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| Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
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Lester R. Brown.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393344158. Daedalus Item Code: 29349 |
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| Food is the new oil, says Lester Brown; and land is the new gold. The author of the Plan B series of books, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, and "one of the pioneers and heroes of global ... (Read More)
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| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393317558. Daedalus Item Code: 38539 |
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| This Pulitzer Prize-winning sweep of human history considers why Europeans were able to conquer, displace, and decimate Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse. ... (Read More)
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| Harmonies of the World: Book Five
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Johannes Kepler. Stephen Hawking, ed.
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| Publisher: Running Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780762420186. Daedalus Item Code: 02923 |
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| If an award were ever given to the person in history who was most dedicated to the pursuit of absolute precision, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) might well be the recipient, notes ... (Read More)
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| Hidden Harmony: The Connected Worlds of Physics and Art
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J.R. Leibowitz.
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| Publisher: Johns Hopkins. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780801888663. Daedalus Item Code: 23715 |
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| Rather than presenting another treatise on the underlying science of perspective or the psychology of perception, this art and science book instead addresses the surprisingly broad common ground ... (Read More)
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| Higgs: The Invention and Discovery of the "God Particle"
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Jim Baggott.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199603497. Daedalus Item Code: 29575 |
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| The international effort to find the Higgs particle has involved the largest, most expensive lab experiment ever conducted—and one that may have yielded a brilliant success. What is this elusive ... (Read More)
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| Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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David Eagleman.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307389923. Daedalus Item Code: 38664 |
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| (A Boston Globe and Houston Chronicle Best Book of 2011) If the conscious mind—the part that you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg in the functioning of your ... (Read More)
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| The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Portrait of Your Head
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Raymond Tallis.
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| Publisher: Yale/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300142228. Daedalus Item Code: 12973 |
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| Here one of Britain's most eloquent and original thinkers writes about the head, what happens in it, and how it is and is not connected to our sense of identity and consciousness. Blending science, ... (Read More)
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| Man and Woman: An Inside Story
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Donald W. Pfaff.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195388848. Daedalus Item Code: 23283 |
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| The saga of sex differences in brain and behavior begins with a tiny sperm swimming toward a huge egg, to contribute its even tinier X or Y chromosome to the genetic makeup of the new human. Genetic, ... (Read More)
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| The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
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W. Brian Arthur.
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| Publisher: Allen Lane. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781846140174. Daedalus Item Code: 11885 |
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| Schumpeter Prize–winning economist W. Brian Arthur's many years of thinking and writing about technology have culminated in a unique understanding of his subject. Here he examines the nature of ... (Read More)
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