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1) Viruses
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Pub. Date
1991
Description
Discusses the enormous scientific and medical contributions that have come from the field of virology
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Scientific American library volume 19
Pub. Date
c1987
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Similarly, the most critical property of biological clocks-which rhythmically organize the processes of life-is their ability to reset on cue.
This ability allows enables biological clocks to regain synchrony with a changing environment (as when we travel across time zones) or to maintain the alignment between certain physiological rhythms and the natural solar day.
In The Timing of Biological Clocks, Winfree explores circadian rhythms. In reporting...
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Scientific American Library volume no. 30
Pub. Date
c1990
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Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past
They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures change. Using the study of the Maya as a test case, Jeremy Sabloff shows how the exciting transformation of archaeology is shedding new light on past civilizations.
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Scientific American Library volume no. 46
Pub. Date
c1993
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Describes how and why scientists trace seismic activity and measure the extent and patterns of seismic waves, illustrating how basic geological lessons are learned.
14) Consciousness
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Scientific American Library volume no. 68
Pub. Date
[1999]
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In Consciousness, Hobson explores the brain structures and functions now understood to be fundamental to conscious experience, demonstrating how his youthful conception of a single, unified brain-mind system has been borne out by his own investigations and by breakthroughs made possible by powerful neuroscientific techniques (brain scanning and imaging: and behavioral measures of memory, attention, and visualization in the laboratory). But it is the...
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