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Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea That Rules the Worldby David BerlinskiISBN 0756761662 (0-7567-6166-2)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weatherby National Audubon Society, David McWilliams LudlumISBN 0679733531 (0-679-73353-1)
Hardcover, A.A. Knopf
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A Bedside Nature: Genius and Eccentricity in Science, 1869-1953by Walter Bruno Gratzer, Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0716736500 (0-7167-3650-0)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Othersby Martin ReesISBN 0738200336 (0-7382-0033-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Betrayers of the Truthby Nicholas Wade, William BroadISBN 0671495496 (0-671-49549-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Biochemistryby Lubert StryerISBN 0716719207 (0-7167-1920-7)
Softcover, W.H. Freeman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biochemistry'Book summary:With a balance of topic coverage and depth this updated third edition covers the subject of biochemistry, and reflects the advances made in this field since the second edition published in 1981. These advances are incorporated without loss of historical perspective and without obscuring the main goal of the text: to teach the enduring fundamentals of the discipline. Included in the third edition is a completely reorganized part one introducing the flow of information from gene to protein. It emphasizes the growing interrelatedness of molecular biology and biochemistry, and acquaints one with experimental methods of both disciplines. Also included is 150 new problems and a wealth of new material on molecular genetics and cellular processes. [via]
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Hardcover, W. H. Freeman - Biochemistry: ISBN 0716712261 (0-7167-1226-1)
Hardcover, W. H. Freeman - Biochemistry: ISBN 071671843X (0-7167-1843-X)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - Biochemistry: ISBN 0716720094 (0-7167-2009-4)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co - Biochemistry: ISBN 0716719207 (0-7167-1920-7)
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Biologyby Peter H. Raven, George B. JohnsonISBN 069724251X (0-697-24251-X)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Hardcover, McGraw-Hill College - Biology: ISBN 0801640415 (0-8016-4041-5)
Hardcover, Times Mirror/Mosby College Pub - Biology: ISBN 0801640911 (0-8016-4091-1)
Hardcover, Times Mirror/Mosby College Pub - Biology: ISBN 0801663725 (0-8016-6372-5)
Hardcover, Mosby Year Book - Biology: ISBN 069724251X (0-697-24251-X)
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Natureby Janine M. BenyusISBN 0688160999 (0-688-16099-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature'Book summary:Biomimicry is the quest for innovation inspired by nature. Biomimics are scientists and inventors who study nature's greatest achievements - spider silk and tallgrass, seashells and brain cells, photosynthesis and forests - and adapt them for human use. Their findings are revolutionizing how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, conduct business, and feed the world. In Biomimicry, science writer Janine M. Benyus names and explains this phenomenon that has been unfolding in all the science disciplines. She takes us into the lab and out into the field with the maverick thinkers who are stirring vats of proteins to unleash their signaling power in computers...analyzing how spiders manufacture a waterproof fiber five times stronger than steel...watching electrons zip and pop in a leaf cell, converting simple sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second...discovering miracle drugs by noting what chimps eat when they're sick...studying the hardy prairie as a low-maintenance model for agriculture...and much more. [via]
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The Borderlands of Scienceby Charles SheffieldISBN 0671578367 (0-671-57836-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Borderlands of Science: How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fictionby Charles SheffieldISBN 0671319531 (0-671-31953-1)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderlands of Science: How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fiction'Book summary:WELCOME TO THE FARTHEST FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE....
Present-day science, as Carl Sagan observed, is more like science fiction than most science fiction. Where does the dividing line lie today?
Charles Sheffield, an internationally respected scientist and an equally renowned science fiction writer, whom The Washington Post and others have compared to Arthur C. Clarke, surveys with an expert eye the current state of physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, computers, and other fields, and brings the reader up to date on just how strange the universe is turning out to be.
