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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 Darwin Got Wrong
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Jerry Fodor & Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374288792. Daedalus Item Code: 30677 |
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| In a book that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works, Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini offer a critique of Darwin not in the name of ... (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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| What Technology Wants
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Kevin Kelly.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670022151. Daedalus Item Code: 31670 |
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| Introducing a provocative new view of technology, this book suggests that technology as a whole is not an industrial production of wires and metal but a near-living, evolving organism that has its ... (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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