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The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson(Preface), Lawrence Bragg
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"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won N
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The Web of Life : A New Understanding of Living Systems
Fritjof Capra
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Current:
9.6 |
In his international bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, Fritjof Capra juxtaposed physics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. Now, in The Web of Life, he takes yet another giant step forward, offering a brilli
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A Natural History of the Senses
Diane Ackerman
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Current:
9.5 |
"One of the real tests of writers," notes Ackerman in this liveliest of nature books, "is how well they write about smells. If they can't describe the scent of sanctity in a church, can you trust them to describe the suburbs
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| 4
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The Touchstone of Life : Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life
Werner R. Loewenstein
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Current:
9.5 |
"If there were something like a guidebook for living creatures, I think the first line would read like a biblical commandment: Make thy information larger. And next would come the guidelines for colonizing, in good imperialist fashio
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| 5
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The Origins of Life : From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language
John Maynard Smith
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Current:
9.5 |
Life is a long, strange trip, and in The Origins of Life, John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry blast you through its three-and-a-half-billion-year history at breathtaking pace. Life, we learn, is information, transmi
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The Meme Machine
Susan J. Blackmore, Richard Dawkins
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Current:
9.5 |
In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins proposed the concept of the meme as a unit of culture, spread by imitation. Now Dawkins himself says of Susan Blackmore: Showing
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
Ursula Goodenough
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Current:
9.5 |
Ursula Goodenough is an internationally recognized cell biologist; she is also an accomplished amateur theologian--an unusual combination of interests in a time when science and religion are widely divided. In The Sacred Depths of Nature
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| 8
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors : A Search for Who We Are
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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Current:
9.4 |
"Dazzling...A feast. Absorbing and elegantly written, it tells of theorigins of life on earth, describes its variety and charaacter, and culminates in a discussion of human nature and teh complex traces ofhumankind's evolutionary past...It
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| 9
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Merde : Excursions in Scientific, Cultural, and Sociohistorical Coprology
Ralph A. Lewin
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Current:
9.4 |
Ralph Lewin is a marine biologist who knows the value of poop. After all, the denizens of ocean bottoms receive much of their nutrients by eating the expelled waste of animals above. But marine food chains are only one part of this faintly
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The Origins of Virtue : Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
Matt Ridley
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Current:
9.4 |
Human life, scientific journalist Matt Ridley suggests, is a complex balancing act: we behave with self-interest foremost in mind, but also in ways that do not harm, and sometimes even benefit, others. This behavior, in a strange way, makes
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The Self-Made Tapestry : Pattern Formation in Nature
Philip Ball
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Current:
9.4 |
Seashells are often spirals, just like water going down the drain. There must be a connection, right? Our intuition scoffs at such a notion, but maybe they are related, writes Nature editor Philip Ball in The Self-Made Tape
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Why We Feel: The Science of Human Emotion
Victor S. Johnston
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Current:
9.3 |
How did feelings evolve? How do they develop within us? What is their function, their use to us? How does our nervous system implement them? These four questions, posed in somewhat different form by the Nobel Prize-winning biologist Niko
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
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Current:
9.2 |
Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinki
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Time, Love, Memory : A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Jonathan Weiner
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Current:
9.2 |
In the words of Jonathan Weiner, "Time, love, and memory are ... three cornerstones of the pyramid of behavior." While some find it difficult to view humans as mere machines, molecular biologists maintain that most behavior is genetically b
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The Cartoon Guide to Genetics
Larry Gonick, Mark Wheelis
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Current:
9.1 |
Having trouble deciphering your genetic code? Do dominant genes make you feel recessive? Let reigning nonfiction cartoonist Larry Gonick and microbiologist Mark Wheelis ease your way through Mendelian genetics, molecular biology, and the ba
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The Biotech Century : Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
Jeremy Rifkin(Introduction)
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Current:
9.0 |
When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and thrusting it onto the fro
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Biological Sequence Analysis : Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Richard Durbin
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Current:
9.0 |
Probablistic models are becoming increasingly important in analyzing the huge amount of data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome Project. For example, hidden Markov models are used for analyzing bio
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Living With Our Genes : Why They Matter More Than You Think
Dean H. Hamer, Peter Copeland
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Current:
9.0 |
How many of our faults are in our genetic stars, and how many in ourselves? Human geneticist Dean Hamer, whose research team found the popularly termed "gay gene," surveys what is currently known about the inheritance of human beh
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Cosmic Serpent : DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby, Jeremy Nanby
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Current:
9.0 |
A personal adventure, a fascinating study of anthropology and ethnopharmacology, and, most important, a revolutionary look at how intelligence and consciousness come into being. This adventure in science and imagination, which the Medic
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| 20
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The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
Jeremy Rifkin(Introduction)
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Current:
9.0 |
When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and thrusting it onto the fro
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The Evolution of Consciousness : The Origins of the Way We Think
Robert Ornstein
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Current:
