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The genetic lottery
A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health—and in ways that matter for educational and economic succ...
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The spike
The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage ...
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A history of biology
A comprehensive history of the biological sciences from antiquity to the modern eraThis book presents a global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today, providing needed perspective on the development of biological thought while shedding light on the field's upheavals and ke...
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It's about time
A readable and entertaining look at how Einstein’s special theory of relativity gives us a new understanding of the nature of timeRelativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education. Its subject is time, with which we all think we are familiar. Einstein's special theory of relativity...
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Critical transitions in nature and society
How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive introduction to critical transitions in complex systems--the radical changes that happen at tipping points when thresholds are ...
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Aquatic photosynthesis
Aquatic Photosynthesis is a comprehensive guide to understanding the evolution and ecology of photosynthesis in aquatic environments. This second edition, thoroughly revised to bring it up to date, describes how one of the most fundamental metabolic processes evolved and transformed the surface c...
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Population ecology
The essential introduction to population ecology—now expanded and fully updatedEcology is capturing the popular imagination like never before, with issues such as climate change, species extinctions, and habitat destruction becoming ever more prominent. At the same time, the science of ecology ha...
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Life on a young planet
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep...
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Welcome to the universe
An essential companion to the New York Times bestseller Welcome to the UniverseHere is the essential companion to Welcome to the Universe, a New York Times bestseller that was inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course for non science majors that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael...
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Galactic astronomy
This is the definitive treatment of the phenomenology of galaxies--a clear and comprehensive volume that takes full account of the extraordinary recent advances in the field. The book supersedes the classic text Galactic Astronomy that James Binney wrote with Dimitri Mihalas, and complements Gala...
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The secret of our success
How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, huma...
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The theory of ecological communities
A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of comm...
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The theory of island biogeography
Biogeography was stuck in a "natural history phase" dominated by the collection of data, the young Princeton biologists Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson argued in 1967. In this book, the authors developed a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography. The theory builds on t...
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The serengeti rules
Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? ...
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Handbook of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution
Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies. This is the first comprehensive handbook of meta-analysis written specifically for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and it provides an invaluable introduction for beginners as...
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Life in moving fluids
Both a landmark text and reference book, Steven Vogel's Life in Moving Fluids has also played a catalytic role in research involving the applications of fluid mechanics to biology. In this revised edition, Vogel continues to combine humor and clear explanations as he addresses biologists and gene...
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The logic of life
“The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written.”—Michel FoucaultNobel Prize–winning scientist François Jacob’s The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacob considers the fundamental feature of living things, he s...
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Theory of stellar atmospheres
The most authoritative synthesis of the quantitative spectroscopic analysis of stellar atmospheresThis book provides an in-depth and self-contained treatment of the latest advances achieved in quantitative spectroscopic analyses of the observable outer layers of stars and similar objects. Written...
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Where the river flows
The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and usRivers are essential to every aspect of civilization, from brewing beer to building computers, yet how many of us understand how they work? Where the River Flows takes you on a journey along our planet’s waterways, providi...
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Galactic dynamics
Since it was first published in 1987, Galactic Dynamics has become the most widely used advanced textbook on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and one of the most cited references in astrophysics. Now, in this extensively revised and updated edition, James Binney and Scott Tremaine describe ...
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Applications of modern physics in medicine
The connections between modern physics and medical technologyMany remarkable medical technologies, diagnostic tools, and treatment methods have emerged as a result of modern physics discoveries in the last century—including X-rays, radiation treatment, laser surgery, high-resolution ultrasound sc...
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Ocean biogeochemical dynamics
Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics provides a broad theoretical framework upon which graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of the processes that control the mean concentration and distribution of biologically utilized elements and compounds in the ocean. Thoug...
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Biophysics
A physicist's guide to the phenomena of lifeInteractions between the fields of physics and biology reach back over a century, and some of the most significant developments in biology—from the discovery of DNA's structure to imaging of the human brain—have involved collaboration across this discip...
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Comparative biomechanics
The classic textbook on comparative biomechanics—revised and expandedWhy do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed? Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds? And why does a spore ejected into air at seventy miles per hour travel only a fraction of an inch? Comparative Biom...
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The large-scale structure of the universe
From the Nobel Prize–winning physicistOpinions on the large-scale structure of the early universe range widely from primeval chaos to a well-ordered mass distribution. P. J. E. Peebles argues that the evolution proceeded from a nearly uniform initial state to a progressively more irregular and cl...
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Gauge theories of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions
A thoroughly revised edition of a landmark textbook on gauge theories and their applications to particle physicsThis completely revised and updated graduate-level textbook is an ideal introduction to gauge theories and their applications to high-energy particle physics, and takes an in-depth look...
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Infectious disease ecology
News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to wa...
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Physics and technology for future presidents
Physics for future world leadersPhysics and Technology for Future Presidents contains the essential physics that students need in order to understand today's core science and technology issues, and to become the next generation of world leaders. From the physics of energy to climate change, and f...
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Earthquake and volcano deformation
Earthquake and Volcano Deformation is the first textbook to present the mechanical models of earthquake and volcanic processes, emphasizing earth-surface deformations that can be compared with observations from Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, Interferometric Radar (InSAR), and borehole...
