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A
Brain for All Seasons, William Calvin, 0226092011
A
Means to an End, William Clark, 0195153758
A
New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram, 1579550088
A
Shortcut Through Time, George Johnson, 0375411933
A
Walk Through Time, Sidney Liebes, 0471317004
Alpha
and Omega, Charles Seife, 0670031798
An
Introduction to General Systems Thinking, Gerald Weinberg,
0932633498
Anthropic
Bias, Nick Bostrom, 0415938589
At
Home in the Universe, Stuart Kauffman, 0195111303
Before
the Beginning, Martin Rees, 0738200336
Beyond
Chaos, Mark Ward, 0312274890
Beyond
Natural Selection (Self-Organization) Robert Wesson, 1991,
0262731029
Biocosm,
James Gardner, 1930722222
Black
Holes and Baby Universes, Stephen Hawking, 0553374117
Cellular
Automata and Complexity, Stephen Wolfram, 0201626640
Chance
in Biology, Mark Denny, 0691094942
Chaos
and Fractals: New Frontiers, Peitgen, 0387979034
Chemistry
Demystified, Linda Williams, 0071410112
Complexity
and the Function of Mind in Nature, Peter Godfrey-Smith, 0521646243
Complexity,
Roger Lewin, 0226476553
Conceptual
Spaces: The Geometry of Thought, Peter Gardenfors, 0262071991
Consciousness
in Four Dimensions, Richard Pico, 0071354999
Cosmic
Evolution, Eric Chaisson, 0674009878
Darwinism
Evolving, Depew, 0262540835
Darwin's
Blind Spot (Symbiosis), Frank Ryan, 0618118128
Darwin's
Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett, 068482471X
Design
Principles for Immune System & Other Complex Adaptive Systems,
Lee Segel/SFI, 0195137000
Developmental
Biology, Scott Gilbert, 0878932585
Developmental
Plasticity and Evolution, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, 0195122356
Emergence,
John Holland, 0738201421
Evolution
in Mind, Henry Plotkin, 0674001958
Evolution,
Carl Zimmer, 0060958502
Evolving
Brains, John Allman, 071676038X
Exploring
Consciousness, Rita Carter, 0520237374
Figments
of Reality, Ian Stewart, 0521663830
Five
Golden Rules, John Casti, 0471193372
Five
More Golden Rules, John Casti, 0471395285
Foundations
of Complex-System Theories, Sunny Auyang, 0531778263
From
Complexity to Life, Niels Gregerson, 0195150708
Fundamental
Neuroscience, Larry Squire, 0126603030
Genes,
Memes, and Human History, Stephen Shennan, 0500051186
Global
Brain, Howard Bloom, 0471419192
God
and Design, Neil Manson (Ed.), 0415263441
Handbook
of Intelligence, Robert Sternberg, 0521596483
Hidden
Order, John Holland, 0201442302
How
Humans Evolved, Boyd and Silk, 0393978540
How
the Mind Works, Steven Pinker, 0393318486
Hyperspace:
Our Final Frontier, John Gribbin, 0789478382
Immunology
and Evolution of Infectious Disease, Steven Frank, 0691095957
Immunology,
Goldsby, 0716749475
Impossibility:
Science of Limits, John Barrow, 0198518900
Infosense, Keith Devlin, 0716741644
Instability
Rules, Charles Flowers, 0471380423
Introduction
to Nanotechnology, Charles Poole, 0471079359
Investigations,
Stuart Kauffman, 0195121058
Just
Six Numbers, Martin Rees, 0465036732
Knowing
Machines, Donald MacKenzie, 0262631881
Life
Everywhere: The Science of Astrobiology, David Darling, 0465015638
Linked,
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, 0452284392
Many
Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life, and Theol.
