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."
NONFICTION
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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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 30, 2013
"Unzicker unsuccessfully attempts to bolster the credibility of his own sweeping generalizations by claiming the mantle of esteemed physicists such as Roger Penrose and Lee Smolin, who seriously question the direction of current theory."
With assistance from science writer Jones (
The Quantum Ten, 2008), theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Unzicker compares the current state of theoretical physics to a bubble economy.
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2013
"A wonderful source book for professionals and a highly informative, often engrossing tale for lay readers willing to apply due diligence."
NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2013
"A delightfully thought-provoking overview of the nature-vs.-nurture debate."
Genes dictate our anatomy, emotions and behavior, except when they don't, according to this ingenious account of how inheritance and environments--including our parents' environment--vie to make an individual.
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