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Aha! Insightby Martin GardnerISBN 071671017X (0-7167-1017-X)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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Amateur Naturalist: A Practical Guide to the Natural Worldby Gerald DurrellISBN 0679728376 (0-679-72837-6)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Ants at Work : How an Insect Society Is Organizedby Deborah GordonISBN 0684857332 (0-684-85733-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Ape That Spokeby John McCroneISBN 068810326X (0-688-10326-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Are We Alone?: The Possibility of Extraterrestrial Civilizationsby Robert T. RoodISBN 068416826X (0-684-16826-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Asimov on Numbersby Isaac AsimovISBN 067149404X (0-671-49404-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Beginning and the Endby Isaac AsimovISBN 0671476440 (0-671-47644-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Lifeby Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles MurrayISBN 0684824299 (0-684-82429-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Bet You Can'T!by Vicki CobbISBN 0688419054 (0-688-41905-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Biophiliaby Edward Osborne WilsonISBN 0674074424 (0-674-07442-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Chickens Aren't the Only Onesby Ruth HellerISBN 0698117786 (0-698-11778-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Aheadby Gina KolataISBN 0688156924 (0-688-15692-4)
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Clone the Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Aheadby Gina Bari KolataISBN 0688166342 (0-688-16634-2)
Softcover, Quill
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Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Projectby Daniel J. Kevles, Leroy HoodISBN 0674136462 (0-674-13646-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculationby Joseph WeizenbaumISBN 0716704633 (0-7167-0463-3)
Softcover, Freeman & Company Limited, W H
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A Dancing Matrixby Robin Marantz HenigISBN 0679730834 (0-679-73083-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Dancing Matrix'Book summary:Even as humanity reels beneath the assault of AIDS, epidemiologists are gearing themselves up for the plague's successor. It might be dengue fever, whose carrier, the Asian tiger mosquito, has recently appeared in the United States, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has been transmitted by contaminated human growth hormone. The next pandemic might be caused by any of a dozen viruses that were once confined to other species or territories but now place human beings at risk as we increasingly cross their boundaries.
Updated to include the latest research and developments, this fascinating and sometimes unsetting book sums up all that we currently know about viruses: what they are, how they spread, and how scientists are trying to outwit them. Interweaving theory and real-life medical drama, A Dancing Matrix is science reportage at its most suspenseful and informative. [via]More editions of A Dancing Matrix:
The Dark Side of the Universe: A Scientist Explores the Mysteries of the Cosmosby James TrefilISBN 0684187957 (0-684-18795-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Discovering Dinosaurs: In the American Museum of Natural Historyby Lowell Dingus, Eugene Gaffney, Mark A. NorellISBN 0679433864 (0-679-43386-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Edge of Infinity: Where the Universe Came from and How It Will Endby Paul DaviesISBN 0671460625 (0-671-46062-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Emotional Brainby Joseph LedouxISBN 0684803828 (0-684-80382-8)
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Lifeby Joseph LedouxISBN 0684836599 (0-684-83659-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Thinkby Robert OrnsteinISBN 0671792245 (0-671-79224-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmosby Robert P. KirshnerISBN 069111742X (0-691-11742-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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This measurement of dark energy--a quality of space itself that causes cosmic acceleration--points to a gaping hole in our understanding of fundamental physics. In 1917, Einstein proposed the "cosmological constant" to explain a static universe. When observations proved that the universe was expanding, he cast this early form of dark energy aside. But recent observations described first-hand in this book show that the cosmological constant--or something just like it--dominates the universe's mass and energy budget and determines its fate and shape.
Warned by Einstein's blunder, and contradicted by the initial results of a competing research team, Kirshner and his colleagues were reluctant to accept their own result. But, convinced by evidence built on their hard-earned understanding of exploding stars, they announced their conclusion that the universe is accelerating in February 1998. Other lines of inquiry and parallel supernova research now support a new synthesis of a cosmos dominated by dark energy but also containing several forms of dark matter. We live in an extravagant universe with a surprising number of essential ingredients: the real universe we measure is not the simplest one we could imagine.
This book invites any reader to share in the excitement of a remarkable adventure of discovery.
