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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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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande
Powells.com Staff Pick Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons 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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Marine Biology Coloring Book 2ND Edition
by Thomas M Niesen Publisher Comments Enter the delicate, complex world of underwater life through extraordinarily detailed, hand-drawn illustrations and newly updated text. The Marine Biology Coloring Bookwill serve as an excellent resource and guide. The process of coloring will focus your...
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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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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 it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes...
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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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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Publisher Comments A global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of human development based on race. Until around 11,000 b.c., all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the...
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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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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Powells.com Staff Pick Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and...
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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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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 Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
by Anne Harrington Publisher Comments Lays bare the history behind mind-body healing. People suffering from serious illnesses improve their survival chances by adopting a positive attitude and refusing to believe in the worst. Stress is the great killer of modern life. Ancient Eastern mind...
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Hidden Beauty: Microworlds Revealed
by France Bourely Book News Annotation Bourly studied pharmaceutical and other sciences, but when she discovered the scanning electron microscope, she was off like Jack back down the beanstalk to explore the tiny worlds it revealed. Here she shares dozens of monochrome images, along with...
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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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Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books)
by Anthony Ashton Publisher Comments During the nineteenth century, a remarkable scientific instrument known as a harmonograph revealed the beautiful patterns found in music. Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to...
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Publisher Comments Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria...
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