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175 Amazing Nature Experimentsby Rosie Harlow, Gareth MorganISBN 0679820434 (0-679-82043-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Adventures of a Mathematicianby S.M. UlamISBN 0684143917 (0-684-14391-7)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Lifeby Walter IsaacsonISBN 0684807610 (0-684-80761-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Benjamin Franklin: An American Life'Book summary:Benjamin Franklin, writes journalist and biographer Walter Isaacson, was that rare Founding Father who would sooner wink at a passer-by than sit still for a formal portrait. What's more, Isaacson relates in this fluent and entertaining biography, the revolutionary leader represents a political tradition that has been all but forgotten today, one that prizes pragmatism over moralism, religious tolerance over fundamentalist rigidity, and social mobility over class privilege. That broadly democratic sensibility allowed Franklin his contradictions, as Isaacson shows. Though a man of lofty principles, Franklin wasn't shy of using sex to sell the newspapers he edited and published; though far from frivolous, he liked his toys and his mortal pleasures; and though he sometimes gave off a simpleton image, he was a shrewd and even crafty politician. Isaacson doesn't shy from enumerating Franklins occasional peccadilloes and shortcomings, in keeping with the iconoclastic nature of our time--none of which, however, stops him from considering Benjamin Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age," and one of the most admirable of any era. And heres one bit of proof: as a young man, Ben Franklin regularly went without food in order to buy books. His example, as always, is a good one--and this is just the book to buy with the proceeds from the grocery budget. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Boltzmann's Atom : The Great Debate That Launched a Revolution in Physicsby David LindleyISBN 0684851865 (0-684-85186-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Build Your Own Telescopeby Richard BerryISBN 0684184761 (0-684-18476-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universeby Joel AchenbachISBN 0684848562 (0-684-84856-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Catby Juliet Clutton-BrockISBN 0679814582 (0-679-81458-2)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat'Book summary:Full-color photos. Take a look at the evolution, anatomy, and behavior of those fabulous felines--how they were revered by the ancient Egyptians and then reviled during the Middle Ages, why they nearly always land on their feet when they fall, and how the most cuddly house cat resembles its fiercest wild relative. [via]
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Cleft Lip and Palateby M. C. Johnston, R. Bruce RossISBN 0683073680 (0-683-07368-0)
Hardcover, Williams & Wilkins
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Clinically Oriented Anatomyby Keith L. MooreISBN 068306133X (0-683-06133-X)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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A Color of His Ownby Leo LionniISBN 0679887857 (0-679-88785-7)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Color of His Own'Book summary:Every animal has a color of its own. "Parrots are green, elephants are gray, pigs are pink." But chameleons change color wherever they go. "On lemons they are yellow. In the heather they are purple." One chameleon is not pleased with his changeable appearance. He thinks, "If I remain on a leaf, I shall be green forever, and so I too will have a color of my own." Of course, what he doesn't take into account is the changes wrought by autumn, and soon the green chameleon is yellow, then red, and then tumbled to the ground for the long black winter night. It isn't until he befriends another older, wiser chameleon that our hero begins to find inner peace, even as his outer surface is transformed again and again.