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Hunch
An examination of scientific controversies in which challenging the accepted position led to great intellectual rewardsThe word “hunch” has many definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary; this book’s title references this one: “A premonition or intuitive feeling that something . . . may be the...
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Mathematical modelling of zombies
In this terrible new COVID-19 world, the University of Ottawa is doing its part by offering a 50% discount on this very important book. We decided not to rewrite the witty book description, though we realize it is tone-deaf at the present moment, as we wanted to give readers a sense of the tone o...
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Mathematics in nature, revised edition
How mathematics unveils the beauty of the natural worldMathematics in Nature reveals how mathematics provides a unifying language for understanding the hidden order of nature. In this richly illustrated book, John Adam guides readers from basic models using everyday arithmetic to the modeling of ...
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Symbiotic
How viruses are integral to our health and well-being, from symbiotic infections embedded in our DNA to new vectors delivering cutting-edge gene therapiesOur bodies are home to viral multitudes. Live viruses circulating in our blood help protect us from harmful bacteria. Bursts of viral particles...
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What we inherit
Debating the use of genomic tools and their societal impactOver the past decade, the field of human genetics has produced an extraordinary range of discoveries—including the refinement of polygenic scores, which use a person's DNA to estimate their likelihood of developing a trait or disease. But...
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The sleepless ape
How the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution—and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep todayDespite sleep’s critical role in maintaining health and cognitive function, humans sleep less than any other primate. The Sleeples...
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The last of its kind
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book PrizeHow an iconic bird’s final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinctionThe great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlanti...
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Our violent universe
The thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of our unpredictable and spectacularly violent UniverseWhen ancient observers gazed out at the stars, they saw a harmonious cosmos whose stability and enduring order guided the steps of humanity. Even today, the serenity of the night sky betrays the fa...
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Master sun’s problem
A captivating account of how a one-time mathematician cracked a two-thousand-year-old problem and rediscovered the joys of mathematics in the processMaster Sun’s problem—first posed by Sun Bin, a Chinese military strategist and supposed descendent of Sun Tzu, the legendary author of The Art of Wa...
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Quasi-projective and formal-analytic arithmetic surfaces
A milestone in the geometric understanding of algebraization theorems that also provides an introduction to Arakelov geometryMotivated by questions of transcendental number theory, arithmetic, and Diophantine geometry, this book provides a thorough study of a new kind of mathematical object—forma...
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The sixth element
A cosmic perspective on carbon—its importance in the universe and our livesWhen we think of carbon, we might first think of a simple element near the top of the periodic table: symbol C, atomic number 6. Alternatively, we might think of something more tangible—a sooty piece of coal or a sparkling...
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Honey bee biology
The most comprehensive and up-to-date general reference book on honey bee biologyHoney bees are marvelously charismatic organisms with a long history of interaction with humans. They are vital to agriculture and serve as a model system for many basic questions in biology. This authoritative book ...
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Adelic line bundles on quasi-projective varieties
A comprehensive new theory of adelic line bundles on quasi-projective varieties over finitely generated fieldsThis book introduces a comprehensive theory of adelic line bundles on quasi-projective varieties over finitely generated fields, developed in both geometric and arithmetic contexts. In th...
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The delicate art of brute force
Using everyday computational power to tackle complex—and seemingly unsolvable—math problemsConfronted by a math problem of seemingly impenetrable difficulty, what can you do? In The Delicate Art of Brute Force, Paul Nahin shows how even if you can’t solve such a problem, you can still get an answ...
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An introduction to string algorithms
An essential introduction to the building blocks of modern text processingString algorithms make it possible to process, store, and manipulate text with computational efficiency, with applications ranging from search engines and social networks that regularly process terabytes of information to a...
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Unipotent ideals and harish-chandra bimodules
A groundbreaking book that applies new geometric tools to one of the oldest problems in representation theory, expanding the field and paving the way for further progressIn the 1920s, Hermann Weyl gave a complete classification of the irreducible unitary representations of a compact Lie group G. ...
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The physicist’s way
A Nobel Prize–winning physicist illuminates how physicists think about and do physicsWhat principles guide physicists’ ways of thinking and the practice and culture of the discipline? In The Physicist’s Way, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist P.J.E. Peebles argues that definite assumptions underpi...
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Strange glow
The fascinating science and history of radiationMore than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferat...
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Fungi and human life
The incredible, hidden role of fungi in our livesFrom beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that cause disease, we are constantly navigating a world filled with fungi. Fungi and Human Life explores the amazing ways fungi interact with our bodies, showing how our health and well-bein...
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The winding trail to newton's principia mathematica
An intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century masterwork that set down the laws of motion and universal gravitation and ushered in modern physicsLong regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science, Isaac Newton’s Principia laid the mathematical foundations of classic...
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The origins of the new
A visionary look at how novel attributes arise and become transformative innovations in nature, culture, and technologyThe Origins of the New presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this groundbreaking book, Douglas Erwin takes readers on a dazzling exc...
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