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Science & Maths
Science & Maths
Scientific theories and thinkers from ancient times on, Galileo to Hawking, Big Bang to atomic theory.
| REBECCA LEMOV Book Number: 84693 |
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Sub-titled 'The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity' here is the precursor to Facebook, Twitter and today's social media, a rich account of an attempt to record the world of subjective experiences. Dec...
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| EDITED BY JOHN LANTOS Book Number: 85116 |
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Sub-titled 'Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses', the book looks at the powerful sway these corpses hold over their living audiences everywhere. Plastination was invented in the ...
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| AYELET WALDMAN Book Number: 85633 |
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When a small vial purporting to be from "Lewis Carroll" came through her letterbox, Ayelet Waldman was at a really low ebb. A long-term sufferer from bipolar II disorder, the severity of her mood s...
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| LOUISA HALL Book Number: 86345 |
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A kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, as told by seven fictional characters. A brilliant scientist, champion of liberal causes and a complex and often extraord...
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| BBC EARTH Book Number: 86645 |
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Your chance to own the 'Television Classic' (The Times), the 1999 BBC TV series which changed the way we saw dinosaurs forever. This revolutionary show takes viewers right into the dinosaurs' worl...
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| ADRIAN OWEN Book Number: 86707 |
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Meshing memoir with scientific explication, here a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death. He reveals how he learnt to communicate with patients in vegetative or 'grey zone' sta...
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| LESLIE BERLIN Book Number: 86791 |
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Sub-titled 'How A Generation of Silicon Valley Upstarts Invented The Future' here is a fascinating book at a time when five of the most valuable companies on the planet are high-tech firms. The bo...
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| BILL MCKIBBEN Book Number: 86571 |
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First published in 1989 and here with a new introduction by the author (2006), here is the ground-breaking plea for radical and life-renewing change. Mckibben argues that our view of nature, its r...
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| CLIFFORD FOUST Book Number: 86970 |
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John Frank Stevens (1853-1943) was one of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, arguably the greatest and responsible for surely the most important projects of US civil engineer...
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| LAURENCE SCOTT Book Number: 86896 |
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A witty, intelligent portrait of our digitally extended, digitally entwined selves, here is a probing and elegant meditation on today's digital world's 'ways of being' with all the ambiguities and ...
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| MARK JACKSON Book Number: 86901 |
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As scientists confidently look towards the average life expectancies hitting 100+ years in some Western societies, it's easy to forget how precarious our grasp on good health has been. It is a str...
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| GRAEME DONALD Book Number: 87618 |
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Along with the assumptions about the health benefits of heroin, the advantages of injecting monkey glands into the human body (or more recently Donald Trump's suggestion to inject disinfectant to c...
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| CHRISTOPHER POTTER Book Number: 88009 |
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The first photos of the earth seen from the moon prompted a reassessment of what it means to be human. Famously Yuri Gagarin did not meet God in space, but eight years later Buzz Aldrin made a poin...
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| PETER DORWARD Book Number: 88011 |
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Mr Foster is bleeding heavily in intensive care and the heart monitor goes flat. Junior doctor Peter Dorward tries to save him but is told by a kindly senior nurse that even if he is resuscitated ...
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| JOSHUA MEZRICH Book Number: 88041 |
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How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? Here is the human story behind the most exc...
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| KIMBERLY ARCAND & M. WATZKE Book Number: 88046 |
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Radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays - light illuminates our world and allows us to see everything around us. But humans can only see a slither of the ...
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| MICHAEL BROOKS Book Number: 88096 |
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Cardano invented both the Cardan shaft in mechanics and the imaginary numbers that are the square root of -1, debating the subject with his contemporary Tartaglia, and the author shows how his work...
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| LIZ EVERS Book Number: 88213 |
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How many locksmiths does it take to build an atomic clock? This enthralling book is full of thought-provoking info on timekeeping, its origins, advances and impact, as well as time-related trivia ...
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| BARNEY SHAW Book Number: 88261 |
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The most emotionally provocative of our senses. It can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph, so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a...
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| FIONA MCDONALD Book Number: 88411 |
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The slimy truth about breathing, a subject we have become very conscious of in recent months and the uses of those yucky substances like snot and mucus. Why do noses run or our throats, windpipes ...
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| CALEB SCHARF Book Number: 88418 |
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Filled with infographics and stunning colour imagery, explorers of all ages can embark on a cutting-edge voyage through the enormity of our reality, travelling one to the power of ten or order of m...
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| LEONARD DAVID Book Number: 88280 |
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Is space fever a thing of the past? For NASA scientists and a few wealthy enthusiasts, the crusading space culture of the 1960s never went away, and the game is afoot again in the 21st century. Leo...
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| SEAN MARTIN Book Number: 88282 |
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Short but fact-packed, with a good bibliography for further reading, this concise history of disease is highly readable. In the ancient Greek world the Asclepius cult relied on belief in miraculou...
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| JON BALCHIN Book Number: 88556 |
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"If I saw further than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants" said Sir Isaac Newton, and this rather splendid volume introduces not only the giants that Newton used to get...
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| ANDREW MAY Book Number: 88578 |
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Extra-terrestrial life is a common theme in science fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiology is the emerging field of science that seeks to answer this question. The ...
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| NESSA CAREY Book Number: 88855 |
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Sub-titled 'How Gene Editing Will Re-Write Our Futures', bestselling genetics author Nessa Carey looks at the cutting-edge science that will revolutionise the way we prevent disease. Just 45 years...
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| ROBERT STONE & ALAN ANDRES Book Number: 88763 |
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3...2...1... We have lift off! More than one fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. This book shares the untold stories of those who made ...
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| MICKAEL LAUNAY Book Number: 88783 |
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Launay mixes history and anecdotes in a journey into numbers. Sub-titled 'The Story of People and Mathematics', this international bestseller is by a dream teacher who explains the maths that has ...
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| JIM AL-KHALILI Book Number: 88245 |
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With his command of Arabic and mathematical physics, the lay reader in the West is reminded of the intellectual achievements of Arab, Persian and Muslim scholars. Al-Khalili brings alive the bubbl...
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| MEREDITH WADMAN Book Number: 88503 |
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The story of the Rubella vaccine, which transformed world health in the 1960s, is still highly relevant to the way vaccines are researched, developed and administered. This epic book describes lif...
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