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How We Do Harm

A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America

Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., with Paul Goldberg St. Martin's Press

How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest...

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Feynman

By Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick First Second

Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker. In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents...

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The Believing Brain

From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

Michael Shermer Times Books

Bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and...

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Hardcover : $47.99 Buy	Handbook of Technical Writing, Tenth Edition Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu St. Martin's Press Now in its tenth edition, this classic book remains the complete technical-writing reference for students and professionals alike. Alphabetically organized and...

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The Viral Storm

The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

Nathan Wolfe Times Books

Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic...

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Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony

A Psychological Portrait

Keith Ablow St. Martin's Press

From America’s #1 forensic psychiatrist, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson and acclaimed contributor to...

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The Song of the Ape

Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees

Andrew R. Halloran St. Martin's Press

An absorbing investigation of chimpanzee language and communication by a young primatologist While working as a zookeeper with a group of semi-wild...

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Death in the Dark Continent

Peter Hathaway Capstick St. Martin's Press

Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Capstick...

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The Forever Fix

Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It

Ricki Lewis St. Martin's Press

Fascinating narrative science that explores the next frontier in medicine and genetics through the very personal prism of the children and families gene...

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Hardcover : $55.00 Buy	The Fractal Geometry of Nature Benoit B. Mandelbrot Times Books Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, and lightening does not travel in a straight line. The complexity of nature's shapes differs in kind, not...

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The African Adventurers

A Return to the Silent Places

Peter Hathaway Capstick St. Martin's Press

Peter Capstick has been hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark. Only Capstick "can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the...

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Dolphin Diaries

My 25 Years with Spotted Dolphins in the Bahamas

Dr. Denise L. Herzing St. Martin's Press

Dr. Denise Herzing began her research with a pod of spotted dolphins in the 1980s. Now, almost three decades later, she has forged strong ties with many of...

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Hardcover : $16.99 Buy	Celebritrees Historic and Famous Trees of the World Margi Preus, illustrations by Rebecca Gibbon Henry Holt / Christy Ottaviano Books Some trees have lived many lifetimes, standing as silent witnesses to history. Some are remarkable for their age and stature; others for their usefulness. A...

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When Oil Peaked

Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang

In two earlier books, Hubbert’s Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil...

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Dance of the Photons

From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation

Anton Zeilinger Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Einstein’s steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he...

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American Anthrax

Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack

Jeanne Guillemin Times Books

From Jeanne Guillemin, one of the world's leading experts on anthrax and bioterrorism, the definitive account of the anthrax investigation It was the most...

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The Evolutionary World

How Adaptation Explains Everything from Seashells to Civilization

Geerat J. Vermeij Thomas Dunne Books

“One of the master naturalists of our time” (American Scientist) reveals how evolutionary theory explains and affects not just the natural world but our...

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Chasing Ghosts, Texas Style

On the Road with Everyday Paranormal

Brad and Barry Klinge with Kathy Passero Thomas Dunne Books

Part high-adventure tale, part autobiography, this page-turner recounts the eerie experiences that convinced brothers Brad and Barry Klinge, founders of...

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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	True Witness Cops, Courts, Science, and the Battle against Misidentification James M. Doyle Palgrave Macmillan Honest but mistaken eyewitnesses are the leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. As the innocent go to prison their lives are shattered; as...

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The Artificial Ape

How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution

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Timothy Taylor Palgrave Macmillan

A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees,...

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Blood and Guts

A History of Surgery

Richard Hollingham Thomas Dunne Books

Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible. But...

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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Left in the Dust How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A. Karen Piper Palgrave Macmillan For fans of Erin Brockovich, the compelling story of one woman's fight to expose an environmental disaster

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Space on Earth

Saving Our World by Seeking Others

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Charles S. Cockell Palgrave Macmillan

Many environmentalists think going into space detracts from solving problems here on Earth. Many astrophysicists feel environmentalism hampers their...

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Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Eternity Our Next Billion Years MacSci Michael Hanlon Palgrave Macmillan It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Bleak predictions by psychics and scientists alike portend extreme...

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