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The Amateur Naturalistby Lee Durrell, Gerald Malcolm Lee DurrellISBN 0241108411 (0-241-10841-1)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of Mindby Ian GlynnISBN 0195158032 (0-19-515803-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Ape That Spokeby John McCroneISBN 0380713993 (0-380-71399-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermiby Laura FermiISBN 0226243672 (0-226-24367-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermi'Book summary:In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930spart of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb. Combining intellectual biography and social history, Laura Fermi traces her husband's career from his childhood, when he taught himself physics, through his rise in the Italian university system concurrent with the rise of fascism, to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, which offered a perfect opportunity to flee the country without arousing official suspicion, and his odyssey to the United States.[via]More editions of Atoms in the Family: My Life With Enrico Fermi:
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Bet You Can't!: Science Impossibilities to Fool Youby Vicki Cobb, Kathy Darling, Martha WestonISBN 0380545020 (0-380-54502-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Biography of a Germby Arno KarlenISBN 0375401997 (0-375-40199-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World-Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran Itby Stephen Handelman, Ken AlibekISBN 0375502319 (0-375-50231-9)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World-Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It'Book summary:In this fast-paced memoir, Ken Alibek combines cutting-edge science with the narrative techniques of a thriller to describe some of the most awful weapons imaginable. The result will remind readers of The Hot Zone, Richard Preston's smart bestseller about the Ebola virus. That book focuses on the dangers of a freak accident; Biohazard shows how disease can become a deliberate tool of war. Alibek, once a top scientist in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program, describes putting anthrax on a warhead and targeting a city on the other side of the world. "A hundred kilograms of anthrax spores would, in optimal atmospheric conditions, kill up to three million people in any of the densely populated metropolitan areas of the United States," he writes. "A single SS-18 [missile] could wipe out the population of a city as large as New York."
Chilling passages like these, plus discussions of proliferation and terrorism, make Biohazard a harrowing book, but it also has a human side. Alibek, who defected to the United States, describes the routine danger of his work: "A bioweapons lab leaves its mark on a person forever." An unending stream of vaccinations has destroyed his sense of smell, afflicted him with allergies, made it impossible to eat certain kinds of food, and "weakened my resistance to disease and probably shortened my life." But it didn't take away his ability to tell an astonishing story. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Computer and the Brainby John Von Neumann, Paul M. Churchland, Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0300084730 (0-300-08473-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Computer and the Brain'Book summary:Whether they think it's impossible or inevitable, most people have highly polarised views on artificial intelligence. John von Neumann, genius, mathematician and inventor of the nearly ubiquitous computer architecture bearing his name, blazed trails for both camps in The Computer and the Brain.
This short book, originally written for Yale's Silliman lectures but published posthumously, summarises his views on machine and biological intelligence with unprecedented clarity and precision. His understanding of neuroscience was that of a brilliant and strongly motivated amateur at the end of the 1950s, good enough to take on the problem but by no means matching his comprehension of the machines to which he had devoted much of his professional life. Still, his take on intracranial computation is stunningly prescient--he looks beyond the then-fashionable digital metaphors to suggest a semi-analogue strategy that uses parallel processing to make up for its deficiency in speed.
