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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Life’s Edge explores one of science’s most enduring mysteries: what exactly counts as “alive”? Carl Zimmer travels through cutting‑edge laboratories, historical experiments, and strange corners of the natural world to show how difficult it is to draw a clear boundary between living and nonliving things. From protocells and hibernating animals to viruses and engineered droplets that be…
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- 9780593182734
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- 384 pages, 5.48 x 0.8 x 8.23 inches
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- 570 ZIM l
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat presents twenty of Oliver Sacks’s most remarkable clinical stories, each illuminating the strange, fragile, and resilient nature of the human brain. Through vivid, compassionate narratives, Sacks introduces patients who experience profound disruptions in perception, memory, identity, and motor control — from a man unable to recognize everyday objects t…
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- Reissue Ed.
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- 9780593466674
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- 320 pages, 5.18 x 0.68 x 8 inches
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- 616.8 SAC t
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
volutions reimagines the story of our universe through fifteen modern “myths,” using poetic narrative to explain the scientific origins of everything from the cosmos to human consciousness. Drawing on cutting‑edge research in cosmology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and neuroscience, Oren Harman transforms complex scientific ideas into vivid, imaginative tales that echo the world’s an…
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- 9780374538415
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- 256 pages, 5.06 x 0.57 x 8.02 inches
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- 500 HAR e
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fos…
Some Assembly Required takes readers on a sweeping journey through four billion years of evolution, showing how life on Earth has transformed through a series of remarkable innovations. Neil Shubin weaves together discoveries from paleontology, genetics, embryology, and molecular biology to explain how major evolutionary leaps occurred — from fish developing limbs, to reptiles becoming birds,…
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- 9781101972687
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- 288 pages, 5.15 x 0.75 x 7.95 inches
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- 576.8 SHU s
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Entangled Life reveals the hidden, interconnected world of fungi and how these extraordinary organisms shape nearly every aspect of life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake takes readers beneath the surface—literally and metaphorically—to explore fungal networks that sustain forests, enable plant communication, digest pollutants, and even influence animal and human behavior.
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- 9780525510321
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- 368 pages, 5.12 x 0.79 x 7.96 inches
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- 579.5 SHE e
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Entangled Life reveals the hidden, interconnected world of fungi and how these extraordinary organisms shape nearly every aspect of life on Earth. Merlin Sheldrake takes readers beneath the surface—literally and metaphorically—to explore fungal networks that sustain forests, enable plant communication, digest pollutants, and even influence animal and human behavior.
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- Reprint Ed.
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- 9780525510321
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- 368 pages, 5.12 x 0.79 x 7.96 inches
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- 579.5 SHE e
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs Th…
A Brief History of Intelligence traces the billion‑year evolutionary journey that produced the modern human brain. Max Bennett identifies five major breakthroughs—from the earliest nerve nets to complex symbolic reasoning—that transformed simple organisms into creatures capable of planning, imagining, and creating technology.
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- 9780063286351
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- 432 pages, 5.31 x 0.97 x 8 inches
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- 612.82 BEN a
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is Rachel Carson’s landmark exposé on the devastating environmental and health impacts of indiscriminate pesticide use. Drawing on scientific research and vivid case studies, Carson reveals how chemicals such as DDT accumulate in soil, water, wildlife, and human bodies, disrupting ecosystems and threatening biodiversity.
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- Anniversary Ed.
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- 9780618249060
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- 400 pages, 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches
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- 363.738 CAR s
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History is Siddhartha Mukherjee’s masterful exploration of the science of heredity—how humans came to understand genes, how they shape our identities, and what the future of genetic manipulation may hold. Blending scientific history, biography, and personal narrative, Mukherjee traces the story of genetics from ancient philosophers to Mendel’s peas, Darwin’s theori…
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- 9781476733524
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- 608 pages, 6.13 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
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- 576.5 MUK g
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
I Contain Multitudes reveals the astonishing world of microbes that live in, on, and around every organism on Earth. Ed Yong guides readers through the science of the microbiome, showing how bacteria shape the bodies, behaviors, and survival of humans, animals, and even deep‑sea creatures.
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- 9780062368607
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- 368 pages, 1.2 x 5.9 x 8.8 inches
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- 579.3 YON i
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