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- Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals''.1 KB (226 words) - 01:14, 15 April 2009
- Abbott: What A Way To Go …ok his subject seriously. The result is a fascinating compendium rich with history and anecdote. …ing" or "electric chair") are several pages and cover hundreds of years of history. As a rule, Mr. Abbott sticks to methods he can document as having been us…4 KB (645 words) - 23:36, 14 April 2009
- Pinker: The Stuff Of Thought …e porridge cold''. But some grammatically zealous listener in the mists of history misanalyzed it as the plural for ''peas'', from which it was a short step …7 KB (1178 words) - 01:02, 15 April 2009
- McCredie: Balance McCredie explores how the body regulates balance, the history of medical knowledge about balance, and new therapies in treating people w…3 KB (429 words) - 00:53, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma (2) Michael Pollan, ''The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals''. …okstore/giftshop there at ACY, I chose ''The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals'' by Michael Pollan. The four meals: McDonald's (eaten in th…6 KB (997 words) - 01:15, 15 April 2009
- Kinsey: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male …ere are some cultures in which a history of sexuality would be primarily a history of non-marital sexual activities. …f its influence precisely because it has merged so fully into our cultural history. Recall that it was only published in 1948, by a company known for publish…10 KB (1638 words) - 00:37, 15 April 2009
- Science-Book Challenge 2008 …ing culture. The books might be popularizations of science, they might be history, they might be biography, they might be anthologies; they can be recent ti… … Peter Christie, ''The Curse of Akkad: Climate Upheavals that Rocked Human History'']]<br>[[Wiseman: Quirkology | Richard Wiseman, ''Quirkology : How We Disc…14 KB (2044 words) - 04:52, 9 January 2009
- Raymo: Walking Zero … not a detailed history of ideas, but a poetic, personal rumination on the history of the big ideas that located humankind's place in the modern universe. It… …orably intertwined with foibles of human nature and contingencies of human history." The theories of Ptolemy or Kepler can only be understood within the cont…6 KB (996 words) - 01:16, 15 April 2009
- Carroll: Endless Forms Most Beautiful … regurgitate mountains of testable facts, we should emphasize study of the history of the discovery of evolution, its major characters and ideas, and the bas…7 KB (1172 words) - 23:59, 14 April 2009
- Jeffreys: Aspirin …th clarity. It also did a good job of convincing me of the unique place in history aspirin has, and how it might be ''the'' wonder drug. … this. What you're holding is one of the most amazing creations in medical history, a drug so astonishingly versatile that it can relieve your headache, ease…5 KB (859 words) - 00:34, 15 April 2009
- Le Couteur: Napoleon's Buttons … Couteur and Jay Burreson, ''Napoleon's Buttons : How 17 Molecules Changed History.'' New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2003. 375 pages with selected bibl… …t with a condescending attitude about this book. "How 17 molecules changed history" sounded histrionic to me, so I was predisposed to find the text hyperboli…8 KB (1283 words) - 00:40, 15 April 2009
- Diamond: The Third Chimpanzee …red. Diamond recounts the beginning of the end of that long phase of human history at the start of the chapter "The Last First Contacts": …istory made a discovery that hastened toward its end a long phase of human history. That was the date on which the advance patrol of the Third Archbold Exped…10 KB (1644 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2009
- Hecht: Doubt, a History Jennifer Michael Hecht, ''Doubt, A History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesu… …"doubt": what it is, how it manifests, its history as an idea, doubters in history, the influence of doubt on religion, doubt in culture, doubt as an idea—…6 KB (1003 words) - 00:21, 15 April 2009
- Vogel: Cat's Paws and Catapults …the distinction we biologists make between natural selection and natural history. The more basic problem is that an analogy doesn't explain. One judges an …11 KB (1794 words) - 01:40, 15 April 2009
- Pollan: The Botany of Desire There's plenty of plant science but also history (American settlement, witchcraft, Irish potato famine), biochemistry (brai…1 KB (208 words) - 01:05, 15 April 2009
- Dennett: Freedom Evolves …xtraordinary composition job could be accomplished, we need to look at the history of the design processes that did all the work, the evolution of human cons…4 KB (740 words) - 00:07, 15 April 2009
- Lienhard: Inventing Modern Whether this is history of technology via memoir, or memoir via history of technology is difficult to say and it doesn't really matter. Lienhard i…8 KB (1244 words) - 00:47, 15 April 2009
- Huler: Defining The Wind … example below is entirely parenthetical, fascinating science and cultural history, outside the main course of the narrative but still close enough to merit …8 KB (1407 words) - 00:25, 15 April 2009
- Tudge: The Time Before History Colin Tudge, ''The Time Before History : 5 Million Years of Human Impact.'' New York : Scribner, 1996. 366 pages,… …can be said about human history before there was history, at least written history.4 KB (697 words) - 01:36, 15 April 2009
- Watson: Ideas Peter Watson, ''Ideas : A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud''. New York : HarperCollinsPu… …ize is not really surprising for a book that promises to survey the entire history of ideas from prehistory to the beginning of the twentieth century (but ''…17 KB (2936 words) - 01:41, 15 April 2009
