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Isaac Newton, James Gleick

Isaac Newton

By James Gleick

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James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science -- how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform... read more

Stiff, Mary Roach

Stiff

By Mary Roach

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An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's... read more

Death's Acre, Dr. Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson

Death's Acre

By Dr. Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson

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Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At... read more

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Proces, Irene M. Pepperberg

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Proces

By Irene M. Pepperberg

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On September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were "You be good. I love you." What would normally be a... read more

Dreams of a Final Theory, Steven Weinberg

Dreams of a Final Theory

By Steven Weinberg

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This is the story of a grand scientific quest: the quest for a unifying theory of nature. Writing with dazzling elegance and clarity, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg retraces the steps... read more

Language of God, Francis S. Collins

The Language of God

By Francis S. Collins

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"Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists -- yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture. Dr. Collins has resolved the dilemma... read more

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

By Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, William Broad

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Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomblets spewing anthrax sporesover battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square -- these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of... read more

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl, Stacey O\'Brien

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

By Stacey O\'Brien

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On Valentine's Day 1985, biologist Stacey O'Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl---a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing nineteen-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the... read more

Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code, Sam Kean

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

By Sam Kean

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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean... read more

First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors, Ann Gibbons

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

By Ann Gibbons

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This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the "missing links" between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious... read more