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      The Sciences

      January Book Reviews Roundup

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      • By THE EDITORS on January 1, 2014
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      Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
      by Stanislas Dehaene. Viking Adult, 2014

      Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
      by Max Tegmark. Knopf, 2014

      The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
      by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

      Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything
      by Amanda Gefter. Bantam, 2014

      Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource
      by David Sedlak. Yale University Press, 2014

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