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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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Microbiology Coloring Book by I. Edward Alcamo and Lawrence M. Elson Publisher Comments A simplified and effective approach to learning about microbes. Uses the same color-coding techniques used in the other successful coloring books to help students learn and retain more information on standard microbiological concepts such as immune... (read more) List Price $22.15 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson 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.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Biology by Neil A Campbell Publisher Comments For readers interested in learning the basics of Biology.... (read more) List Price $158.67 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance by Laurie Garrett Publisher Comments Unpurified drinking water. Improper use of antibiotics. Local warfare. Massive refugee migration. Changing social and environmental conditions around the world have fostered the spread of new and potentially devastating viruses and diseases—HIV... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Called "one of the greatest men alive" by The Times of London, E. O. Wilson proposes an historic partnership between scientists and religious leaders to preserve Earth's rapidly vanishing biodiversity.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright Synopsis A deeply provocative and engaging new look at the meaning and direction of history, from the author of "The Moral Animal."... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr Staff Pick Nominated as a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, The Shallows is a fascinating look at the cultural implications and neuroscientific consequences of the Internet Age. The Internet is an unprecedented educational tool and time... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Your Inner Fish (09 Edition) 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: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments From "one of the world's greatest experts on primate behavior" (Desmond Morris) comes a look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence, kindness, and morality-through our closest cousins. For nearly twenty years, Frans De Waal... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Evolution for Dummies (For Dummies) by Greg Krukonis Publisher Comments Fascinating case studies highlight evolutionary research in the lab and in the wild From Darwin to DNA — your objective guide to the key concepts of evolution Want to get a clear understanding of evolution? This plain-English guide explains what... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.95 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: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Publisher Comments The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs. In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.98 Used - Hardcover
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A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments "Delightful...gives the reader the richest possible feeling of the worlds the senses take in." The New York... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Publisher Comments "Popular science writing at its best and the years most infectious page-turner" (People), this two-million-copy bestseller is "a top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall" (Newsweek).... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are by Carl Sagan Publisher Comments The world's most celebrated team of science writers explores the origins of human life on Earth--a wonderfully entertaining and awe-inspiring excursion through more than a billion years of evolution. Beginning with a vivid account of Darwin and his... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll Publisher Comments 'Evo Devo is evolutionary developmental biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin\'s theories were merged with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vertebrate Embryology: A Laboratory Manual (Campus; 208) by Richard Marsh Eakin Publisher Comments The real Hans Spemann, German embryologist (1869-1941), developed a concept of embryonic induction through his experiments on early amphibian embryos which demonstrated neural induction by the primary organizer and evocation of the lens by the optic... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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