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Skin: a Natural History
From the book jacket: We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our … more →
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Skin: a Natural History
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wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intim … more →
Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: Book Description Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives … more →
Rene' Dubos: Friend of the Good Earth: Microbiologist, Medical Scientist, Environmentalist
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Rene Dubos, Friend of the Good Earth: Microbiologist, Medical Scientist, Envi … more →
Masks: Faces of Culture
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book’s foreword: It is rare and exciting for a major art exhibition to be organized a … more →
Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories Behind the Drugs We Use
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: Book Description The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific int … more →
Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book’s preface: Our civilization rests on food: on our ability to make the earth say … more →
Sustainable communities and the challenge of environmental justice
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Environmental justice and sustainability have evolved over the past two decade … more →
The Jill Principle: A Woman's Guide to Healing Your Spirit After Divorce or Breakup
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: If you’re contemplating a break-up, are in the midst of one, or eve if t … more →
When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Steve McQueen had cancer and was keeping it secret. Then the media found out, … more →
The Gecko's Foot: Bio-Inspiration--Engineering New Materials From Nature
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Bio-inspiration is the new engineering: nature’s own nanotechnology. Ins … more →
Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes, 3rd Edition
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Fire Mountains of the West is a completely revised, thoroughly researched acco … more →
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book’s preface: The key to understanding form is development, the process through whi … more →
Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: The genetic revolution has offered more promise than substance, except in agri … more →
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Chicken–both the bird and the food–has played multiple roles in th … more →
AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Long before there was VHS versus Betamax, Windows versus Macintosh, or Blu-Ray … more →
Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Though many factors have been proposed to explain the failure of Napoleon … more →
Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: In the early 1960s, in a small shack on the Washington coast, a young, self-ed … more →
Fred Hoyle's Universe
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: Book Description Fred Hoyle was a Yorkshire truant who became the voice of British astronomy. For fi … more →
Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste
wanamaker wrote 2 years ago: From the book jacket: Despite approval by Congress and the Bush administration and over seven billio … more →