Leo Lionni, children's book creator extraordinaire, author of such beloved picture books as Frederick, Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Swimmy, and Inch by Inch, all Caldecott Honor winners, introduces color concepts in an exquisite and touching story. This small board book edition of the classic tale of self-acceptance and friendship will be a favorite for toddlers and parents alike. (Baby to preschool) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Concepts Of Geneticsby William S. Klug, Michael R. CummingsISBN 0675200105 (0-675-20010-5)
Hardcover, Merrill
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A Country Year : Living the Questionsby Sue HubbellISBN 0679769501 (0-679-76950-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Creationistsby Ronald M. NumbersISBN 0679401040 (0-679-40104-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Deep Atlantic : Life, Death and Exploration in the Abyssby Richard EllisISBN 0679433244 (0-679-43324-4)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Doctor Copernicusby John BanvilleISBN 0679737995 (0-679-73799-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Dolphinsby Margaret Davidson, Sharon Bokoske, CourtneyISBN 0679844376 (0-679-84437-6)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dolphins'Book summary:Illus. in full color. Chock-full of information about the most sensitive, intelligent, and friendly of large aquatic creatures, Dolphins! should fare swimmingly with kids who read about whales and sharks. [via]
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Dolphins!by Sharon Bokoske, Margaret Davidson, CourtneyISBN 0679944370 (0-679-94437-0)
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The Ends of the Earth: The Polar Regions of the Worldby Isaac AsimovISBN 0679401237 (0-679-40123-7)
Hardcover, Weybright and Talley
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The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perceptionby Don GiffordISBN 0679733329 (0-679-73332-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Fishby Steve ParkerISBN 0679904395 (0-679-90439-5)
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Flying Machineby Andrew NahumISBN 0679807446 (0-679-80744-6)
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Fossilby Paul D. TaylorISBN 0679804404 (0-679-80440-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fossil'Book summary:Full-color photos. "A fine addition to the series, combining stunning photos and a brief, lucid, logically organized text filled with fascinating details. Discussions of fossilization, moving continents, and fossils of the future will be particularly helpful for young scientists. Brief biographical sketches of prominent scientists, as well as information on plant and animal fossils (including early man), are also included."--Kirkus. [via]
Galaxies and Other Deep-Sky Objectsby Gary MechlerISBN 0679779965 (0-679-77996-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Windby Lyall WatsonISBN 0688056237 (0-688-05623-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Histology: A Text and Atlasby Gordon I. Kaye, Lynn J. Romrell, Michael H. RossISBN 0683073699 (0-683-07369-9)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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Histology: A Text and Atlasby Wojciech Pawlina, Gordon I. Kaye, Michael H. RossISBN 0683302426 (0-683-30242-6)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexityby Brian GoodwinISBN 0684804514 (0-684-80451-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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How We Liveby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0679781404 (0-679-78140-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How We Live'Book summary:After he won the National Book Award for How We Die, physician and popular medical writer Sherwin Nuland noticed that book critics kept referring to his next book, The Wisdom of the Body, as How We Live. Rather than fight the tide, he embraced the nickname and reissued the book. How We Live is a fascinating examination of the machinery of life. Dr. Nuland begins his meditation with a hair-raising account of a medical emergency that nearly ends in disaster: a 40-year-old woman almost bleeds to death on the operating table as he and other doctors struggle frantically to find the source of the hemorrhage. Eventually, Dr. Nuland and his team are able to locate the cause--a rare aneurysm of the splenic artery--and repair it. The patient survives. How We Live, Dr. Nuland tells us, grew out of the experiences of that night and his certainty that Marge Hanson lived because of her own will and the surgical team's will not to let her die. That "will to live" is what Dr. Nuland calls the Human Spirit, and spirit is very much a part of the body's wisdom.
Each chapter of How We Live focuses on a different biological function, from the work of the lymph nodes to the process of pregnancy and birth. The heart, the nervous and digestive systems, the sex organs, and the brain are all explored and commented on with clarity and grace. But Dr. Nuland is not content with merely providing an operating manual for the body. He is in a constant state of wonder at what a miraculous and mysterious thing the body is: a dynamic system of parts all working in concert, infused with that fierce, intangible quality--the human spirit. [via]
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Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Lifeby David FeldmanISBN 0688059139 (0-688-05913-9)
Hardcover, W. Morrow
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life'Book summary:In gathering the most fascinating questions asked about science into a handy Gem format, pop culture guru David Feldman demystifies these and much more in Imponderables®: Science. Providing you with information you can't find in encyclopedias, dictionaries, or almanacs, Science is a fun look at the little things that make life so interesting.
