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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
DescriptionHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists recognize her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken not including her knowledge—became one of the much important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead ...
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The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books)
Description An astonishing new technology called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion this the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet together the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they’ve transformed—people whose mental ...
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The God Delusion
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A preeminent scientist -- and the world's much prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

Together with rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his shapes, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the extra benign (but still ...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
DescriptionTogether with a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller—over 1.5 million copies sold—is now a key PBS exclusive.

Winner of the Pulitzer Award, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This ...

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
DescriptionOne of the world’s much beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the much intriguing and intractable questions this technology seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, much of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the much lethal wildlife ...
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Age of Wonder (Paperback)
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science (Vintage)
DescriptionThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Technology. 

When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping ...
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The Selfish Gene
DescriptionThis is a million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition consists of a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. As important and influential today as when it was first published, "The Selfish Gene" ...
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The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World
DescriptionThe book you hold in your hands is revolutionary, a groundbreaking exploration of the technology of intention.Drawing on the findings of leading scientists from all-around the world, The Intention Experiment demonstrates this thought is a thing this affects other things. It is in addition the first book to invite you, the reader, to get an active ...
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Description In this groundbreaking union of art and technology, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we pay attention to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest research and on musical examples ranging from Mozart to Duke Ellington to Van Halen, Levitin ...
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