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Heirs of General Practice

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
Heirs of General Practice is a frieze of glimpses of young doctors with patients of every age—about a dozen physicians in all, who belong to the new...
  
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Mother Country

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear...
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Dance of the Photons
From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation

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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The Outlaw Sea
A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime

North Point Press
The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and...
  
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Assembling California

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of...
  
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Deep Water
The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water." -Ismail Serageldin, The World Bank The giant...
  
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The Painted Word

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...
  
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A Life Worth Living
A Doctor's Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Critical illness is a fact of life. Even those of us who enjoy decades of good health are touched by it eventually, either in our own lives or in those of our...
  
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Mirroring People
The New Science of How We Connect with Others

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person’s head—to know what they’re thinking and feeling? “Mind reading” is the very heart of...
  
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What Is Life?
Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he...
  

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The Founding Fish

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A long-awaited new book by the nonfiction master, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Few fish are as beloved-or as obsessed over-as the American shad. Although...
  
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Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of stories, at once true and strange, from the world of brain damage. Michael...