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Influenceby Robert B. CialdiniISBN 0688041078 (0-688-04107-8)
Softcover, Quill
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The Interpretation of Dreamsby Sigmund Freud, A.A. BrillISBN 067960121X (0-679-60121-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interpretation of Dreams'Book summary:Whether we love or hate Sigmund Freud, we all have to admit that he revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. Much of this revolution can be traced to The Interpretation of Dreams, the turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness. While there's no question that his own biases and neuroses influenced his observations, the details are less important than the paradigm shift as a whole. After Freud, our interior lives became richer and vastly more mysterious.
These mysteries clearly bothered him--he went to great (often absurd) lengths to explain dream imagery in terms of childhood sexual trauma, a component of his theory jettisoned mid-century, though now popular among recovered-memory therapists. His dispassionate analyses of his own dreams are excellent studies for cognitive scientists wishing to learn how to sacrifice their vanities for the cause of learning. Freud said of the work contained in The Interpretation of Dreams, "Insight such as this falls to one's lot but once in a lifetime." One would have to feel quite fortunate to shake the world even once. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Introductory Oceanographyby Harold V. ThurmanISBN 067508699X (0-675-08699-X)
Hardcover, Merrill
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Inventionby Lionel BenderISBN 0679807829 (0-679-80782-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invention'Book summary:Full-color photos. The evolution of human civilization is traced through the tools people have devised to shape and improve the world--from the simple abacus to timekeeping items, telephones, and complex silicon chips. [via]
Limitations of Scienceby J. W. SullivanISBN 067803172X (0-678-03172-X)
Hardcover, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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Manual of Postoperative Management in Adult Cardiac Surgeryby Carlos E. Moreno-Cabral, R. Scott Mitchell, D. Craig MillerISBN 0683061461 (0-683-06146-1)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manual of Postoperative Management in Adult Cardiac Surgery'Book summary:This text presents the principles of care of the cardiac surgical patient as practiced at Stanford University Medical Center. An effort has been made to keep this review short and at the same time include most of the basic information necessary for clinical decision making. This manual should help the novice general surgery resident, medical student, intensive care unit nurse, and others involved in the care of critically ill patients get acquainted with this demanding specialty. Similarly, it may offer a different perspective to the beginning cardiothoracic surgical resident and the more seasoned surgeon. [via]
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Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Scienceby Thomas LevensonISBN 0684804344 (0-684-80434-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Meditations at 10,000 Feet: A Scientist in the Mountainsby James TrefilISBN 0684186276 (0-684-18627-6)
Hardcover, C. Scribner's sons
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Meditations at Sunset: A Scientist Looks at the Skyby James TrefilISBN 0684187876 (0-684-18787-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Memory's Ghost: The Nature of Memory and the Strange Tale of Mr. M.by Philip J. HiltsISBN 068482356X (0-684-82356-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Memory's Ghost: The Strange Tale of Mr. M. and the Nature of Memoryby Philip J. HiltsISBN 0684803569 (0-684-80356-9)
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Monster Bugsby Lucille Recht Penner, Pamela JohnsonISBN 0679869743 (0-679-86974-3)
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Monster Bugsby Pamela Johnson, Lucille Recht PennerISBN 0679969748 (0-679-96974-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Monster Bugs'Book summary:Best-selling simplifier of science Lucille Recht Penner unearths the truth about the water bug which sucks its victims' blood like a vampire, the assassin bug which turns its prey to mush with a special poison, and other barbaric bugs. This vividly illustrated collection of sensational but true bug facts is sure to set young readers' skin crawling! [via]
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My First Green Bookby Angela Wilkes, Dorling Kindersley Publishing StaffISBN 0679805834 (0-679-80583-4)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My First Science Book'Book summary:Full-color photos. Step-by-step photos and easy-to-follow instructions accompany 20 fascinating science projects, from growing crystals to making musical instruments. A simple text and life-size photos combine to make scientific principles clear, comprehensible, and fun to explore. [via]
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My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdosby Bruce SchechterISBN 0684859807 (0-684-85980-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos'Book summary:Physicist and science writer Bruce Schechter's biography of legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös is an engaging portrait, warm and intimate, bringing this strange, happy man to life. Schechter's focus is quite a bit tighter, and more traditionally biographical, than Paul Hoffman's in The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. Here, we get to see Erdös's brief childhood transform quickly into a carefree adolescence of solving difficult math problems with his circle of brilliant friends--uniquely encouraged by a country that valued the contributions of mathematics in a way that has never been equaled. Fleeing the Holocaust, Erdös never settled down, instead traveling from place to place, showing up on the doorsteps of other mathematicians with his few possessions and an open mind. During his career, Erdös published more papers than any other mathematician in history. Most of the papers were collaborations:
For Erdös, the mathematics that consumed most of his waking hours was not a solitary pursuit but a social activity. One of the great mathematical discoveries of the twentieth century was the simple equation that two heads are better than one.... That radical transformation of how mathematics is created is the result of many factors, not the least of which was the infectious example set by Erdös.
