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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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| iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind
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Gary Small, M.D. & Gigi Vorgan.
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| Publisher: Harper. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780061340345. Daedalus Item Code: 38761 |
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| The author of The Memory Bible and The Longevity Bible and a leading neuroscientist and expert on brain function and behavior, Gary Small here explores how technology's onward march has ... (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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| Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
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Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393061970. Daedalus Item Code: 11084 |
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| A finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology, this is the surprising, untold story about the profoundly human cognitive capacity to name the natural world. ... (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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| Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes that Make Us Human
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Jeremy Taylor.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780199227792. Daedalus Item Code: 20802 |
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| It is one of the best-known pieces of scientific trivia—that human DNA and chimpanzee DNA differ by a mere 1.6%. But are we then just chimps with a few genetic tweaks? Are our language and our ... (Read More)
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