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by James D Watson  Publisher Comments Since its publication in 1968, 'The Double Helix' has given over a million readers a rare and exciting look at one highly significant piece of scientific research--Watson and Crick's race to discover the molecular structure of the gene. In this critical... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Edward O. Wilson Publisher Comments "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest living scientists — and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants — gives us a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Burrell Publisher Comments What makes one man a genius and another a criminal? Is there a physical explanation for these differences? For hundreds of years, scientists have been fascinated by this question. In Postcards from the Brain Museum, Brian Burrell relates the story of the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matt Ridley 
From Powells.com Matt Ridley's Genome is one of the best, and most popular, works of popular science of recent years, in line with such instant classics as Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb or Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. Ever since James Watson and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert M Sapolsky Publisher Comments A collection of original essays by a leading neurobiologist and primatologist shares the author's insights into behavioral biology, in a volume that focuses on three primary topics, including the physiology of genes, the human body, and the factors that... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sandra Aamodt Publisher Comments In this readable, lively book, Aamodt and Wang dispel common myths about the brain and provide a comprehensive, useful overview of how it really works.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward O. Wilson Synopsis From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to achieve... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments Gould has brought to light one of the least known but most spectacular paleontological discoveries of all time... .a brilliant tapestry.-- Martin Gardner The Burgess Shale is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. In it are the remains of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David L. Wagner Publisher Comments This lavishly illustrated guide enables explorers to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scientific American Publisher Comments From the Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 to the court ruling against the Dover Area School Board's proposed intelligent design curriculum in 2005, few scientific topics have engendered as much controversy--or grabbed as many headlines--as evolution. And... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cliffs Notes Publisher Comments A comprehensive review guide to help you refresh your study. This guide is particularly useful for midterms and final exams, condensing a semester's worth of information into one concise volume.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Part One A Tale of Three Chimps The next time you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages. Imagine that the apes had lost most of their hair, and imagine a cage nearby holding some unfortunate people who had no clothes and couldn't speak... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments Citing the Red Queen from "Through the Looking Glass, " who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators, and answers dozens of other... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Rhodes Publisher Comments In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ross H Arnett Publisher Comments Whether you are a novice or experienced collector, student, farmer, or weekend gardener, you will find "Simon & Schuster's Guide to Insects" a highly authoritative, startlingly beautiful field guide to 350 insect species commonly found throughout... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Appleman Book News Annotation New edition of a volume that concerns the importance, and enduring relevance, of Darwin and evolution. New material indicates the voluminous scientific research that is currently being done in every field of evolutionary study. Topics include Darwin... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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