Imagine: You've just found out you have nine brothers.  Identical to you in every way.  Except for the gene that made one of them a killer--Artie Singleton's mother was dead.  But among her possessions lay a letter.  And inside was a secret that would shatter her son's world: In 1963, a shocking experiment at a famous fertility clinic had cloned ten identical male children from a single donor embryo.  Artie Singleton was one of them.Artie, a successful San Francisco entrepreneur, is now searching for his nine brothers.  He assumes they will look just like him.  But Artie finds some things he didn't expect: a sociopath among the clones determined to kill off the others--and a terrifying truth about their gene pool that could spell Artie's doom, or give him the cunning to stay alive.

Cellmates

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Burton, Robert A.

Thrillers & Suspense

Dell

Literature & Fiction

United States

Russian Hill Pr

What if our soundest, most reasonable judgments are beyond our control?
Despite 2500 years of contemplation by the world's greatest minds and the more recent phenomenal advances in basic neuroscience, neither neuroscientists nor philosophers have a decent understanding of what the mind is or how it works. The gap between what the brain does and the mind experiences remains uncharted territory. Nevertheless, with powerful new tools such as the fMRI scan, neuroscience has become the de facto mode of explanation of behavior. Neuroscientists tell us why we prefer Coke to Pepsi, and the media trumpets headlines such as "Possible site of free will found in brain." Or: "Bad behavior down to genes, not poor parenting." Robert Burton believes that while some neuroscience observations are real advances, others are overreaching, unwarranted, wrong-headed, self-serving, or just plain ridiculous, and often with the potential for catastrophic personal and social consequences. In A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind, he brings together clinical observations, practical thought experiments, personal anecdotes, and cutting-edge neuroscience to decipher what neuroscience can tell us – and where it falls woefully short. At the same time, he offers a new vision of how to think about what the mind might be and how it works. A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind is a critical, startling, and expansive journey into the mysteries of the brain and what makes us human.

A Skeptic's Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

St. Martin's: Griffin

Evan Roberts, an ex-CIA analyst turned spy novelist living on Hilton Head Island, is struggling with writer's block and an impatient editor as he picks up his boyhood friend, Frank Johnson, from the Savannah airport for a weekend visit to relax from the stresses facing his company. Johnson, a brilliant engineer, has pyramided a series of high stakes technical gambles to a true game changer, the Cadmus Project, a secretly developed electric car that runs 300 miles on a single battery charge. While only a few technical challenges remain, a major cost reduction is mandatory before the car can be successfully launched into the market. But time is short. Skyrocketing development costs are sweeping the company toward bankruptcy with the speed of a tsunami. Unknown to Johnson, powerful people have penetrated his project security. Their hired killer watches from the shadows, determined to spring into action at the right moment to ensure total failure. After a series of test vehicle accidents along with the murder of his key staff member, the project stalls. In despair, he calls his old friend Roberts for help.

The Cadmus Project: Innovation is Deadly

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