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Book cover for Atul Gawande: The Best American Science Writing

The Best American Science Writing

Atul Gawande
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A rock-and-roll loving surgeon explores the full range of scientific inquiry--from biochemistry, physics, and astronomy, to genetics, evolutionary theory, and cognition. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the year's most thought-pro ...

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Richard Dawkins : How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think

Alan Grafen
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In this exciting collection of original essays, some of the world's leading thinkers offer their take on how Dawkins, author of "The Selfish Gene," has changed the way we think about evolution, religion, and other subjects.

Book cover for Brian Greene: The Best American Science and Nature Writing

The Best American Science and Nature Writing

Brian Greene
Paperback - $23.95

Edited by Richard Preston, Jr., the bestselling author of "The Hot Zone" and "The Cobra Event," this new collection is a terrific sampling of science writing at its best" ("Booklist").

Book cover for John R. Gribbin: The Origins of the Future

The Origins of the Future : Ten Questions for the Next Ten Years

John R. Gribbin
Hardcover - $49.95

Gribbin focuses on ten controversial, unanswered issues in the physical sciences and explains how current cutting-edge research may yield solutions in the very near future. He explores ideas concerning the creation of the universe, the possibility of ...

Book cover for Brian Hayes: Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions

Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions

Brian Hayes
Hardcover - $39.95

An Award-Winning Essayist Plies His Craft
Brian Hayes is one of the most accomplished essayists active today--a claim supported not only by his prolific and continuing high-quality output but also by such honors as the National Magazine Award for ...

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Netofans-Essay 1 (Version 0.96) : How Networks of Attractor-Networks Model the Process That Generates the Contents of Awareness

Henning P. Henningsen
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Book cover for Henry Thomas Huxley: Autobiography and Selected Essays

Autobiography and Selected Essays

Henry Thomas Huxley
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Book cover for Thomas Henry Huxley: Autobiography and Selected Essays

Autobiography and Selected Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley
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Book cover for Thomas Henry Huxley: Autobiography and Selected Essays

Autobiography and Selected Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley
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The purpose of the following selections is to present to students of English a few of Huxley's representative essays" states preface."

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Lectures and Essays

Thomas Henry Huxley
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But the human bones and cranium from the Neanderthal exceed all the rest in those peculiarities of conformation which lead to the conclusion of their belonging to a barbarous and savage race. Whether the cavern in which they were found, unaccompanied ...

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