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Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
by Philip Ball
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With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science—that it’s not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission... (read more)

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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
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“A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the... (read more)

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Adrenaline
Adrenaline
by Brian B. Hoffman
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Inducing highs of excitement, anger, and terror, adrenaline fuels the extremes of human experience. A rush empowers superhuman feats in emergencies. Risk-taking junkies seek to replicate this feeling in dangerous recreations. And a surge may literally... (read more)

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Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World
Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World
by Maria M. Portuondo
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The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in... (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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Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World
by William R. Leach
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With 32 pages of full-color inserts and black-and-white illustrations throughout. From one of our most highly regarded historians, here is an original and engrossing chronicle of nineteenth-century America’s infatuation with butterflies, and the... (read more)

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Crucible of Science: The Story of the Cori Laboratory
Crucible of Science: The Story of the Cori Laboratory
by John H. Exton
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"Crucible of Science" is the story of a unique laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, and of Carl and Gerty Cori, the biochemists who established it. Carl and Gerty met and married at medical school in Prague in the 1920s. After graduation... (read more)

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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (Vintage)
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death (Vintage)
by Jill Lepore
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Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life... (read more)

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The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
by Lance Fortnow
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"You will love this book. It's completely accessible and captures the thrill, potential, and heartbreak of an edgy mathematical problem in terms that nonmathematicians will appreciate. After reading The Golden Ticket, I sort of hope P isn't NP after all."... (read more)

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The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments
The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments
by Jim Baggott
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The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the... (read more)

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Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle Over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle Over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
by Owen Whooley
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Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing... (read more)

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Elegance in Science: The Beauty of Simplicity
Elegance in Science: The Beauty of Simplicity
by Ian Glynn
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We usually associate a sense of elegance with art or fashion design, poetry or dance, but the idea of elegance is surprisingly important in science as well. The use of the term is most apparent in the "elegant proofs" of mathematics--which Bertrand... (read more)

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Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
by Rebecca Stott
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles Darwin . . . a book that enriches our understanding of how the struggle to think new thoughts is shared across time... (read more)

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Science and Government (Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen)
Science and Government (Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen)
by C. P. Snow
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Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antagonists are Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist from Imperial College, and Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), a physicist from the... (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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Rough-Water Man: Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions
Rough-Water Man: Elwyn Blake's Colorado River Expeditions
by Richard E. Westwood
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The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed the river’s main courses, but still needed accurate... (read more)

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Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre: The Doctor Who Weighed the Soul, and Other True Tales
Scientific Discovery from the Brilliant to the Bizarre: The Doctor Who Weighed the Soul, and Other True Tales
by Len Fisher
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Winner of the IgNobel Prize in physics and the 2004 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, Len Fisher showed just how much fun science can be in his enthusiastically praised debut, How to Dunk a Doughnut. In this new work, he reveals that... (read more)

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The View from Above: The Science of Social Space
The View from Above: The Science of Social Space
by Jeanne Haffner
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andlt;Pandgt;In mid-twentieth century France, the term andquot;social spaceandquot; ( andlt;Iandgt;l'espace socialandlt;/Iandgt;) -- the idea that spatial form and social life are inextricably linked -- emerged in a variety of social science disciplines.... (read more)

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Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in U.S. Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment)
Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in U.S. Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment)
by Cheryl A. Logan
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Early in the twentieth century, arguments about “nature” and “nurture” pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese... (read more)

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Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
by Jay Ingram
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Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challenge... (read more)

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