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Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments New York Times best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover 
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Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A Coyne Publisher Comments "Coyne's knowledge of evolutionary biology is prodigious, his deployment of it as masterful as his touch is light." -Richard Dawkins In the current debate about creationism and intelligent design, there is an element of the controversy that is rarely... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (Vintage) by David Eagleman Publisher Comments If the conscious mind — the part you consider to be you — is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative book, renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.17 Sale - Trade Paper
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Homage To Gaia: the Life of an Independent Scientist by James Lovelock Publisher Comments With over fifty patents to his name and a stream of awards--including one from the Queen of England--James Lovelock is a distinguished scientist who has been widely recognized by the international scientific community. In this inspiring autobiography... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments One of science's greatest intellects examines how people and animals display fear, anger, and pleasure. This highly readable 1872 study was based on Darwin's personal observations, most of which were proven by later scientific surveys. Abounding in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Human Body: A Basic Guide to the Way You Fit Together (Wooden Books) by Moff Betts Publisher Comments From single-celled embryo to fully grown human, Dr. Betts charts the major systems of the body, its interrelated organs and the revelations of microbiology. Find out why you couldnt live without bacteria or cholesterol; how your kidneys and lungs are... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter Publisher Comments The Human Brain Book is a complete guide to the one organ in the body that makes each of us what we are - unique individuals. It combines the latest findings from the field of neuroscience with expert text and state-of-the-art illustrations and imaging... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Evolution's Captain: The Story of the Kidnapping That Led to Charles Darwin's Voyage aboard the Beagle by Peter Nichols Publisher Comments This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle. This is the remarkable story of how a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shaping Life (Darwinism Today) by John Maynard Smith Publisher Comments During the past ten years, there has been a revolution in our understanding of developmental biology, as scientists apply the ideas and techniques of genetics and embryology to the processes of development. In this book, John Maynard Smith gives an... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould by Stephen Jay Gould and Stephen Rose Staff Pick If you are a fan, this collection of forty-four of Stephen Jay Gould's best known essays, as well as a few never before published speeches, will make a wonderful keepsake; a beautiful volume that will be pulled from your bookshelf and savored, time and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Microterrors: The Complete Guide to Bacterial, Viral and Fungal Infections That Threaten Our Health by Tony Hart Publisher Comments Covering the role of viruses in human evolution, as well as bioengineering, "Mircroterrors" presents the terrifying rogues' gallery of invisible killers. Dramatic digital illustrations and computer-colored electron images provide mug-book profiles of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones by Sue Hubbell Publisher Comments "We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things," Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things "has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd Publisher Comments Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupas skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she cant do is discover how the insect... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Biography of a Germ by Arno Karlen Synopsis This unusual examination of "Borrelia burgdorfieri" (Bb), the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, follows the microbe's path through from mouse to tick to deer to human and discusses the history and evolution of Lyme disease and its impact on our changing... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean B Carroll Publisher Comments An award-winning biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet. Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do by Sharon Moalem Publisher Comments Why are women biologically driven to find Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome? Can more sex help ensure a safe pregnancy? What effect does pornography have on a man's fertility? In this compelling follow-up to the New York Timesbestseller Survival of the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong (P.S.) by Marc Hauser Publisher Comments In his groundbreaking book, Marc Hauser puts forth a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct, unconsciously propelling us to deliver judgments of right and wrong independent of gender, education, and religion... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection is both a key scientific work of research, still read by scientists, and a readable narrative that has had a cultural impact unmatched by any other scientific text. First published... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $18.98 Sale - Hardcover
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