End of Nature
by Bill Mckibben


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Updated edition of this accessible book outlining the real dangers of global warming.... (read more)

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The Five-Second Rule and Other Myths about Germs: What Everyone Should Know about Bacteria, Viruses, Mold, and Mildew
by Anne E. Maczulak


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They're everywhere! In water, food, air, and soil. On the kitchen counter and in the bathroom. On our skin, in our intestines, and even swimming in our mouths! They affect us every second of our lives, but most microbes are terribly misunderstood. The... (read more)

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Butterflies of the World
by Giles Martin and Myriam Baran


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Butterflies are among the planet's most majestic creatures, their delicate forms sprinkled with brilliant color and rich with texture. More than 200,000 kinds of butterfly and caterpillar have been spotted around the world: that's one in every ten... (read more)

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Evolutions Captain
by Peter Nichols


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The Tragic Fate of Robert Fitzroy, the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World. When the Beagle was sent by the Admiralty to Tierra del Fuego to chart the waters, the second captain, Fitzroy, took four 'savages' hostage after a dinghy was stolen... (read more)

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The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu
by Mike Davis


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In this first book to sound the alarm on a possible pandemic, Davis tracks the avian flu crisis as the virus moves west and the world remains woefully unprepared to contain it.... (read more)

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In the Blink of an Eye
by Andrew Parker


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About 550 million years ago, there was literally an explosion of life forms, as all the major animal groups suddenly and dramatically appeared. Although several books have been written about this surprising event, known as the Cambrian explosion, none... (read more)

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Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
by Michael Shermer


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A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of evolution and exposes Intelligent Design's real agenda. Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground... (read more)

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Creatures of Accident: The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
by Wallace Arthur


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The most important aspect of evolution, from a philosophical viewpoint, is the rise of complex, advanced creatures from simple, primitive ones. This “vertical” dimension of evolution has been downplayed in both the specialist and popular... (read more)

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A Brand New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal
by Tim Birkhead


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The fascinating story of the hidden world of bird-breeding, of contentious ideas in 1920s Germany, and of two amateur scientists who unwittingly managed to be decades ahead of their time. Long before Dolly the Sheep or bioengineered corn, there was the... (read more)

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What Is Life? Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
by Ed Regis


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In 1944, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published a groundbreaking little book called What Is Life? In fewer than one hundred pages, he argued that life was not a mysterious or inexplicable phenomenon, as many people... (read more)

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The Dependent Gene: The Fallacy of Nature Vs. Nurture
by David S Moore


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Presents evidence that links all traits to complex interactions between genes and the environment, considering such topics as sex, parenting, education, crime, stem-cell research, and DNA fingerprinting and how they are impacted by the "nature versus... (read more)

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I Love You As Much Lap Edition
by Laura Krauss Melmed


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Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper... (read more)

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The Terrible Gift: The Brave New World of Genetic Medicine
by Rick J Carlson


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The authors of this book make a provocative, cautionary exploration of the onrushing revolution in health care--its science fiction benefits, its hidden dangers, and the disturbing choices it forces society to make.... (read more)

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Brutal Kinship
by Michael Nichols


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Brutal Kinship explores the relationship between humankind and its closest relative, the chimpanzee, presenting these extraordinary animals in the wild, in captivity, and in sanctuaries created expressly for their protection. In his revealing photographs... (read more)

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Dictionary of Genetics 7TH Edition
by Robert C King


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Modern genetics began in 1900 with the rediscovery of Mendel's paper, and now the sequencing of the human genome has brought the first century of progress in this field to a triumphant conclusion. Genetics has entered a new era with the advent of genomic... (read more)

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Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity (Stonewall Inn Editions)
by Bruce Bagemihl


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A Publishers Weekly Best Book One of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember" for 1999 Homosexuality in its myriad forms has been scientifically documented in more than 450 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and other animals... (read more)

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Genetics Demystified (Demystified)
by Edward Willett


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LEARN THE ABC'S OF DNA (AND HEREDITY) Now anyone with an interest in genetics can master it -- without med school classes, Nobel Prize intelligence, or unlimited time. In Genetics Demystified, award-winning science writer Edward Willett provides an... (read more)

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Red Canary
by Tim Birkhead


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A tale of how an amateur obsession heralded the inherent dangers of genetic manipulation. Hans Duncker, a German bird enthusiast, spent a large portion of his life using feeding methods to try and turn a green canary into a red one.... (read more)

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