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A Feeling for the Organism : The Life and Work of Barbara McClintockby Evelyn F. Keller, W. H. Freeman, Benoit B. MandelbrotISBN 071671504X (0-7167-1504-X)
Softcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintockby Evelyn Fox KellerISBN 0716714337 (0-7167-1433-7)
Hardcover, W.H. Freeman
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The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternityby Fred Adams, Greg LaughlinISBN 0684865769 (0-684-86576-9)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity'Book summary:There's a reason "astronomically large" means "larger than the scale of ordinary life": normal scales of time and space for astronomers involve millions of years and anywhere from thousands to quadrillions of kilometers. Even for astronomers, University of Michigan professor Fred Adams and his former student Greg Laughlin think big--really, really big--and their planning is really, really long-term.
In The Five Ages of the Universe, Adams and Laughlin present their vision of the history of the universe, from the big bang on. They've had to come up with a new unit of measure to make this timescape intellectually tractable: the "cosmological decade." When the universe is 10 to the n years old, it is in the nth cosmological decade; we are now in the 10th, for instance. Each decade is thus 10 times as long as the one before.
All the stars will have stopped shining in the 14th cosmological decade, about 100 trillion years from now--which is a mind-bendingly long period of time by most standards. But Adams and Laughlin are just getting their speculations warmed up. They go on to fold, spindle, and mutilate your time sense as they discuss the Degenerate Era (out to decade 39), the Black Hole Era (to decade 100), and the possible creation of new universes in the Dark Era (after decade 101 or so). It's the most fascinating, mind-expanding trip inside eternity you can read. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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For Love Of Insectsby Thomas Eisner, Edward O. WilsonISBN 0674018273 (0-674-01827-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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To understand the success of insects is to appreciate our own shortcomings, Eisner tells us, but never has a reckoning been such a pleasure. Recounting exploits and discoveries in his lab at Cornell and in the field in Uruguay, Australia, Panama, Europe, and North America, Eisner time and again demonstrates how inquiry into the survival strategies of an insect leads to clarifications beyond the expected; insects are revealed as masters of achievement, forms of life worthy of study and respect from even the most recalcitrant entomophobe. Filled with descriptions of his ingenious experiments and illustrated with photographs unmatched for their combination of scientific content and delicate beauty, Eisner's book makes readers participants in the grand adventure of discovery on a scale infinitesimally small, and infinitely surprising.
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Galileo: Hereticby Pietro Redondi, Raymond RosenthalISBN 069102426X (0-691-02426-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Galileo Heretic: Galileo Ereticoby Pietro RedondiISBN 0691084513 (0-691-08451-3)
Hardcover, Princeton University Press
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Good Benitoby Alan P. LightmanISBN 0679436146 (0-679-43614-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritanceby Ernst E. MayrISBN 0674364465 (0-674-36446-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Harnessing Complexity : Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontierby Robert M. Axelrod, Michael D. CohenISBN 0684867176 (0-684-86717-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Heaven & Earthby Katherine Roucoux, David MalinISBN 0714847607 (0-7148-4760-7)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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Heaven and Earth : Unseen by the Naked Eyeby David Malin, Katherine RoucouxISBN 071484439X (0-7148-4439-X)
Softcover, Phaidon Press
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The Hidden Life of Dogsby Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Bill GroseISBN 067151699X (0-671-51699-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A History of Mathematicsby Carl B. BoyerISBN 0691023913 (0-691-02391-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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From the origins of numbering to the future of computing, the authors strive for comprehensive examination and clear, simple explanations. Some of the math will daunt those who have never taken college-level courses (or have forgotten what they learned), but some of the more elaborate technical material can be skipped if needed. Especially helpful is the extensive timeline-appendix that proceeds from the beginning of time to the late 20th century. Whether you're using it to gain a better understanding of mathematics or to broaden your awareness of the historical record, A History of Mathematics will help you make sense of the wide world of numbers. --Rob Lightner [via]
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A History of the Mindby Nicholas HumphreyISBN 0671686445 (0-671-68644-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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How to Use an Astronomical Telescopeby James MuirdenISBN 0671664042 (0-671-66404-2)
Softcover, Fireside
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Human Evolution: An Illustrated Introductionby Roger LewinISBN 0716716364 (0-7167-1636-4)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1by Paul J. NahinISBN 0691127980 (0-691-12798-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1'Book summary:At the very beginning of his book on i, the square root of minus one, Paul Nahin warns his readers: "An Imaginary Tale has a very strong historical component to it, but that does not mean it is a mathematical lightweight. But don't read too much into that either. It is *not* a scholarly tome meant to be read only by some mythical, elite group.... Large chunks of this book can, in fact, be read and understood by a high school senior who has paid attention to his or her teachers in the standard fare of pre-college courses. Still, it will be most accessible to the million or so who each year complete a college course in freshman calculus.... But when I need to do an integral, let me assure you I have not fallen to my knees in dumbstruck horror. And neither should you."