Schechter spoke with many of Erdös's collaborators to complete this biography, which reveals the odd mathematician as charming, opinionated, and completely dependent upon the kindness of others. Schechter not only tells his fascinating story, but introduces some intriguing mathematics problems (with easy-to-understand explanations) to show readers why Erdös loved the elegance of numbers more than anything else in the world. --Therese Littleton [via]
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depressionby Andrew SolomonISBN 0684854678 (0-684-85467-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression'Book summary:Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly path through the subject of depression--exposing all the discordant views and "answers" offered by science, philosophy, law, psychology, literature, art, and history. The result is a sprawling and thoroughly engrossing study, brilliantly synthesized by author Andrew Solomon.
Deceptively simple chapter titles (including "Breakdowns," "Treatments," "Addiction," "Suicide") each sit modestly atop a virtual avalanche of Solomon's intellect. This is not a book to be skimmed. But Solomon commands the language--and his topic--with such grace and empathy that the constant flow of references, poems, and quotations in his paragraphs arrive like welcome dinner guests. A longtime sufferer of severe depression himself, Solomon willingly shares his life story with readers. He discusses updated information on various drugs and treatment approaches while detailing his own trials with them. He describes a pharmaceutical company's surreal stage production (involving Pink Floyd, kick dancers, and an opener à la Cats) promoting a new antidepressant to their sales team. He chronicles his research visits to assorted mental institutions, which left him feeling he would "much rather engage with every manner of private despair than spend a protracted time" there. Under Solomon's care, however, such tales offer much more than shock value. They show that depression knows no social boundaries, manifests itself quite differently in each person, and has become political. And, while it may worsen or improve, depression will never be eradicated. Hope lies in finding ways--as Solomon clearly has--to harness its powerful lessons. --Liane Thomas [via]
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Peacemaking Among Primatesby Frans De WaalISBN 067465921X (0-674-65921-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Perelandraby C. S. LewisISBN 0684833654 (0-684-83365-4)
Hardcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perelandra'Book summary:Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of which Perelandra is the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus's The Plague and George Orwell's 1984 as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom after his dear friend J. R. R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Namia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time.