Implications, Steven Dick, 1890151424
Mind
over Matter, K.C. Cole, 0151008167
Models
of Intelligence, Robert Sternberg, 1557989710
Nanoelectronics
and Information Technology, Rainer Waser(Ed), 3527403639
Nanosystems,
Eric Drexler, 0471575186
Nature's
Destiny, Michael Denton, 0684845091
Nature
Via Nurture, Matt Ridley, 0060006781
Networks
of Innovation, Ilkka Tuomi, 0199256985
Next
Generation Intelligent Networks, Johan Zuidweg, 1580532632
No
Free Lunch, William Dembski, 0742512975
Optics,
Eugene Hecht, 0805385665
Our
Cosmic Habitat, Martin Rees, 0691114773
Out
of Control, Kevin Kelly, 0201483408
Patterns
in the Sand, Terry Bossomaier 0738201723
Photonics
Essentials, Thomas Pearsall, 0071408754
Quintessence,
Lawrence Krauss, 0465037410
Rapid
Prototyping, C.K. Chua, 9812381201
Rational
Mysticism, John Horgan, 0618060278
Scaling:
Animal Size, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, 0521319870
Self
Organization in Biological Systems, Scott Camazine, 0691012113
Signs
of Life, Sole and Goodwin, 0465019285
Six
Degrees, Duncan Watts, 0393041425
Supramolecular
Chemistry, Johnathan Steed, 0471987913
Surfing
Through Hyperspace, Clifford Pickover, 0195142411
Symbiotic
Planet, Lynn Margulis, 0465072720
Sync:
The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order, Steven Strogatz,
0786868449
The
Accelerating Universe, Mario Livio, 0471399760
The
Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science,
Gary Marcus, 0262133792
The
Bit and the Pendulum, Tom Siegfried, 0471399744
The
Book of Nothing, John Barrow, 0375726098
The
Borderlands of Science, Michael Shermer, 0195157982
The
Children of Prometheus, Christopher Wills, 0738201685
The
Collapse of Chaos, Jack Cohen, 0670849839
The
Colossal Book of Mathematics, Martin Gardner, 0393020231
The
Computational Beauty of Nature, Gary Flake, 0262561271
The
Constants of Nature, John Barrow, 0375422218
The
Cosmic Dance, Giuseppe Del Re, 1890151254
The
Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan, 0345409469
The
Elegant Universe, Brian Greene, 0375708111
The
Emergence of Everything, Harold Morowitz, 019513513X
The
Evolutionary Trajectory, Richard Coren, 9056996010
The
Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod, 0465021212
The
Evolution of Infectious Disease, Paul Ewald, 0195111397
The
Extended Organism: Animal-Built Structures, Scott Turner,
0674009851
The
Far-Future Universe, George Ellis (Ed), 1890151904
The
Force of Symmetry, Vincent Icke, 0521404959
The
Fourth Dimension, Rudy Rucker, 0395393884
The
Genius Within: Discovering the Intell. of Every Living Thing,
Frank Vertosick, 0151005516
The
Language of Mathematics, Keith Devlin, 0716739674
The
Life of the Cosmos, Lee Smolin, 0195126645
The
Lucifer Principle, Howard Bloom, 0871136643
The
Major Transitions in Evolution, John Maynard Smith, 019850294X
The
Math Gene, Keith Devlin, 0465016197
The
Millennium Problems, Keith Devlin, 0465017290
The
MIT Encyc. of the Cognitive Sciences, Robert Wilson(Ed), 0262731444
The
Moral Animal, Robert Wright, 0679763996
The
Natural Selection of Autonomy, Bruce Waller, 0791438201
The
New Ambidextrous Universe, Martin Gardner, 0716720930
The
Origin of Minds, Peggy LaCerra, 0609605585
The
Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley, 0140264450
The
Pursuit of Destiny: A History of Prediction, Paul Halpern,
0738200956
The
River that Flows Uphill, William Calvin, 0871567199
The
Self-Made Tapestry, Philip Ball, 01988502435
The
Shape of Life, Rudolf Raff, 0226702669
The
Shape of Space, Jeffrey Weeks, 0824707095
The
Symbolic Species, Terrence Deacon, 0393317544
The
Touchstone of Life, Werner Loewenstein, 0195140575
Time
of Our Lives: Science of Human Aging, Tom Kirkwood, 0195128249
Understanding
the Infinite, Shaughan Lavine, 0674921178
Up
From Dragons: Evolution of Human Intelligence, John Skoyles
and Dorion Sagan, 0071878251
Viruses,
Plagues, and History, Michael Oldstone, 0195134222
Voyage
Through Time, Ahmed Zewail, 9774246772
Where
is Everybody?, Stephen Webb, 0387955011
Where
Mathematics Comes From, George Lakoff, 0465037712
Why
Smart People Can Be So Stupid, Robert Sternberg, 0300090331
Why
We Age, Steven Austad, 0471148032
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