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Prize Fight

The Race and the Rivalry to be the First in Science

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Morton Meyers Palgrave Macmillan

A fascinating glimpse into the world of competition and human drama that surround some of the greatest discoveries in science

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	In Your Face The New Science of Human Attraction MacSci David Perrett Palgrave Macmillan In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. But why do we have faces at all, and brains that are good at reading...

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Betrayed by Nature

The War on Cancer

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Robin Hesketh Palgrave Macmillan

Despite the medical advances of the last century, cancer kills over half-a-million people every year in the United States. Yet despite the tenacity of this...

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SuperFuel

Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future

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Richard Martin Palgrave Macmillan

A new solution to our global energy crisis may lie in a simple element few know –thorium At the dawn of the atomic age, uranium and thorium were equally...

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Masters of the Planet

The Search for Our Human Origins

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Ian Tattersall Palgrave Macmillan

50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their...

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The Power of the Sea

Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters

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Bruce Parker Palgrave Macmillan

The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury...

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Extreme Weather

A Guide To Surviving Flash Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Heat Waves, Snowstorms, Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters

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Bonnie Schneider Palgrave Macmillan

Flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, thunderstorms, and wildfires - these devastating events are happening around the world at an...

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Stephen Hawking

An Unfettered Mind

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Kitty Ferguson Palgrave Macmillan

Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our age--bestselling author of A Brief History of Time, celebrated theoretical physicist, and an...

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Smart Medicine

How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care

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William Hanson, M.D. Palgrave Macmillan

We’re a nation in love with the drama of the medical world—from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William...

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The Number Mysteries

A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life

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Marcus du Sautoy Palgrave Macmillan

Every time we download music, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our cell phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. In The Number...

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Second Nature

The Inner Lives of Animals

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Jonathan Balcombe, foreword by J. M. Coetzee Palgrave Macmillan

For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today,...

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Extreme Fear

The Science of Your Mind in Danger

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Jeff Wise Palgrave Macmillan

Fear is a mysterious force. It sabotages our ability to think clearly and can drive us to blind panic, yet it can also give us superhuman speed, strength, and...

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The Fossil Hunter

Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

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Shelley Emling Palgrave Macmillan

Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme...

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Uranium Wars

The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age

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Amir D. Aczel Palgrave Macmillan

Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly...

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Running Out of Water

The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource

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Peter Rogers and Susan Leal, with a foreword by Congressman Edward J. Markey Palgrave Macmillan

While many believe that water is a renewable resource that will never go away, the truth is that the availability of this essential element is declining....

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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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Plastic Fantastic

How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World

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Eugenie Samuel Reich Palgrave Macmillan

Highly regarded science journalist Eugenie Samuel Reich recounts the case of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who faked the discovery of a new...

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No Rain in the Amazon

How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet

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Nikolas Kozloff Palgrave Macmillan

Acting as the planet’s air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet) A Guide to the Scientific Wilderness MacSci Michael Hanlon Palgrave Macmillan In the space of 60 seconds a body processes one quadrillion atoms of oxygen, several trillion molecules of carbon dioxide, and the untold products of...

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This Borrowed Earth

Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World

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Robert Emmet Hernan, foreword by Bill McKibben, preface by Graham Nash Palgrave Macmillan

Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are...

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Hardcover : $44.00 Buy	Revolution in Science How Galileo and Darwin Changed Our World MacSci Mark L. Brake Palgrave Macmillan This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin. The ideological shifts that resulted...

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Big Brain

The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence

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Gary Lynch and Richard Granger Palgrave Macmillan

In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the outsize...

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Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	The Making of Champions Roots of the Sporting Mind MacSci Gary Lewis Palgrave Macmillan The status of sport, and that of its greatest protagonists, has never before flown so high. This project utilizes current thoughts within the sport,...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Ancestral Roots Modern Living and Human Evolution MacSci Timothy Clack Palgrave Macmillan Human evolution explains how we have found ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Issues of modern living; depression, obesity, and environmental...

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