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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 $18.75 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mendel's Principles of Heredity by William Bateson Publisher Comments Gregor Mendel's studies of the inheritance of traits in pea plants led to his groundbreaking 1865 paper, Experiments in Plant Hybridization. In 1902, Bateson revived interest in that achievement with this book, a succinct account of Mendel's heredity... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind by Barbara Strauch Publisher Comments A leading science writer examines how our brains improve in middle age. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Barbara Strauch explores the latest findings that demonstrate how the middle-aged brain is more flexible and capable than previously thought. In... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Young Charles Darwin by Keith Stewart Thomson Publisher Comments What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? How did the quiet and shy Charles Darwin produce his theory of natural selection... (read more) List Price $25.75 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life by Warren Allmon and Robert Ross and Patricia Kelley Publisher Comments Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of paleontology, evolutionary biology, and the history of science, Gould provided... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Human Evolution (Brief Insight) by Bernard Wood Publisher Comments Renowned evolutionary scholar Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its 18th-century beginnings to today's latest fossil finds and newest discoveries about the human genome. He provides an insider's view of the field, introducing us... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Mind and Mechanism (Bradford Books) by Drew V Mcdermott Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;In Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott takes a computational approach to the mind-body problem (how it is that a purely physical entity, the brain, can have experiences). He begins by demonstrating the falseness of dualist approaches, which... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World by George Levine Publisher Comments ""Darwin Loves You" is the most interesting book I have read this year. It is wise, brave, and beautifully written. Levine's reflections on the important issue of Darwinism as an ideology are bound to engage readers. He shows that Darwin's science is not... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Scientists Confront Creationism: Intelligent Design and Beyond by Andrew J Petto Publisher Comments In a time when creationist textbooks continue to appear in classrooms and the president of the United States encourages educators to 'teach both sides' of the argument, Scientists Confront Creationismpresents an accessible defense of evolution and a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic by Alan Sipress Publisher Comments A riveting account of why science alone can't stop the next pandemic. In 2009, Swine Flu reminded us that pandemics still happen, and award- winning journalist Alan Sipress reminds us that far worse could be brewing. When a highly lethal strain of avian... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century by Howard Bloom Publisher Comments "As someone who has spent forty years in psychology with a long-standing interest in evolution, I'll just assimilate Howard Bloom's accomplishment and my amazement."-DAVID SMILLIE, Visiting Professor of Zoology, Duke University In this extraordinary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Darwin Got Wrong by Jerry Fodor Publisher Comments With a New Afterword What Darwin Got Wrong is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works--a devastating critique not in the name of religion but in the name of good science... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales by John Bonner Publisher Comments "John Tyler Bonner's career in biology has been long, happy, and just a little larger than life. For more than sixty years, the invisible world he explores through the microscope has led him to big ideas about the nature of things. This tiny book is... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life by Jan Sapp Publisher Comments This is the story of a profound revolution in the way biologists explore life's history, understand its evolutionary processes, and reveal its diversity. It is about life's smallest entities, deepest diversity, and greatest cellular biomass: the... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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More Than Darwin: The People and Places of the Evolution-Creationism Controversy by Randy Moore Publisher Comments "A marvelous trove for the curious browser, who will be constantly tempted to pull the book off the shelf to read a random entry and discover a new fact or two."--Glenn Branch, Deputy Director, National Center for Science Education, Inc.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour by Kevin Laland Publisher Comments Evolutionary theory is one of the most wide-ranging and inspiring of scientific ideas. It offers a battery of methods that can be used to help us understand human behavior. Nevertheless, the legitimacy of this exercise is at the center of a heated... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $18.74 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History by Mark M. Smith Publisher Comments "Smith's history of the sensate is destined to precipitate a revolution in our understanding of the sensibilities that underpinned the mentalities of past epochs."--David Howes, author of Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1822-1859 by Frederick Burkhardt Publisher Comments Charles Darwin changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. This fascinating selection of letters, offers a glimpse of his daily experiences, scientific observations, personal concerns and friendships... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover
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In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA by James Schwartz Publisher Comments If you have ever wondered what goes on in a genetics lab, here is the answer. In this sparkling and timely book James Schwartz reveals the remarkable history of the gene from its nineteenth-century origins as an entirely imaginary concept to the modern... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.50 Sale - Hardcover
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