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Unruly complexity

author: Peter J. Taylorshelved under: Environment/Ecology
date: 2005publisher: Chicago ; University of Chicago Press
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The Brain That Changes Itself

author: Norman Doidgeshelved under: Health/Medicine
date: 2010publisher: Scribe
content type: book
description: A book on neuroplasticity by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D. It features studies of several patients suffering from neurological disorders and details how the brain adapts to compensate for their disabilities. Interviews with the patients and doctors make up a large portion of the contents. Doidge uses examples of previous work carried out by neuroscientists such as Paul Broca and Paul Bach-y-Rita to show that the brain is adaptive, and thus plastic.

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A field guide to the Fungi of Australia

author: Written by A. M. Young. Illistrated by Kay Smithshelved under: Gardening
date: 2005 publisher: University of New South Wales Press Ltd
content type: book
description: A field guide to the fungi of Australia has descriptions of more than 170 Australian fungi species.

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author: Jared Diamondshelved under: History
date: 2005publisher: New York : Viking
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A Religious Orgy in Tennessee

author: H. L. Mencken, shelved under: History
date: elville House Publishinpublisher:
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