When exploring strange territory, a knowledgeable guide is a necessity. Fortunately, Dr. Sheffield is eminently qualified to explain the nature of the new mysteries which science is just beginning to explore. The readers will be in good hands as they are taken on an expertly guided tour of the
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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculationby John L. CastiISBN 0738201383 (0-7382-0138-3)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cookingby Shirley O. CorriherISBN 0688102298 (0-688-10229-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking'Book summary:Is it safe to let a biochemist into your kitchen? If it's Shirley Corriher, extend an open invitation. Her long-awaited book, Cookwise, is a unique combination of basic cooking know-how, excellent recipes--from apple pie to beurre blanc--and reference source. She makes the science of cooking entirely comprehensible, then livens it up with stories, such as when her first roast duck blew up because she overstuffed it and the fat from the bird caused it to expand beyond capacity. Food companies pay Corriher fancy fees to troubleshoot their recipes, and Cookwise puts her encyclopedic knowledge ever at your fingertips. If you want to know how to make the flakiest pastry, best-textured breads, delicious fruit desserts from fruit that's not fully ripe, impeccable sauces, and attractively bright cooked vegetables, this book contains the answers. "What this recipe shows" tells you up front what's useful in each of the book's 230-plus recipes. "At-a-glance," "What to do," and "Why" help you learn or troubleshoot in minutes. If eight steps to a perfect Juicy Roast Chicken are daunting, think of the delight of Rich Cappuccino Ice Cream in three steps or the seductive Secret Marquise in five. [via]
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Dinosaurby David Norman, Angela Milner, Colin KeatesISBN 0756606470 (0-7566-0647-0)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Centuryby O.B. HardisonISBN 0670825050 (0-670-82505-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Earth in Upheavalby Immanuel VelikovskyISBN 0671524658 (0-671-52465-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth in Upheaval'Book summary:In this epochal book, Immanuel Velikovsky, one of the great scientists of modern times, puts the complete histories of our Earth and of humanity on a new basis. He presents the results of his 10-year-long interdisciplinary research in an easily understandable, even entertaining manner. Inspite - or even because - of the disgraceful hostility, provoked by his theories, this book keeps being of ardent topicality, which in the light of recent scientific research is even growing. Earth in Upheaval - a very exactly investigated and easily understandable book - contains material that completely revolutionizes our view of the history of the earth. For all those who have ever wondered about the evolution of the earth, the formation of mountains and oceans, the origin of coal or fossils, the question of the ice ages and the history of animal and plant species, Earth in Upheaval is a MUST-READ! [via]
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Elements of Chemistryby Antoine LavoisierISBN 0486646246 (0-486-64624-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Chemistry'Book summary:Monumental classic by the founder of modern chemistry is essential for undergraduate students. First explicit statement of law of conservation of matter in chemical change; first modern list of chemical elements; more. Facsimile reprint of original (1790) Kerr translation. Introduction by Professor Douglas McKie.[via]More editions of Elements of Chemistry:
Evolutionby David BurnieISBN 0737000368 (0-7370-0036-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animalsby Charles Darwin, Francis DarwinISBN 0486456072 (0-486-45607-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Flatterlandby Ian StewartISBN 073820675X (0-7382-0675-X)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flatterland'Book summary:In 1884, an amiably eccentric clergyman and literary scholar named Edwin Abbott Abbott published an odd philosophical novel called Flatland, in which he explored such things as four-dimensional mathematics and gently satirized some of the orthodoxies of his time. The book went on to be a bestseller in Victorian England, and it has remained in print ever since.
With Flatterland, Ian Stewart, an amiable professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, updates the science of Flatland, adding literally countless dimensions to Abbott's scheme of things ("Your world has not just four dimensions," one of his characters proclaims, "but five, fifty, a million, or even an infinity of them! And none of them need be time. Space of a hundred and one dimensions is just as real as a space of three dimensions"). Along his fictional path, Stewart touches on Feynman diagrams, superstring theory, time travel, quantum mechanics, and black holes, among many other topics. And, in Abbott's spirit, Stewart pokes fun at our own assumptions, including our quest for a Theory of Everything.
You can't help but be charmed by a book with characters named Superpaws, the Hawk King, the Projective Lion, and the Space Hopper and dotted with doggerel such as "You ain't nothin' but a hadron / nucleifyin' all the time" and "I can't get no / more momentum." And, best of all, you can learn a thing or two about modern mathematics while being roundly entertained. That's no small accomplishment, and one for which Stewart deserves applause. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Fractal Geometry of Natureby Benoit MandelbrotISBN 0716711869 (0-7167-1186-9)
Hardcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fractal Geometry of Nature'Book summary:Imagine an equilateral triangle. Now, imagine smaller equilateral triangles perched in the center of each side of the original triangle--you have a Star of David. Now, place still smaller equilateral triangles in the center of each of the star's 12 sides. Repeat this process infinitely and you have a Koch snowflake, a mind-bending geometric figure with an infinitely large perimeter, yet with a finite area. This is an example of the kind of mathematical puzzles that this book addresses.