Prominent neuroscientific thinkers Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland provide a brief, enlightening foreword to the second edition, placing the author's thinking in context and grounding the reader in the scientific milieu that gave rise to The Computer and the Brain. Though his computer architecture is slowly growing obsolete, von Neumann has given us a more lasting legacy in his thinking about thinking. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Scienceby Ronald L. GrahamISBN 0201558025 (0-201-55802-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science'Book summary:This book introduces the mathematics that supports advanced computer programming and the analysis of algorithms. The primary aim of its well-known authors is to provide a solid and relevant base of mathematical skills - the skills needed to solve complex problems, to evaluate horrendous sums, and to discover subtle patterns in data. It is an indispensable text and reference not only for computer scientists - the authors themselves rely heavily on it! - but for serious users of mathematics in virtually every discipline. Concrete mathematics is a blending of continuous and discrete mathematics. "more concretely," the authors explain, "it is the controlled manipulation of mathematical formulas, using a collection of techniques for solving problems." the subject matter is primarily an expansion of the mathematical preliminaries section in knuth's classic art of computer programming, but the style of presentation is more leisurely, and individual topics are covered more deeply. Several new topics have been added, and the most significant ideas have been traced to their historical roots. The book includes more than 500 exercises, divided into six categories.complete answers are provided for all exercises, except research problems, making the book particularly valuable for self-study. Major topics include: *sums *recurrences *integer functions *elementary number theory *binomial coefficients *generating functions *discrete probability *asymptotic methods this second edition includes important new material about mechanical summation. In response to the widespread use of the first edition as a reference book, the bibliography and index have also been expanded, and additional nontrivial improvements can be found on almost every page. Readers will appreciate the informal style of concrete mathematics. Particularly enjoyable are the marginal graffiti contributed by students who have taken courses based on this material. [via]
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Congoby Michael CrichtonISBN 0345378490 (0-345-37849-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Congo'Book summary:If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you're waiting for that to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team's tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of '80s technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you'll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton's other work. --Paul Hughes [via]
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The Counter-creationism Handbookby Mark IsaakISBN 031333305X (0-313-33305-X)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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The Curvature Of Spacetime: Newton, Einstein, And Gravitationby Harald Fritzsch, Karin HeuschISBN 023111821X (0-231-11821-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Societyby David Sloan WilsonISBN 0226901351 (0-226-90135-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society'Book summary:God or evolution? Though the debate about our origins has swirled in epic controversy since Darwin's time, David Sloan Wilson bravely blends these two contentious theories. This has been tried before, of course, mainly by religious intellectuals. What makes Darwin's Cathedral stand out is that Wilson does not pursue the classic "intelligent design" argument (evolution is God's hand at work), but instead argues that religion is evolution at work.
Wilson sees religion as a complex organism with "biological" functions. He argues that the social cohesiveness of religion makes it analogous to a beehive or a human body--and, in fact, religious believers sometimes employ these metaphors. He writes, "Thinking of a religious group as like an organism encourages us to look for adaptive complexity.... Mechanisms are required that are often awesome in their sophistication." To Wilson, therein lies the astonishing complexity of religion, just as in the biological world.
Following Wilson's argument requires understanding the rudiments of evolutionary biology; a smattering of theology, history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology is helpful, too. But the reasoning isn't as challenging as Wilson warns in the introduction. For educated readers, it's an accessible book.
In just 260 pages, Wilson can't begin to do justice to the broad swath of intellectual work he's cut out for himself. And ultimately, the book's main failing is its simplicity. In addition, his approach to religion is so clearly an outsider's that he is unlikely to win many converts. Adaptive-mechanistic explanations of forgiveness and altruism may be intriguing to the atheist in the ivory tower, but they are likely to elicit little more than a bemused and passing interest from believers. --Eric de Place [via]
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Dawn of Modern Science: From the Ancient Greeks to the Renaissanceby Thomas GoldsteinISBN 0306806371 (0-306-80637-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millenniaby Gregory BenfordISBN 0380793466 (0-380-79346-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Eclipse: The Celestial Phenomenon That Changed the Course of Historyby Duncan Steel, Paul DaviesISBN 030907438X (0-309-07438-X)
Hardcover, Natl Academy Pr
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The Elementsby John EmsleyISBN 0198552378 (0-19-855237-8)
