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About This Life : Journeys on the Threshold of Memoryby Barry LopezISBN 0679434542 (0-679-43454-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Age of Birdsby J. Alan FeducciaISBN 0674009754 (0-674-00975-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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American Medical Association Family Medical Guideby Charles B. Clayman, American Medical Association StaffISBN 0679412905 (0-679-41290-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Medical Association Family Medical Guide'Book summary:When it was first published in 1982, The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide set a new standard for depth, authority, and accessibility. The completely updated and expanded third edition of this landmark guide brings this bestselling medical home reference into the nineties. It is simply the most useful, comprehensive home health reference ever published, brought to you by the nation's most respected medical authority.
This lavishly illustrated volume, prepared by a a team of over forty distinguished medical authorities under the direction of the American Medical Association, incorporates the most significant trend in health care: wellness and preventive medicine. It covers the sweeping revolution in technology and puts more emphasis on the reader as a health-care consumer. It also updates the information on the most prominent health issues of the nineties, including Alzheimer's disease, AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome, stress, death and dying, drug abuse, and more.
The book is divided into four sections for easy reference. Part I, "Your Healthy body," contains specific tips you can use for preventive self-care and encourages you to adopt a more healthy lifestyle, with advice on diet, exercise, losing weight, reducing stress, and stopping smoking. A full-color atlas of the human body shows you the location and name of almost every organ, nerve, bone, and muscle.
Part II, "Symptoms and Self-Diagnosis," provides the clearest, most reliable aid for recognizing medical problems ever published for the layperson. Over 165 pages of unique diagnostic symptom charts with clear questions and yes/no answers will help you track down what a particular symptom may signify and advise you whether it is something you may safely treat yourself, a condition requiring a doctor's visit, or an emergency requiring immediate medical attention.
Consistently voted the book's most popular feature by readers' polls, these charts alone can save you time and money by sparing you needless visits to the doctor. Full-color photographs, used in conjunction with the charts, will help you identify various conditions and decide when to seek medical advice. An all-new diagnostic imaging section introduces full-color images of ultrasound, Doppler, MRI, CT scans, and other technologies that are becoming commonplace in doctors' offices and hospitals.
Part III, "Diseases, Disorders, and Other Problems," provides detailed, accessible, expertly illustrated articles on more than 650 medical problems. Separate sections address the special problems of men, women, couples, infants and children, adolescents, and older people, including a comprehensive section on pregnancy and childbirth.
Part IV of the guide, "Caring for the Sick," covers all the basics of professional medical care, home nursing, and caregiving. You'll learn how to choose a personal physician, how to get the most out of your hospital's services, what your rights as a patient are, and how to cope with a sick child or older person or someone with a terminal illness. You'll also find a glossary of over 300 medical terms and a color-coded section on first aid that includes the most up-to-date CPR positions and other lifesaving information.
The American Medical Association is committed to the principle that, as patients and health consumers, we need to do all we can to work more effectively with our physicians and health care teams. This third edition of the Family Medical Guide -- easy to understand, superbly designed, beautifully illustrated, and brimming with up-to-date information -- will help you and your family stay healthy and help you create an effective partnership with your doctor when you need it. It belongs on every family's reference shelf. [via]More editions of American Medical Association Family Medical Guide:
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The Anatomy of Disgustby William I. MillerISBN 0674031547 (0-674-03154-7)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anatomy of Disgust'Book summary:The title of William Ian Miller's book is a play on Robert Burton's 17th-century classic The Anatomy of Melancholy, an examination of human emotion. In his modern Anatomy, Miller narrows the focus to the function of disgust in human life. Disgust, Miller posits, is a kind of protection; just as fear causes us to flee danger or loyalty prompts us to support one another, disgust draws boundaries and insulates the individual from outside incursions--anything from the unhygienic hair in our soup to the frightening explosion of homelessness in our cities. Among his theories is one that democracy depends on the even distribution of disgust across class lines.
