"Magic is No Magic": The Wonderful World of Simon Stevin
Jozef T. Devreese and Guido Vanden Berghe
WIT, Ashurst, UK, 2008
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C. elegans Atlas
David H. Hall and Zeynep F. Altun
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 2008
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Academic Freedom in the Wired World
Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University
Robert O'Neil
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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Adventures in Tornado Alley
The Storm Chasers
Mike Hollingshead and Eric Nguyen
Thames and Hudson, New York, 2008
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Alcohol
Methods and Protocols
Laura E. Nagy, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 447.

Alzheimer's Disease
Lit-Fui Lau and Michael A. Brodney, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 2.

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains
Christopher W. Schmidt and Steven A. Symes, Eds.
Academic (Elsevier), London, 2008
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Bang!
The Complete History of the Universe
Brian May, Patrick Moore, and Chris Lintott
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008
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Bastard Tongues
A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
Derek Bickerton
Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2008
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Bioactive Molecules and Medicinal Plants
Kishan Gopal Ramawat and Jean-Michel Mérillon, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Biodiesel
A Realistic Fuel Alternative for Diesel Engines
Ayhan Demirbas
Springer, London, 2008
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Biomarker Methods in Drug Discovery and Development
Feng Wang, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism
Containing and Preventing Biological Threats
Jeffrey R. Ryan and Jan F. Glarum
Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Burlington, MA, 2008
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Brain Dynamics
An Introduction to Models and Simulations. 2nd ed.
Hermann Haken
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Springer Series in Synergetics.

Calixarenes
An Introduction. 2nd ed.
C. David Gutsche
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2008
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Monographs in Supramolecular Chemistry.

Chemical Communication among Bacteria
Stephen C. Winans and Bonnie L. Bassler, Eds.
ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2008
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Chiral Soliton Models for Baryons
H. Weigel
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 743.

Community-Based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries
Barbara van Koppen, Mark Giordano, and John Butterworth, Eds.
CABI, Wallingford, UK, 2007
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Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, 5.

A Continental Plate Boundary
Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand
David Okaya, Tim Stern, and Fred Davey, Eds.
American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2008
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Control of Biofilm Infections by Signal Manipulation
Naomi Balaban, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Springer Series on Biofilms, vol. 2.

Disappearing Destinations
37 Places in Peril and What Can Be Done to Help Save Them
Kimberly Lisagor and Heather Hansen
Vintage (Random House), New York, 2008
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Vintage Departures.

Dr. Golem
How to Think About Medicine
Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008
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Reprint, 2005 ed. Reviewed by Rachel A. Ankeny in Science, 316, 55 (6 April 2007).

Drug Delivery Systems
Kewal K. Jain, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 437.

Dungeons and Desktops
The History of Computer Role-Playing Games
Matt Barton
Peters, Natick, MA, 2008
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Egypt
Pharaonic Period
Alessia Fassone and Enrico Ferraris
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008
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Dictionaries of Civilization, 4.

An Element of Controversy
The Life of Chlorine in Science, Medicine, Technology and War
Hasok Chang and Catherine Jackson, Eds.
British Society for the History of Science, Norwich, UK, 2007
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BSHS Monograph, no. 13.

Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas
V. N. Tsytovich et al.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 731.

Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
A Comprehensive Guide with Illustrative Cases
Hrayr K. Shahinian
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Essential Guide to Food Additives
3rd ed.
Victoria Emerton and Eugenia Choi, Eds.
Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2008
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Essentials of Nucleic Acid Analysis
A Robust Approach
Jacquie T. Keer and Lyndsey Birch, Eds.
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2008
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Ethics and the Environment
An Introduction
Dale Jamieson
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008
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Field Models in Electricity and Magnetism
Paolo Di Barba, Antonio Savini, and Slawomir Wiak
Springer, New York, 2008
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Flights Against the Sunset
Stories that Reunited a Mother and Son
Kenn Kaufman
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2008
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Food-Borne Viruses
Progress and Challenges
Marion P. G. Koopmans, Dean O. Cliver, and Albert Bosch, Eds.
ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2008
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Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers
The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand
Tim Forsyth and Andrew Walker
University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2008
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Culture, Place, and Nature.

Foundations of High-Energy Astrophysics
Mario Vietri
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008
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Theoretical Astrophysics.

Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement
Vol. 2, Genomics Applications in Crops
Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto Tuberosa, Eds.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2007
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Germline Stem Cells
Steven X. Hou and Shree Ram Singh, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 450.

Gods and Goddesses in the Garden
Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants
Peter Bernhardt
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2008
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The Great Cacti
Ethnobotany and Biogeography
David Yetman
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2008
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Southwest Center.

Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions
Brian Hayes
Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York, 2008
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The Handbook of Nanomedicine
Kewal K. Jain
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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HCI Remixed
Essays on Works that Have Influenced the HCI Community
Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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Head Case
How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain
Dennis Cass
Harper Perennial, New York, 2008
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Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
Michael Paul Mason
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2008
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Human Biochemistry and Disease
Gerald Litwack
Academic (Elsevier), Burlington, MA, 2008
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The Infinite Cosmos
Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology
Joseph Silk
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
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Innate and Adaptive Immunity in the Tumor Microenvironment
Eitan Yefenof, Ed.
Springer, New York, 2008
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Tumor Microenvironment, vol. 1.

Instabilities and Self-Organization in Materials
Vol. 1, Fundamentals of Nanoscience. Vol. 2, Applications in Materials Design and Nanotechnology
Nasr Ghoniem and Daniel Walgraef
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
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Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials, 63.

The Intelligibility of Nature
How Science Makes Sense of the World
Peter Dear
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008
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Reprint, 2006 ed. Reviewed by Matthew L. Jones in Science, 317, 1327 (7 September 2007).

International Trade and Climate Change
Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives
The World Bank
World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007
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Environment and Development.

Liquid Separations with Membranes
An Introduction to Barrier Interference
Karl W. Böddeker
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Medical Cell Biology
3rd ed.
Steven R. Goodman, Ed.
Academic (Elsevier Science), San Diego, 2008
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The Medieval Flower Book
Celia Fisher
British Library, London, 2008
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Methods and Protocols
Darwin J. Prockop, Donald G. Phinney, and Bruce A. Bunnell, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 449.

Metallochemistry of Neurodegeneration
Biological, Chemical and Genetic Aspects
Henryk Kozlowski, David R. Brown, and Gianni Valensin
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2008
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Microbial Biotechnology
Fundamentals of Applied Microbiology. 2nd ed.
Alexander N. Glazer and Hiroshi Nikaido
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2007
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Mismatch
The Lifestyle Diseases Timebomb
Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
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Reprint, 2006 ed. Reviewed by Steve Jones in Science, 314, 1879 (22 December 2006).

Molecular Modeling of Proteins
Andreas Kukol, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 443.

Molecules that Changed the World
A Brief History of the Art and Science of Synthesis and Its Impact on Society
K. C. Nicolaou and T. Montagnon
Wiley-VCH, Hoboken, NJ, 2008
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Moral Psychology
Vol. 3, The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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Moral Psychology
Vol. 2, The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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Moral Psychology
Vol. 1, The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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The Music of Life
Biology Beyond Genes
Denis Noble
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
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The Music of Pythagoras
How an Ancient Brotherhood Cracked the Code of the Universe and Lit the Path from Antiquity to Outer Space
Kitty Ferguson
Walker, New York, 2008
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Nano- and Micromaterials
Kaoru Ohno et al., Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Advances in Materials Research, vol. 9.

Nanocomposites
Ionic Conducting Materials and Structural Spectroscopies
Philippe Knauth and Joop Schoonman, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2008
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Electronic Materials: Science and Technology, vol. 10.

The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
Scott Atran and Douglas Medin
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology.

Natural Literacy
How to Learn What We Yearn to Know
Doug Dix
Hamilton (Rowman and Littlefield), Lanham, MD, 2008
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Negotiating the Past in the Past
Identity, Memory, and Landscape in Archaeological Research
Norman Yoffee, Ed. With commentary by Lynn Meskell and Jack Davis
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2008
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No More Joint Pain
Joseph A. Abboud and Soo Kim Abboud
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008
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Health and Wellness.

Non-Chemical Weed Management
Principles, Concepts and Technology
Mahesh K. Upadhyaya and Robert E. Blackshaw, Eds.
CABI, Wallingford, UK, 2008
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Nonlinear Vibrations and Stability of Shells and Plates
Marco Amabili
Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008
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Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter
Jan C. A. Boeyens and Demetrius C. Levendis
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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On the Surface of Things
Images of the Extraordinary in Science
Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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The Opening of a New Landscape
Columbia Glacier at Mid-retreat
W. Tad Pfeffer
American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2008
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Special Publications, vol. 59.

Organelle Proteomics
Delphine Pflieger and Jean Rossier, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 432.

The Origins of Christian Anti-Internationalism
Conservative Evangelicals and the League of Nations
Markku Ruotsila
Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC, 2007
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Oxidation: The Cornerstone of Carcinogenesis
Oxidation and Tobacco Smoke Carcinogenesis. A Relationship Between Cause and Effect
John C. Stavridis
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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PCBs
Human and Environmental Disposition and Toxicology
Larry G. Hansen and Larry W. Robertson, Eds.
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2008
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Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca
Winston F. Ponder and David R. Lindberg, Eds.
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008
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Plant Virology Protocols
From Viral Sequence to Protein Function. 2nd ed.
Gary D. Foster et al., Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 451.