Softcover, Clarendon Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elements'Book summary:The second edition of this widely acclaimed reference book collects together in a single volume the most important facts about all the chemical elements. Whilst retaining the alphabetical, easy-to-use format of the first edition, the opportunity has been taken to update information and to add a new section on environmental properties to go alongside the existing ones on the chemical, physical, nuclear, and electron-shell properties of the elements. [via]
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Faith, Science, and Understandingby John PolkinghorneISBN 0300091281 (0-300-09128-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faith, Science, and Understanding'Book summary:Faith, Science & Understanding is a brief, erudite collection of writings by John Polkinghorne, a fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and one of the world's leading experts on science and theology. Polkinghorne begins this book by exploring the place of theology in the university, the role of revelation in religion, and the particular relations that have formed between theology and various disciplines within the sciences. Building on these foundations, Part II of the book considers the question that dominated theology-and-science debates during the 1990s: "How we may conceive of divine agency in a way that respects the integrity of the scientific account of the process of the physical world and which also does justice to the religious intuition and experience of God's providential interaction within history?" Finally, Part III provides Polkinghorne's assessment of the entire English tradition of thinking about theology and science as well as his opinions regarding the work of his eminent colleagues in the field. Polkinghorne's lapidary English prose polishes his insights to a fine luster; this is not the kind of plain talking you'll find in Richard Feynmann. But the reader's patience is rewarded. Faith, Science & Understanding is a short book that expertly surveys a long history--an excellent orientation to a complex and important set of questions. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Madeby Paul Brand, Philip YanceyISBN 031035451X (0-310-35451-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornographyby Roger ShattuckISBN 0312146027 (0-312-14602-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography'Book summary:An intellectual tour-de-force, Forbidden Knowledge is a study of the ethics of literary and scientific inquiry. Shattuck first approaches his subject indirectly, conducting an engaging tour of Western literature: Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He then uses these tales to address the moral questions raised by mankind's tendency to search for dangerous knowledge. He contrasts J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance of guilt for the atomic bombings with Edward Teller's dismissal of the same. In his own field of literary criticism he argues against the neutral analysis of immoral works as "pure literature," illustrating his point with a critique of the Marquis de Sade. Forbidden Knowledge is a stimulating and forceful intellectual argument against moral relativism, as well as a practical approach to difficult ethical problems, from genetic engineering to pornography. [via]
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From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science And Ideas in the Twentieth Centuryby F. David PeatISBN 0309096200 (0-309-09620-0)
Softcover, Natl Academy Pr
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Genes, Girls and Gamow : After the Double Helixby James D. WatsonISBN 0375727159 (0-375-72715-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix'Book summary:Readers unfamiliar with James D. Watson's previous memoir, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, may be surprised that his new one pays as much attention to his pursuit of the perfect woman as to the pursuit of knowledge. But Watson's 1968 book wasn't a bestseller because of its scientific material (though it was lucidly written for the general public); it was his candid portrait of professional rivalries, consuming ambition, and personal eccentricities that made it both popular and controversial. Even today, Watson's lively prose and decidedly frank opinions are still far from the norm. Oh sure, Girls, Genes, and Gamow contains plenty of information about his efforts (with colleagues ranging from bongo-playing Richard Feynman to the free-spirited George Gamow) to unravel the complexities of the RNA molecule from 1953 to '56. But Watson--still in his 20s at the time--also devotes pages to hard drinking, bitter marital breakups, and unwanted pregnancies among his not-so-high-minded peers, and his own anguished affair with a Swarthmore undergrad who left him for a German engineering student. It's not every Nobel Prize-winning biologist who would admit he was thrilled to have his photo in Vogue because it would "make 'with it' American girls more eager to know me," but that boyish openness gives Watson's book its charm. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Genes, Girls, and Gamowby James D. WatsonISBN 0198509766 (0-19-850976-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Ghost With Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Speciesby Scott WeidensaulISBN 0374246645 (0-374-24664-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Giants' Shoulders: Great Scientists and Their Discoveries from Archimedes to DNAby Melvyn BraggISBN 0340712597 (0-340-71259-7)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Futureby Charles Van DorenISBN 0345373162 (0-345-37316-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future'Book summary:A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history.
"Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows."
