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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier  
Powells.com Staff Pick Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
by Jonathan Rosen
Powells.com Staff Pick The Life of the Skies is at once a history of bird-watching in America, a meditation on changes in our views about killing animals, and a deeply personal book about the transforming qualities of a life spent observing the natural world. It is a book to...
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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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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken
Powells.com Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete...
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes...
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a...
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The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained — the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. Ninety-six percent of the ancient redwood forests have...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
Powells.com Staff Pick Musicophilia is a fascinating look at music and its effects on our brains. Who but Oliver Sacks could make such a compulsively readable book? Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
by Daniel J. Levitin
Powells.com Staff Pick A revelation for music buffs and science geeks — and all the better if you happen to be both. How do memory and music work together? What makes timbre? How do writers like Lennon and McCartney, or John Coltrane and Miles Davis, manipulate our...
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn
Publisher Comments How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings...
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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School with DVD
by John Medina Publisher Comments Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know — such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best. How do we...
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Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Wangari Maathai Publisher Comments In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement...
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Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku Publisher Comments A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible (from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks) revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future. One hundred years ago...
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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
by James Gustave Speth Publisher Comments How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit...
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Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change
by William H. Calvin Publisher Comments Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, hurricanes are strengthening. The debate about climate change is over: there’s no question that...
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The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
by Craig Childs Publisher Comments From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks...
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Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
by Gary Marcus Publisher Comments How the accidents of evolution created our quirky, imperfect minds; and what we can do about it. Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus...
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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
by David Lindley Publisher Comments Werner Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle" challenged centuries of scientific understanding, placed him in direct opposition to Albert Einstein, and put Niels Bohr in the middle of one of the most heated debates in scientific history. Heisenberg's...
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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen Publisher Comments Worldchanging is packed with information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers access to the tools they need to build a better future. Written by a diverse collaborative of innovators, Worldchanging demonstrates that the means for making a...
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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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