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ANIMAL WISE: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creaturesby Virginia Morell
V irginia Morell provides an engaging overview of the latest research
on animal cognition and emotion, which confirms that the inner lives of animals are far richer than previously understood. This fully realized and deeply nuanced understanding of the interior lives of animals has major moral and ethical ramifications for human-animal relationships. By challenging the standard behaviorist focus on observable behaviors, and championing the primacy of unseen interior processes, Animal Wise suggests a serious reconsideration of the boundaries between humans and animals, a reevaluation of human-animal relationships, and a fresh perspective on the roots and origins of human abilities and behaviors.Crown • Hardcover • 978-0-307-46144-5304pp. • $26.00Audio: 978-0-307-97073-2 • $40.00e-Book: 978-0-307-46146-9 • $12.99
Recommended Science Books from Random House, Inc.
DARWIN’S GHOSTS: The Secret History of Evolutionby Rebecca Stott
• A New York Times Notable Book
In this epic chronicle of scientific courage and insight, Stott goes in search of
those first evolutionists whose intellectual originality and daring have been lost to us and to Darwin. She rediscovers, for example, Aristotle walking the shores of Lesbos with his pupils, Leonardo da Vinci searching for fossils in the mine-shafts of the Tuscan hills and the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin de Plantes finding evidence for evolutionary change in the natural history collections stolen during the Napoleonic wars. Darwin’s Ghosts is a tale of mummified birds, inland lagoons, Bedouin nomads, secret police files, microscopes and curiosity cabinets, as well as the history of a profoundly dangerous idea. Spiegel & Grau • Trade Paperback 978-0-8129-8170-4 • 432pp. • $17.00 e-Book: 978-0-679-60413-6 • $13.99
“After you read this book, you will be convinced that
many different animal species have true thoughts and emotions. You will take
a journey to the center of the animal mind.”
—Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human
“Using [The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks] in the classroom will deepen your students’ understanding of
nonfiction, science, medicine, and history—but more than that, it will prepare them to
engage thoughtfully with the profound moral and ethical dilemmas posed by emergent technologies and the world
we share.” —Amy Jurskis, Tri-Cities High School, East Point,
Georgia
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OFHENRIETTA LACKSby Rebecca Skloot
• Winner of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine’s Communication
Award for Best Book • Winner of the Chicago Tribune
Heartland Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the Wellcome Trust Book Prize • Top Common Reading Book—Selected at
nearly 150 schools, colleges, universities and “One Book, One City” Reads Programs
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was
a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951— became one of the most important tools in medicine, bought and sold by the billions, with devastating effects on her family. It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans and the birth of bioethics.Broadway • Trade Paperback 978-1-4000-5218-9 • 400pp. • $16.00Audio: 978-0-307-71250-9 • $35.00e-Book: 978-0-307-58938-5 • $ 9.99To read about one teacher’s experience using the book in her classroom, go to: tiny.cc/04miuwTeacher’s Guide: email [email protected]
“A lively account of the ‘pathfinders, iconoclasts, and innovators’ who were Darwin’s spiritual kin. . . .
Stott masterfully shows how Darwin, by discovering the mechanism of natural selection, made a unique contribution, but he did
not stand alone—nor did he claim to.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
TOMS RIvER: A Story of Science and Salvationby Dan Fagin
In this important new exposé, prize-winning investigative journalist, Dan
Fagin, recounts the sixty-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China.
One of New Jersey’s seemingly quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid-laced wastewater into the town’s namesake river. For readers of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Toms River is essential reading for our times.Bantam • Hardcover • 978-0-553-80653-3 560pp. • $28.00Audio: 978-0-385-36031-9 • $25.00e-Book: 978-0-345-53861-1 • $13.99www.danfagin.com
“An award winning science journalist exposes
how corporate interests and corrupt politicians almost turned a quiet,
suburban New Jersey beach community into a toxic
wasteland. . . . A gripping environmental thriller.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Recommended Science Books from Random House, Inc.
Have Your Students Embark on a Vivid Journey Through Science with Joy Hakim’s Series The Story of Science
In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim
narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world’s greatest scientists and encourages a similar spirit of inquiry in readers. The books include hundreds of color photographs, charts, maps, and diagrams; informative sidebars; suggestions for further reading; and excerpts from the writings of great scientists.
Ideal for traditional physical science classes, enrichment programs, multidisciplinary teaching, and home schooling, this series is published in association with the National Science Teachers Association. www.joyhakim.com
With subjects ranging from philosophy to science, culture
studies, art, and beyond, the For Beginners® documentary comic book series presents a range of popular concepts, disciplines, and topics in an entertaining and accessible manner that respects the intelligence and intellectual curiosity of its audience.
“Hakim emphasizes the importance of mathematics to scientific progress and is not afraid to sprinkle a few numbers through the text, showing, for example, how the
concept of zero transformed math into a tool for understanding practically everything. . . The Story of Science is richly informative and illustrated. . . Hakim clearly appreciates
science and the matchless might of a reasoning mind.”—Natalie Angier, The New York Times
“In this book series, author Joy Hakim traces the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim highlights the curiosity of
the world’s greatest scientists, and encourages a similar spirit of inquiry in the readers.” —The Science Teacher
The Story of Science: ARISTOTLE LEADS THE WAySmithsonian Books Hardcover 978-1-58834-160-0 256pp. • $24.95
The Story of Science: NEWTON AT THE CENTERSmithsonian Books Hardcover 978-1-58834-161-7 480pp. • $27.95
The Story of Science: EINSTEIN ADDS A NEW DIMENSIONSmithsonian Books Hardcover 978-1-58834-162-4 480pp. • $27.95
RELATIvITy AND QuANTuM PHySICS FOR BEGINNERSby Steven L. ManlyIllustrated by Steven FournierSteerforth Press Trade Paperback 978-1-934389-42-3 144pp. • $14.99
GLOBAL WARMING FOR BEGINNERSby Dean GoodwinIllustrated by Joe LeeSteerforth Press Trade Paperback978-1-934389-27-0 144pp. • $14.95
ASTRONOMy FOR BEGINNERSby Jeff BecanIllustrated by Sarah BecanSteerforth Press Trade Paperback978-1-934389-25-6 160pp. • $16.99
Order Exam Copies at www.randomhouse.com/academic/examcopy
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