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A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us about Ourselves
A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us about Ourselves
by Robert A. Burton, M.d.
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What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control? Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the worlds greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a... (read more)

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Equine Genomics
Equine Genomics
by Bhanu P. Chowdhary
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The complete mapping of the horse genome sequence makes a significant contribution to understanding equine biology. This book provides a timely comprehensive overview of equine genomic research. Chapters detail key accomplishments and the current state... (read more)

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Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts
by Emily Anthes
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One of Barnes and Nobles Best Books of March 2013 One of Amazons Best Nonfiction Books for March 2013 One of Publishers Weeklys Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books For centuries, we've toyed with our creature companions, breeding dogs that herd and... (read more)

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Evolution in a Toxic World: How Life Responds to Chemical Threats
Evolution in a Toxic World: How Life Responds to Chemical Threats
by Emily Monosson
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With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth's atmosphere... (read more)

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Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior
Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior
by Peter B. Gray
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Few things come more naturally to us than sex--or so it would seem. Yet to a chimpanzee, the sexual practices and customs we take for granted would appear odd indeed. He or she might wonder why we bother with inconveniences like clothes, why we prefer to... (read more)

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Library of America #238: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation
Library of America #238: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Ecology and Conservation
by Aldo Leopold
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Since his death in 1948, Aldo Leopold has been increasingly recognized as one of the indispensable figures of American environmentalism. A pioneering forester, sportsman, wildlife manager, and ecologist, he was also a gifted writer whose farsighted land... (read more)

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How Animals Grieve
How Animals Grieve
by Barbara J. King
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From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other... (read more)

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Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis)
Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Synthesis)
by Sally Smith Hughes
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In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offering. Lacking marketed products or substantial profit, the... (read more)

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Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution
Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution
by David Rothenberg
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"The peacock's tail," said Charles Darwin, "makes me sick." That's because the theory of evolution as adaptation can't explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that, a process... (read more)

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Randomness in Evolution
Randomness in Evolution
by John Tyler Bonner
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"John Tyler Bonner, a distinguished developmental biologist, has long argued that a major driving force in the evolution of complexity is natural selection for large size. Here he takes a radically different view to explain the diversity of form among... (read more)

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Animal Welfare #14: Zoo Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare #14: Zoo Animal Welfare
by Terry L. Maple
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Zoo Animal Welfare thoroughly reviews the scientific literature on the welfare of zoo and aquarium animals. Maple and Perdue draw from the senior author's 24 years of experience as a zoo executive and international leader in the field of zoo biology. The... (read more)

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Explaining the Computational Mind
Explaining the Computational Mind
by Marcin Milkowski
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andlt;Pandgt;In this book, Marcin Milkowski argues that the mind can be explained computationally because it is itself computational -- whether it engages in mental arithmetic, parses natural language, or processes the auditory signals that allow us to... (read more)

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Wiley Series on Surface and Interfacial Chemistry #6: Proteins in Solution and at Interfaces: Methods and Applications in Biotechnology and Materials Science
Wiley Series on Surface and Interfacial Chemistry #6: Proteins in Solution and at Interfaces: Methods and Applications in Biotechnology and Materials Science
by Juan M. (edt) Ruso
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Explores new applications emerging from our latest understanding of proteins in solution and at interfaces Proteins in solution and at interfaces increasingly serve as the starting point for exciting new applications, from biomimetic materials to... (read more)

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Ecosystem Services in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes
Ecosystem Services in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes
by Steve D. (edt) Wratten
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Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands). They underpin life on earth, provide major inputs to many economic... (read more)

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Green Equilibrium: The Vital Balance of Humans and Nature
Green Equilibrium: The Vital Balance of Humans and Nature
by Christopher Wills
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In Green Equilibrium, award-winning field biologist Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems thrive, shining light on a set of ecological balancing acts that he calls "green equilibria," rules which keep our world vibrant, verdant, and... (read more)

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From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)
From Groups to Individuals: Evolution and Emerging Individuality (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)
by Frederic (edt) Bouchard
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andlt;Pandgt;Our intuitive assumption that only organisms are the real individuals in the natural world is at odds with developments in cell biology, ecology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and other fields. Although organisms have served for centuries... (read more)

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Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes and Ditches: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes and Ditches: Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
by Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau has long been revered for his writings and observations on the natural world. His words evoke his environment with stunning clarity as well as his own innate sense of wonder. His journal, from which the text of Of Woodland Pools... (read more)

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Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind
by Mark Pagel
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A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth--namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which... (read more)

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Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin
Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin
by Peter J. Bowler
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The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks: What... (read more)

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Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States
Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States
by Nathan D. Burkett-cadena
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Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States is a full-color, highly illustrated guide to the sixty-four known species of mosquitoes in eleven genera that populate the South--from the Gulf Coastal states to the Carolinas. In addition to detailed and... (read more)

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