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Control number:
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ocn124036294
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ISBN:
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9781933392615 (hbk.)
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ISBN:
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1933392614 (hbk.)
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ISBN:
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9781933392431 (pbk.)
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ISBN:
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1933392436 (pbk.)
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Local control number:
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(OCoLC)124036294
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Title:
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Mind, life, and universe : conversations with great scientists of our time / edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset.
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Imprint:
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White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2007.
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Physical description:
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xx, 358 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Note:
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"A Sciencewriters book."
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Contents:
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Pt. 1: People primates. Culture before humans ; Attractiveness ; Anxiety -- Pt. 2: Animal body-mind. Cyclicity and sociality ; Prehistory and immortality of the body-mind -- Pt. 3: Life on an animate planet. Bygone biospheres ; Toward perfection ; Dead or alive? -- Pt. 4: Toward the invisible. From the vast to the minuscule.
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Contents:
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Intelligent life on earth? / Nicholas Mackintosh -- Stressed chimps / Robert Sapolsky -- Nearly human / Jane Goodall -- A question of degree / Jordi Sabater Pi -- Like ants, bees, and termites, but different / Edward O. Wilson -- Can beauty be measured? / Victor Johnston -- Science of happiness / Daniel Gilbert -- Psychopaths / Robert Hare -- No one is boss / Daniel Dennett -- The hidden self / Oliver Sacks -- Locked in the dark / Rodolfo Llin*ás -- Dialogue with fear / Joseph Ledoux -- Fretful worry / Kenneth Kendler -- Drumbeats / Steven Strogatz -- Survival, not truth, is imperative / Richard Gregory -- Dreaming to learn / Nicholas Humphrey -- Music and talk / Diana Deutsch -- The secret code / Sydney Brenner -- Beyond the human genome / William Haseltine -- The second brain / Phillip Tobias and Ralph Holloway -- Immortality from your mother / Douglas Wallace -- Inevitability of aging? / Tom Kirkwood -- Life, master of the earth / James E. Lovelock -- Life is a mistake / Kenneth H. Nealson -- Evolution and purpose / Stephen Jay Gould -- The code of the dead / Richard Dawkins -- Purpose of evolution / Dorion Sagan -- Life as growth / William Day -- Our ancestor, the bacterium / Ricardo Guerrero -- Different from amoebae / John Bonner -- Walk through a cloud of electrons / Eugene Chudnovsky -- Atomic consciousness / Heinrich Rohrer -- Too huge for the atom, too tiny for the star / Sheldon Lee Glashow -- New dimensions / Lisa Randall -- Manipulation by dwarves / Nicol*ás García -- Space destroyed and time obliterated / Paul Davies.
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Held by:
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NYSL
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Subject:
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Scientists--Interviews.
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Subject:
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Science.
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Added entry:
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Margulis, Lynn, 1938-
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Added entry:
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Punset, Eduard, 1936-
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Electronic access:
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Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007018552.html
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Call number:
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509.22 M663 208-3326
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