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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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| 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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| 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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| NAOMI WILLIAMS Book Number: 82704 |
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'How does a 21st century Californian author know so persuasively what went on in an 18th century French maritime captain's mind? Or in the thoughts of a headstrong indigenous Alaskan teenage girl ...
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| PETER FORBES Book Number: 83134 |
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Anybody who has been watching David Attenborough's latest marine extravaganza Blue Planet II will have been privileged to witness the most amazing acts of camouflage, mimicry and trickery on the pl...
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| ANDRZEJ SZCZEKLIK Book Number: 83164 |
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How can the world of science and the humanities collide so wonderfully as they do in Szczeklik's 'Kore', a book that melds the two spheres through personal anecdotes about art, music and literature...
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| NICK VEASEY Book Number: 83958 |
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Nick Veasey creates works of art by the simple means of using images from X-rays and security scanners, working in a lead-lined room and varying the exposure to reveal the hidden structures below t...
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| EDIT. BY ROBERT G. W. ANDERSON Book Number: 83852 |
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The University of Edinburgh was the world's most sought-after centre for the teaching and study of chemistry in the late 18th century. The volume starts with John Henry providing a context for Sco...
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| WENDY MOORE Book Number: 84305 |
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Sub-titled 'The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound' we are taken back to the early 1800s when medicine was a brutal business, operations performed without anaesthesia and conventio...
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| JOHN GRIBBIN Book Number: 84348 |
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By the author of the bestselling biography of Stephen Hawking, here is a fascinating and delightful introduction to the strange world of quantum physics, essential for understanding today's world. ...
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| DAVID OLIVER RELIN Book Number: 84434 |
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When Harvard medical graduate Geoff Tabin joined Sanduk Ruit at the newly established Tilganga eye centre in Nepal, he was an ophthalmologist who could already work with precision using the latest ...
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| JOYCE APPLEBY Book Number: 84676 |
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An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature. When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with...
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| 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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| LISA NOCKS Book Number: 84711 |
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Since the turn of the last century, Honda, Toyota and Sony have exhibited humanoid robots that look like diminutive suited astronauts. They can climb stairs, run, dance, communicate with their ope...
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| LAWRENCE WESCHLER Book Number: 84721 |
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A thrilling ride through physical and mathematical space, Weschler describes Walter Murch and his celestial theories through perception, cognition, music, physics and astronomy. For film buffs, Wa...
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| ANDREW MCLAUCHLIN Book Number: 83599 |
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Physics lecturer McLauchlin a few years ago rekindled his interest in physics or strictly speaking cosmology by a fleeting thought - if time is infinite, anything that can happen must happen. Coul...
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| EDITED BY NATALIE BRADLEY Book Number: 85022 |
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More than 200 pages of fascinating facts and colouring, the line art covers the brain, the heart, how we breathe, teeth, digestion, the throat, the stomach, ears, eyes, bones, muscles, hands and fe...
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| EDITED BY NATALIE BRADLEY Book Number: 85024 |
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Chocolate was invented a thousand years ago. There are billions of stars in the Universe. Earth's crust is made up of 30 separate plates. A tsunami can move at up to 600mph. Sometimes the water...
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| MATT KAPLAN Book Number: 85044 |
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Matt Kaplan, science journalist for the Economist and contributer to National Geographic, New Scientist, Nature, and New York Times, presents a friendly, armchair guide to the magical world beyond ...
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| MICHAEL WHITE & JOHN GRIBBIN Book Number: 85406 |
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During his lifetime anything about Stephen Hawking was newsworthy and this would never have happened to any other scientist in the world. But Stephen Hawking was no ordinary scientist. His book A...
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| DR SARAH SCHENKER Book Number: 85288 |
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You avoid carbs, dairy and gluten. You breakfast well and take supplements. You do this because it is healthy, right? WRONG! Myths and unproven beliefs about diet and nutrition have always been aro...
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| SUSIE BROOKS Book Number: 85296 |
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Mission control is calling all space crafters. With this space-tacular book, you can dress up like an alien, fly an origami UFO and make a spinning satellite, all before you even put on your space...
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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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| MAGGIE ADERIN-POCOCK MBE Book Number: 85770 |
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A super, well illustrated handbook covering the history of stargazing, celestial mechanics, naked eye stargazing, binoculars and stargazing, choosing your first telescope, setting it up and what to...
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| ALEX BOESE Book Number: 85874 |
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Welcome to the some of the most weird, wonderful and ridiculous (and frequently quite stomach churning) experiments ever conducted in the name of science. This is Alex Boese's sequel to his huge be...
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| CALEB SCHARF Book Number: 85887 |
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There is a famous film made in 1977 by Charles and Ray Eames called Powers of Ten, which opens with a couple having a picnic on the grass then zooms out at a rate of one power of ten (x10) per ten ...
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| JOEL LEVY Book Number: 85659 |
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"It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn." - Mary Shelley. It was the era of Romantic science which blurred the boundary between natural philosophy and poetry in the work of...
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| STEVE PARKER Book Number: 85796 |
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A big colour Factivity book. Have you ever wondered what robots and gadgets can do? How they can build a car with GOS navigation 'driven' by computers, explore Mars, help you paint a digital pictu...
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| JONATHAN ELPHICK Book Number: 85549 |
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Beautiful, erudite and accessible are just some of the words of praise showered on this gorgeously produced and substantial volume from the Natural History Museum no less, guiding the reader throug...
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