The Fractal Geometry of Nature is a mathematics text. But buried in the deltas and lambdas and integrals, even a layperson can pick out and appreciate Mandelbrot's point: that somewhere in mathematics, there is an explanation for nature. It is not a coincidence that fractal math is so good at generating images of cliffs and shorelines and capillary beds. [via]
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From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbersby Georges IfrahISBN 0670373958 (0-670-37395-8)
Hardcover, Daedalus Books
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General Chemistryby Linus PaulingISBN 0486656225 (0-486-65622-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'General Chemistry'Book summary:Here is the extensively revised and updated third edition of the classic first-year text by the Nobel laureate. Pauling covers atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics correlated with descriptive chemistry. Problems. 75 pages of appendixes. Hailed by Choice as "an excellent text, highly recommended."[via]More editions of General Chemistry:
Genesis & the Big Bang: The Discovery of Harmony Between Modern Science & the Bibleby Gerald L. SchroederISBN 0553354132 (0-553-35413-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Germs Make Me Sick!by Melvin Berger, Marylin HafnerISBN 0690044283 (0-690-04428-3)
Hardcover, Crowell
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Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's Historyby Peter Douglas WardISBN 0670030945 (0-670-03094-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History'Book summary:In Gorgon, geologist Peter Ward turns his attention reluctantly away from the asteroid collision that killed all the dinosaurs and instead focuses on a much older extinction event. As it turns out, the Permian extinction of 250 million years ago dwarfs the dino's 65-million-year-old Cretaceous-Tertiary armageddon. Ward's book is not a dry accounting of the fossil discoveries leading to this conclusion, but rather an intimate, first-person account of some of his triumphs and disappointments as a scientist. He draws a nice parallel between the Permian extinction and his own rather abrupt in research focus, revealing the agonizing steps he had to take to educate himself about a set of prehistoric creatures about which he knew almost nothing. These were the Gorgons, carnivorous reptiles whose ecological dominance preceded that of the more pop-culture-ready dinosaurs.
They would have had huge heads with very large, saberlike teeth, large lizard eyes, no visible ears, and perhaps a mixture of reptilian scales and tufts of mammalian hair.... The Gorgons ruled a world of animals that were but one short evolutionary step away from being mammals.
With characteristic enthusiasm, Ward transports readers with him to South Africa's Karoo desert, where he participated in field expeditions seeking fossils of these fearsome creatures. He suffers routine tick patrols, puff-adder avoidance lessons, stultifying thirst, and the everyday humiliations of being the new guy on a field team. Besides telling a fascinating paleological story, Gorgon lets readers feel a bone-hunter's passion and pain. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Gravitationby Charles W. MisnerISBN 0716703440 (0-7167-0344-0)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravitation'Book summary:[via]This landmark text offers a rigorous full-year graduate level course on gravitation physics, teaching students to:
" Grasp the laws of physics in flat spacetime
" Predict orders of magnitude
" Calculate using the principal tools of modern geometry
" Predict all levels of precision
" Understand Einstein's geometric framework for physics
" Explore applications, including pulsars and neutron stars, cosmology, the Schwarzschild geometry and gravitational collapse, and gravitational waves
" Probe experimental tests of Einstein's theory
" Tackle advanced topics such as superspace and quantum geometrodynamics
The book offers a unique, alternating two-track pathway through the subject:
" In many chapters, material focusing on basic physical ideas is designated as
Track 1. These sections together make an appropriate one-term advanced/graduate level course (mathematical prerequisites: vector analysis and simple partial-differential equations). The book is printed to make it easy for readers to identify these sections.
