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Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
Is our tendency to "fix" our bodies with medicine keeping them from working exactly as they're supposed to? Two pioneers of the emerging science of Darwinian medicine argue that illness is part and ... > read more -
Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Much historical writing is far more concerned with the players than the stage: narratives of kings and cabbage-merchants, although acted out in fields and forests, typically include nature only as a ... > read more -
Thompson & Thompson Genetics in Medicine: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
Through six editions, Thompson & Thompsons Genetics in Medicine has been a well-established favourite textbook on this fascinating and rapidly evolving field, integrating the classic principles ... > read more -
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous ... > read more -
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
He was one of the most famous men of the twentieth century, the subject of best–selling biographies and a hit movie, as well as the inspiration for a dance step – the Lindy Hop – he ... > read more -
Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics
For the past fifty years Beer and Johnston have been the uncontested leaders in the teaching of undergraduate engineering mechanics. Over the years their textbooks have introduced significant ... > read more -
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is ... > read more -
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The Cultural Nature of Human Development
Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe ... > read more -
Tics and Tourette's: Breakthrough Discoveries in Natural Treatments
For decades, finding information on alternative treatments for tics has been next to impossible. There’s a widespread desire to avoid conventional drugs, yet people have not known where to turn ... > read more -
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Given the recent assertions made by the Bush administration, it would seem that coal is a glistening new energy alternative, the answer to the current oil crisis. Few of us realize that coal is ... > read more
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