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Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature, Paperback/Ray S. Jackendorf
What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can't other creatures do the sam…
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The Einstein Syndrome, Paperback/Thomas Sowell
The Einstein Syndrome is a follow-up to Late-Talking Children, which established Thomas Sowell as a leading spokesman on the subject. While …
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Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life/Massimo Pigliucci
Description How should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential question l…
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, Paperback/Robert Whitaker
Description An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered…
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Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom, Hardcover/Leila Schneps
In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, b…
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, Paperback/Kevin Kelly
Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to…
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Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos, Hardcover/Peter M. Hoffmann
Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this vie…
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, Paperback/Stephanie Coontz
Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the 'male breadwinner marriage' is the least traditional f…
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, Paperback/Svante Paabo
ONE OF AMAZON'S TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2014 Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer this question: what can…
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Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy, Paperback/Irvin D. Yalom
The many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love's Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yal…