Summer Reading 2012 [1]

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Chris Anderson Makers: The New Industrial Revolution	Samuel Arbesman The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date	Dan Ariely The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

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Charles Arthur Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet	John D. Barrow The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos [Paperback]	Mary Catherine Bateson Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (Vintage) [Paperback]

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Roy Baumeister and John Tierney Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength	Gregory Benford Anomalies	Jesse Bering Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human

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Nick Bilton I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work & Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted [Paperback]	David Brin Existence	Max Brockman Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge

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John Brockman This Will Make You Smarter	John Brockman MIND	John Brockman CULTURE

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David Brooks The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement	Stephen Budiansky Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 (Vintage) [Paperback]	David M. Buss Dangerous Passion

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Benedict Carey Poison Most Vial: A Mystery	Noam Chomsky Occupy (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series) [Paperback]	Douglas Coupland Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People

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Brian Cox & Arthur Cohen Wonders of the Universe	Austin Dacey The Future of Blasphemy: Speaking of the Sacred in an Age of Human Rights	Antonio Damasio Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain

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Richard Dawkins & Dave Mckean The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True	Emanuel Derman Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life	David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World[paperback]

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Peter Diamandis Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think	Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross The Rapture of the Nerds	Cory Doctorow The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Outspoken Authors) [Paperback]

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George Dyson Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe	David M. Eagleman Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain [paperback edition]	Dylan Evans Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty

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Daniel L. Everett Language: The Cultural Tool	Stuart Firestein Ignorance: How It Drives Science	Michael Gazzaniga Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain

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James Geary Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World[Paperback]	David Gelernter America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered In the Obamacrats)	Karl W. Giberson The Wonder of the Universe: Hints of God in Our Fine-Tuned World

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Anthony Giddens The Third Way (A New edition)	John Gottman & Nan Silver What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal	Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

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A. C. Graylin The Good Book March 2011	Brian Greene The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos [Paperback]	Jonathan Haidt The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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Paul Harris Trusting What You're Told: How Children Learn from Others	Sam Harris Free Will	Mark Henderson The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters

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Bruce Hood The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity	John Horgan The End of War	Arianna Huffington Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen

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Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs	Alok Jha 50 Ways the World Is Going to End: The Biggest Threats to the Planet. by Alok Jha	Steven Johnson Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation [Paperback]

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Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow	Eric R. Kandel The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present	Andrew Keen Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us

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Christian Keysers The Empathic Brain	Alexander Kluge December (SB-The German List)	Alexander Kluge Air Raid (SB-The German List)

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Lawrence M. Krauss A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing	Robert Kurzban Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind [Paperback]	Jonah Lehrer Imagine: How Creativity Works

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John Lloyd The Second Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is (Still) Wrong	Benoit Mandelbrot The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick	Gary Marcus Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning

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Annalena Mcafee The Spoiler	Tom Mccarthy Tintin and the Secret of Literature [Paperback]	Pamela Mccorduck Bounded Rationality, A Novel

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John Mcwhorter What Language Is	Evgeny Morozov The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom [paperback]	Steve Nadis & Shing- Tung Yau The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions [Paperback]

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John Naughton Knowledge: Everything You Really Need to Know about the Internet	Alva Noë Varieties of Presence	Martin Nowak with Roger Highfield Supercooperators [Paperback]

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Mark Pagel Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind	Elaine Pagels Revelations	Heinz R Pagels The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature (Dover Books on Physics) [Paperback][reprint]

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Bruce Parker The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters (Macsci) [paperback]	Christopher Phillips Constitution Café: Jefferson's Brew for a True Revolution [Paperback]	Clifford Pickover The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics (Sterling Milestones)

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Daniel Pink Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us	Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined	William Poundstone Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

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Jesse Prinz The Conscious Brain (Philosophy of Mind)	Robert Provine Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond	Vilayanur Ramachandran The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human [Paperback]

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Lisa Randall Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World	Martin Rees From Here to Infinity: A Vision for the Future of Science	Ed Regis & George Church Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves

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Howard Rheingold Net Smart: How to Thrive Online	Steven Rose & Hilary Rose Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience's Promethean Promises	Robin S. Rosenberg The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Understanding Lisbeth Salander and Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy

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Robin S. Rosenberg What's the Matter With Batman?: An Unauthorized Clinical Look Under the Mask of the Caped Crusader	Carlo Rovelli The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy	Rudy Rucker Surfing the Gnarl (Outspoken Authors)

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Douglas Rushkoff Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age	Martin Seligman Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being [Paperback]	Karoly Simonyi A Cultural History of Physics

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Laurence C. Smith The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future [Paperback]	Christopher Stringer Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth	Steven Strogatz The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder	Don Tapscott Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet	Eric J. Topol, M D The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care

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Robert Trivers The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life	Neil Turok The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos (CBC Massey Lecture)	Ai Weiwei Speaks

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Margaret Wertheim Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything	Timothy D. Wilson Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change	David Sloan Wilson The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time

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E. O. Wilson The Social Conquest of Earth	Naomi Wolf Vagina: A New Biography	Nathan Wolfe The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

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Carl Zimmer A Planet of Viruses	Phil Zuckerman Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion