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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John (edt) Brockman Publisher Comments Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind. What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper 
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2011: The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Mary Roach Publisher Comments The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volumes series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Elizabeth Kolbert Publisher Comments Elizabeth Kolbert, one of today's leading environmental journalists, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. Bringing together promising new voices and prize-winning favorites, this collection is "a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty by John Brockman Publisher Comments More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof. Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments “The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.”—Jerome... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science Writing 2010 (Best American Science Writing) by Jerome Groopman Publisher Comments Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk,andPacking for Mars,this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End by David Darling Publisher Comments Celebrate the year of the Mayan Apocalypse in style with Megacatastrophes , as Dr David Darling and Dr Dirk Schulze-Makuch delve into the amazing science of the end of the world.Could it be the asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space, or a super... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Freeman Dyson Publisher Comments Freeman Dyson, renowned physicist and public intellectual, edits this years volume of the finest science and nature writing.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sensitive Matter: Foams, Gels, Liquid Crystals, and Other Miracles by Michel Mitov Synopsis Life would not exist without sensitive, or soft, matter. Red blood globules, lung fluid, and membranes depend on it, as do industrial emulsions, gels, plastics, liquid crystals, and granular materials. Physicist Michel Mitov ranges from the miracle of... (read more) Your price: $22.75 New - Hardcover
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The Best American Science Writing 2002 by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments If, as Matt Ridley suggests, science is simply the search for new forms of ignorance, then perhaps it follows that with science's advances come new questions. Will human genetic engineering become commonplace? Will human cloning ever be safe? Are there... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books) by Freeman Dyson Publisher Comments From Galileo to todays amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman J. Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of natures truths, they are guided... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Geek Nation: How Indian Science Is Taking Over the World by Angela Saini Publisher Comments A vivid, geeky travelogue of a journey to meet the inventors, engineers, and young scientists helping to give birth to the world's next scientific superpower—a nation built not on conquest, oil, or minerals, but on the scientific... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing) by Atul Gawande Publisher Comments A rock-and-roll loving surgeon explores the full range of scientific inquiry--from biochemistry, physics, and astronomy, to genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the year's most thought... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 (Best American Science & Nature Writing) by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Quantify! (10 Edition) by Goran Grimvall Synopsis Goran Grimvall is determined to help mere mortals understand how scientists get to the kernel of perplexing problems. Entertaining and enlightening, his latest book uses examples from sports, literature, and nature--as well as from the varied worlds of... (read more) List Price $30.75 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions by Richard C Lewontin Publisher Comments Is our nature—as individuals, as a species—determined by our evolution and encoded in our genes? If we unravel the protein sequences of our DNA, will we gain the power to cure all of our physiological and psychological afflictions and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2006: The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Brian Greene Publisher Comments Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best American Science & Nature Writing #2007: The Best American Science and Nature Writing by Tim Folger Publisher Comments Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed by Carl Zimmer Review “Carl Zimmer is one of the best science writers we have today.” --Rebecca Skloot, author of the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks “Zimmer brilliantly animates the intoxicating passions of science lovers in... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Best American Science Writing 2009 (Best American Science Writing) by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments Edited by outrageously curious science writer Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk,andPacking for Mars,this collection brings together the best and brightest writers on science and nature.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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