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Instant Egghead Guide
The Mind
St. Martin's Griffin
Whether you're a fan of Scientific American’s wildly popular 60-Second Science Podcast or just curious about science, you'll love the tingly way your synapses...
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Beyond Human
Living with Robots and Cyborgs
Forge Books
Live longer, live stronger, with scientific enhancements and the wonders of technology
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Handbook of Technical Writing, Ninth Edition
St. Martin's Press
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Eternity
Our Next Billion Years
Macmillan
It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Bleak predictions by psychics and scientists alike portend extreme...
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Terra
Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Terra is one of the important books of our time—and it will change the way you think about the world.” —Neil Shubin, Provost, Field Museum of Natural...
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Exodus to the Virtual World
How Online Fun Is Changing Reality
Palgrave Macmillan
Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers,...
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A Life in Twilight
The Final Years of J. Robert Oppenheimer
St. Martin's Press
A Life in Twilight reveals the least-known and most enigmatic period of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s life, from the public humiliation he endured after the 1954...
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Mountain Rescue Doctor
Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature
St. Martin's Griffin
Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the...
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Ending Aging
The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
St. Martin's Griffin
With a New Afterword Must We Age? Nearly all scientists who study the biology of aging agree that we will someday be able to substantially slow down the...
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The Painted Word
Picador
"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...

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The World Without Us
Picador
Time #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Entertainment Weekly #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Salon Book Awards...
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Better
A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Picador
National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But...
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Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition
A Guide for Couples
Holt Paperbacks
REVISED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD ARE YOU GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT? Originally published in 1988, Getting the Love You Want has helped millions of couples...
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The Right Stuff
Picador
From "America’s nerviest journalist" (Newsweek)--a breath-taking epic, a magnificent adventure story, and an investigation into the true heroism and courage of...
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Get Anyone to Do Anything
Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation
St. Martin's Griffin
The legendary leader in the field of human behavior delivers the national bestselling, must-read phenomenon that changed the rules. Utilizing the latest...
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The Number Devil
A Mathematical Adventure
Holt Paperbacks
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration. In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who...
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West with the Night
North Point Press
West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s.
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Intuitive Eating, 2nd Edition
A Revolutionary Program That Works
St. Martin's Griffin
We've all been there-angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet that was supposed to be the last one. But...
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Why People Believe Weird Things
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Holt Paperbacks
Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New...
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Free from Addiction
Facing Yourself and Embracing Recovery
Palgrave Macmillan
Addiction invades every region and demographic in the United States, affecting more than 23 million Americans and putting families though a heartbreaking cycle...
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Emotional Awareness
Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance and Compassion
Times Books
Two leading thinkers engage in a landmark conversation about human emotions and the pursuit of psychological fulfillment At their first meeting, a remarkable...
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Annals of the Former World
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began...
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Emotions Revealed, Second Edition
Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
Holt Paperbacks
“A tour de force. If you read this book, you’ll never look at other people in quite the same way again.”—Malcolm Gladwell Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman...
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On Intelligence
Holt Paperbacks
From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines Jeff Hawkins,...