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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2012: The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Best American Science & Nature Writing #2012: The Best American Science and Nature Writing
by Dan Ariely
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Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this years volume of the finest science and nature writing.... (read more)

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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander
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Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries... (read more)

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
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James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality — the blood, the... (read more)

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Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
Inflight Science: A Guide to the World from Your Airplane Window
by Brian Clegg
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“With this book in hand, we have all we need to set off on our next flight with our eyes open to the sheer wonder of what is involved.” —Alain de Botton, author of A Week at the Airport, in the Mail on Sunday “Imagine Leonardo da... (read more)

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Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
Science Is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society
by Adam Bly
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Seed magazine brings together a unique collection of conversations between prominent scientists, artists, and other thinkers, with dialogue designed to tear down the wall between science and society. In this one-of-a-kind-experiment, Science Is Culture... (read more)

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Theodore Gray's Elements Vault: Treasures of the Periodic Table with Removable Archival Documents, a Model Pop-Up Atom, a Poster, and Real Element Samples
Theodore Gray's Elements Vault: Treasures of the Periodic Table with Removable Archival Documents, a Model Pop-Up Atom, a Poster, and Real Element Samples
by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann and Simon Quellen Field
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The exploration of the elements continues! Theodore Gray's Elements Vault builds on Gray's best-selling book with all new text, plus removable historic letters and other artifacts and collectible samples of real elements The Elements Vault picks up where... (read more)

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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
by Richard Dawkins
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The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.   Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his... (read more)

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Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
by Alex B. Berezow and Hank Campbell
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To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning — and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies... (read more)

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The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
by Eric Roston
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The story of carbon—the building block of life that is, ironically, humanitys great threat . It could be said that all of us are a little alien—our bodies carbon atoms first shot forth from supernovas billions of years ago and far, far away... (read more)

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Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time
Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time
by David Prerau
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Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy... (read more)

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I Am a Strange Loop
I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Can thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange... (read more)

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This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future
This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future
by John Brockman
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“This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world.”—Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Editor John Brockman continues in the... (read more)

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. James Gleick
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. James Gleick
by James Gleick
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A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era... (read more)

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Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society
by Bill Bryson
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“Bryson is as amusing as ever….As a celebration of 350 years of modern science, [Seeing Further] it is a worthy tribute.”—The EconomistIn Seeing Further, New York Times bestseller Bill Bryson takes readers on a guided tour... (read more)

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
by Mary Roach
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The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more)

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Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life
Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life
by Massimo Pigliucci
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How should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question lies in combining the wisdom of 24 centuries of philosophy with the latest research from 21st century science. In Answers... (read more)

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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
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Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science.... (read more)

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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
by Steven Johnson
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From the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, The Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long forgotten... (read more)

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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch
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The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe—and... (read more)

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Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
by Thomas Levenson
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A fascinating slice of true-crime history that unfolds in 1695, when law enforcement was unheard of and modern money was little more than a concept When renowned scientist Isaac Newton took up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint in London, another... (read more)

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