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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature

In his most important book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—"the best popular science writer in the English language today" (Christian Science Monitor)—makes a passionate case for...

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The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

In his work treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz made an extraordinary discovery: by focusing their attention away from negative behaviors and toward positive...

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This Will Change Everything: Ideas That Will Shape the Future

"What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to more than 100 of the world's most...

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Biomedical Ethics

This best-selling anthology with case studies provides insightful and comprehensive treatment of ethical issues in medicine. Appropriate for courses taught in philosophy departments as well as in...

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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World

The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was...

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What Would You Do?: Juggling Bioethics and Ethnography

In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been joined at the bedside by a new group of...

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An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the...

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Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Application

Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant is written to help the 100,000+ post-graduate students and professionals who need to write effective proposals for grants. There...

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her...

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Science and Technology Leadership in American Government: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments

The government of the United States today is deeply involved in activities that have significant scientific and technical (S&T) components that are vitally important for economic productivity and...

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El Creador y el Cosmos: Que Revelan los Grandes Descubrimientos Cientificos (Spanish Edition)

Manufacturer: Casa Bautista de Publicaciones Author: Hugh Ross ISBN: 0311050476 Number Of Pages: 224

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Buddhism & Bioethics

This book discusses contemporary issues in medical ethics from a Buddhist perspective. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Damien Keown shows how Buddhist ethical principles can be applied...

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Political Animals: Animal Protection Politics in Britain and the United States

Despite its increasing saliency, the issue of animal welfare has been virtually ignored by political scientists. Likewise, there is a tendency for animal rights advocates to reject all welfare...

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Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence

The question of the nature and extent of our moral obligations to non-human animals has featured prominently in recent moral debate. This book defends the novel position that a contradictarian moral...

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Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare

From the use of animals in experiments to develop medicine for people, to the preservation of endangered species in zoos, human beings' responsibility to and for their fellow animals has become an...

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In the Valley of the Kings: Howard Carter and the Mystery of King Tutankhamun's Tomb

In 1922, the British archaeologist Henry Carter opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancient civilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinary revelation that...

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Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

From a witty, relentlessly inquisitive medical writer, an eye-opening history of pregnancy and birthing joys and debacles. Making and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant,...

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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)

In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of...

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