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Nature and Science October 2018
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| The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves by Eric R. KandelBridging psychology and neuroscience, this illuminating book reveals what we can learn about human cognition by studying brain disorders. The text includes discussions of autism, mood disorders, schizophrenia, dementia, PTSD, and addiction, to name just a few. |
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| The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David QuammenNonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life's history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature. Thanks to new technologies such as CRISPR, we now have the ability to alter our genetic composition--through sideways insertions, as nature has long been doing. The Tangled Tree is a brilliant guide to our transformed understanding of evolution and of life's history. |
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| Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Avis LangWell-known astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson teams up with longtime editor and frequent collaborator Avis Lang for this eye-opening book. A thought-provoking examination of the long-standing relationship between science and the military-industrial complex, with a special focus on astrophysics and the aerospace industry. For readers interested in the intersection of science, industry, and politics, or anyone who wonders what the proposed U.S. Space Force might look like. |
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The Darker The Night, The Brighter The Stars: A Neuropsychologist's Odyssey Through Consciousness
by Paul Broks
When celebrated neuropsychologist Paul Broks's wife died of cancer, it sparked a journey of grief and reflection that traced a lifelong attempt to understand how the brain gives rise to the soul. The result of that journey is a gorgeous, evocative meditation on fate, death, consciousness, and what it means to be human. The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars is modern medicine and psychology and ancient tales; history and myth combined; fiction and the stranger truth.
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| The Songs of Trees: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors by David George HaskellIn The Songs Of Trees award-winning nature writer David Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees' connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants. In doing this he shows that every living being is not only sustained by biological connections, but is made from these relationships, and that holding a networked view of life enriches our understanding of biology, human nature, and ethics. |
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Around The World In 80 Trees
by Jonathan Drori
In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. Stops on the trip include the lime trees of Berlin's Unter den Linden boulevard, which intoxicate amorous Germans and hungry bees alike, the swankiest streets in nineteenth-century London, which were paved with Australian eucalyptus wood, and the redwood forests of California, where the secret to the trees' soaring heights can be found in the properties of the tiniest drops of water.
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Trees Up Close: The Beauty Of Bark, Leaves, Flowers, And Seeds
by Nancy R. Hugo
Trees Up Close offers an intimate, revealing look at the beauty of leaves, flowers, cones, fruits, seeds, buds, bark, and twigs of the most common trees. With more than 200 dazzling photos, you will be amazed by the otherwordly beauty of the acorns from a sawtooth oak, enchanted by the immature fruits of a red maple, and dazzled by the delicate emerging flowers of the American elm.
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| The Tree: A Natural History Of What Trees Are, How They Live, And Why They Matter by Colin TudgeThere are an estimated 60,000 species of tree worldwide, but what are these organisms, exactly? A British biologist explains -- and the answer isn't as straightforward as it appears. Author Colin Tudge distills an enormous amount of information into an accessible introduction to all things arboreal. This book features thirty-three intricate line drawings of tree specimens. |
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| The Golden Spruce: A True Story Of Myth, Madness, And Greed by John VaillantWhat prompted a logger-turned-activist to cut down the world's only giant golden spruce tree? Expanding on an article he wrote for the New Yorker, author John Vaillant recounts the destruction of K'iid K'iyaas, a centuries-old Sitka spruce with unusual golden needles located in British Columbia's Haida Gwaii archipelago. |
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| The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries From A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben; translated by Jane BillinghurstA forester's fascinating stories, supported by the latest scientific research, reveal the extraordinary world of forests and illustrate how trees communicate and care for each other. Without sacrificing scientific accuracy, author Peter Wohlleben enchants readers with combination of lyrical vignettes and anecdotes about his experiences as a forester in Germany. |
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