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The Clot Thickens: The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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Take Me to Your Leader: Practical Advice for Your First Alien Encounter
America's favorite astrophysicist has written the most entertaining and universally appealing book of his stellar career: a practical guide for dealing with Alien visitors, an exploration of how it might happen, and a cultural history of our fascination with extraterrestrials."Ever since childhood," writes Neil...- $29.99
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Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters / Updated and Expanded Edition
In this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin's groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change--with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future."Greenland's ice loss is accelerating.""Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities.""Rapid 'climate...- $45.95
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I Am a Strange Loop
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better
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The Secret History of the Universe: How Ancient Wisdom Made the Modern World
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In Defense of Sunlight: The Surprising Science of Sun Exposure
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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine: philosophers have for centuries declared this...- $49.99
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How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs--or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build, or grow, a real dinosaur without finding ancient DNA? Jack Horner,...- $39.99
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
This is the powerful, dramatic biography of math genius John Nash, who overcame serious mental illness and schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize. This book is the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film starring Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly and directed by Ron Howard."How...- $44.95
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Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants
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Vendor: Daniel J. Levitin
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
Music is one of humanity's oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering, promote healing, and calm the mind.In...- $49.99
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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times, TIME, and Oprah DailyFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness--what it is, who has it, and why--and a meditation on...- $44.00
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Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower: The Amazing Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's Wild Plants
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Vendor: Jeremy Narby
Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the Shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels the globe--from the Amazon Basin to the Far East--to probe what traditional...- $13.99
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The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
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Vendor: Daniel J. Levitin
I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
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The Miracle Century: Making Sense of the Cell Therapy Revolution
New York Times bestselling author and former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb provides a glimpse of a promising future that is quickly approaching: a world with cures for chronic illnesses and cancers.While traditional drugs mostly help us manage the effects of disease, cell therapies promise...- $45.95
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A Brief History of the Universe (and Our Place in It)
"A sweeping tour of the laws of physics, the scope of the universe, and the place of life within it." --Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the UniverseAn elegant exploration of humanity's continuous search to find the hidden...- $45.95
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A Brief History of the Universe (and Our Place in It)
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Hotwired: How the Hidden Power of Heat Makes Us Stronger
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Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis
If we believe the climate crisis is real, why is it so difficult to change our behavior and our consumer tendencies? Minding the Climate investigates this problem in the neuroscience of decision-making. Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD, points to the evolution of the human brain during...- $41.99
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Physics: A Very Short Introduction
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Fair Doses: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity
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Vendor: Stephen Jay Gould
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his...- $59.99
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The Probiotic Planet Lib/E: Using Life to Manage Life
Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal health. In this ambitious and original work, Jamie Lorimer offers a sweeping overview of diverse probiotic approaches and an insightful critique of their promise and limitations. Lorimer describes cases...- $71.99
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Handbook of Optoelectronic Device Modeling and Simulation: Fundamentals, Materials, Nanostructures, Leds, and Amplifiers, Vol. 1
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest infectious disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu-manity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen...- $30.00
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Vendor: Malcolm Kendrick
The Clot Thickens: The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease
This is a 150-year detective story with a cast of unrecognized heroes who may, finally, become known for their work on the true causes of heart disease. Exploring the truth about cholesterol--the apparently tried, and convicted, cause of millions of deaths from heart disease--with...- $46.99
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Vendor: William Shatner
Cosmos Confidential: Bill & Neil's Excellent Bromance
Witness a free-wheeling conversation between William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson, two icons who have made immeasurable impacts on our culture's view of space.Where do you go when you want to let your curiosity fly? The backyard, of course. The setting for this audio...- $29.95
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Cosmos Confidential: Bill & Neil's Excellent Bromance
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The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world's most resilient creatures--the butterfly--shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and...- $34.99
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Surviving Climate and Chaos: What Dinosaurs Teach Us about Climate Change and Resilience
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Surviving Climate and Chaos: What Dinosaurs Teach Us about Climate Change and Resilience
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The Hidden Seasons: A Calendar of Nature's Clues
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4 Weeks to Better Sleep: Improve Brain Function, Lose Weight, Boost Your Mood, Reduce Stress, and Become a Better Sleeper
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain: Breaking the Doom-Loop to Heal Chronic Physical and Emotional Pain
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The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain
A classic account of the relationship between the human brain and the human mindCan the mind be explained by what we know about the brain? Is a person's being determined by their body alone or by their mind and body as separate elements? In...- $29.95
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Vendor: Teri Schnaubelt
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of...- $45.95
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Sound: Profound Experiences with Chanting, Toning, Music, and Healing Frequencies
You are a musical instrument in the great song of a living universe. Join social scientists and futurists Drs. J. J. and Desiree Hurtak as they show you how sound is an integral part of who you are and how you got here--in fact,...- $45.95
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Better Not Burn Your Toast: The Science of Food and Health
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A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
A scientist's manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil...- $19.99
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Vendor: Neil Degrasse Tyson
Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century: Further Scientific Adventures of Merlin from Omniscia
From Neil deGrasse Tyson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, comes a spirited journey to the planets and stars, revealing the answers to many mysteries of our galaxy and beyond.In this companion volume to Merlin's Tour of...- $29.95
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." --P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of...- $49.99
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
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The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
NPR SciFri Book Club PickNext Big Idea Club's ""Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022""Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss,...- $45.95
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Vendor: Craig Childs
The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals. Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast...- $35.00
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Vendor: Philippa Gander
Life in Sync: The Science of Internal Clocks and How We're Disrupting Them
Why we need to reconnect with nature's biological rhythms--and rediscover the benefits of a good night's sleepAll of life is profoundly shaped by the daily, monthly, and yearly cycles of our planet, and all creatures have internal timekeeping systems that rely on cues from...- $35.99
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Vendor: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
A prize-winning science writer reveals the intricate ways that the elements are woven into our culture, history, and language in stories of discovery and discoverers; of rituals and values; of exploitation and celebration; and of superstition as well as scienceLike the alphabet, the calendar...- $55.99
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