In Perelandra, Dr. Ransom is recruited by the denizens of Malacandra, befriended in Out of the Silent Planet, to rescue the edenic planet Perelandra and its peace-loving populace from a terrible threat: a malevolent being from another world who strives to create a new world order, and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so. [via]
Planets and Their Moonsby Gary Mechler, Steven Kent Croft, Melinda HutsonISBN 0679779973 (0-679-77997-3)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Psychology: The Briefer Courseby William JamesISBN 0674721020 (0-674-72102-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holesby Frederic GoldenISBN 0684145014 (0-684-14501-4)
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Reading the Mind of God: In Search of the Principle of Universalityby James Trefil, Judith PeatrossISBN 0684187965 (0-684-18796-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Placeby Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 0679740244 (0-679-74024-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place'Book summary:The only constants in nature are change and death. Terry Tempest Williams, a naturalist and writer from northern Utah, has seen her share of both. The pages of Refuge resound with the deaths of her mother and grandmother and other women from cancer, the result of the American government's ongoing nuclear-weapons tests in the nearby Nevada desert. You won't find the episode in the standard history textbooks; the Feds wouldn't admit to conducting the tests until women and men in Utah, Nevada, and northwestern Arizona took the matter to court in the mid-1980s, and by then thousands of Americans had fallen victim to official technology. Parallel to her account of this devastation, Williams describes changes in bird life at the sanctuaries dotting the shores of the Great Salt Lake as water levels rose during the unusually wet early 1980s and threatened the nesting grounds of dozens of species. In this world of shattered eggs and drowned shorebirds, Williams reckons with the meaning of life, alternating despair and joy. [via]
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Revolution in Scienceby I. Bernard CohenISBN 0674767780 (0-674-76778-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolution in Science'Book summary:Only a scholar as rich in learning as I. Bernard Cohen could do justice to a theme so subtle and yet so grand. Spanning five centuries and virtually all of scientific endeavor, Revolution in Science traces the nuances that differentiate both scientific revolutions and human perceptions of them, weaving threads of detail from physics, mathematics, behaviorism, Freud, atomic physics, and even plate tectonics and molecular biology, into the larger fabric of intellectual history.
How did "revolution," a term from the physical sciences, meaning a turning again and implying permanence and recurrence--the cyclical succession of the seasons, the 'revolutions' of the planets in their orbits--become transformed into an expression for radical change in political and socioeconomic affairs, then become appropriated once again to the sciences?
How have political revolutions--French, American, Bolshevik--and such intellectual forces as Darwinism further modified the concept, from revolution in science as a dramatic break with the past to the idea that science progresses by the slow accumulation of knowledge? And what does each transformation in each historical period tell us about the deep conceptual changes in our image of the scientist and scientific activity?
Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific criteria for determining whether or not there has been a revolution, and the creative factors in producing a revolutionary new idea. His book is a probing analysis of the history of an idea and one of the most impressive surveys of the history of science ever undertaken.
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Revolution in Timeby David S. LandesISBN 0674768027 (0-674-76802-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern Worldby David S. LandesISBN 0674768000 (0-674-76800-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Seat of the Soulby Gary ZukavISBN 0684865181 (0-684-86518-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seat of the Soul'Book summary:Gary Zukav's American Book Award-winning The Dancing Wu Li Masters masterfully introduces the layman to quantum and particle physics, as well as Einstein's relativity theories. With a similar dose of amiable, easy-to-understand prose, Zukav guides readers into the spiritual realm in his bestselling The Seat of the Soul.
Zukav questions the Western model of the soul, alleging that the human species is in the midst of a great transformation, evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses--"external power"--to one that pursues power based upon perceptions of the soul--"authentic power." He believes that humans are immortal souls first, physical beings second, and that once we become conscious of this transformation--once we align our personalities with our soul--we will stimulate our spiritual growth and become better people in the process. This insightful, lucid synthesis of modern psychology and new-age principles has been described as the "physics of the soul." Who better to explain such heady concepts than Gary Zukav? [via]
