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The Making of You: The Incredible Journey from Cell to Human
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A quirky and inspired guide to your very own origin story. This enlightening and irresistible book for adults explains how you were made—not with...
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Cómo funciona el cuerpo humano (How the Body Works): Guía gráfica de nuestro organismo
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Cómo funciona el cuerpo humano explora los maravillosos procesos que ocurren dentro de nuestro propio cuerpo, normalmente, sin que nos demos cuen...
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The Universe Within: The Deep History of the Human Body
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearIn The Universe Within, Neil Shubin reveals the connection between the evolution of the cosmos a...
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Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the o...
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Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe.”—The Atlantic The...
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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An Outside Magazine 2021 Science book pick One of Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of 2021 A taboo-busting romp through the shame, stink, and ...
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The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a potentially critical part of this vital organ has been overlooked—until now. The Othe...
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Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From an expert in pulmonary medicine, the story of our extraordinary lungs, the organ that both explains our origins and holds the keys to our fu...
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Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the 2022 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award Longlisted for the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books...
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This Is the Voice
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times bestselling writer explores what our unique sonic signature reveals about our species, our culture, and each one of us. Finally,...
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Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human speciesWhether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution....
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"This is a wonderful book. Frances Ashcroft has a rare gift for making difficult subjects accessible and fascinating." —Bill Bryson, author of Th...
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Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /How is it that we can recognize photos from our high school yearbook decades later, but cannot remember what we ate for breakfast yesterday? And ...
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Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after...
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Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human spec...
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The Handy Anatomy Answer Book
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Two established science writers and researchers distill and present the latest and most important information on anatomy and physiology in an eas...
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Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying)
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /From acclaimed journalist Bill Gifford comes a roaring journey into the world of anti-aging science in search of answers to a universal obsession...
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The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An all-in-one visual guide to human anatomy with encyclopedic coverage from bones and muscles to systems and processes.This in-depth manual to th...
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Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that...
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of The Zookeeper's Wife, an ambitious and enlightening work that combines an artist's eye with a scien...
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersi...
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Your Designed Body
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Consider your body. Every day it must solve hundreds of hard engineering problems simultaneously, or else you'll die. While you're going about yo...
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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing." —The Boston Globe"Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to...
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Why We Run: A Natural History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Each new page [is] more spellbinding than the one before—this is surely one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read.”—Elizabeth Marshall Th...
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