Mr. Miller is not afraid to explore the darker side of disgust as well--the fact that we may feel it in conjunction with contempt toward people, objects, or concepts that do not warrant it. Nevertheless, disgust serves an important role in humanity's complex emotional and social makeup, and The Anatomy of Disgust is novel in its approach to uncovering just what that role might be. [via]
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The Anatomy of Disgustby William Ian MillerISBN 0674031555 (0-674-03155-5)
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Angels & Insectsby A. S. ByattISBN 0676503187 (0-676-50318-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Insects'Book summary:In these breathtaking novellas, A.S. Byatt returns to the territory she explored in Possession: the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. Angels and Insects is "delicate and confidently ironic.... Byatt perfectly blends laughter and sympathy [with] extraordinary sensuality" (San Francisco Examiner).
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The Animal in Its World, Explorations of an Ethologist 1932-1972: Field Studiesby Nikolaas TinbergenISBN 0674037243 (0-674-03724-3)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biologyby J. S. Medawar, P.B. MedawarISBN 0674045378 (0-674-04537-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Astronomyby E.G. EbbighausenISBN 0675204135 (0-675-20413-5)
Softcover, Sra
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Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicistsby Sharon TraweekISBN 0674063481 (0-674-06348-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Between Earth and Sky: How CFCs Changed Our World and Threatened the Ozone Layerby Seth Cagin, Philip DrayISBN 0679420525 (0-679-42052-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Biology of Spidersby Rainer F. FoelixISBN 0674074327 (0-674-07432-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Biology: The Network of Lifeby Keith I. King, Paul Farber, Michael C. MixISBN 0673398692 (0-673-39869-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Bomb: A Lifeby Gerard J. De GrootISBN 0674022351 (0-674-02235-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Bones: Discovering the First Americansby Elaine DewarISBN 0679310657 (0-679-31065-7)
Hardcover, Random House Canada
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Bumblebee Economicsby Bernard HeinrichISBN 0674016394 (0-674-01639-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Can You Trust a Tomato in January?: The Hidden Life of Groceries and Other Secrets of the Supermarket Revealed at Lastby Vince StatenISBN 0671885782 (0-671-88578-2)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Century of the Geneby Evelyn Fox Keller, L. L. WinshipISBN 0674008251 (0-674-00825-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistryby Karen C. TimberlakeISBN 0673990540 (0-673-99054-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins College Div
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918by Stephen KernISBN 067402169X (0-674-02169-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Scienceby J. L. HeilbronISBN 0674004396 (0-674-00439-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Discovery of Global Warmingby Spencer R. WeartISBN 0674016378 (0-674-01637-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Allen MandelbaumISBN 0679433139 (0-679-43313-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity.
Mandelbaums astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.
This Everymans editioncontaining in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisoincludes an introduction by Nobel Prizewinning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis StevensonISBN 0679405380 (0-679-40538-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'Book summary:The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self.
This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens.
This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster [via]
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Earth, Moon, and Planetsby Fred Lawrence WhippleISBN 0674224000 (0-674-22400-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Einstein: A Centenary Volumeby A.P. French, Albert EinsteinISBN 0674242300 (0-674-24230-0)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matterby Roger G. NewtonISBN 0674018486 (0-674-01848-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slavesby Ira BerlinISBN 0674016246 (0-674-01624-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animalsby F. B. M. De WaalISBN 0674356616 (0-674-35661-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopyby Mark W. MoffettISBN 0674390393 (0-674-39039-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Humankind Emergingby James D. Loy, Bernard G. Campbell, Bernard Grant Campbell, James LoyISBN 0673523640 (0-673-52364-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden Worldby Erich Hoyt, Ted SchultzISBN 0674009525 (0-674-00952-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World'Book summary:Insects inhabit an often unexamined microcosmos, pursuing lives that are often strange beyond our wildest imaginings. From the dawn of humanity, our six-legged fellow Earthlings have repelled and enthralled us. Humans have exterminated, eaten, domesticated, and even excommunicated insects. We collect them, we curse them, and we have penned a surprising body of literature about them.
Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World offers an entertaining and informative survey of the human fascination, dreadful and otherwise, with insects diabolical and divine, from accounts in the Bible and Aristotle to the writings of Charles Darwin and the great nineteenth-century naturalists sending home accounts from the rain forest. Highlighted here are observations from E. O. Wilson, Jean-Henri Fabré, David Quammen, May Berenbaum, Roger Swain, William Wordsworth, A. S. Byatt, Gary Larson and more than sixty other writers who tell of the mystery and romance of that other, hidden world beneath our feet and beyond our rolled-up newspapers. [via]
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The Insect Societiesby Edward Osborne WilsonISBN 0674454952 (0-674-45495-2)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disasterby Jon KrakauerISBN 0676584020 (0-676-58402-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Zby David SacksISBN 0676974872 (0-676-97487-2)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf Canada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z'Book summary:Subtitled "Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z," Language Visible is an intriguing and accessible study of the "particles" that come together to form language. The pictographic sources of the alphabet are a fascinating story, and Sacks delves into the history and archeology of that tale with a level of erudition that does not exclude the average intelligent reader. Sacks claims, quite justifiably, that the invention of the alphabet "judged on longevity and extent of modern daily use&compares with the wheel." In a long introductory chapter, the author discusses recent discoveries of the earliest alphabetic letters (1800 B.C.) in Egypt at the Wadi El Hol site. Scholars believe that the alphabet was invented there by humble soldiers "who were being excluded from the mysteries of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing." The remainder of the book is taken up with a chapter for each letter, discussing details of how the letter is used today and depicting the historical evolution of the letter shapes (A started out as an ox-head, S as an archer's bow). Numerous sidebars are included, exploring such subjects as the alphabet in the Middle Ages and the history of letters in type. While the historical material is well researched and always of interest, many of the details on the letters themselves are too obvious to justify their inclusion (A represents success in school, F shows failure). Altogether, however, the story of how all the words in all the books are made up of a combination of 26 letters is intellectually stimulating as well as entertaining. --Mark Frutkin [via]
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The Light at the Edge of the Universe: Leading Cosmologists on the Brink of a Scientific Revolutionby Michael D. LemonickISBN 0679413049 (0-679-41304-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freudby Thomas LaqueurISBN 0674543491 (0-674-54349-1)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freudby Thomas Walter LaqueurISBN 0674543556 (0-674-54355-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Laqueur begins with the question of why, in the late eighteenth century, woman's orgasm came to be regarded as irrelevant to conception, and he then proceeds to retrace the dramatic changes in Western views of sexual characteristics over two millennia. Along the way, two "masterplots" emerge. In the one-sex story, woman is an imperfect version of man, and her anatomy and physiology are construed accordingly: the vagina is seen as an interior penis, the womb as a scrotum, the ovaries as testicles. The body is thus a representation, not the foundation, of social gender. The second plot tends to dominate post-Enlightenment thinking while the one-sex model is firmly rooted in classical learning. The two-sex story says that the body determines gender differences, that woman is the opposite of man with incommensurably different organs, functions, and feelings. The two plots overlap; neither ever holds a monopoly. Science may establish many new facts, but even so, Laqueur argues, science was only providing a new way of speaking, a rhetoric and not a key to female liberation or to social progress. Making Sex ends with Freud, who denied the neurological evidence to insist that, as a girl becomes a woman, the locus of her sexual pleasure shifts from the clitoris to the vagina; she becomes what culture demands despite, not because of, the body. Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice.
This is a powerful story, written with verve and a keen sense of telling detail (be it technically rigorous or scabrously fanciful). Making Sex will stimulate thought, whether argument or surprised agreement, in a wide range of readers.