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His Worldby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0679434453 (0-679-43445-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World'Book summary:Renowned historian Daniel J. Boorstin completes the trilogy he began with The Discoverers and The Creators. The first volume covered explorers, scientists, and historians in their quest for raw knowledge, while the second book describes writers, painters, and composers in their pursuit of inspiring art; The Seekers describes people searching for an understanding of human existence--"Man is the asking animal," notes Boorstin. It's a big, bold theme, and although The Seekers is the shortest work in the trilogy, it's still vintage Boorstin: incredibly learned, richly anecdotal, and casually profound. It begins with the prophets of the Holy Land and the philosophers of ancient Greece, continues through the Renaissance, and concludes with the modern era of the social sciences. "In this long quest [for understanding], Western culture has turned from seeking the end or purpose to seeking causes--from the Why to the How," writes Boorstin. That's a neat summary of Western intellectual development over several thousand years. What other author could put it so succinctly? Boorstin is generally stronger with material that is more recent and more secular, but this is an accomplished book and a worthy capstone to an outstanding three-volume effort. --John J. Miller [via]
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Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhoodby Cynthia Eagle RussettISBN 0674802918 (0-674-80291-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhoodby Cynthia RussettISBN 067480290X (0-674-80290-X)
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Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellectby Lawrence B. SlobodkinISBN 0674808266 (0-674-80826-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Skies of Fury: Weather Weirdness Around the Worldby Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. SvarneyISBN 0684850001 (0-684-85000-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Beginning with a straightforward discussion of earth's "weather engine"--the influence of the sun, the patterns of convection cells, the interaction of winds, the importance of the water cycle--Skies of Fury proceeds to dissect and catalog every major meteorological phenomenon, from the different types of clouds and lightning strikes to F5 tornadoes and billion-dollar hurricanes. The authors pack a lot of facts into this relatively breezy (sorry) and readable book, leaving you well-armed to go out and scout the skies yourself. (And you'll even know precisely what those big red Hs and blue Ls mean on the Weather Channel.) --Paul Hughes [via]
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Sleep Thieves: An Eye-Opening Exploration into the Science and Mysteries of Sleepby Stanley CorenISBN 0684831848 (0-684-83184-8)
Softcover, Free Pr
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The Spiritual Universe: How Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soulby Fred A. WolfISBN 0684812002 (0-684-81200-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten : An Anatomy of Consciousnessby Israel RosenfieldISBN 0679743057 (0-679-74305-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals As Solar Observatoriesby J. L. HeilbronISBN 0674854330 (0-674-85433-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Lifeby K. C. ColeISBN 0688039685 (0-688-03968-5)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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The Thermal Warriors: Strategies of Insect Survivalby Bernd HeinrichISBN 0674883411 (0-674-88341-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A few studies of temperature regulation in butterflies can be found dating back to the late 1800s, but only recently have scientists begun to study the phenomenon in other insects. In The Thermal Warriors Bernd Heinrich explains how, when, and in general what insects regulate their body temperature and what it means to them. As he shows us, the ingenuity of the survival strategies insects have evolved in the irreducible crucible of temperature is astonishing: from shivering and basking, the construction of turrets (certain tiger beetles), and cooling with liquid feces to stilting (some desert ants and beetles), "panting" in grasshoppers and "sweating cicada," and counter- and alternating-currents of blood flow for heat retention and heat loss.
In The Thermal Warriors Heinrich distills his great reference work, The Hot-Blooded Insects, to its essence: the most significant and fascinating stories that illustrate general principles, all conveyed in the always engaging prose we have come to expect from this author.
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The Trouble With Scienceby Robin DunbarISBN 0674910192 (0-674-91019-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Universe Below : Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Seaby William J. Broad, Dimitry SchidlovskyISBN 0684811081 (0-684-81108-1)
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USA Today Weather Bookby Jack Williams, Raphael Sagalyn, Inc., StaffISBN 0679736697 (0-679-73669-7)
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What Counts: How Every Brain Is Hardwired for Mathby Brian ButterworthISBN 0684854171 (0-684-85417-1)
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Whys of a Philosophical Scrivenerby Martin GardnerISBN 068802064X (0-688-02064-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Recalling such philosophers was Wittgenstein and Arendt, The Whys of Philosophical Scrivener embodies Martin Garner's unceasing interest and joy in the impenetrable mysteries of life.More editions of Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener:
The Wild Insideby Linda AllisonISBN 0684161087 (0-684-16108-7)
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The Wisdom of the Body: Discovering the Human Spiritby Sherwin B. NulandISBN 0679444076 (0-679-44407-6)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Woman That Never Evolvedby Sarah HrdyISBN 0674955412 (0-674-95541-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updatesby Sarah Blaffer HrdyISBN 0674955390 (0-674-95539-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman That Never Evolved: With a New Preface and Bibliographical Updates'Book summary:What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males.
In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order.
Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
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