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The Great Climate Leap: A Climate Surprise Is Like a Heart Attack

Product Description: The world’s climate has become unstable from global warming. Even though global overheating did not take any leaps, there have been six abrupt shifts since 1976 in other aspects of climate, global in extent. For example, global drought acreage suddenly doubled in 1982 and stayed there...read more

By William H. Calvin

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9781475149340 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 1, 2012, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The world’s climate has become unstable from global warming.

The Great Co2 Cleanup: Backing Out of the Danger Zone

Product Description: Most of our climate problems could be repaired by cleaning up the excess CO2 in the air and so cooling things off. However, because of abrupt climate flips, the cleanup must be big, quick, and secure. Doubling all forests might satisfy the first two but it would be quite insecure—currently even rain forests are burning and rotting, releasing additional CO2...read more

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9781475151749 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 9, 2012, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Most of our climate problems could be repaired by cleaning up the excess CO2 in the air and so cooling things off.

The Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond

Product Description: This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if" and "Why me?" William H...read more

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9780195159073 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of the mind, from apes, Neanderthals, and human ancestors to a burst of creativity that began about fifty thousand years ago, suggesting that the mind will continue to evolve, with enhanced reasoning abilities, ethics, and other changes.

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9780195182484, titled "A Brief History Of The Mind: From Apes To Intellect And Beyond" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 8, 2005, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Traces the evolution of the mind, from apes, Neanderthals, and human ancestors to a burst of creativity that began about fifty thousand years ago, suggesting that the mind will continue to evolve, with enhanced reasoning abilities, ethics, and other changes.

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9781435293854, titled "A Brief History of the Mind: From Apes to Intellect and Beyond" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $33.99 | About this edition: This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago.

Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change

By William H. Calvin

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9780226092041 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2008, cover price $22.50

Almost Us: Portraits of the Apes

Product Description: After you spot a dozen of your relatives among these candid portraits, you'll see why the great apes are called our close cousins. The portraits on the back cover show a frowning gorilla looking at a smiling one, an inquiring chimpanzee, a smiling orangutan gazing skyward, and a fashion portrait of a wet bonobo...read more

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9781419619793 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 25, 2005, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: After you spot a dozen of your relatives among these candid portraits, you'll see why the great apes are called our close cousins.

Wie Das Gehirn Denkt: Die Evolution Der Intelligenz

Product Description: [Wie das Gehirn denkt] ... bietet ein ausgezeichnetes Konzentrat von [Calvins] SchlÃ¼sselkonzepten. Er gehÃ¶rt zu jener raren Sorte von Wissenschaftlern, welche die komplexen Inhalte ihres Fachgebiets in die Sprache von Laien Ã¼bersetzen kÃ¶nnen, und er ist dabei einer der besten ...read more

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9783827415356 | Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Gmbh, March 4, 2004, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: [Wie das Gehirn denkt] .

A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change

Provides an informed argument concerning the dramatic impact of abrupt climatic changes, including cycles of cool, crash, and burn, on the evolution of humankind, explaining how and why such cycles became a key factor in the increase in brain size and complexity among human beings. (Science & Mathematcis)

By William H. Calvin

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9780226092010 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Provides an informed argument concerning the dramatic impact of abrupt climatic changes, including cycles of cool, crash, and burn, on the evolution of humankind, explaining how and why such cycles became a key factor in the increase in brain size and complexity among human beings.

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9780226092034 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $17.50

How the Shaman Stole the Moon: In Search of Ancient Prophet- Scientists from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon

Product Description: "Combines the wonder of magic and ancient lore with the skill and intellectual honesty of modern science. William Calvin guides us on just such a marvel-packed quest, in search of techniques used by sages and shamans, tracing discoveries made sometimes by accident and sometimes by sheer genius long before the dawn of our own age...read more

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9780595166930 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: "Combines the wonder of magic and ancient lore with the skill and intellectual honesty of modern science.

The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness

Product Description: Set amidst the Woods Hole research colony on Cape Cod. Daniel C. Dennett said, Thinking along with Calvin is sheer delight. This book has the most vivid and lucid explanations of brain function I have seen, and his discussions of evolution place him in the same league with Stephen Gould and Richard Dawkins as elegant expositors in the life sciences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780553057072, titled "Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness" | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Neurobiologist William Calvin explores the human brain, positing that the neurons in the brain operate in an accelerated version of biological evolution, evolving ideas through random variations and selections, and supports his hypothesis with numerous case studies

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9780595166954 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Set amidst the Woods Hole research colony on Cape Cod.

