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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman  
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Powells.com 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. Recommended by...
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick "Brian Greene presents the bizarre world of quantum mechanics and string theory using language accessible to all while taking the reader on an exciting journey through a truly unusual universe." Blane, Powells...
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Spook (05 Edition)
by Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the soul after death? And how can you...
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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
by Daniel H. Wilson and Richard Horne
Powells.com Staff Pick If you are like me, the Roomba just does not cut it when what I expect is the domestic help of the robot maid featured on The Jetsons. In this highly entertaining look at futuristic inventions once envisioned, but never fully realized, Daniel Wilson...
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Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes
by Charles Seife
Powells.com Staff Pick Though the idea of information theory as the foundation of all of science is not new, Seife presents his argument in a fresh, compelling way that's practicable to the lay reader. The material covered is certainly absorbing, but it's Seife's fluid and...
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
by Philip Ball
Powells.com Staff Pick "Critical Mass provides a solid overview of the behavior of large systems in general, with particular emphasis on human affairs. Folks who were intrigued by The Tipping Point and want to delve further into the subject of critical points and the behavior...
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The Republican War on Science
by Chris Mooney
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most frightening things to me about the current administration is its disregard for scientific fact — the basis for any rational society. Mooney skillfully traces the history of the Republicans' manipulation of science that doesn't...
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Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (P.S.)
by Simon Singh
Powells.com Staff Pick Simon Singh continues to demonstrate his mastery of bringing complex concepts to lay readers with this brilliant book on the origins of the universe. Singh clearly presents an overview of the history of science, filled with colorful characters, and how...
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