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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach 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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences by Victoria E Mcmillan Publisher Comments This is a concise, self-teaching guide to writing in Biology. Modelled on a handbook format - with bulleted rules, checklists for formatting various scientific papers, a detailed index and a spiral binding - Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences is a... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Spiral/comb
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Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A Coyne Publisher Comments "Coyne's knowledge of evolutionary biology is prodigious, his deployment of it as masterful as his touch is light." -Richard Dawkins In the current debate about creationism and intelligent design, there is an element of the controversy that is rarely... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Publisher Comments “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 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 Staff Pick You can change your brain! Neuroplasticity is the new gospel for remapping your brain and making real changes to not only the way you think but how your brain is actually wired. Using this new science, medical conditions previously thought of as... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition (Harvard Paperbacks) by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments It is now fully recognized that the publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859 brought about a revolution in man’s attitude toward life and his own place in the universe. This work is rightly regarded as one of the most... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view. His... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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When Species Meet " #03: When Species Meet by Donna J Haraway Publisher Comments This deeply personal yet intellectually groundbreaking work develops the idea of companion species and deftly explores philosophical, cultural, and biological aspects of animal-human encounters.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by Deborah Blum Publisher Comments In this meticulously researched and masterfully written book, Pulitzer Prize-winner Deborah Blum examines the history of love through the lens of its strangest unsung hero: a brilliant, fearless, alcoholic psychologist named Harry Frederick Harlow... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Voyage of the Beagle (Classics of World Literature) by Charles Darwin Publisher Comments Travel journal covering Darwin's voyages from South America to the South Sea islands.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us by Christopher Chabris Publisher Comments Reading this book will make you less sure of yourself—and that’s a good thing. In The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, creators of one of psychology’s most famous experiments, use remarkable stories and... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form by Rudolf A Raff Publisher Comments Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In The Shape of Life, Raff... (read more) List Price $47.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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