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Science

1. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

   Cordelia Fine

   A vehement dismantling of the latest pseudo-scientific claims about the differences between the sexes.More

2. The 10 Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It

   Margaret Wehrenberg

   A strategy-filled handbook to understand, manage, and conquer your depression, modeled after its best-selling counterpart on anxiety.More

3. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

   Mary Roach

   The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity.More

4. Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

   Carol Kaesuk Yoon

   “A lively blend of popular scientific history and cultural criticism.”—New York Times Book ReviewMore

5. Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals

   Richard Conniff

   “Hilariously informative. . . . This book will remind you why you always wanted to be a naturalist.”—OutsideMore

6. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

   Nicholas Carr

   The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology’s effect on the mind.More

7. The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

   Oren Harman

   A tragic tale of one man’s scientific quest to crack the mystery of altruism—a pursuit that ultimately led to his suicide.More

8. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality

   Manjit Kumar

   “One of the best guides yet to the central conundrums of modern physics.”—John BanvilleMore

9. The Art and Politics of Science

   Harold Varmus

   A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career.More

10. 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession

    Arthur I. Miller

    “The history is fascinating, as are the insights into the personalities of these great thinkers.”—New Scientist More

11. Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines

    Cathy Lazere, Dennis E. Shasha

    Reports from the cutting edge, where physics and biology are changing the fundamental assumptions of computing.More

12. The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition

    Dan Hofstadter

    A cogent portrayal of a turning point in the evolution of the freedom of thought and the beginnings of modern science.More

13. The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration

    Daniel J. Siegel

    Bringing mindfulness techniques to your psychotherapeutic work with clients.More

14. The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Healing the Social Brain

    Louis Cozolino

    Second Edition

    For years, the brain has been viewed as a relatively static entity, determined by the interaction of genetic preprogramming and early childhood experience.More

15. How It Ends: From You to the Universe

    Chris Impey

    The fascinating science behind the eventual end to everything—from the individual to all existence.More