" The remaining Track 2 material provides a wealth of advanced topics instructors can draw from to flesh out a two-term course, with Track 1 sections serving as prerequisites.More editions of Gravitation:
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The Handy Weather Answer Bookby Walter A. LyonsISBN 0787610348 (0-7876-1034-8)
Softcover, Visible Ink Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handy Weather Answer Book'Book summary:[via]Well written at a level that is enjoyable to everyone. I highly recommend this book to any lay reader, weather watcher or atmospheric professional. The Weather Doctor. Everyone has something to say about the weather. Former NASA researcher and professional meteorologist Dr. Walter A. Lyons and his Handy Weather Answer Book® just have more to say than most. As one reader nearly exclaimed, Weather has never been more exciting. Where else can you find the answer to the existential question: Do mobile homes attract tornadoes? Find the answer in the chapter aptly named, Tornadoes, 25 pages on hot and bothered air. From cloud formations to rainbow development, Handy Weather takes on the controversial climate issues of the day and provides the weather aficionado as well as the more casual enthusiast with a cornucopia of weather facts and trivia, a good thing given the title and intent. More than 1,000 questions are expertly and clearly answered by Dr. Walt as he covers the greenhouse effect and global warming, smog and acid rain, earthquakes and volcanoes, thunder and lightning, forecasting and careers in meteorology, thunderstorms and winter blasts, weather's effect on the human body, droughts and flash floods, hurricanes and tropical storms, and much, much more, plus fascinating weather-related phenomena like El Niño, Aurora Borealis, and St. Elmo's Fire. A great book for a rainy day.More editions of The Handy Weather Answer Book:
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Spaceby Gerard K. O'NeillISBN 0688031331 (0-688-03133-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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How Things Work: The Universal Encyclopedia of Machinesby C. Van Amerongen, Bibliographisches Institut (Mannheim, Germany)ISBN 0586080953 (0-586-08095-3)
Hardcover, Paladin
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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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Isaac's Stormby Erik Larson, Isaac Monroe ClineISBN 0609602330 (0-609-60233-0)
Hardcover, Crown Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Isaac's Storm'Book summary:Galveston, Texas, 8 September 1900. It's another fine day in the Gulf according to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the new US Weather Bureau, but one day later, 6-10,000 people were dead, wiped out by the biggest storm the coast of America had ever witnessed. Isaac Cline was confident of his ability to predict the weather: he had new technology at his disposal, 'perfect science', and, like America itself, he was sure that he was in control of his world, that the new century would be the American century, that the future was man's to command. And the coastal city of Galveston was a prosperous, enthusiastic place - a jewel of progress and contentment, a model for the new century. The storm blew up in Cuba. It was, in modern jargon, an X-storm - an extreme hurricane - and it did not circle around the Gulf of Mexicao as storms routinely did. On 8 September 1900 it ploughed straight into Galveston. It was the meteorological equivalent of the Big One. It was to be the worst natural disaster ever to befall America to this day: between six and ten thousand people died, including Isaac Cline's wife and unborn child. With them died Cline's and America's hubris: the storm had simply blown them away. Told with a novelist's skill this is the true story of an awful and terrible natural catastrophe. [via]
Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900by Erik LarsonISBN 0756765862 (0-7567-6586-2)
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Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematicsby William DunhamISBN 0471500305 (0-471-50030-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Centuryby David SalsburgISBN 0805071342 (0-8050-7134-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:Science is inextricably linked with mathematics. Statistician David Salsburg examines the development of ever-more-powerful statistical methods for determining scientific truth in The Lady Tasting Tea, a series of historical and biographical sketches that illuminates without alienating the mathematically timid. Salsburg, who has worked in academia and industry and has met many of the major players he writes about, shares his subjects' enthusiasm for problem solving and deep thinking. This drives his prose, but never at the expense of the reader; if anything, the author has taken pains to eliminate esoterica and ephemera from his stories. This might frustrate a few number-head readers, but the abundant notes and references should keep them happy in the library for weeks after reading the book.
