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50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth
by John Javna  Publisher Comments Today's environmental problems may seem too overwhelming for one person to tackle . . . but you don't have to do it alone. Now you have partners—50 of them. 50 Simple Things, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is back in a completely revised...
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Our Posthuman Future
by Francis Fukuyama Publisher Comments Fukuyama, our greatest social philosopher, weaves a captivating argument centered around an essential question: how the ability to modify human behavior will affect liberal democracy....
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin Publisher Comments Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's...
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The Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments The most accessible edition ever published of Darwin's incendiary classic, edited by as fine a science essayist as we have (New York Times) The Descent of Man, Darwin's second landmark work on evolutionary theory (following The Origin of the Species...
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The Life of The Fly
by J Henri Fabre Publisher Comments A fascinating loving look at insect natural history and biology by a passionate reclusive amatuer with a compulsively readable style. The author wrote in the late 1800's and was only 'discovered' late in his life. His works remain justly popular....
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Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments As in the bestselling The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain's provocative new book promises to change the way readers view themselves and where they came from. Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-...
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Monkey Girl
by Edward Humes Publisher Comments What should we teach our children about where we come from? Is evolution good science? Is it a lie? Is it incompatible with faith? Did Charles Darwin really say man came from monkeys? Have scientists really detected intelligent design — evidence of...
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The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism
by Michael, J. Behe Publisher Comments When Michael J. Behe's first book, Darwin's Black Box, was published in 1996, it launched the intelligent design movement. Critics howled, yet hundreds of thousands of readers -- and a growing number of scientists -- were intrigued by Behe's claim that...
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by Carl Zimmer Publisher Comments In a starred review, Publishers Weekly succinctly captured the off-beat, intriguing appeal of Parasite Rex, writing "One of the year's most fascinating works of popular science is also its most disgusting". Carl Zimmer deftly balances these two elements...
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The Evolving Female: A Life-History Perspective
by Mary E. Morbeck Publisher Comments A human female is born, lives her life, and dies within the space of a few decades, but the shape of her life has been strongly influenced by 50 million years of primate evolution and more than 100 million years of mammalian evolution. How the individual...
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Nonzero
by Robert Wright Publisher Comments In this new work, the author asserts that organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex by mastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright's narrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, uncovering such surprises as...
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The First Word
by Christine Kenneally Publisher Comments A compelling look at the quest for the origins of human language from an accomplished linguist. Language is a distinctly human gift. However, because it leaves no permanent trace, its evolution has long been a mystery, and it is only in the last...
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Letters from the Hive
by Stephen Buchmann Publisher Comments They work hard, are devoted to family, love sex, and know the importance of a good piece of real estate. Honey bees, and the daily workings of their close-knit colonies, are one of nature's great miracles. And they produce one of nature's greatest edible...
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The God Gene
by Dean H. Hamer Publisher Comments LEADING GENETICIST DEAN HAMER CRACKS THE “CODE” BEHIND WHY WE ARE PREDISPOSED TO BELIEVE IN GOD. IN A BOOK THAT BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE, HAMER BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATES HOW OUR INCLINATION TOWARD FAITH IS INFLUENCED BY OUR...
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Inside the Animal Mind
by George Page Publisher Comments Based on the latest scientific evidence, Inside the Animal Mind is an engrossing look at animal intelligence, cognitive ability, problem solving, and emotion. The host of the long-running PBS series Nature offers an informed, entertaining, and humanistic...
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Transducing the Genome: Information, Anarchy, and Revolution in the Biomedical Sciences
by Gary Zweiger Publisher Comments In a story told on many fascinating levels, Gary Zweiger introduces us to the visionaries who first understood genes as information carriers and chronicles how their early efforts led to the birth of the new science of genomics....
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Unknown Waters in an Unknown Land
by Dennis E Clayson Publisher Comments Trout in Iowa? Einstein and aborigines? This is the story of a search for wilderness and trout in a most unusual place. It is, perhaps, not the story of physical waters as much as it is a recounting of a spiritual walk along the streams of the mind....
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The Thread of Life
by Susan Aldridge Publisher Comments Susan Aldridge gives an accessible guide to the world of DNA and also explores the applications of genetic engineering in biotechnology. She takes the reader, step by step, through the fascinating study of molecular biology. Aldridge also looks at the...
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Understanding Germ Warfare
by of Scientific American Editors Publisher Comments In 1969, U.S. Surgeon General William H. Stewart said that it was "time to close the book on infectious disease." But the enemy, and the power of natural selection, had been underestimated. The sober reality is that pathogens can adapt to every chemical...
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The Life of the Spider
by J., Henri Fabre Publisher Comments The Spider has a bad name: to most of us, she represents an odious, noxious animal, which every one hastens to crush under foot. Against this summary verdict the observer sets the beast's industry, its talent as a weaver, its wiliness in the chase, its...
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