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Human Sexual Responseby William H. Masters, Virginia E. JohnsonISBN 0316549878 (0-316-54987-8)
Hardcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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I, Robotby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345331397 (0-345-33139-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Imagining Numbers: Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteenby Barry MazurISBN 0312421877 (0-312-42187-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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In the Likeness of God: The Dr. Paul Brand Tribute Edition of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and in His Imageby Paul Brand, Philip YanceyISBN 0310257425 (0-310-25742-5)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Likeness of God: The Dr. Paul Brand Tribute Edition of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and in His Image'Book summary:The human body is a likeness of God, its design revealing insights into the church, the 'body of Christ' For bestselling author Philip Yancey, the late Dr. Paul Brand---the brilliant hand surgeon who devoted his life to the poorest people of India and Louisiana---was also a likeness of God, living the kind of Christian life that exemplified what God must have had in mind. In the Likeness of God combines the complete texts of Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image---both Gold Medallion Award--winners which together have sold more than half a million copies---into one volume. Also included for the first time are eight beautiful litanies of praise on the human body by Dr. Brand. In Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, Dr. Paul Brand and bestselling writer Philip Yancey explore the wonder of the human body and uncover the eternal statements that God has made in the very structure of our bodies. Their remarkable journey through inner space---the world of cells, systems, and chemistry---points to a still deeper unseen reality of God's work in our lives. In His Image takes up where the first book leaves off. In five sections---Image, Blood, Head, Spirit, and Pain---the authors unlock the remarkable living lessons contained in our physical makeup. [via]
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In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systemsby Stephen H. KellertISBN 0226429768 (0-226-42976-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Inherit the Windby Robert E. Lee, Jerome LawrenceISBN 0345466276 (0-345-46627-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inherit the Wind'Book summary:One of the most moving and meaningful plays in American theatre--based on the famed Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried for teaching evolution--now on Broadway starring Tony Award® Winners Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy, and Directed by Tony Award® Winner Doug Hughes
The accused was a slight, frightened man who had deliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus, the chief gladiators being the two great legal giants of the century. Locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . Were still arguing this caseall the way to the White House.
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Powerful . . . a crackling good courtroom play . . . [that] provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater.
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[This] historical drama . . . deserves respect.
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Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Geneby Stephen S. HallISBN 0195151593 (0-19-515159-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Lawrence and Oppenheimerby Nuel Pharr DavisISBN 0306802805 (0-306-80280-5)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Librarian Who Measured the Earthby Kathryn Lasky, Kevin HawkesISBN 0316515264 (0-316-51526-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Life and Timeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0380479443 (0-380-47944-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levityby Judith StoneISBN 0345366085 (0-345-36608-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetryby F. E. CloseISBN 019866267X (0-19-866267-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lucifer's Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry'Book summary:Is the universe perfectly balanced? Physicist Frank Close looks at symmetry and the deep structures of the universe in his luminescent book Lucifer's Legacy. Matter and antimatter, positive and negative charge, even the curious properties of quarks all seem to be arranged in diametrically opposed pairs (or triplets, when you consider zero-state properties like neutral charge). Yet we plainly live in a skewed environment--we can't find antimatter unless we make it, almost all of our proteins are left-handed, and there are 10 Windows machines for every Mac. Is this asymmetry essential for life? Is it in fact a necessary consequence of creation? Dr. Close examines these questions and more in intimate but not obsessive detail, showing that life as we know it couldn't exist without a few crucial imbalances. The question of whether or not we just got lucky with this universe is due to be answered in 2005, when CERN, where Close works, will test theories relating to the Big Bang. The author has a gift for explaining the intricacies of particle physics in terms that lay readers can easily grasp and even come to love. His poetic sensibilities, which frame the book and give it its title (from the statue of Lucifer in Paris's Tuileries gardens), reflect the human and cosmic mysteries inherent both in the nature of physics and the work of physicists. There's a wee bit of maths and geometry herein, but not so much to scare off the numerophobic; in fact, the cogent explanations and illustrations may win Close a few converts to hard science. In the final analysis, Lucifer's Legacy carries a hint of irony: it is such a thoroughly good read that you'll find yourself hunting in vain for flaws. