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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to ... > read more -
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Human beings are information omnivores: we are constantly collecting, labeling, and organizing data. But today, the shift from the physical to the digital is mixing, burning, and ripping our lives ... > read more -
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
Throw out your fossils—the best evidence for evolution is now found in DNA.DNA is the genetic blueprint of all creatures. Scientists have only recently discovered that it is also a living ... > read more -
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (Audubon Society Field Guide)
There are about 100,000 kinds of insects in North America, so obviously they can't have a field guide in the same way the 650 species of birds do: something both portable and complete. The National ... > read more -
Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature
For more than 30 years, Ira Flatow has interviewed Nobel winners and experts like E.O Wilson and Carl Sagan on NPR. In this book, he gives us the best of what he's learned from those conversations, ... > read more -
Birds of Peru (Princeton Field Guides)
Nearly eighteen hundred different bird species--one fifth of the world's birds--have been recorded in Peru. Birds of Peru is the most complete and well-researched field guide to this rich and ... > read more -
The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
Author Dawson Church applies the insights of the new field of Epigenetics (epi=above, i.e. control above the level of the gene) to healing. Citing hundreds of scientific studies, he shows how ... > read more -
The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide
"Graced with bounteous natural beauty, a stable democratic government, and friendly citizens, Costa Rica has become a popular destination for travelers from all over the world. Birds play a ... > read more -
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st–century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, ... > read more -
Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.—Werner HeisenbergThat God would choose to play dice with the world is ... > read more
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