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Mirroring People
The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others
Marco Iacoboni
Picador
"In
Mirroring People
, Iacoboni chronicles one of the most compelling neuroscientific breakthroughs in recent decades—and one which appears to hold the keys to understanding our emotional interconnectedness . . . Popular science books written by scientists often tend to make for tough reading. One of the pitfalls of being a specialist of any kind is that one tends to fall out of touch with how uninformed about one's chosen field the masses are. But with
Mirroring People
, Iacoboni joins the ranks of that handful of scientists-turned-popular-authors who are able to bridge that gap so naturally that they make the rest of us feel smart with them. Indeed, one of the great contributions of this book is Iacoboni's willingness to repeatedly venture outside the realm of strict science, helping to unpack the philosophical implications of the experiments he documents."—
Craig Hamilton,
Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness
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Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D. and Lester Ingle, Ph.D.; Illustrated by Dorothea and Sy Barlowe
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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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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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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edittion
The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
Evelyn Fox Keller
Times Books
For much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular...
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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
A Graphic Adaptation
Story by Michael Keller, Illustrated by Nicolle Rager Fuller
Rodale Books
"
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
will be helpful in schools and libraries, where it will undoubtedly help science classes get the lessons of evolution across to students, but it also is useful to readers looking to finally understand what all the fuss was about."—
John Hogan,
Graphic Novel Reporter
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The End of Overeating
Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
David A. Kessler, MD
Rodale Books
Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food—when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty...
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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...
Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee - Excellence in Journalism
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Rethinking Thin
The New Science of Weight Loss---and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Gina Kolata
Picador
“For most fat people, diets don’t work. That’s the bleak if not especially startling message of
Rethinking Thin
. . . Kolata’s colorful survey, with its Gibson Girls and Grahamites, is presented smoothly and economically.”—
Daniel Akst,
The Boston Globe
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Elizabeth Kolbert
Bloomsbury USA
"[Elizabeth Kolbert's] research is thorough. She gleaned much of her information from personal interviews and visits to localities around the world. Although she is clearly distressed by the lack of concern of the Bush administration about global warming and climate change, Kolbert tends not to use alarmist language to argue for a particular viewpoint, choosing instead to let her stories and interviews do the talking. That is an effective approach to a topic that could, in less-skilled hands, make for dull reading. And by the end of the book, the reader will have no doubt that the problem is a serious one."—
Doug Macdougall,
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Tangled Wing
Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
Revised and Updated; Melvin Konner
Holt Paperbacks
"It is rare to find an author with a depth of knowledge in both the biological and social sciences, combined with superb writing skills sufficient to provide readers with a breathtaking new understanding of human behavior. Mel Konner did that twenty years ago in the first edition of
The Tangled Wing.
The updated and revised edition of this book is an even greater achievement . . .
The Tangled Wing
is sure to be among the most important books published in the first decade of the new millennium."—
Alice S. Rossi, Harriet Martineau Professor Emeritas of Sociology, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
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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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Bird Life
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
Stephen W. Kress, Ph.D., Research Biologist, National Audubon Society; Illustrated by John D. Dawson
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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,
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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American Ground
Unbuilding the World Trade Center
William Langewiesche; With a New Afterword by the Author
North Point Press
Selected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times Within...
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - General Nonfiction
Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee - Excellence in Journalism
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Fly by Wire
William Langewiesche
Picador
In Fly by Wire, one of America’s greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapidly...
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The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat
The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
Eric Lax
A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
"Admirable, superbly researched . . . Perhaps the most exciting tale of science since the apple dropped on Newton's head . . . Lax has performed a service to science of which he should be proud and all must be grateful . . . [A] valuable and eminently readable book."—
Simon Winchester,
The New York Times
"Beautifully researched and written, alive with scientific and human insight, Lax's fine book likely will become the classic account of penicillin's true medical beginnings . . . Combines Lax's biographer's skill with an intelligent sympathy for medicine, science, and the polar personalities that sometimes produce brilliant collaborations."—
Los Angeles Times
"[A] fluent, entertaining report on the history of the arguably most significant medical discovery of the twentieth century."—
Booklist
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Weather
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Paul E. Lehr, R. Will Burnett, and Herbert S. Zim; Illustrated by Harry McKnaught
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Spiders and Their Kin
A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
Herbert W. Levi, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, and Lorna R. Levi, under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim; Illustrated by Nicholas Strekalovsky
Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press
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What on Earth Evolved?
100 Species That Changed the World
Christopher Lloyd; Carol Baicker-McKee
Bloomsbury USA
Published on the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, an erudite, original, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most important species in the...
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Astro Turf
The Private Life of Rocket Science
M.G. Lord
Walker & Company
"
Astro Turf
works well as a brief, clear history of a field and the lab that embodied it. It works even better as a piece of cultural criticism. [It] works best of all, though, as a moving memoir of the difficult love between a daughter and father."—
The New York Times Book Review
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Sacred Number
The Secret Quality of Quantities
Wooden Books
Miranda Lundy
Walker & Company
Numbers permeate every aspect of our lives; very little happens without a basic ability to manipulate the simple whole numbers we all take for granted....
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Quadrivium
The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology
Wooden Books
Miranda Lundy Anthony Ashton Dr. Jason Martineau Daud Sutton John Martineau
Walker & Company
The quadrivium—the classical curriculum—comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the...
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