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The Seeds of Life is about scientists’ stumbling efforts to solve the greatest mystery of them all—where do babies come from? Leonardo da Vinci didn’t know. Neither did Isaac Newton or Galileo or any of the geniuses who made the modern world!

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The cops-and-robbers tale of the thieves who stole The Scream and the eccentric detective who hunted them down.

“Widely considered the best book ever written on art crime.” (Northside San Francisco)

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A close-up look at one of modern medicine’s great blunders — the attempt by Freud and his followers to find hidden messages in diseases, as if illness was but a dream.

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