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Science & Maths
Science & Maths
Scientific theories and thinkers from ancient times on, Galileo to Hawking, Big Bang to atomic theory.
| 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...
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| MAX ADAMS Book Number: 75426 |
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In an intriguing look at the impact on Britain of the first industrial revolution, the author details the richly varied lives of four very different men. They are William Martin an inventor, Richa...
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| ROBIN DUNBAR Book Number: 76520 |
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The kind of besottedness that we associate with romantic love can be both intense and, compared to mate attraction in other animals, relatively long-lasting. Falling in love is one of the stranges...
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| SANDER GILMAN Book Number: 78547 |
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With a continuing debate as to whether it should be addressed as a physiological or psychological problem, obesity is one of the most important medical concerns in today's society. Sander Gilman t...
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| JOAN LOCK Book Number: 79987 |
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First published as 'Reluctant Nightingale' in 1970, repackaged for the modern reader is this life of a student nurse in the 1950s. When Joan Lock began her formal training as a nurse, she was unpr...
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| BEN FALK Book Number: 79742 |
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Professor Brian Cox is probably the best known physicist and former pop star in the world today. Here we have the unauthorised biography of the man who has brought science to the nation presenting...
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| STEPHEN KELLERT Book Number: 80696 |
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Human health and wellbeing are inextricably linked to nature. Our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance and in this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophil...
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| ANNALEE NEWITZ Book Number: 80721 |
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Sub-titled 'How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction', as a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet's turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster...
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| RICCARDO GIACCONI Book Number: 80722 |
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The Nobel Laureate in Physics in his part history, part memoir, part cutting-edge science book has produced a personal history of modern astronomy. The discovery of x-rays continues to have a prof...
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| ALOK JHA Book Number: 81150 |
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Somewhere it's raining outside in droplets, snowflakes, sleet or hail. Water is always moving - under your feet, in trees and plants, solidified in the concrete of walls or nearby in the sea, rive...
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| JON PALFREMAN Book Number: 80799 |
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Sub-titled 'The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease' the award winning journalist tells a story that became his own when he too was diagnosed with the debilitating illness. Palfrem...
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| MARK CARWARDINE Book Number: 80831 |
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Bestselling nature writer and broadcaster Mark Carwardine has assembled here the most extreme animals and plants the planet has to offer. Each of his 150 examples is pictured in superb colour on th...
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| CHARLOTTE MONTAGUE & P. CLARKE Book Number: 80832 |
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Sometimes, real-life science is even more amazing than science fiction, and this collection of oddities showcases people who have tried to push the known boundaries to their limits. Some of the exp...
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| LEE BILLINGS Book Number: 80837 |
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It is only a matter of time before we discover at last that Earth is not the only planet in the Universe that supports life. In the last two decades refinements to telescope technology have meant t...
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| KATY BUTLER Book Number: 80868 |
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When Katy's mum asked for help in getting her dad's pacemaker turned off, Katy knew she was in for a tough time, both bureaucratically and emotionally. The medical profession makes saving life a pr...
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| BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH Book Number: 80914 |
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The almanac entitled Poor Robin first appeared in 1663, and was full of useful data regarding tides, equinoxes, saint's days and astronomical events. It became so well-loved that in was published r...
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| HEATHER COUPER & NIGEL HENBEST Book Number: 81455 |
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Scientific discoveries are made by teams, and often it is the team leader who gets the credit rather than the really creative thinker who set it all going. Sometimes a so-called innovation is actua...
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| DR CARIN BONDAR Book Number: 81412 |
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With chapter headings like "Give the penis a bone", "When a boy is a girl too", and "Monogamy. Really?", this has to be one of the most fascinating books on sex since the Kama Sutra. The author sta...
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| BRIAN COX & ANDREW COHEN Book Number: 81608 |
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A computer-enhanced photograph shows the vast scale of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars; planetary formation is shown in motion with a photograph that captures the birth of a planetary system (page...
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| DAWN FIELD & NEIL DAVIES Book Number: 81540 |
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With DNA sequencing rapidly becoming faster and cheaper, more and more individuals are having their genomes sequenced, and even those of their pets. We are on the threshold of a new age - the age ...
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| T. WOMERSLEY & D. CRAWFORD Book Number: 81955 |
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From dissecting bodies 'donated' by murderers to developing life-saving treatments, the Edinburgh medical community has always been innovative and has challenged entrenched medical ideas. This has...
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| BEN SHEPHARD Book Number: 81959 |
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Modern neuroscience began at the end of the 19th century with Darwin's Theory of Evolution now accepted. Four men met at Cambridge in the 1890s and their careers and lives would intertwine for dec...
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| PHILIP BALL Book Number: 81960 |
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An editor at Nature magazine for 20 years, Philip Ball is the author of 'Critical Mass', the award winning science book. Packed with ideas and bewitching facts, he reveals the universe of the invi...
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| IAN SAMPLE Book Number: 81964 |
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Beneath the mountainside village of Crozet in Eastern France is the home of the Large Hadron Collider, a multi-billion dollar atom smasher run by Cern, the European nuclear research organisation on...
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| IRENE STENGS Book Number: 81970 |
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Sub-titled 'King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class', the Dutch scholar explores what this ruler's unparalleled popularity says about modern society in Thailand today. The global...
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| ADAM ALTER Book Number: 82063 |
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In a survey of almost 500 famous Western and East Asian portraits, researchers found that the subject's face covered an average of 15% of the canvas in Western artworks and only 4% in East Asian, a...
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| EMILY ANTHES Book Number: 82067 |
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At times scarier than Frankenstein's monster, learn about florescent fish that glow near pollution, dolphins with prosthetic fins, robot-armoured beetles that military handlers can send on spy miss...
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| DAVID DARLING Book Number: 82071 |
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Meet Sophie Blanchard, a balloonist of nervous disposition whom Napoleon charged with organising balloon displays at all major ceremonies in France, daredevil stuntman Lincoln Beachey, the dogfight...
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| LONE FRANK Book Number: 82072 |
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A professor at Imperial College London said of this book 'The coming neurorevolution will destroy your certainties - but may set you free. Arm yourself. Read this book.' Join intrepid brainbox and...
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| KAT DUFF Book Number: 82074 |
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To sleep, perchance to dream... whether a good nap or nightly slumber, our culture is one that loves to sleep. Kat Duff's guide to sleep and its world delves into the science, literature and her pe...
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