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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 musicits performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy itand the human brain. Drawing on the latest...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological ...
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
"Unique among survival books...stunning...enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver Post After her plane crashes, a seventeen-year-old girl spends eleven days walking through the...
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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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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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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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