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Biology Essentials for Dummies

by Rene Fester Kratz & Donna Rae Siegfried

Just the core concepts you need to score high in your biology course

Biology Essentials For Dummies focuses on just the core concepts you need to succeed in an introductory biology course. From identifying the...

The Science of Sports: Winning in the Olympics

by Scientific American & Scientific American Editors

The Olympics are the world's most prestigious stage for athletic competition. Fans both casual and hardcore tune in religiously every few years to watch as men and women push themselves to the limits of human...

Why Him? Why Her?

by Helen Fisher

A groundbreaking book about how your personality type determines who you love

Why do you fall in love with one person rather than another? In this fascinating and informative book, Helen Fisher, one of the world’s...

The Origin of Species: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Charles Darwin

Introduction by Edward J. Larson

Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific inquiry, The Origin of Species sold out its first printing on the very day it was published in...

Botanica Delira: More Stories of Strange, Undiscovered, and Murderous Vegetation

by Chad Arment

Botanica Delira is a companion anthology to Flora Curiosa. It includes 21 additional classic short stories of unusual (and often deadly) plants, flowers, and fungi from science fiction and fantasy. Some stories...

The Evolution Conspiracy, Volume 1: Exposing Life's Inexplicable Origins & the Cult of Darwin

by Lisa A. Shiel & Tyler A. Kokjohn

EVOLUTION.

A deceptively simple word that has transformed the way we look at ourselves and everything around us. Once considered unique, man has been reduced to little more than another animal, thanks to evolutionary...

Backyard Bigfoot: The True Story of Stick Signs, UFOs, & the Sasquatch

by Lisa A. Shiel & Nick Redfern

Backyard Bigfoot was a finalist in the 2007 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards.

"As informative as it is entertaining." -Midwest Book Review

*****

Bigfoot...Fact or Fiction? Read this book before you decide!...

NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, NEUROPSYCHIATRY, BRAIN & MIND: Primer, Overview & Introduction

by R. Joseph

NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, NEUROPSYCHIATRY, BRAIN & MIND: Primer, Overview & Introduction 14 Overview of the Brain and Mind: Functional Localization 14 Localization & Functional Neuroanatomy Of The Brain...

Future of Disease: Existing, Emerging, and Novel Infectious Diseases

by David P. Clark

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

This Element is an excerpt from Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics...

Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement

by John Brockman

Evolutionary science lies at the heart of a modern understanding of the natural world. Darwin’s theory has withstood 150 years of scientific scrutiny, and today it not only explains the origin and design of...

Garden Composting - How Garden Recycling Works

by Bill Butterworth

Hands-on, know-how and understanding of practical delivery of integrated, closed-loop gardening from waste delivering real sustainability. Includes your Safety Check List and how to calculate your own positive...

The Stem Cell Hope: How Stem Cell Medicine Can Change Our Lives

by Alice Park

A landmark book by the senior science writer at Time magazine introduces us to a medical breakthrough that can save our lives. 

Few people know much about stem cell research beyond the ethical questions raised...

Biopunk: Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages

by Marcus Wohlsen

Bill Gates recently told Wired that if he were a teenager today, he would be hacking biology. "If you want to change the world in some big way," he says, "that's where you should start-biological molecules."...

Monkeys On Our Backs

by Richard Tokumei

Why the Left should disavow The Theory of Evolution and the Right should love it!

First Contact

by Marc Kaufman

Are we alone in the universe? Almost certainly not.

In First Contact, Marc Kaufman provides a gripping tour of the magnificent new science of astrobiology that is closing in on the discovery of extraterrestrial...

Evolution

by Irfan Yilmaz

Examining the evolution debate from different aspects, this study points out the divergent uses of evolution and it posits a scientific argument against the theory of evolution, and includes rational explanations...

Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health

by Nicholas Wade

With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is...

Protect Yourself Against Bioterrorism

by Philip M., Ph.D. Tierno Jr.

How does anthrax spread?

Should I avoid opening my mail?

Wasn't I vaccinated for smallpox years ago?

What exactly is encephalitis?

Is my workplace a target for bioterrorism?

What precautions can I take to stay...

Among the Great Apes: Adventures on the Trail of Our Closest Relatives

by Paul Raffaele

Join Paul Raffaele, whom the Washington Post calls the "last of the great, old-fashioned adventure writers," is on a journey to meet the last great apes living in the wild.

Humans have long felt a deep attraction...

Elephants In the Volkswagen

by Lindsey Grant

In the last century, the United States has grown from 75 million people to 250 million. Have we gone too far? How can an optimum population be identified and achieved, and how can we confront the problems now...