Ultimately, the various tales herein are unified in a single theme: the conversion of science from observational natural history into rigorously defined statistical models of data collection and analysis. This process, usually only implicit in studies of scientific methods and history, is especially important now that we seem to be reaching the point of diminishing returns and are looking for new paradigms of scientific investigation. The Lady Tasting Tea will appeal to a broad audience of scientifically literate readers, reminding them of the humanity underlying the work. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cakeby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590222953 (0-590-22295-3)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Scienceby E. A. BurttISBN 0486425517 (0-486-42551-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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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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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinityby Amir D. AczelISBN 0743422996 (0-7434-2299-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weatherby David M. LudlumISBN 0679408517 (0-679-40851-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universeby Roy A. Gallant, Margaret SedeenISBN 079222731X (0-7922-2731-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe'Book summary:A lavishly illustrated guide to the universe combines the efforts of an award-winning author and NASA experts, offering a timeline of important space events, an easy-to-use glossary, and a planetarium, observatory, and museums listing. 10,000 first printing. [via]
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Night Skyby Nigel HenbestISBN 0613365550 (0-613-36555-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Nobleman and His Housedog: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler the Strange Partnership That Revolutionised Scienceby Kitty FergusonISBN 0747270228 (0-7472-7022-8)
Hardcover, Review
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Our Cosmic Habitatby Martin J. ReesISBN 0691114773 (0-691-11477-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Paradigms Regained: A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Moderm Scienceby J. L. CastiISBN 0688161154 (0-688-16115-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies--and What It Means to Be Humanby Joel GarreauISBN 0767915038 (0-7679-1503-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledgeby William PoundstoneISBN 0809252023 (0-8092-5202-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universeby Timothy FerrisISBN 068801836X (0-688-01836-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Science and Hypothesisby H. PoincareISBN 0486602214 (0-486-60221-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Sears and Zemansky's University Physicsby Roger A. Freedman, Francis Weston Sears, Hugh D. YoungISBN 0805391789 (0-8053-9178-9)
Hardcover, Pearson/Addison Wesley
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Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deafby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0520060830 (0-520-06083-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolutionby Leonard ShlainISBN 0670032336 (0-670-03233-6)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution'Book summary:This book sets out to explore why and when people evolved so far away from other mammals in several key ways, all of which Dr. Shlain ties to the biological differences between men and women. As in his excellent prior work The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (which holds that there are links between the ascendancy of patriarchy and written language and the descent of matriarchal societies and goddess-based religions), some of the concepts proposed in this book might seem a bit of a stretch. And they arewhether or not they turn out to be factual. Shlain contends, for instance, that women essentially invented the concept of time due to their experience of menses. Whatever conclusions the reader comes to, the author exposes the underlying gender biases in so many scientific assumptions; the result is one of those books that cannot help but alter one's perceptions. A consistently engaging writer, Shlain traces the course of his own evolving ideas with what might be called a didactic wit: bold statements are first writ large, then Dr. Shlain reveals how he came upon them, frequently with colorful anecdotes that show these are questions he's been wrestling with for many years. It's difficult to tell whether this fascinating thinker will be viewed as the next Darwin or as a crank, but there's no denying this is an audacious work in the realm of evolutionary biology. --Mike McGonigal [via]
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Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religionby Chet RaymoISBN 0802775640 (0-8027-7564-0)
Softcover, Walker & Co
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Sociobiologyby Edward Osborne WilsonISBN 0674002350 (0-674-00235-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Sociobiology defines such concepts as society, individual, population, communication, and regulation. It attempts to explain, biologically, why groups of animals behave the way they do when finding food or shelter, confronting enemies, or getting along with one another. Wilson seeks to explain how group selection, altruism, hierarchies, and sexual selection work in populations of animals, and to identify evolutionary trends and sociobiological characteristics of all animal groups, up to and including man. The insect sections of the books are particularly interesting, given Wilson's status as the world's most famous entomologist.
It is fair to say that as an ecological strategy eusociality has been overwhelmingly successful. It is useful to think of an insect colony as a diffuse organism, weighing anywhere from less than a gram to as much as a kilogram and possessing from about a hundred to a million or more tiny mouths.
It's when Wilson starts talking about human beings that the furor starts. Feminists have been among the strongest critics of the work, arguing that humans are not slaves to a biological destiny, forever locked in "primitive" behavior patterns without the ability to reason past our biochemical nature. Like The Origin of Species, Sociobiology has forced many biologists and social scientists to reassess their most cherished notions of how animals work. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesisby Edward O. Wilson, Sarah LandryISBN 0674816218 (0-674-81621-8)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Sociobiology defines such concepts as society, individual, population, communication, and regulation. It attempts to explain, biologically, why groups of animals behave the way they do when finding food or shelter, confronting enemies, or getting along with one another. Wilson seeks to explain how group selection, altruism, hierarchies, and sexual selection work in populations of animals, and to identify evolutionary trends and sociobiological characteristics of all animal groups, up to and including man. The insect sections of the books are particularly interesting, given Wilson's status as the world's most famous entomologist.
