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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan  
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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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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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 Female Brain
by Louann Brizendine
Powells.com Staff Pick Although initially turned off by the title, The Female Brain was one the most revealing gender studies I have ever read. More a case for feminism than a case for gender superiority, Brizendine explores the physiological reasons behind the differences in...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Powells.com Staff Pick With The Stuff of Thought, linguist Steven Pinker returns to the themes of language and human nature to examine how words express the workings of our minds. Dealing with many aspects of human cognitive and social evolution, Pinker demonstrates his...
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Ancestor's Tale : a Pilgrimage To the Dawn of Evolution (04 Edition)
by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick "Despite my qualms with the 'Canterbury' chapter and Dawkins's general emphasis on heredity over organismal biology, The Ancestor's Tale is still an engaging history of life on our backwater planet....The pilgrimage metaphor describes the book well. Like...
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The Secret Life of Plants
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
Powells.com Staff Pick I can't believe I hadn't heard about this book before I found it on the shelf. Published in the 1970s, it explores the relationship between humans and plant life. Numerous scientific studies with lie detector tests, electrodes, and other '70s high-tech...
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
by Diane Ackerman
Powells.com Staff Pick Diane Ackerman writes with grace and wisdom. Her prose is lyrical, sensuous, and utterly charming. I've never been disappointed in a work by Ackerman, but An Alchemy of Mind takes the cake. Here she covers neurochemistry and -physiology and the concept...
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror. Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com...
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A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
by Robert M Sapolsky
Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the...
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Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape
by Barry Holstun Lopez
Powells.com Staff Pick "Barry Lopez won the 1986 National Book Award for Arctic Dreams. A more accurate test, though, for the true quality of a book is how well it wears over time. And though it may yet be too soon to conclude, Arctic Dreams appears to have taken its place as...
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
Powells.com Staff Pick The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question...
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Biodiesel America
by Joshua Tickell and Meghan Murphy and Claudia Graziano
Powells.com Staff Pick Tickell, an expert on biodiesel, explains how biodiesel is the best alternative to gasoline in today's age of peak oil. America, with its insatiable appetite for fast food, uses more vegetable oil for frying than any other nation. Why not turn that fat...
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
by Sean Carroll
Powells.com Staff Pick "I know a book on developmental biology isn't the sort of thing that usually leaps off the shelf into people's hands, but if you are at all interested in how our genetic toolboxes work, Endless Forms Most Beautiful is well worth a reading or two." Doug...
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Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
by Robert Sullivan
Powells.com Staff Pick Do not attempt this at home! Last time we heard from Sullivan, he was braving the polluted Meadowlands in a canoe. Now, in Rats, he shares his year of nights in a lower Manhattan alley, watching rats in their natural habitat to learn what he can...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick What happens to your body after you?re dead? If you?ve been generous enough to donate your body to science, quite a lot can happen to it. Author Mary Roach writes a strangely compelling?and often quite funny?book about dead bodies. While it might appear...
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A Country Year: Living the Questions
by Sue Hubbell
Powells.com Staff Pick Sue Hubbell makes me yearn to be a beekeeper in the Ozarks — to rely on a place for my survival and my happiness. Divorced and alone on her hundred acre farm, Hubbell heals as she writes about her work as a commercial beekeeper and her peninsula...
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Gorillas in the Mist
by Dian Fossey
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is the first book I read about primates. Now I'm hooked. Fossey's exploration of gorilla families and behaviors in their natural habitat is fascinating. Her drive to save these majestic beings is beyond inspiring." Recommended by Tanaz...
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick "Despite my qualms with the 'Canterbury' chapter and Dawkins's general emphasis on heredity over organismal biology, The Ancestor's Tale is still an engaging history of life on our backwater planet....The pilgrimage metaphor describes the book well. Like...
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Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human
by Elizabeth Hess
Powells.com Staff Pick This compassionate biography explores a fascinating character and an important story, beautifully illustrating the life of the mischievous chimpanzee who was the subject of a language experiment in the '70s. Both hopeful and sad, this moving account...
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