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| The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
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Paul Davies.
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| Publisher: Houghton Mifflin. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780547133249. Daedalus Item Code: 12665 |
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| If aliens ever contact us, it will be perhaps the single most significant event in human history, and Paul Davies will be responsible for saying something back. For half a century, the Search for ... (Read More)
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| Elegance in Science: The Beauty of Simplicity
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Ian Glynn.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780199578627. Daedalus Item Code: 30737 |
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| Though we usually associate a sense of elegance with art or fashion, poetry or dance, the idea of elegance is surprisingly important in science as well. The use of the term is most apparent in the ... (Read More)
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| The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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| Publisher: 4th Estate. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780007367481. Daedalus Item Code: 32515 |
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| (Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction) Cancer physician Siddhartha Mukherjee here gives us a profoundly humane "biography" of the disease, from its first documented ... (Read More)
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| The End of Illness
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David B. Agus, M.D.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781451610192. Daedalus Item Code: 29679 |
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| Can we live robustly until our last breath? Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? David Agus tackles these fundamental ... (Read More)
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| An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment
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Patricia Fara.
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| Publisher: Icon. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781840464597. Daedalus Item Code: 73700 |
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| "The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was fascinated by scientific experiments," writes Patricia Fara in the Introduction to this tale of the strange birth of electrical science, and its emergence from a ... (Read More)
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| Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
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Alan Hirshfeld.
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| Publisher: Walker. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780802716187. Daedalus Item Code: 31889 |
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| "Alan Hirshfeld [cuts] through the centuries of hype surrounding this ancient genius. Against the vivid backdrop of a city under Roman siege, we're told what little is known of the life of ... (Read More)
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| The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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Brian Greene.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375727207. Daedalus Item Code: 31270 |
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| The Pulitzer Prize–nominated physicist who wrote The Elegant Universe here illuminates some of the most mysterious of concepts about space and time. Is space an entity? Why does time have a ... (Read More)
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| Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language
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Dean Falk.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465002191. Daedalus Item Code: 02895 |
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| Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, toolmaking, and warfare, and eventually developed into ... (Read More)
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| The Finger: A Handbook
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Angus Trumble.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374154981. Daedalus Item Code: 20448 |
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| From the author of A Brief History of the Smile comes this complete index of the digit. Art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle in this mix of art and ... (Read More)
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| Fire: Servant, Scourge, and Enigma
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Hazel Rossotti.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486422619. Daedalus Item Code: 04247 |
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| Written in a lively style and illustrated with 117 black and white photos, drawings, and ephemera, this book examines the nature of fire, its symbolic significance, and its exploitation and ... (Read More)
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