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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Basic Books
Basic Books
Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this...
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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...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."— Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
There's a "Frank & Ernest" comic strip showing a chick breaking out of its shell, looking around, and saying, "Oh, wow! Paradigm shift!" Blame the late Thomas Kuhn. Few indeed are the philosophers or historians influential enough to make it into...
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Measuring the Immeasurable: The Scientific Case for Spirituality
Sounds True
Sounds True
Can your thoughts heal another person, even from across the globe? Can meditation create "superhuman" levels of perception? Do prayer and intention actually affect reality? A few decades ago, scientists would have dismissed such ideas as...
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Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA
Richard C. Hoagland, Mike Bara
Feral House
Feral House
For most Americans, the word NASA suggests a squeaky-clean image of technological infallibility. Yet the truth is that NASA was born in a lie, and has concealed the truths about its occult origins. Dark Mission documents this seemingly wild...
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
As a scientist, Albert Einstein is undoubtedly the most epic among 20th-century thinkers. Albert Einstein as a man, however, has been a much harder portrait to paint, and what we know of him as a husband, father, and friend is fragmentary at...
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Bantam
Bantam
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How...
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