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| Life Explained
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Michel Morange.
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| Publisher: Yale/Editions Odile Jacob. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780300137323. Daedalus Item Code: 21832 |
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| Over half a century ago Francis Crick and James D. Watson proposed the double helix model for the DNA molecule, believing they had, as Crick put it, "found the secret of life." Discoveries of recent ... (Read More)
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| Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
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Jonathan Weiner.
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| Publisher: Ecco. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780060765361. Daedalus Item Code: 13799 |
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| Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer Jonathan Weiner offers this fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story: has the long-sought secret of eternal youth at last been found? In the 20th ... (Read More)
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| The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Richard Dawkins. Dave McKean, illus.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781451675047. Daedalus Item Code: 32014 |
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| Perhaps the world's best-known evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins offers this sweeping introduction to the wonders of science, illuminating the ways in which the world really works through ... (Read More)
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| Man and Woman: An Inside Story
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Donald W. Pfaff.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780195388848. Daedalus Item Code: 23283 |
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| The saga of sex differences in brain and behavior begins with a tiny sperm swimming toward a huge egg, to contribute its even tinier X or Y chromosome to the genetic makeup of the new human. Genetic, ... (Read More)
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| The Merely Personal: Observations on Science and Scientists
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Jeremy Bernstein.
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| Publisher: Ivan R. Dee. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781566633444. Daedalus Item Code: 01876 |
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| A compilation of observations on science and scientists, these 13 essays from the National Book Award–nominated author of Albert Einstein and Hitler's Uranium Club include critical ... (Read More)
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| The Mind's Eye
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Oliver Sacks.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307272089. Daedalus Item Code: 31061 |
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| (New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2010) This fascinating book from neurologist Oliver Sacks—who also gave us Hallucinations, Musicophilia, and ... (Read More)
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| The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
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Sam Harris.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781439171219. Daedalus Item Code: 31348 |
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| The author of Letter to a Christian Nation and The End of Faith (which won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction), Sam Harris here tackles the widespread notion that "science can't speak to ... (Read More)
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| My Stroke of Insight
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Jill Bolte Taylor.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670020744. Daedalus Item Code: 31732 |
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| In December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a 37-year-old Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain. As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point ... (Read More)
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| Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
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Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393061970. Daedalus Item Code: 11084 |
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| A finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology, this is the surprising, untold story about the profoundly human cognitive capacity to name the natural world. ... (Read More)
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