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| The Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge
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Jamie James.
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| Publisher: Hyperion. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781401302139. Daedalus Item Code: 23409 |
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| "Like the more famous wildlife adventurer Steve Irwin, biologist Joe Slowinski, an expert in snakes, died as a result of his professional passion. On a 2001 expedition into the Burmese jungle to ... (Read More)
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| Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human
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Chip Walter.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780802716255. Daedalus Item Code: 20403 |
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| Among the countless traits and behaviors that separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, says science writer Chip Walter, six stand out—our big toe, opposable thumb, oddly shaped pharynx, and ... (Read More)
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| Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
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Amir D. Aczel.
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| Publisher: Macmillan. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230613744. Daedalus Item Code: 32001 |
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| Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, has an atomic nucleus so heavy that it is highly unstable, and if broken apart it unleashes the tremendous energy that holds atoms together. Here ... (Read More)
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| The Wavewatcher's Companion
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780747589761. Daedalus Item Code: 24041 |
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| (Winner of the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books) One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching ... (Read More)
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| The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself
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Hannah Holmes.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781400065417. Daedalus Item Code: 21103 |
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| "Humans are strange creatures, biologically speaking. We're fixated on the topic of mating, though we're the only species that often makes the evolutionarily illogical choice to mate without ... (Read More)
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| What Killed Jane Austen?: And Other Medical Mysteries
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George Biro & Jim Leavesley.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780752459103. Daedalus Item Code: 30471 |
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| Two retired general practitioners—one now a medical journalist, the other a medical historian—here unearth and examine some of history's most intriguing maladies and the great persons who were shaped ... (Read More)
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| Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
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James Le Fanu.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780375421983. Daedalus Item Code: 12145 |
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| The triumph of science in explaining man's unique place in the universe might seem almost complete. But in this lucid and provocative book, physician and columnist James Le Fanu describes how science ... (Read More)
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