Bibliography by Theme

Alphabetical Bibliography

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Abram, David, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Vintage, 1996)

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Adamatzky, Andrew, Game of Life Cellular Automata (Springer, 2010)

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Agar, Nicholas, Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement (Blackwell, 2004)

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Allenby, Braden, and Daniel Sarewitz, The Techno-Human Condition (MIT, 2011)

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Alper, Matthew, The ‘God’ Part of the Brain (Sourcebooks, 2006)

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Anderson, M.T., Feed (Candlewick Press, 2002)

Andrews, Lori, Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics (Columbia, 2001)

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Appiah, Kwame Anthony, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Norton, 2006)

Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth About History (Norton, 1995)

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Brake, Mark, Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology (Cambridge U. Press, 2012)

Brandt, Allan, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (Basic, 2009)

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Breazeal, Cynthia, Designing Sociable Robots (MIT Press, 2002)

Breggin, Peter, The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won't Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox (Da Capo, 2001)

Briggs, John, David F. Peat, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (Perennial Library, 1989)

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