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  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

    Edited by Mary Roach, Tim Folger ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    The bestselling author of Stiff and Packing for Mars presents fascinating essays about our world by Jonathan Lethem, Jaron Lanier, Malcom Gladwell and others."America's funniest science writer." — Washington PostGood science writing, as Mary Roach explains in her introduction, is a cure for ignorance and fallacy. But great sci... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010

    Edited by Freeman Dyson, Tim Folger ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    Twenty-eight of the best pieces of science and nature writing in America in a collection edited by the renowned physicist and public intellectual.The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then ... Read more

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  • The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2013

    by Tim Folger, Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    Series series Best American
    Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a leading cancer physician and researcher, selects the year’s top science and nature writing from journalists who dive into their fields with curiosity and passion, delivering must-read articles from a wide array of fields. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

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    From acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this book features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary explores the ins and outs of the modern world: marriage, friends, family, food, technology, customer service, dental ... Read more

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  • Animals Make Us Human

    Creating the Best Life for Animals

    by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson ...
    How can we give animals the best life—for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into the science of animal emotions and how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • What Should We Be Worried About?

    Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 13 - Edge Question Series
    Drawing from the horizons of science, today's leading thinkers reveal the hidden threats nobody is talking about—and expose the false fears everyone else is distracted by.What should we be worried about? That is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the planet's most influential minds. He asked them to disclose something that, for ... Read more

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  • The Dog Master

    A Novel of the First Dog

    by W. Bruce Cameron ...
    Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf--a friendship that changed mankind forever.Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and ... Read more

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  • Is That a Fact?

    Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life

    by Joe Schwarcz ...
    The bestselling "quackbuster" and "tireless tub-thumper against pseudoscience" fishes for the facts in a flood of misinformation ( Maclean's).Eat this and live to 100. Don't, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media, which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to eat, what chemicals to avoid, and what's best for the environment. In Is That a Fact?, bestselling ... Read more

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  • The Disappearing Spoon

    And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

    by Sam Kean ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, ... Read more

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  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    by John Brockman ...
    Series Book 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Read more

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  • The Marshmallow Test

    Mastering Self-Control

    by Walter Mischel ...
    Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior later in life?The world's leading expert on self-control, Walter Mischel has proven that the ... Read more

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  • The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

    The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

    by Sam Kean ...
    The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the ... Read more

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