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1. In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects

   John Alcock, Turid Forsyth

   An elegant combination of meticulous science and nature reverie that draws its reader into the diverse, competitive, and even seductive world of desert plants and insects.More

2. Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

   Hugh Aldersey-Williams

   An eye-opening, spine-tingling, heartwarming tour through the extraordinary history and secrets of the human body.More

3. Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

   Arthur Allen

   "A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

4. Earth: The Operators' Manual

   Richard B. Alley

   The book—companion to a PBS series—that proves humans are causing global warming and offers a path to the future.More

5. The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth

   Walter Alvarez

   The major new work by the best-selling author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom--a fascinating history.More

6. The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed

   Nate Anderson

   Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet.More

7. Science on Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case

   Marcia Angell

   "An accessible, passionate indictment of the ignorance, opportunism and social indifference that enriched lawyers and a few plaintiffs, though the available scientific evidence was against them." —New York Times Book Review, Notable Books of 1996More

8. ChemConnections: How Do We Get from Bonds to Bags, Bottles, and Backpacks?

   Sharon Anthony, Karen Harding

   This module is designed to help students learn about chemical bonding, polarity, intermolecular forces, and the impact of chemical structure on the properties of materials by focusing on polymers.More

9. ChemConnections: Soil Equilibria: What Happens to Acid Rain?

   Sharon Anthony, Michael Beug, Roxanne Hulet, Et Al.

   This module, for use in an analytical chemistry course, considers the consequences when soil equilibria are stressed through the addition of combustion-generated sulfur and nitrogen oxides to the environment.More

10. ChemConnections: Why Does the Ozone Hole Form?

    Sharon Anthony, Tricia Ferrett

    Students learn about the structure of the atmosphere and the oxygen chemistry responsible for producing the ozone layer.More

11. ChemConnections: What Should We Do about Global Warming?

    Sharon Anthony, Tricia Ferrett, Jade Bender

    Second Edition

    ChemConnections modules cover a broad range of chemical topics and supply research-base, classroom-tested, active learning strategies that guide students through the scientific process.More

12. ChemConnections Activity Workbook

    Sharon Anthony, Kevin L. Braun, Heather Mernitz

    Make chemistry memorable: choose from fifty-nine collaborative activities that will make your general chemistry lecture, recitation, homework, or lab more relevant, interactive, and collaborative.More

13. Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination

    Joyce Appleby

    A compelling history of the European explorations that ignited curiosity about nature and science, ultimately leading to the theory of evolution.More

14. Neurobiology for Clinical Social Work: Theory and Practice

    Jeffrey S. Applegate, Janet R. Shapiro

    The last fifteen years have produced an explosion of research on the neurobiology of attachment.More

15. The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body

    Frances Ashcroft

    A lively exploration of the surprising role that electricity plays in our bodies.More