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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin
Powells.com Staff Pick Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a...
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M. Benyus Publisher Comments This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st–century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is...
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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
by Bruce H Lipton Synopsis The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and that of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the...
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Mycelium Running
by Paul Stamets Synopsis - A manual for healing the earth and creating sustainable forests through mushroom cultivation, featuring mycelial solutions to water pollution, toxic spills, and other ecological challenges.- Mycotechnology is part of a larger trend toward using living...
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Stokes Beginner's Guide To Birds : Eastern Region (96 Edition)
by Donald Stokes Synopsis Whether you want to identify the birds that come to your backyard feeder or you've decided to take up bird-watching as a hobby, Donald and Lillian Stokes have created the best beginner's guides to birds ever published. From the easy-to-use color coding...
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Essential Cell Biology / With CD (2ND 04 Edition)
by Bruce Alberts Synopsis Essential Cell Biology, Second Edition contains basic, core knowledge about how cells work. It has a proven track record in providing students with a conceptual and accessible grounding in cell biology. The text and figures have been prepared to be easy...
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.)
by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Though we share 98% of our genes with the chimpanzee, our species evolved into something quite extraordinary. Jared Diamond explores the fascinating question of what in less than 2% of our genes has enabled us to found civilizations and religions...
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Cosmic Serpent : Dna and the Origins of Knowledge (98 Edition)
by Jeremy Narby
Publisher Comments A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medical Tribune...
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The Biology Coloring Book (HarperCollins Coloring Books)
by Robert D Griffin Publisher Comments Readers experience for themselves how the coloring of a carefully designed picture almost magically creates understanding. Indispensable for every biology student....
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Emergence Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science (Bradford Books)
by Mark A. (edt) Bedau Publisher Comments Emergence, largely ignored just thirty years ago, has become one of the liveliest areas of research in both philosophy and science. Fueled in part by advances in complexity theory, artificial life, physics, psychology, sociology, and biology and by the...
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The Chicago Guide to Your Career in Science: A Toolkit for Students and Postdocs (Chicago Guides to Academic Life)
by Victor A. Bloomfield Publisher Comments Embarking upon research as a graduate student or postdoc can be exciting and enriching—the start of a rewarding career. But the world of scientific research is also a competitive one, with grants and good jobs increasingly hard to find. The Chicago...
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Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
by Margaret S. Livingstone Publisher Comments Now in paperback, this groundbreaking study by Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explores the inner workings of vision, demonstrating that how we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. In Vision and Art, Livingstone...
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Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food
by Pamela Ronald Publisher Comments By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of...
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Computer-Aided Modeling of Reactive Systems
by Warren E. Stewart Publisher Comments Learn to apply modeling and parameter estimation tools and strategies to chemicalprocesses using your personal computer This book introduces readers to powerful parameter estimation and computational methods for modeling complex chemical reactions and...
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Emergence Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science (Bradford Books)
by Paul Humphreys Publisher Comments Emergence, largely ignored just thirty years ago, has become one of the liveliest areas of research in both philosophy and science. Fueled in part by advances in complexity theory, artificial life, physics, psychology, sociology, and biology and by the...
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Alternative Reproductive Tactics: An Integrative Approach
by Rui (edt) Oliveira Publisher Comments The study of alternative reproductive tactics (the behavioural strategies used by individuals to increase their reproductive success) is an evolutionary puzzle, and one of great interest to researchers. For instance, why do some males guard both nest and...
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Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life
by Carl Zimmer Publisher Comments -Within days of being born, we are infected with billions of E. coli, They will inhabit each and every one of us until we die. E. coli is notorious for making people gravely ill, but engineered strains of the bacteria save millions of lives each year...
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On Human Nature
by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better...
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth
by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments The book that launched a movement: "Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks), proposing a historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity. The Creation is...
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