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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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| Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
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Thor Hanson.
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| Publisher: Basic Books. Format: as is, hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780465020133. Daedalus Item Code: 30252 |
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| Feathers are an evolutionary marvel—aerodynamic, insulating, and beautiful—that first appeared more than 100 million years ago. But what are feathers, exactly? How did they evolve? And what do they ... (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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| Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity
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Lester R. Brown.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393344158. Daedalus Item Code: 29349 |
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| Food is the new oil, says Lester Brown; and land is the new gold. The author of the Plan B series of books, the president of the Earth Policy Institute, and "one of the pioneers and heroes of global ... (Read More)
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| Gender and Boyle's Law of Gases
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Elizabeth Potter.
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| Publisher: Indiana. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780253214553. Daedalus Item Code: 31945 |
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| Though we tend to think of science as purely objective, based on demonstrable proofs and phenomena, scientists are of course human, and subject to certain assumptions and prejudices. A professor of ... (Read More)
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| The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
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Joan Roughgarden.
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| Publisher: California. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780520258266. Daedalus Item Code: 24082 |
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| Are selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and cooperation—basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universal sexual conflict? Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these ... (Read More)
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| Genomic Medicine: Articles from the New England Journal of Medicine
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Alan E. Guttmacher, Francis S. Collins & Jeffrey M. Drazen, eds.
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| Publisher: Johns Hopkins. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780801879791. Daedalus Item Code: 30936 |
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| From Mendel's work with plants over a century ago to Watson and Crick's 1953 model of the double-helix structure of DNA, and the final decoding of the human genome in 2003, the advances in our ... (Read More)
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| Geology of the Desert Southwest: Investigate How the Earth Was Formed
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Cynthia Light Brown. Eric Baker, illus.
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| Publisher: Nomad Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781936313402. Daedalus Item Code: 31217 |
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| A desert region known for its dry, often hot climate as well as its stands of saguaro cactus and the spectacular beauty of the Grand Canyon, the Southwest includes southern California, Nevada, ... (Read More)
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| Geology of the Eastern Coast: Investigate How the Earth Was Formed
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Cynthia Light Brown & Kathleen Brown. Erik Baker, illus.
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| Publisher: Nomad Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781936313877. Daedalus Item Code: 31218 |
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| Find out who mapped the longest caves in the world using only a lantern and a rope, how once-endangered alligators are now thriving, and how hurricanes form. Looking at the underlying processes that ... (Read More)
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