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The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discoveru of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome... (more)

The Algebraist

by Iain Banks

It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. The Nasqueron Dwellers inhabit a gas giant on the outskirts of the galaxy, in a system awaiting its wormhole connection to the rest of civilization. In the meantime, they are dismissed as decadents living in a state of highly developed... (more)

The World of Species (MasterBook Game System)

The World of Species (MasterBook Game System)

by Teeuwynn Woodruff

Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia (American and Comparative Environmental Policy)

by Paul F. Steinberg

In the absence of world government, effective national policy is essential to the success of international environmental initiatives. Yet research on global environmental cooperation has proceeded without models of policy change in developing countries, where most of the world's people, land, and species are found. In this book Paul Steinberg provides a theoretical framework to explain the domestic responses of... (more)

Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests

Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests

by Lewis F. Petrinovich

The controversial subject of this book is the permissible use of animals by humans. Lewis Petrinovich argues that humans have a set of cognitive abilities, developing from a suite of emotional attachments, that make them unique among species. Although other animals can think, suffer, and have needs, the interests of members of the human species should triumph over comparable interests of members of other species. ... (more)

Evoguía

by Steve Jordan

A scientist in Atlanta creates a revolutionary breakthrough in accessing the untapped potential in humans, and in so doing, sows the seeds of a war between Homo Sapiens and Homo Evoguia... the Self-Evolved Man... This story covers three generations, and shows us that mucking around with DNA isn't the only way to improve a species. But it's the veracity of its science that makes its message that much more... (more)

Twilight Saga: Book 4

Breaking Dawn

by Stephenie Meyer

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her... (more)

Extraterrestrials Agenda. Aliens Origin, Species, SOCIETIES, Intentions And Plan For Humanity: Secret Dimensions of Ufology

Extraterrestrials Agenda. Aliens Origin, Species, SOCIETIES, Intentions And Plan For Humanity: Secret Dimensions of Ufology

by Maximillien De Lafayette

Secret intentions & agenda of Aliens. What Extraterrestrials are planning for the human race? Is is a threat? A sudden invasion? How aliens communicate with contactees & abductees. Secret dimensions of UFOs and aliens. Lafayette wrote 4 dictionaries,127 books, 8 encyclopedias, 32 books on extraterrestrials, many musicals/plays worldwide, ie John F. Kennedy Center For the Perf. Arts. He was commissioned... (more)

Rationality and Logic (Bradford Books)

by Robert Hanna

In Rationality and Logic , Robert Hanna argues that logic is intrinsically psychological and that human psychology is intrinsically logical. He claims that logic is cognitively constructed by rational animals (including humans) and that rational animals are essentially logical animals. In order to do so, he defends the broadly Kantian thesis that all (and only) rational animals possess an innate cognitive "logic... (more)

The Demise of Diversity: Loss and Extinction (The Sustainability Project)

The Demise of Diversity: Loss and Extinction (The Sustainability Project)

by Josef Reichholf

The earth is the home of a fantastic diversity of species developed over millennia. We have only been able to identify a fraction of this biodiversity, which is of fundamental importance for the continued existence of life on this planet. This volume deals with biodiversity, its perpetuation, and what it means for us.

Mapping Human History : Discovering the Past Through Our Genes

Mapping Human History : Discovering the Past Through Our Genes

by Steve Olson

In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Mapping Human History is a groundbreaking synthesis of science and history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the latest genetic research, linguistic evidence, and... (more)

The Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

The book that shook the world First time from Signet Classic This is the book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who followed. Darwin's theory of evolution and the descent of man remains as controversial and influential today as when it was published over a century ago.

The Origin Of Species

by Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer, Philip Appleman, L. Harrison Matthews

The Origin of Species sold out on the first day of its publication in 1859. It is the major book of the nineteenth century, and one of the most readable and accessible of the great revolutionary works of the scientific imagination. The Origin of Species was the first mature and persuasive work to explain how species change through the process of natural selection. Upon its publication, the book began to... (more)

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The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

by Matt Ridley