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Endless Forms Most Beautiful
We not only share nearly 99% of our genes with chimps, we also have some 35% in common with daffodil...
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the ten mos...
Life Unfolding: How the Human Body Creates Itself
Where did I come from? Why do I have two arms but just one head? How is my left leg the same size as...
The Anatomy of Evil
The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other hi...
One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics
From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a rivet...
Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction
In Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, best-selling author Frank Close provides a compellin...
Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
Climate change is still, arguably, the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the...
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
What is knowledge? Is it the same as opinion or truth? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in...
Black Holes: A Very Short Introduction
Black holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious nature. This Very S...
Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction
Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is sub...
The Ancient Near East
This book explores the lands of the ancient Near East from around 3200 BCE to 539 BCE. The earth-sha...
Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World
Making Peace with Microbes Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic inc...
Massive
The biggest science story of our time, Massive spans four decades, weaving together the personal nar...
Dante
In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante...
Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It i...
Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction
To your local anchorperson, the word "tragedy" brings to mind an accidental fire at a low-income apa...