It is fair to say that as an ecological strategy eusociality has been overwhelmingly successful. It is useful to think of an insect colony as a diffuse organism, weighing anywhere from less than a gram to as much as a kilogram and possessing from about a hundred to a million or more tiny mouths.
It's when Wilson starts talking about human beings that the furor starts. Feminists have been among the strongest critics of the work, arguing that humans are not slaves to a biological destiny, forever locked in "primitive" behavior patterns without the ability to reason past our biochemical nature. Like The Origin of Species, Sociobiology has forced many biologists and social scientists to reassess their most cherished notions of how life works. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Some Time with Feynmanby Leonard MlodinowISBN 0713996439 (0-7139-9643-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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Spotter's Guide to the Night Skyby Nigel Henbest, Stuart AtkinsISBN 0794501796 (0-7945-0179-6)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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Star Names & Their Meanings 1899by Richard Hinckley AllenISBN 0766140288 (0-7661-4028-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Star Names Their Lore and Their Meaningby Richard Hinckley AllenISBN 0486210790 (0-486-21079-0)
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Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20Th-Century Physicsby George JohnsonISBN 0679756884 (0-679-75688-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The reader finds that Johnson's careful attention to detail shows more than it tells through enlightening stories of Gell-Mann's troubled, romantic, or pretentious dealings with peers, family, and even strangers. Explaining his strange surname means investigating old phone books, scientific legend, and family history, as the scientist is unwilling to shed light on the mystery (it turns out that his father hyphenated it, and Murray dreamed up etymologies as needed--giving rise to the tangled web of myths). Johnson is up to the challenge of recording the life story of a man nearly as strange as the quarks he discovered and named, and Strange Beauty lives up to the promise of its title. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Strange Beauty : Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physicsby George JohnsonISBN 0679437649 (0-679-43764-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The reader finds that Johnson's careful attention to detail shows more than it tells through enlightening stories of Gell-Mann's troubled, romantic, or pretentious dealings with peers, family, and even strangers. Explaining his strange surname means investigating old phone books, scientific legend, and family history, as the scientist is unwilling to shed light on the mystery (it turns out that his father hyphenated it, and Murray dreamed up etymologies as needed--giving rise to the tangled web of myths). Johnson is up to the challenge of recording the life story of a man nearly as strange as the quarks he discovered and named, and Strange Beauty lives up to the promise of its title. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Thermal Physicsby Charles KittelISBN 047149030X (0-471-49030-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thermal Physics'Book summary:[via]CONGRATULATIONS TO HERBERT KROEMER, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS
For upper-division courses in thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, Kittel and Kroemer offers a modern approach to thermal physics that is based on the idea that all physical systems can be described in terms of their discrete quantum states, rather than drawing on 19th-century classical mechanics concepts.
The Two Culturesby C.P. SnowISBN 052109576X (0-521-09576-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Tycho & Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavensby Kitty FergusonISBN 0802713904 (0-8027-1390-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Universeby Robert DinwiddieISBN 0756613647 (0-7566-1364-7)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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The Velocity of Honey and More Science of Everyday Lifeby Jay IngramISBN 0670893102 (0-670-89310-2)
Hardcover, Viking Canada
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Volcanoby Patricia LauberISBN 0689716796 (0-689-71679-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Volcanoby Time-Life BooksISBN 080944304X (0-8094-4304-X)
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Way Things Work: An Encyclopedia of Modern Technologyby RitchieISBN 0671210866 (0-671-21086-6)
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What Is Life? the Physical Aspect of the Living Cell and Mind and Matter.by Erwin SchrodingerISBN 0521062233 (0-521-06223-3)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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What Is Life?: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell With Mind and Matter & Autobiographical Sketchesby Erwin SchrodingerISBN 0521427088 (0-521-42708-8)
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