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100 Heartbeats
The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species
Jeff Corwin
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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 our...
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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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Astro Turf
The Private Life of Rocket Science
M.G. Lord
Walker & Company
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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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The Balance Within
The Science Connecting Health and Emotions
Esther M. Sternberg, M.D.
Times Books
Since ancient times humans have felt intuitively that emotions and health are linked, and recently there has been much popular speculation about this notion. ...
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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,
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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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Bozo Sapiens
Why to Err is Human
Ellen Kaplan Michael Kaplan
Bloomsbury Press
Our species, it appears, is hardwired to get things wrong in a staggering variety of ways. Why did recipients of a loan offer accept a higher interest rate...
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Charles and Emma
The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Deborah Heiligman
Henry Holt and Co.
"In this courtship and marriage biography, the author examines an unlikely but powerful bond between cousins, the
Origins of the Species
scientist and the religious devotee love of his life. Beginning with Darwin's 'to marry or not to marry' pro/con lists through Emma editing Charles' autobiography so that it would be less 'offensive,' the couple provided for each other sounding board, respected opposition, and beloved soulmate . . . The volume provides a unique blend of romance, scientific observations, explanations of medical practices prevalent in the early-nineteenth century, and opportunities to examine scientific discoveries and religious beliefs in detail."—
Patti Sylvester Spencer,
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
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Story by Michael Keller, Illustrated by Nicolle Rager Fuller
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John Hogan,
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Chasing Medical Miracles
The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials
Alex O'Meara
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Clinical trials have become a $24 billion industry that is reshaping every aspect of health care development and delivery in the United States and around the...
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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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Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough and Michael Braungart
North Point Press
"Our planet is alive and the wondrous web of biodiversity provides us with all we need—clean air, water, soil, and energy, as well as food, medicine, resources. Whatever we do, that's what should be the highest priority for protection and we have to adapt everything else to that end. With this book, McDonough and Braungart open our eyes to the way to genuine sustainability by the study of nature and mimicking her ways. This is a groundbreaking book that should be the Bible for the Second Industrial Revolution."—
Dr. David Suzuki, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, and author of
Good News for a Change: Hope for a Troubled Planet
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The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
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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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Descartes
The Life and times of a Genius
A C Grayling
Walker & Company
Scientist, mathematician, traveler, soldier—and spy—Rene Descartes was one of the founders of the modern world. His life coincided with an extraordinary time...
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Dinner at the New Gene Café
How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
Bill Lambrecht
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"Lambrecht's work on this vital topic not only led the rest of the world media, but also gave government leaders in many countries their first clue of what was happening within their borders . . . His style of reporting and writing not only vividly explains this complex topic to the reader, but he does it with color and background that makes the book a great read."—
Andrew Schneider, Senior National Correspondent,
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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?
And Answers to 100 Other Weird and Wacky Questions About How the World Works
New Scientist
Holt Paperbacks
The magazine behind the runaway bestsellers
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Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
Olivia Judson
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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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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...
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Earth in the Balance
Ecology and the Human Spirit
Al Gore
Rodale Books
"This obviously isn't a standard politician's book, tossed off in a few weekends with aides doing most of the work and the famous man's name slapped on the cover. This is Gore's book, cover to cover, not only from the personal anecdotes and wide-ranging travel experiences he brings to the political and scientific aspects of global environmental problems, but also from the historical, philosophical, religious, spiritual, economic and moral dimensions he explores."—
Bob Thompson,
The San Francisco Chronicle
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Edison and the Electric Chair
A Story of Light and Death
Mark Essig
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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...
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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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Enough
Staying Human in an Engineered Age
Bill McKibben
St. Martin's Griffin
"In this wise, well-researched, and important book, Bill McKibben addresses the burning philosophical question of the new century, and the one that counts for the long haul: how to control the technoscientific juggernaut before it dehumanizes our species."—
E. O. Wilson, author of
The Future of Life
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Essential Elements
Atoms, Quarks, and the Periodic Table
Wooden Books
Matt Tweed
Walker & Company
For anyone interested in the tiny building blocks of our universe, Matt Tweed-the illustrator of Useful Mathematical & Physical Formulae-offers a fascinating...
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