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Sub-Categories of Life sciences: general issues
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
Dean Buonomano
Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues; Popular science; Neurosciences
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A lively, surprising tour of our mental glitches and how they arise. [more]
The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson
Anthropology; Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues; Evolution
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New York Times BestsellerFrom the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a... [more]
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Psychology; Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Popular science; Neurosciences; Health & Self-Help; Self-help & personal development; Popular psychology
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Our lives are driven by a fact that most of us can't name and don't understand. It defines who our friends and lovers are,... [more]
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Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide
Steve Jones
Mathematics & Sciences; Genetics (non-medical)
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<p> Introducing Genetics takes readers on a journey through this new science to the discovery of DNA and the heart of the... [more]
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Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
Rebecca Stott
Mathematics & Sciences; History of science; Evolution
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An electrifying account of the extraordinary untold history behind Darwin's theory of evolution [more]
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
Ian Tattersall
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Evolution; Human biology; Early man; The Earth: natural history general
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50,000 years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several... [more]
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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Extraordinary True Stories as Written by...
Sam Kean
Medical genetics; Mathematics & Sciences; DNA & Genome
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Did the human race almost go extinct? Can genetics explain a cat lady's love for felines? And how did the right combination... [more]
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Climate and Ecosystems
David Schimel
Mathematics & Sciences; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Meteorology & climatology; The environment
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How does life on our planet respond to--and shape--climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when... [more]
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The Moral Molecule: The New Science of What Makes Us Good or Evil
Paul J. Zak
Popular science; Neurosciences; Health & Self-Help
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What if there was a master control for human behaviour? The author and his team has discovered just such a master switch:... [more]
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Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
Terrence W. Deacon
Philosophy of mind; Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Neurosciences
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A radical new explanation of how life and consciousness emerge from physics and chemistry. [more]
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The Man Who Plants Trees
Jim Robbins
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Plant ecology
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An extraordinary investigation into the world of trees - and the inspiring story of one man's quest to help save the world's... [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain...
Heidi M. Ravven
Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Popular science; Neurosciences
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Few concepts are more unshakable in Western culture than free will. In The Self Beyond Itself, Heidi M. Ravven throws a wrench... [more]
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The Nazi Symbiosis: Human Genetics and Politics in the Third Reich
Sheila Faith Weiss
History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War; Society & culture: general; History of science; Genetics (non-medical)
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Under the swastika, German scientists descended into the moral abyss, perpetrating heinous medical crimes at Auschwitz and... [more]
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Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind
Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Nikolas Rose
Sociology; Psychology; Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; History of science; Neurosciences
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The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics... [more]
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Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
Werner R. Loewenstein
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Neurosciences
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An eminent biophysicist asks: What can quantum mechanics tell us about the brain? [more]
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Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places
Bill Streever
Mathematics & Sciences; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Geology & the lithosphere; People & places (Children's&YA); Science & technology: general interest (Children's&YA); Educational: Geography
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A bestselling scientist and nature writer who goes to any extreme to uncover the answers, Bill Streever sets off to find out... [more]
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The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
Dr Temple Grandin (Colorado State University Colorado State University USA), Richard Panek
Psychology; Abnormal psychology; Neurosciences
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A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate [more]
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Letters to a Young Scientist
Edward O. Wilson
Diaries, letters & journals; Mathematics & Sciences; Science: general issues; Ecological science, the Biosphere
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Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. [more]
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The Long Road to Stockholm: The Story of Magnetic Resonance Imaging - An...
Peter Mansfield
Autobiography: science, technology & engineering; History of medicine; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR & MRI); Mathematics & Sciences; Physics; Neurosciences
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In this autobiography, Sir Peter Mansfield describes his life from his early childhood in war time London to his research... [more]
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
Frans De Waal
Autobiography: general; Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Evolution; Human biology
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In this engaging book, leading primatologist and thinker Frans de Waal offers an illuminating new perspective on human nature.... [more]
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Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation
Johan Almenberg, John Hedley Brooke, Philip Clayton
Religion & science; Theology; Mathematics & Sciences; Philosophy of science; History of science; Evolution
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Evolution, Games, and God explores how cooperation and altruism, alongside mutation and natural selection, play a critical... [more]
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Survivors: The Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Richard Fortey
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Evolution; The natural world, country life & pets
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An awe-inspiring journey through the eons of time and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in living... [more]
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Green Equilibrium: The Vital Balance of Humans and Nature
Christopher Wills
Mathematics & Sciences; Popular science; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Evolution; Biodiversity; Conservation of the environment
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How do ecological and evolutionary factors maintain the balance of diverse species (including humans) in an ecosystem? With... [more]
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Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense
Evelyn Fox Keller, Ruth Hubbard, Stuart Newman
Mathematics & Sciences; Genetics (non-medical)
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No longer viewed by scientists as the cell's fixed master molecule, DNA is a dynamic script that is ad-libbed at each stage... [more]
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Bioluminescence: Living Lights, Lights for Living
J. Woodland Hastings, Therese Wilson
Mathematics & Sciences; Evolution; Biochemistry
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Bioluminescence is everywhere on earth--most of all in the ocean, from angler fish in the depths to flashing dinoflagellates... [more]
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