Post-Perovskite
The Last Mantle Phase Transition
Kei Hirose et al., Eds.
American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2008
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Geophysical Monograph, vol. 174.

Poverty and the Environment
Understanding Linkages at the Household Level
The World Bank
World Bank, Washington, DC, 2007
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Precision Physics of Simple Atoms and Molecules
S. G. Karshenboim, Ed.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 745.

The Presidency in the Era of 24-Hour News
Jeffrey E. Cohen
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008
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The Private Life of Spiders
Paul Hillyard
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008
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Programmed Cell Death in Cancer Progression and Therapy
Roya Khosravi-Far and Eileen White, Eds.
Springer, New York, 2008
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Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol. 615.

Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science
Vol. 3
Kaoru Yamanouchi et al., Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol. 89.

Quantum Hall Effects
Field Theoretical Approach and Related Topics. 2nd ed.
Zyun F. Ezawa
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2008
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The Resolution of Inflammation
Adriano G. Rossi and Deborah A. Sawatzky, Eds.
Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland, 2008
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Progress in Inflammation Research.

Return of the Eagle
How America Saved Its National Symbol
Greg Breining
Lyons (Globe Pequot), Guilford, CT, 2008
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Rheology for Chemists
An Introduction. 2nd ed.
Jim W. Goodwin and Roy W. Hughes
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2008
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Ribozymes and RNA Catalysis
David M. J. Lilley and Fritz Eckstein, Eds.
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2007
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Robotics
Science and Systems III
Wolfram Burgard, Oliver Brock, and Cyrill Stachniss, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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The Science of Chocolate
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Stephen T. Beckett
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, 2008
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The Science of Describing
Natural History in Renaissance Europe
Brian W. Ogilvie
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008
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Reprint, 2006 ed.

The Senses
A Comprehensive Reference. Vol. 1, Vision I. Vol. 2, Vision II. Vol. 3, Audition. Vol. 4, Olfaction and Taste. Vol. 5, Pain. Vol. 6, Somatosensation.
Richard H. Masland et al., Eds.
Academic (Elsevier), London, 2008
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Serotonin and Sleep
Molecular, Functional and Clinical Aspects
J. M. Monti et al., Eds.
Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland, 2008
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The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles
Serhiy Grabarchuk, Peter Grabarchuk, and Serhiy Grabarchuk Jr.
Peters, Natick, MA, 2008
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Sourcebook of Models for Biomedical Research
P. Michael Conn, Ed.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Starved for Science
How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa
Robert Paarlberg
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008
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The Stem Cell Dilemma
Beacons of Hope or Harbingers of Doom?
Leo Furcht and William Hoffman
Arcade, New York, 2008
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Structural Proteomics
High-Throughput Methods
Bostjan Kobe, Mitchell Guss, and Thomas Huber, Eds.
Humana, Totowa, NJ, 2008
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 426.

Topics in Gravitational Dynamics
Solar, Extra-Solar and Galactic Systems
D. Benest, C. Froeschle, and E. Lega, Eds.
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 729.

Treatment of Psoriasis
Jeffrey M. Weinberg, Ed.
Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland, 2008
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Milestones in Drug Therapy.

Two Weeks of Life
A Memoir of Love, Death, and Politics
Eleanor Clift
Basic Books (Perseus), New York, 2008
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Vacuum Technology
Practice for Scientific Instruments
Nagamitsu Yoshimura
Springer, Berlin, 2008
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Venomous Animals of the World
Steve Backshall
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008
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Volcanism and Subduction
The Kamchatka Region
John Eichelberger et al., Eds.
American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2008
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Geophysical Monograph, vol. 172.

Voting the Gender Gap
Lois Duke Whitaker, Ed.
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2008
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Walther Nernst
Pioneer of Physics and of Chemistry
Hans-Georg Bartel and Rudolf P. Huebener
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ, 2007
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Wetlands
4th ed.
William J. Mitsch and James G. Gosselink
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008
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What Is Life?
Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Ed Regis
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2008
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Why a Curveball Curves
The Incredible Science of Sports
Frank Vizard, Ed.
Hearst (Sterling), Brighton, MA, 2008
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Why Science?
James Trefil
Teachers College Press, New York, 2008
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Copublished by the NSTA Press, Arlington, VA.

Yosemite in Time
Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers
Mark Klett, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron Wolfe
Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX, 2008
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