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Biology as Ideology: Doctrine of DNA, the
by Richard C Lewontin  Publisher Comments A Reasonable Skepticism Science is a social institution about which there is a great deal of misunderstanding, even among those who are part of it. We think that science is an institution, a set of methods, a set of people, a great body of knowledge that...
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Understanding Nanotechnology (Science Made Accessible)
by Scientific American Book News Annotation Reprints ten articles published in during 2000 and 2001 that explore the possibilities offered by the next generation of miniaturized technologies. The contributors discuss obstacles to fully functioning nanomachines, applications for drug delivery...
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The Best American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing)
by Gina Kolata Publisher Comments The latest edition of the popular annual series dedicated to collecting the best, most relevant, and most thought-provoking science writing of the year features articles from a wide variety of publications and covers provocative and engaging topics....
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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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How to Calculate Quickly: Full Course in Speed Arithmetic
by Henry Sticker Publisher Comments Many useful procedures explained and taught: 2-column addition, left-to-right subtraction, mental division of large numbers, more. Also numerous helpful short cuts. More than 8,000 problems, with solutions. 1945 edition....
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How to Fossilize Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist
by Mick O'Hare Publisher Comments In this fascinating and irresistible new book, the author of the popular science sensations "Does Anything Eat Wasps?" and "Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?" guides readers through 100 intriguing experiments that show essential scientific principles--and...
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Introducing Chaos, 2nd Edition
by Ziauddin Sardar and Iwona Abrams Publisher Comments Providing an introduction to the controversial field of chaos theory, this text shows how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market. It also exmaines the...
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, etc. Revised, expanded In the Name of Science. "A very able...
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Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer
by David Boyd Haycock Publisher Comments An obsession with perpetual youth may seem a particularly modern phenomenon, but it is a goal that western scientists and philosophers have aspired to (and worked towards) for the last four hundred years. Mortal Coil explores the medical, scientific...
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Probability Theory : a Concise Course (77 Edition)
by Y.a. Rozanov Publisher Comments This clear exposition begins with basic concepts and moves on to combination of events, dependent events and random variables, Bernoulli trials and the De Moivre-Laplace theorem, and more. Includes 150 problems, many with answers....
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
by David Foster Wallace 
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Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by Michael S. Gazzaniga Publisher Comments One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. What happened along the...
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What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
by Avery Gilbert Publisher Comments - How many smells are there? And how many molecules would it take to create every smell in nature, from roses to stinky feet? - Who was the bigger scent freak: the perfume-obsessed Richard Wagner or Emily Dickinson, with her creepy passion for flowers? -...
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Newton (95 Edition)
by Cohen I. Bernard Publisher Comments The 'General introduction' to the book sketches Newton's life and offers an interpretation of his scientific achievements....
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Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
by William Poundstone Publisher Comments John von Neumann invented the digital computer, played a key role in the development of the atom bomb, constructed a branch of mathematics known as game theory, and became a defender of a movement to bomb the Russians before they could bomb us. Now comes...
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Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists
by Ellen Daniell Publisher Comments This book tells the story of a professional problem-solving group that for more than 25 years has empowered its members by providing practical and emotional support. The objective of “Group,” as Ellen Daniell and six other members call their...
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What's Up, What's Down?
by Lola M. Schaefer Publisher Comments < p> Pretend you're a toad. < br> Look up. < br> What do you see?< /p> < p> Imagine you're a whale. < br> Look down.< br> What do you see?< /p> < p> Now, come along on a picture book journey that...
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Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension
by Joy Hakim Synopsis Beginning with a journey through space and Albert Einstein riding on a light beam, Hakim takes a lively and accessible look at the theory of relativity, chaos theory, and string theory, showing throughout how the greatest scientific discoveries often...
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Thread of the Silkworm
by Iris Chang Publisher Comments The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and became--to America's continuing chagrin--the father of the Chinese missile program....
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Art & Physics
by Leonard Shlain Publisher Comments Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings--making the two realms seem completely opposed. But in Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of...
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