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Man Who Knew Too Much : The Inventive Life of Robert Hooke, 1635-1703by Stephen InwoodISBN 0333782860 (0-333-78286-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Marie Curie: A Lifeby Susan QuinnISBN 0201887940 (0-201-88794-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Mathematics And the Unexpectedby Ivar EkelandISBN 0226199908 (0-226-19990-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"In this brief, elegant treatise, assessable to anyone who likes to think, Ivar Ekelund explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics. He examines randomness, the geometry involved in making predictions, and why general trends are easy to project (it will snow in January) but particulars are practically impossible (it will snow from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the 21st)."Village VoiceMore editions of Mathematics And the Unexpected:
Migraineby Oliver W. SacksISBN 037570406X (0-375-70406-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Western Regionby Richard Spellenberg, National Audubon SocietyISBN 0375402330 (0-375-40233-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of Mind/Brainby Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0262530856 (0-262-53085-6)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of Mind/Brain'Book summary:Five chapters in the book's first part, "Some Elementary Neuroscience," sketch the history of the science of nervous systems and provide a general introduction to neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropsychology. In the second part, "Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science," chapters place the mind-body problem within the wider context of the philosophy of science. Drawing on recent research in this area, a general account of intertheoretic reduction is explained, arguments for a reductionist strategy are developed, and traditional objections from dualists and other anti reductionists are answered in novel ways. The third part, "A Neurophilosophical Perspective," concludes the book with a presentation and discussion of some of the most promising theoretical developments currently under exploration in functional neurobiology and in the connectionist models within artificial intelligence research.Patricia Churchland is Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego. A Bradford Book.
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The New Encyclopedia of Mammalsby Sasha Norris, David W. MacdonaldISBN 0198508239 (0-19-850823-9)
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Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolutionby Peter J. Richerson, Robert BoydISBN 0226712842 (0-226-71284-2)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Not by Genes Alone : How Culture Transformed Human Evolution'Book summary:Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics.[via]
Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economicsand building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry themRicherson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature.
In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come.
I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable. Robin Dunbar, Nature
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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolutionby Robert Boyd, Peter J. RichersonISBN 0226712125 (0-226-71212-5)
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Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approachby Karl Raimund PopperISBN 0198750242 (0-19-875024-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Orangesby John A. McPheeISBN 0374512973 (0-374-51297-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oranges'Book summary:A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Floridas Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Frostproof, Florida who may be the last of the individual orange barons. McPhees astonishing book has an almost narrative progression, is immensely readable, and is frequently amusing. Louis XIV hung tapestries of oranges in the halls of Versailles, because oranges and orange trees were the symbols of his nature and his reign. This book, in a sense, is a tapestry of oranges, toowith elements in it that range from the great orangeries of European monarchs to a custom of people in the modern Caribbean who split oranges and clean floors with them, one half in each hand.[via] 
The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscienceby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0312294115 (0-312-29411-5)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Beingby John D. BarrowISBN 0316082597 (0-316-08259-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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The Road Since Structureby KuhnISBN 0226457990 (0-226-45799-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road Since Structure'Book summary:It is possible that no book written in the last 50 years has had an influence as profound and far-reaching as Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn's argument that scientific knowledge does not develop cumulatively, but rather proceeds by a series of "paradigm shifts," captivated not only philosophers of science, but scholars in a wide range of academic disciplines. The Road Since Structure is a follow-up to his landmark work and a look at Kuhn's theory since the book's original publication in 1962.
