Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu
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Category: Popular Science
This is a provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly differing levels of prosperity. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? "Why Nations Fail" sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down t ...Show more
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Category: Popular Science
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important workabout the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a bil ...Show more
Stripping Down Science: The Naked Scientist Expose by Chris Smith
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Category: Popular Science
Why does a lap dancer earn bigger tips when she's at her most fertile? Can just the whiff of a woman send a man's hormones surging? And were dinosaurs hot-blooded too? Is it true that diet portions actually make people fatter? Can toads really predict earthquakes? And what causes those ...what's the wor ...Show more
Sex at Dawn : The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality by Christopher Ryan; Cacilda Jethá
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Category: Popular Science
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science - as well as religious and cultural institutions - has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility and fide ...Show more