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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

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	Science's First Mistake Delusions in Pursuit of Theory Ian Angell; Dionysios Demetis Bloomsbury USA "The questions posed by the authors in their book are important. They are also a good reminder to constantly consider the dialectic between knowledge, authority, and its relationship with certainty."—*New York Journal of Books*

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	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...

Hardcover : $16.95 Buy	Why Sht Happens The Science of a Really Bad Day Peter J. Bentley, PhD Rodale Books Have you ever fallen victim to Murphy’s law? Sometimes bad things just happen. In Why Sht Happens, esteemed British scientist Peter J. Bentley takes readers...

Hardcover : $25.00 Buy	E=mc2 A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation David Bodanis; With a new introduction by Simon Singh Walker & Company To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s miracle year of discoveries, a new edition of the bestselling “biography” of his famous equation Generations...

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

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Evolution A Little History of a Great Idea Wooden Books Gerard Cheshire Walker & Company The smallest book on evolution asks big questions. Anticipating the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species throughout 2009, Evolution...

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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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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	100 Heartbeats The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species Jeff Corwin Rodale Books Popular television host Jeff Corwin takes readers on a gripping journey around the world to meet the animals threatened by extinction It’s no secret that...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	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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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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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...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Edison and the Electric Chair A Story of Light and Death Mark Essig Walker & Company A Discover magazine Top Science Book Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the...

Trade Paperback : $39.95 Buy	Horses, 3rd Edition A Guide to Selection, Care, and Enjoyment J. Warren 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....

Hardcover : $29.95 Buy	The Lost World of James Smithson Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian Heather Ewing Bloomsbury USA In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift—a half-million dollar bequest to establish a foundation in Washington “for the...

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	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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Bottled Lightning

Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy

Seth Fletcher Hill and Wang

The sleek electronic tools that have become so ubiquitous—laptops, iPods, eReaders, and smart phones—are all powered by lithium batteries. Chances are you’ve...

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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

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,...