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Other Worlds: The Search for Life in the Universe
Michael D. Lemonick
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9.6 |
The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer at
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Seti Pioneers: Scientists Talk About Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Current:
9.5 |
Philip Morrison, Carl Sagan, Freeman Dyson and 13 other scientists discuss their work and their lives and the new field of SETI.
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If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness
Stephen Budiansky
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9.5 |
What is your cat thinking when she scratches at the door? What goes through Koko the gorilla's mind when she signs? For that matter, what goes through our minds when we think about animals and intelligence? Science writer Stephen Budiansky explore
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Carl Sagan
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Current:
9.5 |
Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends--and their amazing links to recent discoveries.
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Cosmos
Carl Sagan
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Current:
9.5 |
Based on Sagan's 13 part television series, "Cosmos" is about science in its broadest human context, and how science and civilization grew up together. With over 250 full-color illustrations. more]
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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computer Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil
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Current:
9.5 |
How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right now, because if Ray Kurzweil is right, we've only got un
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Mere Creation; Science, Faith & Intelligent Design
William A. Dembski
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Current:
9.4 |
Nineteen experts trained in mathematics, mechanical engineering, philosophy, astrophysics, ecology, evolutionary biology, and other disciplines challenge the reigning ideology of materialistic naturalism on both scientific and philosophical grounds, as t
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The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
P. C. W. Davies
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Current:
9.4 |
How did life begin? Did it start here, by blind chance or by necessity, or was Earth seeded by extraterrestrial visitors? (And, if so, how did they arise?) Physicist and science writer Paul Davies tackles these heavy questions and more in The F
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Cosmos
Carl Sagan
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Current:
9.3 |
Based on Sagan's 13 part television series, "Cosmos" is about science in its broadest human context, and how science and civilization grew up together. With over 250 full-color illustrations. more]
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
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Current:
9.2 |
"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 is an amazing
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Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained
David Filkin, Stephen Hawking
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Current:
9.2 |
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The Living Ocean: Understanding and Protecting Marine Biodiversity
Boyce Thorne-Miller, Sylvia A. Earle (Foreword)
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Current:
9.1 |
The first planet around a sunlike star was finally detected in 1995, after decades of false alarms. It was inevitable that within a couple of years a flood of books on extrasolar planets would gush forth. Michael Lemonick is the senior science writer at
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Is Anyone Out There? the Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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9.1 |
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First contact: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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Current:
9.0 |
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Is Anyone Out There?; The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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8.9 |
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Listening for Life in the Cosmos
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8.8 |
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The Seti Factor: How the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Is Changing Our View of the Universe and Ourselves
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8.7 |
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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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8.6 |
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
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8.6 |
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Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence
(1959) Microwave radio search for signals from civilizations residing in distant solar systems