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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| DAVID HARLAND Book Number: 89012 |
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The far side of the Moon remained unknown until the dawning of the Space Age, as telescopes improved, observers produced ever more exquisite hand-drawn maps and later comprehensive photographic atl...
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| DAVID BAKER Book Number: 89013 |
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America's Skylab Space Station was the first operational orbiting laboratory successfully occupied and revisited by astronauts, achieving the world's first scientific workshop maintained by separat...
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| ROBERT HAZEN Book Number: 89148 |
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An enchanting biography of the most resonant and most necessary chemical element on earth. Carbon is the building block of every cell that makes up every living thing. It is the essential compone...
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| ANNA CLAYBOURNE Book Number: 89412 |
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With clear text and attractive, brightly coloured diagrams, each page in this book is an educational treat. Divided into 18 sections covering different organs and body functions, each double spread...
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| PROFESSOR STEPHEN WESTABY Book Number: 89417 |
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A dramatic head trauma sustained during university rugby was a horrific experience for Professor Stephen Westaby but he emerged from his recovery with the qualities of an exceptional heart surgeon:...
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| DEREK HARVEY Book Number: 89428 |
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How does evolution happen? What is a double helix? (The shape of DNA, in case you wanted to know!) The answer is genes, and this book is the key to decoding the complexities of genes, the 'blueprin...
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| BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH Book Number: 89063 |
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Charles Hutton. One of Britain's most brilliant mathematicians. At the tender age of 18 in August 1755, he had been down in the coal pits in Newcastle on the north bank of the Tyne on and off for m...
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| PROF BRIAN COX, ROBIN INCE Book Number: 89065 |
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The first ever episode of BBC Radio 4's "The Infinite Monkey Cage" aired on 30 November 2009 and episode 141 was broadcast last week. With its signature song by Eric Idle and Jeff Lynne and present...
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| DANE HUCKELBRIDGE Book Number: 89067 |
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Bengal tigers are not by nature man-eaters, but in the early years of the 20th century the infamous Champawat tiger held the local population in the grip of terror until she was finally killed by t...
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| PROFESSOR BRYAN SYKES Book Number: 89081 |
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The domesticated dog whose affection has transformed the lives of millions of owners started life as a fierce and wild carnivore - a wolf, in fact. But that is only one side of the evolutionary equ...
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| TOM JACKSON Book Number: 88981 |
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A superb directory giving us the bigger picture of chemistry in a fresh and new approach to the building blocks of our entire universe. On glossy coloured background paper we learn in a very visua...
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| NOEL FITZPATRICK Book Number: 89118 |
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'That star I wished upon when I decided I wanted to be a vet aged ten, lying on my back in that ice-starched field and staring up at the enormity of the universe, has been the guiding light of my e...
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| NICK PYENSON Book Number: 89403 |
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Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, widest ranging and deepest diving species to have ever lived. We have hunted them for thousands of years, some species almost to extinction, and they...
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| PROFESSOR KEN ASHWELL Book Number: 89505 |
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In supersized images and glorious colour are hundreds of cutaway diagrams - for example of the Heart Valve showing the Ventricular Systole and Diastole, the Tricuspid Mitral Valves - all the key te...
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| OLIVER SACKS Book Number: 89614 |
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Scientist and storyteller, since his death in 2015, Oliver Sacks continues to enrich the world of science and literature with his fascinating and probing examinations of the human brain. Published...
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| KEITH MANSFIELD Book Number: 89618 |
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200 futuristic concepts, technologies and their consequences are among the fundamental questions, concisely and lucidly explained. There is everything from cryptocurrencies and world governments t...
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| DARRELL HUFF Book Number: 89625 |
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From the Penguin Business Book series, this book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or unin...
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| WALTER ISAACSON Book Number: 89676 |
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Written by the first author allowed access to his private papers, and with fascinating imagery and accounts from his friends and family, the private aspects of Albert Einstein's life are illuminate...
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