In this natural follow-up to Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports fromChina (2008), Atlantic correspondent Fallows analyzes the problems and promises of China's economic development through an examination of the efforts to create a world-class aerospace industry.
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Sykes (Human Genetics/Oxford Univ.; Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland, 2006, etc.) combines history, science, travel and memoir in one grand exposition of what it means to be an "American."
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Smoller (Psychiatry and Epidemiology/Harvard Univ.; co-author: Psychiatric Genetics, 2008) suggests that "[l]ike the purloined letter of Poe's tale, many of the most fundamental features of the normal mind have been hidden in plain sight."
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From a renowned mathematician, a collection of a series of lectures on "Metabiology: Life as Evolving Software"--a "philosophy and history of ideas course on how and why to approach biology mathematically."
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