Nahin is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire; he has also written a number of science fiction short stories. His style is far more lively and humane than a mathematics textbook while covering much of the same ground. Readers will end up with a good sense for the mathematics of i and for its applications in physics and engineering. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Journey Beyond Selene: Remarkable Expeditions Past Our Moon and to the Ends of the Solar Systemby Jeffrey KlugerISBN 0684847655 (0-684-84765-5)
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Larry Conick's the Cartoon History of the Universe, Book 1by Larry GonickISBN 0688010113 (0-688-01011-3)
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mindby Charles Nicholl, LeonardoISBN 0713994932 (0-7139-9493-2)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind'Book summary:Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades. Prize-winning author Charles Nicholl has immersed himself in manuscripts, paintings and artefacts to produce an intimate portrait of Leonardo. He uses these contemporary materials - his notebooks and sketchbooks, eye witnesses and early biographies, etc - as a way into the mental tone and physical texture of his life and has made many discoveries about him, his work and his circle of associates. The book identifies what Nicholl argues is an unknown portrait of the artist hanging in a church near Lodi in northern Italy. It also contains new material on his eccentric assistant Tomasso Masini, his homosexual affairs in Florence, and his curious relationship with a female model and/or prostitute from Cremona. A masterpiece of modern biography. [via]
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Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Lifeby Simon Schaffer, Steven ShapinISBN 0691024324 (0-691-02432-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Life of Birdsby David AttenboroughISBN 069101633X (0-691-01633-X)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Marie Curie: A Lifeby Susan QuinnISBN 0671675427 (0-671-67542-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Maxwell's Demon : Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passesby Hans Christian Von BaeyerISBN 0679433422 (0-679-43342-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligenceby Hans MoravecISBN 0674576187 (0-674-57618-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book About a Vast Memoryby Lynn Solotaroff, A.R. LuriaISBN 0674576225 (0-674-57622-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Minds, Brains and Scienceby John SearleISBN 0674576330 (0-674-57633-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Minds, Machines and the Multiverse : The Quest for the Quantum Computerby Julian BrownISBN 0684814811 (0-684-81481-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Moon Seems to Changeby Franklyn M. Branley, Barbara Emberley, Ed EmberleyISBN 0690045832 (0-690-04583-2)
Hardcover, Crowell
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My Five Sensesby AlikiISBN 0690047924 (0-690-04792-4)
Hardcover, Ty Crowell Co
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The Orchid Thief : A True Story of Beauty and Obsessionby Susan OrleanISBN 0679447393 (0-679-44739-3)
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The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others:
I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.
Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. --Barrie Trinkle [via]More editions of The Orchid Thief : A True Story of Beauty and Obsession:
The Physics of Everyday Phenomena: Readings from Scientific Americanby Jearl WalkerISBN 0716711265 (0-7167-1126-5)
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The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imaginationby Harriet RitvoISBN 0674673581 (0-674-67358-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination'Book summary:"Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. This enormously entertaining book captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing every new specimen, plant or animal, that British explorers and soldiers and sailors brought home. As she depicts a whole complex of competing groups deploying rival schemes and nomenclatures, Harriet Ritvo shows us a society drawing and redrawing its own boundaries and ultimately identifying itself. The experts (whether calling themselves naturalists, zoologists, or comparative anatomists) agreed on their superior authority if nothing else, but the laymen had their say--and Ritvo shows us a world in which butchers and artists, farmers and showmen vied to impose order on the wild profusion of nature. Sometimes assumptions or preoccupations overlapped; sometimes open disagreement or hostility emerged, exposing fissures in the social fabric or contested cultural territory. Of the greatest interest were creatures that confounded or crossed established categories; in the discussions provoked by these mishaps, monstrosities, and hybrids we can see ideas about human society--about the sexual proclivities of women, for instance, or the imagined hierarchy of nations and races. A thoroughly absorbing account of taxonomy--as zoological classification and as anthropological study--The Platypus and the Mermaid offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination. [via]
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Principles of Anatomy and Physiologyby TortoraISBN 067399354X (0-673-99354-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Ptolemy's Almagestby G. J. ToomerISBN 0691002606 (0-691-00260-6)
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The Quest for the Quantum Computerby J. R. BrownISBN 0684870045 (0-684-87004-5)
