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| Poison: An Illustrated History
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Joel Levy.
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| Publisher: Lyons Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780762770564. Daedalus Item Code: 22938 |
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| Easy to obtain and administer, poisons are often hard to detect or trace. They can kill, but they can also smooth wrinkles, calm nerves, create inspiring visions, and cure illnesses. Indeed, says ... (Read More)
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| The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve Your Mind
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Richard Restak & Scott Kim.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781594487774. Daedalus Item Code: 30382 |
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| It's no secret that puzzles are fun to solve, but when neuroscientist Richard Restak discovered new research that indicated puzzles could actually help the brain improve itself, he wondered: could ... (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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| The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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Richard Dawkins.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781416594789. Daedalus Item Code: 30965 |
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| Evolution is accepted as fact by all reputable scientists and indeed by theologians, yet millions of people still question its veracity. Here the author of The Selfish Gene, The Blind ... (Read More)
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| What Darwin Got Wrong
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Jerry Fodor & Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini.
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| Publisher: FSG. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780374288792. Daedalus Item Code: 30677 |
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| In a book that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works, Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini offer a critique of Darwin not in the name of ... (Read More)
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| The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Richard Dawkins. Dave McKean, illus.
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| Publisher: Free Press. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781451675047. Daedalus Item Code: 32014 |
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| Perhaps the world's best-known evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins offers this sweeping introduction to the wonders of science, illuminating the ways in which the world really works through ... (Read More)
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| The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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Brian Greene.
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| Publisher: Vintage. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780375727207. Daedalus Item Code: 31270 |
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| The Pulitzer Prize–nominated physicist who wrote The Elegant Universe here illuminates some of the most mysterious of concepts about space and time. Is space an entity? Why does time have a ... (Read More)
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