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| The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
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Paul Davies.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780547133249. Daedalus Item Code: 12665 |
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| If aliens ever contact us, it will be perhaps the single most significant event in human history, and Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back. For half a century, the Search for ... (Read More)
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| Elegance in Science: The Beauty of Simplicity
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Ian Glynn.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199578627. Daedalus Item Code: 30737 |
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| Though we usually associate a sense of elegance with art or fashion, poetry or dance, the idea of elegance is surprisingly important in science as well. The use of the term is most apparent in the ... (Read More)
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| An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment
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Patricia Fara.
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| Publisher: Icon. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781840464597. Daedalus Item Code: 73700 |
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| "The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was fascinated by scientific experiments," writes Patricia Fara in the Introduction to this tale of the strange birth of electrical science, and its emergence from a ... (Read More)
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| Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
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Thor Hanson.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: as is, hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465020133. Daedalus Item Code: 30252 |
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| Feathers are an evolutionary marvel—aerodynamic, insulating, and beautiful—that first appeared more than 100 million years ago. But what are feathers, exactly? How did they evolve? And what do they ... (Read More)
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| Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language
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Dean Falk.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465002191. Daedalus Item Code: 02895 |
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| Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, toolmaking, and warfare, and eventually developed into ... (Read More)
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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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| Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases
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Elizabeth Potter.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780253214553. Daedalus Item Code: 31945 |
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| Though we tend to think of science as purely objective, based on demonstrable proofs and phenomena, scientists are of course human, and subject to certain assumptions and prejudices. A professor of ... (Read More)
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| The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
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Joan Roughgarden.
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| Publisher: California. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780520258266. Daedalus Item Code: 24082 |
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| Are selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and cooperation—basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universal sexual conflict? Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these ... (Read More)
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| The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Richard Dawkins.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416594789. Daedalus Item Code: 30965 |
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| Evolution is accepted as fact by all reputable scientists and indeed by theologians, yet millions of people still question its veracity. Here the author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind ... (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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| The Harmonious Universe: The Beauty and Unity of Scientific Understanding
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Keith J. Laidler.
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| Publisher: Prometheus. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781591021872. Daedalus Item Code: 13064 |
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| From quarks to quasars, this stimulating survey of the main branches of science provides lay readers with a broad scientific understanding. Science writer and chemistry professor Keith Laidler ... (Read More)
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| Hew, Screw, and Glue: How Stuff is Made
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James Innes-Smith. Henrietta Webb, illus.
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| Publisher: Abrams Image. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780810982598. Daedalus Item Code: 11420 |
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| Do you realize that the salt on our food may be millions of years old? Did you know that the rubber in condoms derives from tree sap? And aren't you glad that lipstick is no longer made of crushed ... (Read More)
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