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"A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory."--

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What if your future could be mapped out for you. Would you want to know

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Handy and popular bird field guides with features about 175 birds organized by family as approved by the American Ornithological Union.

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How does the voice of a distant radio announcer make it through your alarm clock in the morning How does your gas stove work How does the remote control open your garage door What happens when you turn the key in the ignition What do antibiotics really do This title deals with these questions.

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Richly illustrated with a luminous and informative collection of maps, photographs, and graphics, this atlas is the perfect companion for exploring the wonders of the universe as viewed from Earth.

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"Ulanovsky introduces Natural Neuroscience, an emerging field within neuroscience that studies the brain, in humans and other species, under naturalistic conditions"--

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Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour.

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Gooch reveals the need for reconnecting with our Neanderthal heritage, examining the genetic evidence of Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon crossbreeding and the dual-nature it has produced in modern man. He explains the influence of the enlarged Neanderthal cerebellum on our brain function and psychic abilities.

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A comprehensive and unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, offering a theoretical framework bridging the behavioral and the neurological literatures.

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The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimeswith or without brain training.

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Are we our brains How can you map the mind Can brain scans read our minds

Based on Rob Newmans live stand-up show and new BBC Radio 4 series, his thought-provoking new book explores the scientific breakthroughs that have turned received ideas of brain science upside down.

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"This textbook describes approaches and design principles for developing intelligent autonomous systems grounded in biology and neurosciences"--

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"The behind-the-scenes narrative of the creation of Google Maps and the rag-tag team that built it and changed how the world navigates"--

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Philosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example, proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism and dynamic semantics.

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"The modification of environments by the niche-constructing activities of organisms changes the subject matter of evolutionary theory"--

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Bursting with insight and drawing from multiple disciplines, this book collects humanity's best guesses of how our brain works.

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"A history of Cold War-era satellite communication largely from U.S. and Soviet perspectives"--

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A new, wide-ranging book from the acclaimed author of The Serpent's Promise and Darwin's Island

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A new, wide-ranging book from the acclaimed author of The Serpent's Promise and Darwin's Island

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Robert Wright challenges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Wright isolates the impetus behind life's basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals, and then via cultural evolution, pushed the human species towards deeper and vaster social complexity.

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The story of an ornithologist s journey to trace the spring migration of songbirds from the southern border of the United States through the heartland and into Canada. In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo four-month trek t

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Includes Spanish vocabulary in the story and a Spanish glossary at the back of the book.