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Rainbows, Curveballs, and Other Wonders of the Natural World Explainedby Ira FlatowISBN 0688067050 (0-688-06705-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Recombinant DNAby James D. WatsonISBN 0716719940 (0-7167-1994-0)
Hardcover, Scientific American Books
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Recombinant DNAby Michael Gilman, Mark Zoller, James D. Watson, Jan WitkowskiISBN 0716722828 (0-7167-2282-8)
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Recombinant DNA: A Short Courseby John Tooze, James D. Watson, David T. KurtzISBN 0716714841 (0-7167-1484-1)
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviorby David Sibley, Chris Elphick, John B. DunningISBN 0679451234 (0-679-45123-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior'Book summary:From the creator of the seminal field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, comes another indispensable book for bird watchers. This veritable bible to the world of birds is the collaborative effort of 48 expert birders and biologists, who combine scientific accuracy and detail with an easily readable and well-organized format. How does a tiny chickadee survive subzero temperatures? How do flocks of birds synchronize their flights? How can an albatross cross miles of ocean without flapping its wings? Which bird brains are actually intelligent? It's all here in essays giving an overview of avian evolution, biology, and the aerodynamics of flight and in chapters devoted to the 80 bird families of North America, each one detailing taxonomy, habitats, feeding, breeding, vocalizations, migrations, and more. Concerned about declining populations, Sibley also discusses the conservation status of each species and the factors that threaten them. This fascinating source of information is destined to be a well-thumbed companion. -- Lesley Reed [via]
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Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Pietyby Wendy KaminerISBN 0679758860 (0-679-75886-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Kaminer goes on to sift her way through pop spirituality "classics" like The Celestine Prophecy and Conversations with God and visits seminars by New Age gurus (leaving her "amused and dismayed by the painful stupidities that people embrace to ease their fears of death"), but Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials is not merely an assault on religion--Kaminer also attacks purveyors of junk science, the influence of the recovered-memory movement on both feminism and the American court system, and the "cyberspacy" claims made by boosters of technological progress. Whether she's considering the extensive belief in UFOs and alien abductions or wondering why so many people worshipped Princess Diana in the hour of her death, Kaminer shows how an unrestrained culture of faith "encourages passivity, gullibility, and a childlike craving for authority." Rationalists will find her skepticism a refreshing tonic. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Star Guide : Learn How to Read the Night Sky Star by Starby Robin KerrodISBN 0671874675 (0-671-87467-5)
Hardcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Star Maps for Beginnersby I. M. Levitt, Roy K. MarshallISBN 0671791877 (0-671-79187-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Now revised for the 1990s, with updated planet charts and a new section on spotting meteor showers. Star Maps for Beginners includes:
12 complete maps -- one for each month -- showing the positions of the constellations viewed from every direction
a synoptic table that shows how to choose the proper map for use at any time special tables that give approximate positions of the planets for the years 1992 through 1997
the most up-to-date overview of the solar system available today the latest facts about each of the planets -- orbit, size, atmosphere, internal structure, climate, and terrain
a full chapter on the history and development of the constellations, and the ancient legends and mythological lore surrounding them
a special section on meteors -- how they originate and when and where to spot them.
Initially published in 1942 and now celebrating its 50th anniversary, Star Maps for Beginners has sold more than 450,000 copies. [via]
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Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmenby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0688168949 (0-688-16894-9)
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Symmetryby Hermann WeylISBN 0691023743 (0-691-02374-3)
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The Time Before History: 5 Million Years of Human Impactby Colin TudgeISBN 0684830523 (0-684-83052-3)
Softcover, Scribner
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Time Framesby Niles EldredgeISBN 0671622455 (0-671-62245-5)
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Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibriaby Niles EldredgeISBN 0691024359 (0-691-02435-9)
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Time Frames: The Re-Thinking of Darwinian Evolution and the Theory of Punctuated Equilibriaby Niles EldredigeISBN 0671495550 (0-671-49555-0)
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Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionistby Ernst MayrISBN 0674896661 (0-674-89666-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolutionby Robert L. CarrollISBN 0716718227 (0-7167-1822-7)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Voyage to the Great Attractor : Exploring Intergalactic Spaceby Alan DresslerISBN 0679732985 (0-679-73298-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Originsby Alan Walker, Pat ShipmanISBN 0679747834 (0-679-74783-4)
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