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| The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
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Mary Roach, ed. Tim Folger, series ed.
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| Publisher: Mariner. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780547350639. Daedalus Item Code: 30814 |
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| The author of Stiff, Spook, Bonk, and Packing for Mars, as well as the winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award (a category in which, ... (Read More)
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| Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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Susannah Cahalan.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781451621372. Daedalus Item Code: 29415 |
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| (First Edition, Signed Bookplate) One day in 2009, journalist Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A ... (Read More)
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| The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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| Publisher: 4th Estate. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780007367481. Daedalus Item Code: 32515 |
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| (Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction) Cancer physician Siddhartha Mukherjee here gives us a profoundly humane "biography" of the disease, from its first documented ... (Read More)
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| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780393317558. Daedalus Item Code: 38539 |
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| This Pulitzer Prize-winning sweep of human history considers why Europeans were able to conquer, displace, and decimate Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse. ... (Read More)
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| How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
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Sherwin B. Nuland.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780679742449. Daedalus Item Code: 31278 |
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| (Winner of the 1993 National Book Award and a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award) This edition of surgeon Sherwin Nuland's incisive examination of the end ... (Read More)
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| Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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David Eagleman.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780307389923. Daedalus Item Code: 38664 |
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| (A Boston Globe and Houston Chronicle Best Book of 2011) If the conscious mind—the part that you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg in the functioning of your ... (Read More)
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| The Merely Personal: Observations on Science and Scientists
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Jeremy Bernstein.
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| Publisher: Ivan R. Dee. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781566633444. Daedalus Item Code: 01876 |
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| A compilation of observations on science and scientists, these 13 essays from the National Book Award–nominated author of Albert Einstein and Hitler's Uranium Club include critical ... (Read More)
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| The Mind's Eye
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Oliver Sacks.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307272089. Daedalus Item Code: 31061 |
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| (New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2010) This fascinating book from neurologist Oliver Sacks—who also gave us Hallucinations, Musicophilia, and ... (Read More)
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| Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
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Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393061970. Daedalus Item Code: 11084 |
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| A finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology, this is the surprising, untold story about the profoundly human cognitive capacity to name the natural world. ... (Read More)
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| The Wavewatcher's Companion
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney.
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| Publisher: Bloomsbury. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780747589761. Daedalus Item Code: 24041 |
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| (Winner of the 2011 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books) One bright February afternoon on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching ... (Read More)
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