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Released: June 25, 2013
"A useful update on recent developments in biomimicry and an intriguing case for innovative green technology that goes beyond sustainability."
NONFICTION
Released: June 25, 2013
"A somewhat overwritten eye-opener about medical advances achieved on the backs of society's weakest members."
The harrowing story of the exploitation of institutionalized children in American medical research.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 1, 2013
"A compelling case for continued, even increased, fusion research."
A surprisingly sprightly
tour d'horizon of the pursuit of fusion energy, from
Science deputy news director Clery.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 2, 2013
"Well-suited to middle and high schoolers as well as to adults seeking to brush up their statistical skills without breaking a sweat."
A gentle, pleasantly illustrated induction into the strange world of bell curves and chi squares.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 7, 2013
Goldberg (Physics/Drexel Univ.;
A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty, 2010, etc.) delivers relentlessly cheerful but comprehensible explanations of a dozen profound features of the universe.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"In this enjoyable and authoritative text, Swain will have readers wondering exactly how many zombies they brushed past today."
"This is not a book about fictional zombies. This is a book about what happens to the zombie when it crawls off the page and out of the screen and into our world," writes
SciencePunk founder Swain at the beginning of this thoughtful, colorful, slow poke through the world of zombiedom.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 11, 2013
"A thoroughly enjoyable exploration of questions even astute readers may not have thought worth asking."
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Released: July 16, 2013
"Despommier is an excellent popularizer, lacing his accounts of our invaders' ingenuity with history and anecdotes that underscore how grateful a modern society should be for clean drinking water and sanitary facilities."
The ick factor is high--20-foot tapeworms, skin nodules filled with writhing worms, etc.--but for parasitologists, the fellow travelers chronicled in this illuminating book command respect for the artful ways they have managed cohabitation since the dawn of life.
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Released: July 16, 2013
"An important evaluative study meriting serious public discussion."
We cannot rely on advances in molecular biology to beat the scourge of cancer. So argues journalist Leaf, who got interested in the subject via the impressive success story of the drug Gleevec, which effectively delivers targeted cancer therapy to certain leukemia patients.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Certainly not for everyone, but a smart reminder that we haven't got the whole scene covered--look at quantum mechanics--and that openness is more fruitful than seclusion in dogma."
Radin (
Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality, 2006, etc.) combs the scientific, peer-reviewed literature--and much yogic lore and historical anecdote--to find evidence and validity for the claims of mysticism, miracles and the supernatural.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 22, 2013
"Wide-ranging, insightful and provocative--a book to savor."
Churchland (Emeritus, Philosophy/Univ. of California, San Diego;
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality, 2011, etc.) probes the interface between our perception of our own mental processes and our growing knowledge of how our brains function.
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NONFICTION
Released: July 23, 2013
"Perhaps overly upbeat, but it contains useful new insights into thinking well."
