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Galileo's Visions
Galileo is known as a pioneer of science - especially of mechanics and astronomy - but far less attention has been paid to his work on the senses generally, and more specifically …
Purkinje's Vision
The life of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787-1869) has fascinated students from many disciplines. Histologists marvel at his early descriptions of cells; physiologists admire his …
The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
A New York Times science reporter makes a startling new case that religion has an evolutionary basis. For the last 50,000 years, and probably much longer, people have practiced …
The Moving Tablet of the Eye
Eye movements are a vital part of our interaction with the world. They play a pivotal role in perception, cognition, and education. Research in this field is now proceeding at a …
Devil May Care / Sinner Take All
Visual Allusions
In this book a leading researcher and artist explores how we see pictures and how they can communicate messages to us, both directly and indirectly by making allusions to objects …
Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the genetic program that evolution has written for the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at …
Relationship: : Becoming New. How to Relate to One Greater in a Fallen World
Before the Dawn
Nicholas Wades articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn, Wade …
Called from the Abyss: Martial Arts expert Nico the Dragon was lost in the darkness. Until he heard the voice...
Titanic, First Accounts
A World Beyond Healing
An eloquent and sobering book which draws a new and clearer picture of how nuclear war would perhaps alter human life on earth forever.