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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments The best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve now turns his sights on the United States, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. From the blue-blooded pockets of old-WASP New England to the vast tribal lands of the Navajo... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the tale of a woman whose cells were used — without her knowledge — in breakthrough medical research after her 1951 death. Skloot's moving story of faith, family, and science uses the past to teach us about... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) by Norman Doidge Publisher Comments An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries- old notion that the human brain is immutable. In this revolutionary look at the brain, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., provides an introduction to both... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Sandra Blakeslee Publisher Comments The Blakeslees take a provocative look at the emerging science of how the mind and body intertwine to create the embodied, feeling self. The authors discuss how the science of body mapping has far-reaching applications, from weight loss to recovery from... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cartoon Guide to Genetics by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Have you ever asked yourself: Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis? Watson and Crick? Aren't they a team of British detectives? Plant sex? Can they do that? Is Genetic Mutation the name of one of those heavy metal bands? Asparagine? Which of the... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Vintage) by Neil Shubin Publisher Comments Details on a Major New Discovery included in a New AfterwordWhy do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues by Frank Ryan Publisher Comments AIDS, Ebola, mad cow disease, flesh-eating viruses...Today's newspapers are full of articles about new plagues & viruses. Where do these new viruses come from? Why do new plagues arise? Could there be - will there be - a lethal & incurable Virus X that... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist, 4th Edition by Paul W. (edt) Sherman Publisher Comments This anthology contains 34 articles published since 1977 in "American Scientist", the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. Articles illustrate how behaviourists think about and conduct their research, and provide greater insight into the behaviour... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Human Brain Book by Rita Carter Publisher Comments The Human Brain Book is a complete guide to the one organ in the body that makes each of us what we are - unique individuals. It combines the latest findings from the field of neuroscience with expert text and state-of-the-art illustrations and imaging... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Dictionary of Biology by Oxford Publisher Comments Fully revised and updated, this new sixth edition is the perfect guide for those studying biology either in high school or college. The Dictionary offers more than 5,500 clear and concise entries, including more than 300 entries new to this edition. It... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Future of Life by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E. O. Wilson Publisher Comments Called 'one of the greatest men alive' by The Timesof London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth"s rapidly vanishing biodiversity.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne Publisher Comments "I realized that I had never fully understood Fitzroy or Lyell or Dr. Darwin or Emma ... especially Darwin himself. Janet Browne not only makes these historical figures real, three dimensional people, but she shows so elegantly how they affected and... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior by Bobbi S Low Publisher Comments Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments In works such as The Selfish Gene and Unweaving the Rainbow, the renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has—with unparalleled wit, clarity, and intelligence—introduced countless readers to the wonders of modern biology. Now, in The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman Staff Pick Be ready to geek out over your own body. A delightful and engaging book, Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream will fill you with wonder. Science writer Jennifer Ackerman lays out the latest developments and theories about the human body in a way that will keep you... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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