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What is life? : understand biology in five steps by Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize Winner)
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9781788451406
Publication Date: 2020
Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Donald M. Borchert, editor in chief
Call Number: HAT Reference B51 .E53 2006
ISBN: 0028657802
How Life Works: a user's guide to the new biology by Philip Ball
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9780226826684
Publication Date: 2023
The Master Builder: how the new science of the cell is rewriting the story of life by Alfonso Martinez Arias
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9781541603271
Publication Date: 2023
Water and life : life in water and water in life by Arieh Ben-Naim
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9789811225505
Publication Date: 2021
Life's Edge: the search for what it means to be alive by Carl Zimmer
Call Number: Available via Summit
ISBN: 9780593182734
Publication Date: 2022
Vital Forms: biological art, architecture, and the dependencies of life by Jennifer Johung
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ISBN: 9781517903053
Publication Date: 2019

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(Ebook) Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions--A New Biological Principle of Disease by Stanley B. Prusiner
ISBN: 9780300191141
Publication Date: 2014-04-29
Prusiner tells the remarkable story of his discovery of prions-infectious proteins that replicate and cause disease but surprisingly contain no genetic material-and reveals how superb and meticulous science is actually practiced with talented teams of researchers who persevere.
(Ebook) Extremophiles sustainable resources and biotechnological implications by Om V. Singh
Call Number: 1-118-39411-9
ISBN: 1118394119
Publication Date: 2012-10-16
Recent technological advances have opened the door to exploring these organisms anew as sources of products that might prove useful in clinical and environmental biotechnology and drug development.
(Ebook) Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life by Ralph Pudritz (Editor); Paul Higgs (Editor); Jonathon Stone (Editor)
ISBN: 9780521875486
Publication Date: 2007-12-06
Interdisciplinary overview of astrobiology for students and researchers in astrophysics, planetary science, geosciences, biochemistry, and biology.
(Ebook) Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain by Jay Ingram; Lin Tang (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780300189896
Publication Date: 2013-03-19
Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution.

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Try These Philosophers

Plato - Cavic Existence; Truth; Virtue; Self- Knowledge; Ideal Forms
Aristotle - Eudaimonia; Happiness; Golden Mean
Rene Descartes - I think, therefore I am; Mind-Body Dualism; Innate Idea; Methodic Doubt; Mechanistic View of the Physical World
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason; Critique of Judgement; Categorical Imperative; Transcendental Idealism; Moral Philosophy; Aesthetics & Sublime
John Haldane - Life by practical wisdom and moral virtues
Erwin Schrödinger - Nature of Reality; Relationships of physics and biology; molecular biology & genetics. Schrodinger's cat.
Richard Dawkins - Gene-Centered view of evolution; Advocate for science & reasoning
Carl Sagan - Scientific Skepticism; Humanism (caring for planet and others), Pursuit of Knowledge/Cosmic Perspective
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence - This is a branch of the philosophy of the mind and of computer science that explores artificial intelligence, ethics, consciousness, epistemology (nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge), and free will.

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