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Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories

Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories...

Author: Rob Brotherton
ISBN: 9781472915634
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Suspicious Minds decodes the psychology of why we all believe in conspiracy theories--some of us just hide it better...  Read More >>

Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar

Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of...

Author: Greg de Moore ,  Ann Westmore
ISBN: 9781760113704
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Multicultural Science Education: Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice

Multicultural Science Education: Preparing Teachers...

Author: Mary M. Atwater ,  Melody Russell
ISBN: 9789402402841
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book focuses on science teacher education issues related to preparing and working with science teachers of...  Read More >>

History and Evolution of Concepts in Physics

History and Evolution of Concepts in Physics

Author: Harry Varvoglis
ISBN: 9783319377933
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Our understanding of nature, and in particular of physics and the laws governing it, has changed radically since...  Read More >>

Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium

Author: Roger F. Robison
ISBN: 9783319382708
Format: Paperback
$290.37

Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry,...  Read More >>

Hidden Hunger

Hidden Hunger

Author: Hans Konrad Biesalski ,  Patrick O'Mealy
ISBN: 9783662508206
Format: Paperback
$85.36

Hidden Hunger is an increasing problem even in developed countries, whose potential negative consequences on long-term...  Read More >>

Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

Author: Michael Heller ,  Teresa Baluk-Ulewiczowa
ISBN: 9783662502075
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Algorithms Unplugged

Algorithms Unplugged

Author: Berthold Vöcking ,  Helmut Alt
ISBN: 9783662506004
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Algorithms Unplugged presents some of the most beautiful algorithmic ideas in 41 articles written in colloquial,...  Read More >>

Figuring It Out: Entertaining Encounters with Everyday Math

Figuring It Out: Entertaining Encounters with Everyday...

Author: Nuno Crato
ISBN: 9783662505526
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This is a book of mathematical stories — funny and puzzling mathematical stories.  Read More >>

Imagine Math: Between Culture and Mathematics

Imagine Math: Between Culture and Mathematics

Author: Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9788847058279
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. No less...  Read More >>

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam: Research, Teaching, Life

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam: Research, Teaching, Life...

Author: Alexander Pechenkin
ISBN: 9783319342993
Format: Paperback
$194.04

and transformation of the system of higher education in the USSR during the 1920's and 1930's.The author shows that...  Read More >>

Physics, Nature and Society: A Guide to Order and Complexity in Our World

Physics, Nature and Society: A Guide to Order and Complexity...

Author: Joaquín Marro
ISBN: 9783319349732
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This wide-ranging and accessible book serves as a fascinating guide to the strategies and concepts that help us...  Read More >>

Frictionless Markets: The 21st Century Supply Chain

Frictionless Markets: The 21st Century Supply Chain...

Author: Jack Buffington
ISBN: 9783319368047
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This volume models a 21st century supply chain: one that uses technology that leads to the power of the individual,...  Read More >>

The Hidden Power of Smell: How Chemicals Influence Our Lives and Behavior

The Hidden Power of Smell: How Chemicals Influence Our...

Author: Paul A. Moore
ISBN: 9783319362830
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Part of this naïveté about chemical signals is due to our cultural focus on visual and auditory signals, but a larger...  Read More >>

L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life

L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher:...

Author: Dirk van Dalen
ISBN: 9781447169901
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Dirk van Dalen’s biography studies the fascinating life of the famous Dutch mathematician and philosopher Luitzen...  Read More >>

The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux: Kinematics of Machines from the Renaissance to the 20th Century

The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux:...

Author: Francis C. Moon
ISBN: 9789401776691
Format: Paperback
$129.35

A major thesis of this book is that the evolution of machine design methodology, from the intuitive methods of the...  Read More >>

Communicating European Research 2005: Proceedings of the Conference, Brussels, 14-15 November 2005

Communicating European Research 2005: Proceedings of...

Author: Michel Claessens
ISBN: 9789401776677
Format: Paperback
$336.35

The book contains a series of 40 articles written by forward-thinking speakers who presented their findings at the...  Read More >>

Leonardo da Vinci’s Giant Crossbow

Leonardo da Vinci’s Giant Crossbow

Author: Matt Landrus
ISBN: 9783662501689
Format: Paperback
$116.41

The book explores the context of Leonardo’s invention with an examination of the extensive documentary evidence,...  Read More >>

The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides of Science

The Tree of Knowledge: The Bright and the Dark Sides...

Author: Claudio Ronchi
ISBN: 9783319346526
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Whether considered a divine gift or a Promethean conquest, science has indisputably and indelibly marked the course...  Read More >>

Mathematics and Culture IV

Mathematics and Culture IV

Author: Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9783662500460
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Mathematics and Culture V

Mathematics and Culture V

Author: Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9783662500446
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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The Coming Robot Revolution: Expectations and Fears About Emerging Intelligent, Humanlike Machines

The Coming Robot Revolution: Expectations and Fears...

Author: Yoseph Bar-Cohen ,  Adi Marom
ISBN: 9781493939343
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Making a robot that looks and behaves like a human being has been the subject of many popular science fiction movies...  Read More >>

The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration beyond the Line

The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration beyond the Line...

Author: Alfred S. Posamentier ,  Robert Geretschlager
ISBN: 9781633881679
Format: Hardback
$50.99

The circle has fascinated mathematicians since ancient times. This entertaining book describes in layperson's terms...  Read More >>

Gulp: Travels Around the Gut

Gulp: Travels Around the Gut

Author: Mary Roach
ISBN: 9781780749891
Format: Paperback
$18.99

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Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine

Author: Tom Solomon (Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781383391
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Most people know Roald Dahl as a famous write of children’s books and adult short stories, but few are aware of...  Read More >>

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