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Making Silent Stones Speak: Human Evolution and the Dawn of Technologyby Kathy D. Schick, Nicholas TothISBN 0671875388 (0-671-87538-8)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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The Man Who Ate Everything : And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuitsby Jeffrey SteingartenISBN 0679430881 (0-679-43088-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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It's clear that Vogue gave Steingarten carte blanche to write on whatever subjects tickled his taste buds, and the result is a frequently hilarious collection of essays that emphasize good eating over an obsession with health. "Salad, the Silent Killer" is a catalog of the toxins lurking in every bowl of raw vegetables, while "Fries" follows a heroic attempt to create the perfect French fry--cooked in horse fat. Whether baking sourdough bread in his Manhattan loft or spraying miso soup across a Kyoto restaurant, Steingarten is an ideal guide to the wilder reaches of gastronomy, a cross between M.F.K. Fisher and H.L. Mencken. [via]
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The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankensteinby Theodore RoszakISBN 0679437320 (0-679-43732-0)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Monsters of the Seaby Richard EllisISBN 0679406395 (0-679-40639-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sunby Jay M. Pasachoff, L. GolubISBN 0674004671 (0-674-00467-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The New York Public Library Desk ReferenceISBN 0671850148 (0-671-85014-8)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Of Flies, Mice, and Menby Francois Jacob, Giselle WeissISBN 0674005384 (0-674-00538-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Lifeby Adam PhillipsISBN 0674634632 (0-674-63463-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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On Warby Michael Howard, Peter Paret, Karl Von ClausewitzISBN 0679420436 (0-679-42043-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognitionby Merlin DonaldISBN 0674644840 (0-674-64484-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition'Book summary:This book asks the ultimate question of the life scientists: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to the era of artificial intelligence, and presents an original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form. In the emergence of modern human culture, Donald proposes, there were three radical transitions. During the first, our bipedal but still apelike ancestors acquired "mimetic" skill - the ability to represent knowledge through voluntary motor acts - which made Homo erectus successful for over a million years. The second transition - to "mythic" culture - coincided with the development of spoken language. This cognitive advance allowed the large-brained Homo sapiens to evolve a complex preliterate culture that survives in many parts of the world today. In the third transition, when humans constructed elaborate symbolic systems ranging from cuneiforms, hieroglyphics, and ideograms to alphabetic languages and mathematics, human biological memory became an inadequate vehicle for storing and processing our collective knowledge. The modern mind is thus a hybrid structure built from vestiges of earlier biological stages as well as new external symbolic memory devices that have radically altered its organization. According to Donald, we are symbol-using creatures, more complex than any that went before us, and we may not yet have witnessed the final modular arrangement of the human mind. There have been other attempts to create an evolutionary history of human cognition, but they have usually emphasized either cultural artifacts or functional anatomy (such as the vocal tract or the enlarged brain). In contrast, Donald's theory emphasizes cognition as the mediator between brain and culture. "Origins of the Modern Mind" suggest new areas of inquiry to specialists in cognitive fields from neurobiology to linguistics. [via]
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Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studiesby Bruno LatourISBN 067465336X (0-674-65336-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies'Book summary:A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback by this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous response in Pandora's Hope. It is a remarkable argument for understanding the reality of science in practical terms.
In this book Latour, identified by Richard Rorty as the new "bête noire of the science worshipers," gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process.
Why, Latour asks, did the idea of an independent reality, free of human interaction, emerge in the first place? His answer to this question, harking back to the debates between Might and Right narrated by Plato, points to the real stakes in the so-called science wars: the perplexed submission of ordinary people before the warring forces of claimants to the ultimate truth.