In keeping with Kuhn's wishes (he died in 1996), editors James Conant and John Haugeland organized The Road Since Structure to include 11 philosophical essays written since 1970. In the first part of the book, Kuhn spells out his theory as it developed in the 1980s and 1990s; in the second part, he replies to a number of criticisms and misreadings. The third section is a fascinating interview with Kuhn conducted less than a year before he died. For general interest readers, the lengthy interview--in which Kuhn candidly and engagingly discusses the trials and tribulations of his life and philosophical career--will probably be the most interesting part of the book. For those attuned to Kuhn's controversial work, The Road Since Structure is an indispensable aid for understanding his theory as it developed and for appreciating the full force of his replies to a host of critical objections. As always, Kuhn's clarity and fluid prose render accessible a field fraught with opaque writing. --Eric de Place [via]
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The Road Since Structure: Philosophical Essays, 1970-1993, With an Autobiographical Interviewby Thomas S. Kuhn, James Conant, John HaugelandISBN 0226457982 (0-226-45798-2)
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In keeping with Kuhn's wishes (he died in 1996), editors James Conant and John Haugeland organized The Road Since Structure to include 11 philosophical essays written since 1970. In the first part of the book, Kuhn spells out his theory as it developed in the 1980s and 1990s; in the second part, he replies to a number of criticisms and misreadings. The third section is a fascinating interview with Kuhn conducted less than a year before he died. For general interest readers, the lengthy interview--in which Kuhn candidly and engagingly discusses the trials and tribulations of his life and philosophical career--will probably be the most interesting part of the book. For those attuned to Kuhn's controversial work, The Road Since Structure is an indispensable aid for understanding his theory as it developed and for appreciating the full force of his replies to a host of critical objections. As always, Kuhn's clarity and fluid prose render accessible a field fraught with opaque writing. --Eric de Place [via]
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Robot Trilogy : The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawnby Isaac AsimovISBN 0345331192 (0-345-33119-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materialsby Mary GribbinISBN 0375831444 (0-375-83144-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials'Book summary:Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy is renowned for its mystery and magic. Whats the truth behind it all? Is the golden compass actually based in science? How does the subtle knife cut through anything? Could there be a bomb like the one made with Lyras hair? How do the Gallivespians lodestone resonators really work? And, of course, what are the Dark Materials? Drawing on string theory and spacetime, quantum physics and chaos theory, award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveal the real science behind Philip Pullmans bestselling fantasy trilogy in entertaining and crystal-clear prose. [via]
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A Short History of Chemistryby Isaac AsimovISBN 0313207690 (0-313-20769-0)
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Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmenby Clifford A. PickoverISBN 0306457849 (0-306-45784-9)
Hardcover, Plenum Publishing Company Limited
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The Structure of Scientific Theoriesby Frederick SuppeISBN 0252006348 (0-252-00634-8)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Tao of Science: An Essay on Western Knowledge and Easby Ralph G. SiuISBN 0262690047 (0-262-69004-7)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Trees: A Guide to Familiar American Treesby Alexander C. Martin, Herbert Spencer Zim, Sy Barlowe, Dorothea BarloweISBN 0307240568 (0-307-24056-8)
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Trees of North Americaby Christian Frank BrockmanISBN 0307136582 (0-307-13658-2)
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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworldsby Mitchel ResnickISBN 0262680939 (0-262-68093-9)
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Warmth Disperses and Time Passesby Hans Christian Von BaeyerISBN 0375753729 (0-375-75372-9)
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Weather: Air Masses, Clouds, Rainfall, Storms, Weather Maps, Climate,by Herbert S. Zim, Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, Harry McKnaughtISBN 0307240517 (0-307-24051-7)
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Wider Than The Sky: The Phenomenal Gift Of Consciousnessby Gerald M. EdelmanISBN 0300107617 (0-300-10761-7)
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Wildflowers of North Americaby Frank D. VenningISBN 0307136647 (0-307-13664-7)
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A Wind in the Doorby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0312368542 (0-312-36854-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wind in the Door'Book summary:"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
The World Within the Worldby John D. BarrowISBN 0198519796 (0-19-851979-6)
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Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousnessby James H. AustinISBN 0262511096 (0-262-51109-6)
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