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The view from Lazy Point

a natural year in an unnatural world
2012
The author describes his observations of the natural world while traveling from the high Arctic to Antarctica and across the tropics from the Caribbean to the west Pacific, and reflects on his experiences throughout his year of travels.

Constitution caf?

Jefferson's brew for a true revolution
2011
Christopher Phillips recounts his cross-country journey to see what ordinary Americans think about the Constitution and the government and shares how modern citizens would rewrite the Constitution, suggesting changes in how the government should be run and how democracy could be saved.

Not for profit

why democracy needs the humanities
2010
Advocates the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education, arguing that the United States has shifted its educational aims toward national economic growth at the expense of teaching students to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens.

The reapers are the angels

a novel
2010
A young girl named Temple is on the run from zombies as she tries to find her younger brother who was taken away from her and hoping to be set free from the demons who enslave her.

You are here

a portable history of the universe
2009
Offers a concise, scientific history of the universe, and discusses how nothing came to be everything, quarks, galaxy clusters, black holes, and more.

What Darwin got wrong

2010
A critical examination of Darwin's theory of natural selection siting major scientific and philosophical issues associated with the evolutionary hypothesis.

Chronology of the evolution-creationism controversy

2010
Chronicles the conflict between religious and scientific views of life over more than three thousand years, exploring the cultural, religious, and scientific events that shaped the debate over evolution and creationism.

Better things

an annotated visual essay of photographs interpreting the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
2005

The hole in the universe

how scientists peered over the edge of emptiness and found everything
2001
Looks at what physicists, mathematicians, and other scientists have discovered about the origins and nature of the universe in their search for the point of nothingness.

What is life?

investigating the nature of life in the age of synthetic biology
2008
Offers a new scientific perspective of how science can provide a detailed understanding of the nature of life.

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