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Beyond Oil

The View from Hubbert's Peak

Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang

"This work would be useful as a current holding for serving students of political science, economics, science, and technology."—W.C. Peters, Choice

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When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish

And Other Speculations About This and That

Martin Gardner Hill and Wang

"If you're already addicted to Martin Gardner's plain prose, gentle, reasonable voice, exhaustive research and relentless logic, you will want to add this book to your collection . . . While [he] has always called himself 'strictly a journalist,' he should really be honored as one of this country's greatest cultural treasures."—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

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Junk Science

An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups That Twist Science for Their Own Gain

Dan Agin, Ph.D. St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

"Junk Science is a passionate, minutely-informed and scrupulously fair analysis of all the abuses and misuses of science that are rampant today—a clarion call to action which concerns us all. One might wish that such a book were not needed, but it is, more now than ever before."—Oliver Sacks, M.D., author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat

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The Survival Game

How Game Theory Explains the Biology of Cooperation and Competition

David P. Barash Holt Paperbacks

"An accessible, intriguing explanation of game theory . . . that can help explain much human behavior." -Seattle Post-Intelligencer Humans, like...

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Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	Galileo's Commandment 2,500 Years of Great Science Writing Edited by Edmund Blair Bolles Holt Paperbacks Bolles has scoured the literature of science to build a treasury that is accessible and riveting, and therefore appealing to readers unfamiliar with science,...

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Thin Ice

Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains

Mark Bowen A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

“One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read.”—Bill McKibben, The New...

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The Lost King of France

How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Deborah Cadbury St. Martin's Griffin

Royalty, revolution, and scientific mystery---the dramatic true account of the fate of Louis XVII, son of Marie Antoinette, and an extraordinary detective...

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Competition

The Birth of a New Science

James Case Hill and Wang

"James Case strikes at the heart of modern neoclassical analysis with this penetrating exploration of the reigning orthodoxy and the alternatives we need to consider. The implications for economic thought are startling. The implications for economic policy are stunning."—Louis Galambos, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University

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Armageddon Science

The Science of Mass Destruction

Clegg, Brian St. Martin's Press

Climate change. Nuclear devastation. Bio-hazards. The Large Hadron Collider. What do these things have in common? They all have the potential to end our world....

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If Dogs Could Talk

Exploring the Canine Mind

Vilmos Csányi; Translated by Richard E. Quandt North Point Press

“This book is endlessly enlightening and entertaining . . . will appeal to all dog owners.” —Ann LaFarge, Taconic News How do dogs think? Short of breeding...

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The Unfolding of Language

An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

Guy Deutscher A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

[Deutscher is] excellent at introducing readers to new ideas and would serve well in the library of the armchair linguist or on the desktop of someone teaching undergraduate courses on language . . . [He is] skilled enough at [his] craft that [he] often sum[s] up a complex idea in a pithy way that will have you reaching for the highlighter."—Academia

Trade Paperback : $31.99 Buy	The New Turing Omnibus Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science A. K. Dewdney Holt Paperbacks No other volume provides as broad, as thorough, or as accessible an introduction to the realm of computers as A. K. Dewdney's The Turing Omnibus. Updated...

Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Maggots, Murder, and Men Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist Dr. Zakaria Erzinçlioglu St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books The science of forensic entomology-the application of insect biology to the investigation of crime-is extremely specialized, combining as it does an expert...

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Horses, 3rd Edition

A Guide to Selection, Care, and Enjoyment

Warren J. Evans Holt Paperbacks

For almost twenty years, Horses has been the definitive horse care manual, an indispensable reference for anyone who shows, races, breeds, or rides horses....

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In Search of Time

The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time

Dan Falk St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books

Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet...

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Our Posthuman Future

Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

Francis Fukuyama Picador

"In this groundbreaking inquiry, Fukuyama warns that advances in drugs and genetic engineering will allow society to control human behavior and manipulate physical characteristics—and this power could alter our understanding of what it means to be human . . . In a contentious and fast-moving policy area, Fukuyama provides a remarkably sensible and human vision of what is at stake and what needs to be done."—Foreign Affairs

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Trade Paperback : $22.99 Buy	Critical Path R. Buckminster Fuller; Kiyoshi Kuromiya, Adjuvant St. Martin's Griffin R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect,...

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Bad Science

Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Ben Goldacre Faber and Faber, Inc.

Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol...

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On Intelligence

Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee St. Martin's Griffin

"I've read dozens of books about the human brain and how it works. On Intelligence, with its chatty style and cross-references to the computer technology so ubiquitous in our lives today, is far and away the best."—Lynn Yarris, San Jose Mercury News

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Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions

Brian Hayes Hill and Wang

Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today—a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by...

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The Einstein File

J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist

Fred Jerome St. Martin's Griffin

"A highly readable book—investigative journalism that qualifies as academic history."—Harper's Magazine

"A well-written provocative book that could—and should—alter the way Hoover and Einstein are viewed."—The Denver Post

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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

Olivia Judson A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book

"Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is a thoroughly engaging and exhaustively researched account of the numerous different kinds of sexual behavior that biologists have observed in the natural world. By human standards, much of this behavior is quite kinky (my favorite is the description of blow hole sex among Amazon River dolphins). However, as Olivia Judson explains, it is quite natural within its own context."—Richard Morris, author of The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin's Soul

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Evidence of Harm

Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy

David Kirby St. Martin's Griffin

In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided...

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Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	Goldberger's War The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader Alan M. Kraut Hill and Wang "A fascinating story that is not only a classic narrative of American opportunity and immigrant achievement but also a revealing contribution to the histories of medicine and public health, social policy, and scientific practice and bioethics."—Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard University

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