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Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A chronicle of the history, science, and lives behind the development of the atomic bomb, including scientists, world leaders and citizens, from Marie Curie's 1898 discovery of radium to the bombing...
author: Diana Preston |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2008 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Jerome Groopman, M.D. bring together 24 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists.
author: Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor |
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Best American Science Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This year's edition contains 24 essays on contemporary science issues, written by new as well as established authors. Topics include animal language and intelligence, evolutionary biology, computer sc...
author: Jesse Cohen, series editor |
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Genome - The Autobiography of a Species in 23 ChaptersClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Ridley wrote this in 1999, just before the 2000 publication of the first draft of the human genome. He picks one newly discovered gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and tells its st...
author: Matt Ridley |
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Guide to the Human Body: A Photographic Journey Through the Human BodyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A photographic guide to the human body. Includes: skin, hair, nails, skeleton, bones, joints, muscles, brain, nerves & neuron, eyes, ears & hearing, nose & tongue, hormones, heart, blood, circulation,...
author: Richard Walker |
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Guinea Pig Scientists - Bold Self-Experimenters in Science and MedicineClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Stories of ten men and women, from the 1770's to the present, who devoted their lives, and sometimes risked them, to answer some of the big questions in science and medicine.
These accounts uncover t...
author: Leslie Dendy and Mel Boring |
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Our Living Earth - A Story of People, Ecology, and PreservationClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's photos fill this beautiful coffee table-sized book. Large full-color photos combine with statistics, eye-catching facts and informative text about each them...
author: Isabelle Delannoy |
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Peacemaking Among PrimatesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An examination of how four simian species cope with aggression and how they make peace after fights. De Waal's thesis that forgiveness and peacemaking are widespread among non-human primates offers t...
author: Frans De Waal |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2008 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Jerome Groopman, M.D. bring together 24 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists.
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The Best American Science Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This year's edition contains 24 essays on contemporary science issues, written by new as well as established authors. Topics include animal language and intelligence, evolutionary biology, computer sc...
author: Jesse Cohen, series editor |
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What the World EatsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
D'Aluisio and photographer Peter Menzel travel to 21 countries and visit 25 families, photographing a week's worth of food at each household. There is engaging text about each family, the community i...
author: Faith D'Aluisio, Peter Menzel |
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