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Physics Principles and Problemsby Merrill, Paul W. ZitzewitzISBN 0675172640 (0-675-17264-0)
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Prehistoric Life : The Rise of the Vertebratesby David NormanISBN 0671799401 (0-671-79940-1)
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0671826573 (0-671-82657-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:The Prince is a classic book that explores the attainment, maintenance, and utilization of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to demonstrate his skill in the art of the state, presenting advice on how a prince might acquire and hold power. Machiavelli defended the notion of rule by force rather than by law. Accordingly, The Prince seems to rationalize a number of actions done solely to perpetuate power. It is an examination of power-its attainment, development, and successful use. [via]
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The Princeby Dominic Baker-Smith, Niccolo Machiavelli, W.K. MarriottISBN 0679410449 (0-679-41044-9)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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That Machiavellis name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Princethe worlds preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its authors realism, this treatise on states, statecraft, and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works. [via]More editions of The Prince:
Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphyby Sam BoggsISBN 0675204879 (0-675-20487-9)
Hardcover, Merrill Pub Co
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Psychologyby Wade, Carol TavrisISBN 0673996476 (0-673-99647-6)
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The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyoneby Kenneth W. Ford, Paul HewittISBN 0674013425 (0-674-01342-5)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyoneby Kenneth William FordISBN 067401832X (0-674-01832-X)
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Rabi: Scientist and Citizenby John RigdenISBN 0674004353 (0-674-00435-3)
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The Rarest of the Rareby Diane AckermanISBN 0679403469 (0-679-40346-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rarest of the Rare'Book summary:Having written books on the natural history of the human senses and love, Ackerman turns her own exquisitely honed poetic sensibility to vanishing species. Although she travels to exotic locales such as the Amazon, the tropical Pacific, and remote Japanese islands, the powers of her craft are most evident in the chapter centering on Cornell, in Ithaca, New York, near her home. Many nature writers seem to seek out unusual terrains to find their voice. It is a tribute to Ackerman's craft -- and the extraordinary complexity of nature -- that she can turn a trip to the Entomology Department of a nearby university into a world as exotic as the Amazon. Highly Recommended. [via]
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Return to Reasonby Stephen ToulminISBN 0674012356 (0-674-01235-6)
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Science in Traditional Chinaby Joseph NeedhamISBN 0674794397 (0-674-79439-7)
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A Short Guide to Writing About Biologyby Jan A. PechenikISBN 0673521281 (0-673-52128-1)
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, And Bodyby Steven J. MithenISBN 0674021924 (0-674-02192-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, And Body'Book summary:The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not be accounted for without understanding the evolution of the human body and mind. Thus Mithen arrived at the wildly ambitious project that unfolds in this book: an exploration of music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species.
Music is the language of emotion, common wisdom tells us. In The Singing Neanderthals, Mithen introduces us to the science that might support such popular notions. With equal parts scientific rigor and charm, he marshals current evidence about social organization, tool and weapon technologies, hunting and scavenging strategies, habits and brain capacity of all our hominid ancestors, from australopithecines to Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals to Homo sapiens--and comes up with a scenario for a shared musical and linguistic heritage. Along the way he weaves a tapestry of cognitive and expressive worlds--alive with vocalized sound, communal mimicry, sexual display, and rhythmic movement--of various species.
The result is a fascinating work--and a succinct riposte to those, like Steven Pinker, who have dismissed music as a functionless evolutionary byproduct.
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Space Ageby William J. WalterISBN 0679402950 (0-679-40295-0)
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Structural Geology: Principles, Concepts, and Problemsby Robert D. HatcherISBN 067520626X (0-675-20626-X)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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Systematics and the Origin of Species from the Viewpoint of a Zoologistby Ernst MayrISBN 0674862503 (0-674-86250-3)
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Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptileby Verlyn KlinkenborgISBN 0679407286 (0-679-40728-6)
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The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Cultureby Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Jared Taylor WilliamsISBN 0671799657 (0-671-79965-7)
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The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Realityby Roger G. NewtonISBN 0674001818 (0-674-00181-8)
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Understanding Lasersby Jeff HechtISBN 0672272741 (0-672-27274-1)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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What Makes Nature Tick?by Roger G. NewtonISBN 0674950828 (0-674-95082-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Makes Nature Tick?'Book summary:For many of us, the physical sciences are as obscure as the phenomena they explain. We see the wonders of nature but miss the symmetry beneath, framed as it is in ever stranger symbols and concepts. Roger Newton's accessible account of how physicists understand the world allows the expert and novice alike to explore both the mysteries of the universe and the beauty of the science that gives shape to the unseeable.
In What Makes Nature Tick? we find engaging discussions of solitons and superconductors, quarks and strings, phase space, tachyons, time, chaos, and indeterminacy, as well as the investigations that have led to their elucidation. But Roger Newton does not limit this volume to late-breaking discoveries and startling facts. He presents physics as an expanding intellectual structure, a network of very human ideas that stretches back three hundred years from our present frontier of knowledge. Where does our unidirectional sense of time come from? What makes a particle elementary? How can forces be transmitted through empty space? In addition to providing these answers, and a host of others at the very heart of physics, Newton shows us how physicists formulate the questions--a process in which intuition, imagination, and aesthetics have a powerful influence.
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