,
where evolution has
stopped making sense.Prabir Suresh lives in paradise, a nine-year-old boy with an island all his own to name, to explore, and to populate with imaginary monsters stranger than any tropical wildlife. Teranesia is his kingdom, shared only with his biologist parents and baby sister Madhusree. The unexplained genetic mutation of the island's butterflies that brought his family to the remote South Moluccas barely touches Prabir; his own life revolves around the beaches, the jungle, and the schooling and friendships made possible by the net.
When civil war breaks out across Indonesia, this paradise comes to a violent end and his family is broken apart, leaving Prabir with nagging feelings of guilt and an overwhelming, almost irrational, sense of responsibility for his sister. The mystery of the butterflies remains unsolved, but nearly twenty years later reports begin to appear of strange new species of plants and animals appearing throughout the region--species separated from their known cousins by recent, dramatic mutations that seem far too efficient and functional to have arisen by chance from pollution, disease, or any other random catastrophe.
Madhusree is now a biology student; proud of her parents' unacknowledged work, and with no memories of the trauma of the war to discourage her, she decides to join a multinational expedition being mounted to investigate the new phenomenon. Unable to cast off his fears for her safety, Prabir reluctantly follows her. But travel between the scattered islands is difficult, and Madhusree's expedition is out of contact. In the hope of finding her, Prabir joins up with an independent scientist, Martha Grant, who has come to search for clues to the evolutionary mystery and whatever commercial benefits it might bring to her sponsor. As Prabir and Martha begin to untangle the secret of Teranesia, Prabir is forced to confront his past, and to face the painful realities that have shaped his life while also dealing with the implications of an unprecedented biological revolution.
A scientific mystery, an adventure story, and a meditation on the origins of love, Teranesia is Greg Egan's most ambitious and accessible novel yet. [via]
Theory of Population Genetics and Evolutionary Ecology: An Introductionby Jonathan RoughgardenISBN 0024031801 (0-02-403180-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric Worldby Ken CareyISBN 0062514083 (0-06-251408-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric World'Book summary:In this mesmerizing yet concrete manual for life in the next era, Carey provides the tools for perceiving and considering reality more fully--with dynamic implications for our practical daily lives and the communal life of the planet. [via]
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Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Informationby Robert WrightISBN 0060972572 (0-06-097257-2)
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Toward the Futureby Pierre Teilhard De ChardinISBN 0002154684 (0-00-215468-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Toward the Future'Book summary:These essays derive from Teilhard's concern to reveal the true meaning of our age and to stimulate the "sense of man and sense of the Christian." The controversial essay "The Evolution of Chastity" was published here in its entirety for the first time. Foreword by N. M. Wildiers; Index. Translated by René Hague. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Toward the Future:
Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousnessby E. ZaretskyISBN 0060905379 (0-06-090537-9)
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Unfinished Animal: The Aquarian Frontier and the Evolution of Consciousnessby Theodore RoszakISBN 0060670169 (0-06-067016-9)
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Victorian Anthropologyby George StockingISBN 0029315514 (0-02-931551-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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When Science Meets Religionby Ian G. BarbourISBN 006060381X (0-06-060381-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When Science Meets Religion'Book summary:We're closing in on the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species, but clearly not closing in on any resolution of the debates that the book stirred up between science and religion. In this slim volume, physicist and theologian Ian Barbour summarizes his own decades-long accumulation of knowledge in these two arenas. Writing with clarity and a scientist's eye for organization, Barbour takes on the scientific and theological significance of the big questions: the big bang, quantum physics, Darwin and Genesis, human nature (the question of determinism), and the relationship between a free God and a law-bound universe. In each chapter, Barbour recognizes four possible ways of responding to the dilemmas posed by these topics: conflict, represented by Biblical literalists and atheists, both of whom agree that a person cannot believe in both God and evolution; independence, which asserts that "science and religion are strangers who can coexist as long as they keep a safe distance from each other"; dialogue, which invites a conversation between the two fields; and integration, which moves beyond dialogue to explore ways in which the two fields can inform each other. Barbour notes that his own sympathies lie with dialogue and integration.
Barbour won the 1999 Templeton Prize for his role in advancing the study of science and religion. "No contemporary has made a more original, deep, and lasting contribution toward the needed integration of scientific and religious knowledge and values," John Cobb has written of Barbour. This book is perhaps the best entry point into Barbour's work. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revengeby Susan JacobyISBN 0060151978 (0-06-015197-8)
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Wilson's Worldby Edith Thacher Hurd, Clement HurdISBN 0060227508 (0-06-022750-8)
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Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Languageby Steven PinkerISBN 0060958405 (0-06-095840-5)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language'Book summary:Human languages are capable of expressing a literally endless number of different ideas. How do we manage it--so effortlessly that we scarcely ever stop to think about it? In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, a look at the simple concepts that we use to devise works as complex as love sonnets and tax laws, renowned neuroscientist and linguist Steven Pinker shows us how. The latest linguistic research suggests that each of us stores a limited (though large) number of words and word-parts in memory and manipulates them with a much smaller number of rules to produce every writing and utterance, and Pinker explains every step of the way with engaging good humor.
Pinker's enthusiasm for the subject infects the reader, particularly as he emphasizes the relation between how we communicate and how we think. What does it mean that a small child who has never heard the word wug can tell a researcher that when one wug meets another, there are two wugs? Some rule must be telling the child that English plurals end in -s, which also explains mistakes like mouses. Is our communication linked inextricably with our thinking? Pinker says yes, and it's hard to disagree. Words and Rules is an excellent introduction to and overview of current thinking about language, and will greatly reward the careful reader with new ways of thinking about how we think, talk, and write. --Rob Lightner [via]
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