9780553349948, titled "Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness" | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, November 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Neurobiologist William Calvin explores the human brain, positing that the neurons in the brain operate in an accelerated version of biological evolution, evolving ideas through random variations and selections, and supports his hypothesis with numerous case studies

Inside the Brain: An Enthralling Account of the Structure and Workings of the Human Brain

By William H. Calvin

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9780595160471 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $15.95

The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence

Investigates the rapid evolution of the ape brain into the hominid brain, and explains why understanding our evolutionary past can help us survive an uncertain future (view table of contents)

By William H. Calvin

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9780553070842, titled "Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence" | Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Investigates the rapid evolution of the ape brain into the hominid brain, and explains why understanding our evolutionary past can help us survive an uncertain future

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9780595161140 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

9780553352306 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, November 1, 1991, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Investigates the rapid evolution of the ape brain into the hominid brain, and explains why understanding our evolutionary past can help us survive an uncertain future

The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain

A trip through the Grand Canyon provides a format for exploring the evolution of life and the development of consciousness and intelligence (view table of contents)

By William H. Calvin

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9780792445227 | Macmillan Pub Co, July 1, 1986, cover price $9.98 | About this edition: A trip through the Grand Canyon provides a format for exploring the evolution of life and the development of consciousness and intelligence

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9780595167005 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $30.95

9780871567192 | Sierra Club Books, November 1, 1987, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A trip through the Grand Canyon provides a format for exploring the evolution of life and the development of consciousness and intelligence

The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain

Product Description: These essays on the brain leap from the philosophical to the comical, from the scientific theory to mundane events of everyday life. The Throwing Madonna provides a window through which the average person can peer into the elusive world of neurobiology and find greater understanding of the human race...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780070096653 | McGraw-Hill, July 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examinations of the workings of the brain include discussions on schizophrenia, the nature of pain, and the right side of the brain

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9780595160495 | Backinprint.Com, January 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: These essays on the brain leap from the philosophical to the comical, from the scientific theory to mundane events of everyday life.

9780553352290 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1991), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Examinations of the workings of the brain include discussions on schizophrenia, the nature of pain, and the right side of the brain

Lingua Ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky With the Human Brain

Product Description: A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machinelike "modules" in the brain for syntax, arguing that language is more an instinct (a complex behavior triggered by simple environmental stimuli) than an acquired skill like riding a bicycle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Derek Bickerton and William H. Calvin

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9780262032735 | Bradford Books, February 4, 2000, cover price $12.75

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9780262531986 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, October 1, 2001), cover price $5.75 | About this edition: A machine for language?

The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind

Product Description: The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud...read more

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9780262032414 | Bradford Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud.

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9780262531542 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, February 6, 1998), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The Cerebral Code is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes could operate in the brain to shape mental images in only seconds, starting with shuffled memories no better than the jumble of our nighttime dreams, but evolving into something of quality, such as a sentence to speak aloud.

How Brains Think. Evolving Intelligence

Product Description: Denken, Intelligenz, Sprache, Bewusstsein -- sind sie alle das Ergebnis von neuronalen Selektionsprozessen? Werden Gedankeninhalte, Wörter, Handlungsmuster vorsortiert, ehe sie uns überhaupt bewusst werden? Ist unser Gehirn eine Darwin-Maschine? William Calvin vermittelt in diesem originellen und spannenden Buch eine neue Sicht auf die Arbeitsweise des menschlichen Gehirns und die Entstehung von Intelligenz...read more

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9783827402400 | Gardners Books, March 4, 1998, cover price $23.15 | About this edition: Denken, Intelligenz, Sprache, Bewusstsein -- sind sie alle das Ergebnis von neuronalen Selektionsprozessen?

How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now

Examines the nature of human intelligence, discusses the development of language, and looks at the physical structure of the brain

By William H. Calvin

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9780465072774 | Basic Books, September 5, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Examines the nature of human intelligence, discusses the development of language, and looks at the physical structure of the brain

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9780465072781 | Basic Books, September 5, 1997, cover price $15.00

Conversations With Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language

Product Description: In a series of stories before, after, and even during neurosurgery, an epileptic patient, Neil; his surgeon, George Ojemann; and neuroscientist William Calvin work together to remove a portion of Neil's temporal lobe. If they do it right, they will have a good chance of putting an end to Neil's seizures...read more

By William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann

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9780201632170 | Perseus Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The delicate neurosurgery performed on an epileptic named Neil reveals the mystery of the brain and the complexity of language use, memory, and mental disabilities

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9780201483376 | Basic Books, April 24, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In a series of stories before, after, and even during neurosurgery, an epileptic patient, Neil; his surgeon, George Ojemann; and neuroscientist William Calvin work together to remove a portion of Neil's temporal lobe.

How the Shaman Stole the Moon: In Search of Ancient Prophet-Scientists from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon

An introduction to the science of archaeoastronomy journeys to some of the world's most ancient ruins to detail the discoveries of ancient astronomers

By William H. Calvin

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9780553077407 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, November 1, 1991, cover price $21.50 | About this edition: An introduction to the science of archaeoastronomy journeys to some of the world's most ancient ruins to illuminate the origins of science and religion and detail the discoveries of ancient astronomers

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9780553370829 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, December 1, 1992), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: An introduction to the science of archaeoastronomy journeys to some of the world's most ancient ruins to detail the discoveries of ancient astronomers

Inside the Brain

By William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann

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9780451623973 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, September 1, 1980), cover price $4.50

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