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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman
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In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with... ( read more)
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The Best American Science Writing (Best American Science Writing)
by Gina Kolata
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The latest edition of the popular annual series dedicated to collecting the best, most relevant, and most thought-provoking science writing of the year features articles from a wide variety of publications and covers provocative and engaging topics.... ( read more)
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
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A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... ( read more)
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Best American Science & Nature Writing)
by Jerome Groopman
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The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.--Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor... ( read more)
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com Staff Pick
A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... ( read more)
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What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty
by John Brockman
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More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proof.
Scientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated... ( read more)
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
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Diamond crafts a careful and thorough account of the environmental and cultural fragility of civilizations, from present-day Montana to the toppled statues of Easter Island. Collapse is both a fascinating study of humanity's ecological relationships and... ( read more)
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
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Another winner from one of the best science writers around, The Canon, like Bill Bryson's Short History of Nearly Everything, provides a pleasurable understanding of science.
Recommended by Beth, Powells.com... ( read more)
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Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
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Chaos records the birth of a new science. This new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, the unpredictable – in short, the chaotic – had been observed.
Chaos is a history of discovery... ( read more)
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
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Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria... ( read more)
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-527) and index.... ( read more)
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature... ( read more)
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Curious Minds
by John Brockman
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What makes a child decide to become a scientist? For Robert Sapolsky, Stanford professor of biology, it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible. Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to the volume of Einstein's work he picked up as... ( read more)
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SYNC: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
by Steven Strogatz
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The moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the Earth; millions of neurons fire together to control our breathing; every night along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies flash in silent, hypnotic unison. All of these... ( read more)
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
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While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial... ( read more)
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What Are You Optimistic About? Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
by John Brockman
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The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www.edge.org), the influential online salon, recently... ( read more)
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A Left-Hand Turn Around the World: Chasing the Mystery and Meaning of All Things Southpaw
by David Wolman
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Traveling from the halls of history to the halls of science, Wolman explores a Scottish castle designed for left-handed swordfights, visits a Paris museum to inspect nineteenth-century brains that hold clues to this biological puzzle, and observes chimps... ( read more)
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
by Michael Brooks
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Science starts to get interesting when things don’t make sense. Science’s best-kept secret is this: Even today, there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past... ( read more)
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Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
by Jeffrey Kluger
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Why are the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible?
Why is a truck driver's job as hard as a CEO's?
How can 10 percent of every medical dollar cure 90 percent of the world's disease?
Why do bad teams win so many games?
Complexity,... ( read more)
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The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Weather
by David M Ludlum
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Interest in our nation's weather patterns is rising -- as witnessed in the popularity of the Weather Channel -- and this guide is the most popular reference to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North... ( read more)
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