The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's R...
Steffanie StrathdeeA "fascinating and terrifying" (Scientific American) memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life-and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the potential to save millions more.Epidemiologist St...
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossa...
Ian TattersallIn his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly...
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Rac...
Nicholas WadeDrawing on startling new evidence from the human genome, an exploration of how and why the human population differentiated into distinctive races beginning fifty thousand years ago Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than ...
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evo...
Jonathan WeinerThe Beak of the Finch tells the story of two Princeton University scientists – evolutionary biologists – engaged in an extraordinary investigation. They are watching, and recording, evolution as it is occurring – now – among t...
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science...
Mary RoachThe study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken pl...
In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance of birds and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research— the distant laborat...
For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of their forest home. The journals in which the ...
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New...
Sean CarrollFor over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo -- Evolutionary Developmental Biology -- is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of C...
Alina ChanA new virus descended on the human species in 2019 wreaking unprecedented havoc. Finding out where it came from and how it first jumped into people is an urgent priority, but early expectations that this would prove an easy question t...
Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, The Origin of Species was immediately recognized upon its appearance as a work of the greatest importance. The revolutionary theory of evolution by means of natural...
Homo Deus Low Price CD: A Brief Histo...
Yuval Noah HarariYuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and ...
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of H...
Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil, the bold futurist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Near, is arguably today's most influential technological visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how art...
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution...
Nick LaneTo explain the mystery of how life evolved on Earth, Nick Lane explores the deep link between energy and genes.The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies, and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We ...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We...
William McDonoughDIV"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approac...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Ar...
Robert PlominA top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.In Blueprint, behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin describes how the DNA ...
Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...
David Quammen"Science writing as detective story at its best." ―Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific AmericanA New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics...
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist...
V. S. RamachandranV. S. Ramachandran is at the forefront of his field-so much so that Richard Dawkins dubbed him the "Marco Polo of neuroscience." Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness. Taki...
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Ma...
Sebastian SeungWe know that each of us is unique, but science has struggled to pinpoint where, precisely, our uniqueness resides. Is it in our genes? The structure of our brains? Our genome may determine our eye color and even aspects of our persona...
Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't...
David A. SinclairA paradigm-shifting book from an acclaimed Harvard Medical School scientist and one of Time s most influential people.It s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we ve been taught to believe abou...
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evol...
Nicholas WadeFor at least the last fifty thousand years, and probably much longer, people have practiced religion. Yet little attention has been given, either by believers or atheists, to the question of whether this universal human behavior might...
Life on a Young Planet: The First Thr...
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A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales o...
Sara Manning PeskinNo Description
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Ca...
Mary RoachNo Description
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Ca...
Mary RoachNo Description
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed L...
Amy Stewarteware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly.A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Amy Stewart, bestsel...