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Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
Amir D. Aczel.
Publisher: Crown.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780307591678.  Daedalus Item Code: 23528
 
The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most powerful machine ever built—a 16.5-mile circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, lined with superconducting magnets and designed to ... (Read More)
 
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Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
Ira Flatow.
Publisher: Collins.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780060732646.  Daedalus Item Code: 10544
 
For more than 35 years NPR science correspondent and television journalist Ira Flatow has interviewed top scientists and researchers on such programs as his "Science Friday" spot on NPR's Talk of ... (Read More)
 
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Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
Ira Flatow.
Publisher: Collins.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780060732653.  Daedalus Item Code: 11325
 
For more than 35 years NPR science correspondent and television journalist Ira Flatow has interviewed top scientists and researchers on such programs as his "Science Friday" spot on NPR's Talk of ... (Read More)
 
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The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
Oren Harman.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780099531661.  Daedalus Item Code: 30403
 
When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two distinguished British evolutionary ... (Read More)
 
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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention
Stanislas Dehaene.
Publisher: Viking.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780670021109.  Daedalus Item Code: 21523
 
How can a few black marks on a white page evoke an entire universe of sounds and meanings? French scientist Stanislas Dehaene, a world authority on the cognitive neuroscience of language and number ... (Read More)
 
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A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imagination
Marek Kohn.
Publisher: Faber & Faber.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780571223930.  Daedalus Item Code: 22003
 
This surprising fusion of science and biography is a very humane book about the essential Englishness of evolutionary theory, and the lives and personalities—often eccentric and controversial—of ... (Read More)
 
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The Science Book
Peter Tallack, ed.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781841882543.  Daedalus Item Code: 31307
 
Though the public's appetite for science information has grown dramatically in past decades, the speed and frequency of new discoveries can be somewhat daunting for those who wish to understand the ... (Read More)
 
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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
Timothy Ferris.
Publisher: Harper.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780060781507.  Daedalus Item Code: 13808
 
The author of The Red Limit and The Whole Shebang here makes a convincing case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Timothy Ferris shows how ... (Read More)
 
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The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them
Philip M. Tierno.
Publisher: Atria.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780743421881.  Daedalus Item Code: 23227
 
Germs are on everything we touch, eat, and breathe in, and on every inch of skin, and despite the advances of science, germs are challenging medicine in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago. The ... (Read More)
 
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The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind
Barbara Strauch.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143118879.  Daedalus Item Code: 20400
 
For many years, scientists thought that the human brain simply decayed over time and its dying cells led to memory slips, fuzzy logic, and depression. But as Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer ... (Read More)
 
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Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
Jeffrey Kluger.
Publisher: Hyperion.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781401303013.  Daedalus Item Code: 13781
 
"Frustrated by the traffic on narrow bridges? Stunned by the number of buttons on a remote control? Saddened by the lack of basic medical care in the developing world? [Science writer Jeffrey] Kluger ... (Read More)
 
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Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation
Trevor Norton.
Publisher: Pegasus.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781605982540.  Daedalus Item Code: 22154
 
"Never experiment on an animal if a man will do" and "never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn't do yourself" were two pieces of advice that J.B.S. "Jack" Haldane (1892–1964) offered to ... (Read More)
 
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