8.9 |
Based on his life's research, the author of the bestseller The Psychology of Consciousness provides a provocative look at the evolution of the mind. He explains that we are not rational but adaptive, and that it is Darwin, not Freud, who is
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Born That Way : Genes, Behavior, Personality
William Wright
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Current:
8.9 |
William Wright takes on the question of nature versus nurture, examining the roles heredity and environment play in determining not only what we look like, but why some of us like coffee rather than tea or prefer cats to dogs. Wright's posi
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Mood Genes : Hunting for Origins of Mania and Depression
Samuel H. Barondes
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Current:
8.7 |
It's official. Our tendencies to be happy or sad come in part from our genes. Samuel H. Barondes is a neurobiologist and psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, and his direct involvement with the subject lends friendly
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Sudden Origins : Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species
Jeffrey H. Schwartz
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Current:
8.6 |
Despite the title, Darwin's Origin of Species doesn't really explain how new species are born. Scientists have been struggling with that thorny problem ever since its publication, and the r
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| 25
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Figments of Reality : The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
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Current:
8.4 |
In Figments of Reality, mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen's thesis (or schtick) is that human minds are produced by complicity between human brains and culture. In their earlier book more]
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The Clone Age : Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology
Lori B. Andrews
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Current:
8.4 |
Yesterday's science fiction is today's litigation, and nobody knows that better than Lori B. Andrews, an attorney specializing in genetic and reproductive technology. Her book The Clone Age is a personal look at the sweeping changes
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Remaking Eden : How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family
Lee M. Silver
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Current:
8.3 |
In this brilliant, provocative, and necessary book, Lee M. Silver takes a cautiously optimistic look at the scientific advances that will allow us to engineer life in ways that were unimaginable just a few short years ago--indeed, in ways t
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The Double Helix : A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James D. Watson, Gunther S. Stent
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Current:
8.2 |
"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders," writes James Watson in The Double Helix, his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won N
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At Home in the Universe : The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Stuart Kauffman
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 30
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The Red Queen : Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley
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Current:
8.0 |
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Being Adopted : The Lifelong Search for Self
David M. Brodzinsky
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Current:
7.9 |
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Femalia
Joani Blank
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Song of the Dodo : Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
David Quammen
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Current:
7.8 |
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| 34
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The Lives of a Cell : Notes of a Biology Watcher
Lewis Thomas
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Current:
7.8 |
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| 35
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Advanced Placement Biology Examination : Preparation Guide
Phillip E. Pack, Jerry Bobrow
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Current:
7.8 |
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| 36
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Bioinformatics : The Machine Learning Approach (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning)
Pierre Baldi, Soren Brunak
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 37
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Reef Coral Identification : Florida Caribbean Bahamas Including Marine Plants
Paul Humann, Ned Deloach
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Current:
7.6 |
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Reader's Digest North American Wildlife : Pleasantville, New York Montreal
Susan J. Wernert, Reader's Digest Association
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Current:
7.5 |
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The Moral Animal : Why We Are the Way We Are : The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Robert Wright
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Current:
7.5 |
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| 40
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Genes VI
Benjamin Lewin
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Current:
7.4 |
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Against the Grain : Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food
Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey
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Current:
7.4 |
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Recombinant DNA
James D. Watson
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Current:
7.3 |
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Rosalind Franklin and DNA
Anne Sayre
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Current:
7.2 |
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Molecular Biotechnology
Bernard R. Glick, Jack. J. Pasternak
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Current:
7.2 |
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Barron's How to Prepare for the Sat II : Biology and Biology E/m (12th Ed)
Maurice Bleifeld
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Current:
7.2 |
An overview of the SAT II biology exams with a review of test-taking strategies is followed by a full-length diagnostic test, review chapters covering 11 biology topics, and five complete practice tests, each with an answer key, a self-eval
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The Extended Phenotype : The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett (Afterword)
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Current:
7.2 |
In this influential and controversial book that has become a classic in popular science writing, Dawkins furthers his fascinating look at the evolution of life and natural selection. more]
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Introduction to Computational Molecular Biology
Joao Carlos Setubal
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Current:
7.2 |
Computational biology applies the power of computers to large, complex mathematical problems arising in molecular biology, especially in DNA sequencing. Setubal and Meidanis provide an overview of algorithms for computational biology as wel
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Molecular Biology of the Cell
Bruce Alberts
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Current:
7.2 |
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Biometry : The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research
Robert R. Sokal, F. James Rohlf
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Current:
7.2 |
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