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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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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
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The young Lehrer's keen portraits make for a winning read. Using Woolf, Stravinsky, Cézanne, Whitman, and a handful of others, he shows how art has given us as much insight into the human mind as science has.... (read more)

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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence
by George B Dyson
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As timely now as it was when it was first published in 1997, Darwin Among the Machines tells the story of humankind’s long journey into the digital age. Historian of technology George Dyson traces the course of the information revolution... (read more)

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The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions
The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions
by Kenji Kawakami
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In Japan Kenji Kawakami is famous for his tireless promotion of Chindogu: the art of the unuseless idea. Meant to solve problems of modern life, these bizarre and logic-defying gadgets and gizmos are actually entirely impractical. Addicts of the... (read more)

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Enough: Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature
Enough: Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature
by Bill McKibben
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Imagine a future where lab workers can reprogram human embryos to make children "smarter" or "more sociable". Some researchers are doing more than imagining. This text examines such possibilities and explains how we can avoid their worst consequences... (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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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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What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
by John Brockman
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The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or emotionally dangerous in their time; the Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are the most obvious examples. Here, leading thinkers discuss ideas - whether they... (read more)

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The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
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From the bestselling author of Crow Planet, a compelling journey into the secret lives of the wild animals at our back door. In The Urban Bestiary, acclaimed nature writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt journeys into the heart of the everyday wild, where coyotes,... (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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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner
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The definitive history of America's greatest incubator of technological innovationand#160;In this first full portrait of the legendary Bell Labs, journalist Jon Gertner takes readers behind one of the greatest collaborations between business and science... (read more)

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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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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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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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Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
Medusa's Gaze and Vampire's Bite: The Science of Monsters
by Matt Kaplan
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We all know and#8220;thereand#8217;s no such thing as monsters,and#8221; but our imaginations tell us otherwise. From the mythical beasts of ancient Greece to the hormonal vampires of the Twilight saga, monsters have captivated us for millennia. Matt... (read more)

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Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey
Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey
by Jim Reed
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The weather used to be reported after the news; today, it often is the news. Tracking news-making weather, storm chasers seek dramatic images of tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, lightning storms, and other extreme and unusual weather phenomena. News... (read more)

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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama
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A decade after his now-famous pronouncement of “the end of history,” Francis Fukuyama argues that as a result of biomedical advances, we are facing the possibility of a future in which our humanity itself will be altered beyond recognition... (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 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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