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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick Just when you were almost out of topics to argue about, here comes Richard Dawkins with another defense of evolution. But hang on ... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Sale - Hardcover 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Taylor Publisher Comments The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Physics for Entertainment by Yakov Perelman Publisher Comments Written in the early days of the Soviet Union, Physics for Entertainment is filled with easy-to-understand explanations of the essential laws of the universe, which Perelman sets up with questions such as: Can an invisible man see? Why does a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Staff Pick This learned and amusing work covers the origin of the universe to the human genome. A welcome journey with Bryson in typical wise and witty fashion.... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments "I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,000 years. Why did history take such different evolutionary courses for peoples of different continents? This problem has... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Publisher Comments A nondescript storefront operation in Los Angeles, California, the Museum of Jurassic Technology actually exists — that may be the only thing about it that is for certain. The creation of David Wilson, a man of prodigiously unusual imagination, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin Staff Pick A revelation for music buffs and science geeks ... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Publisher Comments Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter Publisher Comments In this provocative and headline- making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet. In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes Publisher Comments A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. Brilliantly conceived as a relay of scientific stories, The Age of Wonder explores the earliest ideas... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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The Craft of Research (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, & Publishing) by Wayne C. Booth Publisher Comments With more than 200,000 copies in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices. ... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Human Evolution Coloring Book 2ND Edition by Adrienne Zihlman Publisher Comments The completely revised Human Evolution Coloring Book Provides an authoritative, scientific background for understanding the origins of humanityIncludes new discoveries and information essential for students of anthropology, primatology, paleontology... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rocket Boys: A Memoir by Homer Hickam Publisher Comments The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir—a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd Edition by Thomas S Kuhn Publisher Comments Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg Publisher Comments You be good. I love you, were Alex's final words to his owner, research scientist Irene Pepperberg, before his premature death at age thirty-one on September 6, 2007. An African Grey parrot, Alex had a brain the size of a shelled walnut, yet he could add,... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments The author of the bestselling The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life explores the profound social implications of emerging scientific principles and provides an innovative framework for using them to understand and solve some of the most important issues... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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