It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick by FT Press $24.99
“A compelling, witty, and reader-friendly explanation of how our genes, fashioned for living in the Stone Age, are not so well-suited to life in the Modern Age.” —Sean B. Carroll, author of The Making of the Fittest and Remarkable Creatures “It’s taken thirty years, but we finally have in Greg Gibson’s It Takes a Genome what is truly a biologist’s response to the single-gene...
The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles by Mountain of Love $25.00
The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology. Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research scientist. His experiments, and those of other leading-edge scientists, have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information. The implications of this research radically change our understanding of life. It shows that...
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author by Oxford University Press, USA $19.95
Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life. In his internationally bestselling, now...
Eugenics and other Evils by CreateSpace $7.70
Written in the beginning of the 20th century, before the WW I, when this theme was the "topic of the hour", eugenics is the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding. Exerpts: "The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the...
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA by W. W. Norton & Company $26.95
A brilliant and emotionally resonant exploration of science and family history.A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG. It is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew they were descended from Native Americans and Spanish Catholics, but they did not know that they had Jewish ancestry as well. The mutation most...
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by Touchstone $15.95
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries...
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States) by Oxford University Press, USA $45.00
This outstanding narrative history, the first volume to appear in the Oxford History of the United States, offers an intimate view of the development of the Revolutionary War, the battle between the colonies and the motherland, and the establishment of the American republic. Beginning with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and continuing to the election of George Washington as the first president,...
Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by Integral Pr $15.95
Virus of the Mind is the first popular book devoted to the science of memetics, a controversial new field that transcends psychology, biology, anthropology, and cognitive science. Memetics is the science of memes, the invisible but very real DNA of human society. In Virus of the Mind, Richard Brodie carefully builds on the work of scientists Richard Dawkins, Douglas Hofstadter, Daniel Dennett,...
The Hidden History of the Human Race: Major Scientific Coverup Exposed by Govardhan Hill