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Scientific theories and thinkers from ancient times on, Galileo to Hawking, Big Bang to atomic theory.

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CONCISE GRAY'S ANATOMY
PROFESSOR C. H. LEONARD    Book Number: 27086
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In this, the 16th edition of the book originally published as 'The Pocket Anatomist' by the distinguished American gynaecologist C.H. Leonard, are to be found the essential elements of the magister...
ORIGIN OF SPECIES
CHARLES DARWIN    Book Number: 27140
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A Grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die... Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or...
INGENIOUS WOMEN:
DEBORAH JAFFÉ    Book Number: 66683
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From the first British patent held by a woman in 1637 to the outbreak of the First World War, our volume examines an intriguing cross section of female inventors. Martha Coston had a fight on her ...

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DARK BANQUET
BILL SCHUTT    Book Number: 67507
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Subtitled 'Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures', these are the vampires which have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories. Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that le...
EDISON AND THE ELECTRIC CHAIR: A Story of Light and Death
MARK ESSIG    Book Number: 68300
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In 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled a world-changing invention - the light bulb. A decade later, despite having been an avowed opponent of the death penalty, Edison threw his laboratory resources and ...
ATOMIC: The First War of Physics
JIM BAGGOTT    Book Number: 68540
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Atomic is a big book which covers a big subject - arguably still the biggest, most difficult subject that man has to tackle. Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, and second to ...

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PROUST AND THE SQUID
MARYANNE WOLF    Book Number: 68581
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A healthy dose of lucid neuroscience subtitled 'The Story of Science and the Reading Brain'. We were never born to read and here the author explores how our brains acquired this remarkable skill o...

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WORLD'S GREATEST IDEA
JOHN FARNDON    Book Number: 68599
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Subtitled 'The Fifty Greatest Ideas that Have Changed Humanity', this witty book has brainwaves abounding in its pages. Which was the greatest idea ever? Democracy, capitalism, sewerage, the Inte...

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A DREAM OF UNDYING FAME:
LOUIS BREGER    Book Number: 68673
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In the late 1870s, Sigmund Freud met an established physician named Josef Breuer. Breuer became his mentor and trusted friend, providing the young doctor with financial support, patient referrals ...
MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
BUZZ ALDRIN & KEN ABRAHAM    Book Number: 68953
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As an adventure story, a searing memoir of self-destruction and self-renewal, and a visionary rallying cry for humankind once again to set course for Mars and beyond, this book is the thoroughly hu...

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