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Physics for Rock Stars: Making the Laws of the Universe Work for You

Physics for Rock Stars: Making the Laws of the Universe...

Author: Christine McKinley (Christine McKinley)
ISBN: 9780399165863
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Pop science that makes physics understandable, funny, and even glamorous From the host of the History channel's...  Read More >>

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future...

Author: Lee Smolin
ISBN: 9780141046525
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us...  Read More >>

Faith and Wisdom in Science

Faith and Wisdom in Science

Author: Tom McLeish (Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780198702610
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Takes a fresh approach to the 'science and religion' debate, taking a scientist's reading of the enigmatic and beautiful...  Read More >>

Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future

Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present...

Author: K. Niemeyer
ISBN: 9781349477500
Format: Paperback
$294.98

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia....  Read More >>

The Solar Revolution: One World. One Solution. Providing the Energy and Food for 10 Billion People.

The Solar Revolution: One World. One Solution. Providing...

Author: Steve McKevitt ,  Tony Ryan
ISBN: 9781848317871
Format: Electronic book text
$29.01

The Solar Revolution reveals for the first time how cutting-edge science can use the sun to provide sustainable...  Read More >>

30-Second Quantum Theory: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking Quantum Concepts, Each Explained in Half a Minute

30-Second Quantum Theory: The 50 Most Thought-Provoking...

Author: Brian Clegg ,  Frank Close
ISBN: 9781848317444
Format: Electronic book text
$29.01

A beautifully illustrated, full-colour guide to one of science's most infamously impenetrable subjects.  Read More >>

Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are Healthier and More Attractive

Breeding Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are...

Author: Alon Ziv
ISBN: 9781569803066
Format: Paperback
$30.99

This book combines sex, race, health and genetics in a daring new theory. Written with accessible, direct prose,...  Read More >>

Freie Radikale - Warum Wissenschaftler sich nicht an Regeln halten

Freie Radikale - Warum Wissenschaftler sich nicht an...

Author: Michael Brooks ,  Carl Freytag
ISBN: 9783642416958
Format: Paperback
$65.97

In der Wissenschaft geht alles Wir stellen uns die Wissenschaften und besonders die Naturwissenschaften oft als...  Read More >>

Is that a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life

Is that a Fact?: Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science...

Author: Joe Schwarcz
ISBN: 9781770411906
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Ranging from the esoteric to the everyday, Dr. Joe Schwarcz tackles topics from antibiotics to antioxidants, and...  Read More >>

Standing Room Only: Marketing Insights for Engaging Performing Arts Audiences

Standing Room Only: Marketing Insights for Engaging...

Author: J. Bernstein
ISBN: 9781137282934
Format: Hardback
$160.40

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A Mathematical Odyssey: Journey from the Real to the Complex

A Mathematical Odyssey: Journey from the Real to the...

Author: Steven G. Krantz ,  Harold R. Parks
ISBN: 9781461489382
Format: Hardback
$211.17

This engaging contribution to popular science explores hot-button topics in mathematics that up to now have been...  Read More >>

Nanoscience

Nanoscience

Author: P Forbes ,  Tom Grimsey
ISBN: 9781906506230
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Explores the amazing possibilities that nanotechnology offers us, from clean harvesting solar energy and finding...  Read More >>

Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life

Blood: A Biography of the Stuff of Life

Author: Lawrence Hill
ISBN: 9781780745466
Format: Paperback
$25.85

From the author of the million-copy bestseller The Book of Negroes, an absorbing, illuminating look at the vital...  Read More >>

The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol

The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol

Author: Robert Dudley ,  Theodore Robert Dudley
ISBN: 9780520275690
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible...  Read More >>

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew...

Author: Alan Lightman
ISBN: 9781472109187
Format: Hardback
$29.99

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Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional – and What that Means for Life in the Universe

Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional – and What that...

Author: David Waltham
ISBN: 9781848316560
Format: Hardback
$36.99

In this pop-science masterpiece David Waltham argues that life on Earth is, amazingly, a cosmic fluke.  Read More >>

Gluck gehabt! Zwoelf Grunde, warum es uns uberhaupt gibt

Gluck gehabt! Zwoelf Grunde, warum es uns uberhaupt...

Author: Olaf Fritsche
ISBN: 9783642416545
Format: Mixed media product
$79.17

Eigentlich durfte es uns gar nicht geben ... Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass ein Universum mit einem Sonnensystem...  Read More >>

The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has Transformed Our Lives

The Quantum Age: How the Physics of the Very Small has...

Author: Brian Clegg
ISBN: 9781848316997
Format: Electronic book text
$29.01

Acclaimed popular science author Brian Clegg demonstrates how quantum physics underpins everyday life.  Read More >>

Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient Mathematics

Count Like an Egyptian: A Hands-on Introduction to Ancient...

Author: David W. Reimer
ISBN: 9780691160122
Format: Hardback
$54.99

The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from our math today. Contrary to what people might...  Read More >>

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