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A groundbreaking revision of the Copernican principle.
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For too long, we’ve thought of fathers as little more than sources of authority and economic stability in the lives of their children. Yet cutting-edge studies...
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Stretching 1,400 miles along the Australian coast and visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is home to three thousand individual reefs, more than nine...
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The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of...
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John D. Mayer, the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence, now draws on decades of research to introduce...
In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they’re commonplace....
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A Publishers Weekly Best Science Book of the Season An Amazon Best Book of the Month A Book to Watch Out For in December, The New Yorker’s Page-Turner Blog...
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“As a sex writer, Jesse Bering is fearless—and peerless.” —Dan Savage “You are a sexual deviant. A pervert, through and through.” We may not want to admit...
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One of Amazon's Best Science Books of 2013 A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013 One of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Spring Science...
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One of Nature’s Summer Book Picks One of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books For centuries, we’ve toyed with our creature companions,...
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In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a...
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Showcasing more than fifty of the most provocative, original, and significant online essays from 2011, The Best Science Writing Online 2012 will change the way...
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One of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors’ Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012 Selected by The Christian Science Monitor as one of “21 smart nonfiction titles...
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Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does “free will”...
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How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap shut? Can it actually feel an insect’s tiny, spindly legs? And how do cherry blossoms know when to bloom? Can they...
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