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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Broadway
Broadway
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods , Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most...
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin
Plume/Penguin
Plume/Penguin
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it—and the human brain. Drawing on the latest...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of...
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature...
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Terry Tempest Williams
Pantheon
Pantheon
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge , Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
Oddly compelling and often hilarious, Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying...
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Bantam
Bantam
A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, was a landmark volume in science writing and in world-wide acclaim and popularity, with more than 9 million copies in print globally. The original edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known...
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The Numerati
Stephen Baker
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin
"Steve Baker puts his finger on perhaps the most important cultural trend today: the explosion of data about every aspect of our world and the rise of applied math gurus who know how to use it." --Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine...
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Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Learn the science behind the headlines—the tools of terrorists, the dangers of nuclear power, and the reality of global warming. We live in complicated, dangerous times. They are also hyper-technical times. As citizens who will elect future...
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