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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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| The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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Sam Harris.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439171219. Daedalus Item Code: 31348 |
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| The author of Letter to a Christian Nation and The End of Faith (which won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction), Sam Harris here tackles the widespread notion that "science can't speak to ... (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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| A Natural History of Ourselves
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Hannah Holmes.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Books. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781848870406. Daedalus Item Code: 32574 |
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| The author of The Secret Life of Dust and Suburban Safari here gives us a field guide to that most common yet elusive species, Homo sapiens. A strange mammal, it mates remarkably ... (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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| Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe
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Martin Bojowald.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307272850. Daedalus Item Code: 23516 |
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| In his introduction to a revolutionary theory of the cosmos—known as LQC, or loop quantum cosmology—Martin Bojowald shows how the big bang theory may give way to the big bounce theory, which ... (Read More)
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| Pavlov's Dog and Schrodinger's Cat: Scenes from the Living Laboratory
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Rom Harre.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199238569. Daedalus Item Code: 22526 |
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| From the sheep, dog, and cockerel that were sent aloft in the Montgolfier brothers' balloon to Volta's electrified frogs' legs, Dolly the cloned sheep, Darwin's finches in the Galápagos, and even ... (Read More)
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| The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
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Richard Restak & Scott Kim.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594487774. Daedalus Item Code: 30382 |
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| It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve, but when neuroscientist Richard Restak discovered new research that indicated puzzles could actually help the brain improve itself, he wondered: could ... (Read More)
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