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The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra Staff Pick The Web of Life is a very succinct explanation for the interstices between chaotic math systems and Gaia theory. This book explains the concepts of autopoetic networks and the theories of AI without becoming mired in the incredibly dense math associated... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals by Frans De Waal Publisher Comments To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals in certain acts is to wonder what moves them. Might there he a code of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing Over: Where Art and Science Meet by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Crossing Over, the latest of three collaborations between scholar Stephen Jay Gould and artist Rosamond Wolff Purcell, brings together thought-provoking essays and uncannily beautiful photographs to disprove the popular notion that art and science exist... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution by David Quammen Publisher Comments A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it. Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a cogent... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Adam's Curse: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Destiny by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments Timely and fascinating, this work covers a wealth of controversial topics, including whether there is a genetic cause for male greed, aggression, and promiscuity; the possible existence of a male homosexual gene; and what, if anything, can be done to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lying Stones of Marrakech : Penultimate Reflections in Natural History (00 Edition) by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments In his latest collection of essays, bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould once again offers his unmistakable perspective on natural history and the people who have tried to make sense of it. Gould is planning to bring down the curtain on his nearly... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Emerging Viruses by Leonard G. Horowitz Book News Annotation Horowitz (public health author) presents thoroughly researched information in his exploration into the origins of the HIV and Ebola viruses. His bias toward the theory that HIV was introduced into the general population by vaccine experiments... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner From Powells.com Jonathan Weiner went to Harvard University with the intention of becoming a biologist, but found himself seduced by poetry. He went on to complete his degree in English and American literature. Yet, his love for biology never abated. His first foray... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World Through Evolutionary Eyes (10 Edition) by Christopher Wills Publisher Comments In The Darwinian Tourist, biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures--exciting in their own right--that demonstrate how ecology and evolution have interacted to create the world we live in. Some of these adventures, like his SCUBA... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments Does the mind reflect or dictate what the body sees and feels? What is the language of emotion? Is memory a function of our imaginations? Are we all just out of our minds? In this ambitious and enlightening work, Diane Ackerman combines an artist's eye... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gen-e-sis by Robert M. Hazen Publisher Comments As he takes us through the astounding process of emergence, we are witness to the first tentative steps toward life - from the unfathomable abundance of carbon biomolecules synthesized in the black vacuum of space to the surface of the Earth to deep... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 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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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: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Naturalist by E. O. Wilson Publisher Comments R"(Naturalist) . . . "is one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written, by one of the finest scientists writing today.S--"Los Angeles Times"... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix--a work whose scientific and cultural reverberations will be discussed for years to come. In 1994 Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading world authority on DNA and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Biocentrism (10 Edition) by Robert Lanza Synopsis Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News and World Report cover story called him a “genius” and a “renegade thinker,” even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Banquet at Delmonico's: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America by Barry Werth Publisher Comments In Banquet at Delmonico's, Barry Werth, the acclaimed author of The Scarlet Professor, draws readers inside the circle of philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, clergymen, and scholars who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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