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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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| Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine
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David H. Newman.
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| Publisher: Scribner. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416551539. Daedalus Item Code: 03291 |
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| Most people know of the Hippocratic Oath, sworn by neophyte physicians for millennia, yet few realize that Hippocrates himself was an avid listener and a constant bedside presence. He believed in the ... (Read More)
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| How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
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Sherwin B. Nuland.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780679742449. Daedalus Item Code: 31278 |
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| (Winner of the 1993 National Book Award and a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award) This edition of surgeon Sherwin Nuland's incisive examination of the end ... (Read More)
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| The Innovator's Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next
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Steven Johnson, ed.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781594485589. Daedalus Item Code: 23388 |
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| The author of Where Good Ideas Come From, The Invention of Air, and Everything Bad Is Good For You, Internet pioneer Steven Johnson provides this essential book for anyone ... (Read More)
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| Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind
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Emily Anthes & Scientific American. Steve Mirsky, foreword.
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| Publisher: St. Martins/QPB. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780312386382. Daedalus Item Code: 12972 |
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| Science journalist Emily Anthes takes a fantastic voyage through the whorls and curves of the human brain, surveying everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people ... (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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| Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
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Jonathan Weiner.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060765361. Daedalus Item Code: 13799 |
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| Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer Jonathan Weiner offers this fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found? In the 20th ... (Read More)
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| The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Richard Dawkins. Dave McKean, illus.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781451675047. Daedalus Item Code: 32014 |
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| Perhaps the world's best-known evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins offers this sweeping introduction to the wonders of science, illuminating the ways in which the world really works through ... (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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