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The Puzzle of Left-handedness

The Puzzle of Left-handedness

Author: Rik Smits
ISBN: 9781780230436
Format: Paperback
$46.58

The Puzzle of Left-handedness is an enlightening and entertaining odyssey through the enigmas and paradoxes, theories...  Read More >>

The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria

The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision,...

Author: Bill Shore
ISBN: 9781610391900
Format: Paperback
$31.99

Through the true story of two extraordinary scientists competing to develop a malaria vaccine, the renowned social...  Read More >>

Transhumanism and Society: The Social Debate over Human Enhancement

Transhumanism and Society: The Social Debate over Human...

Author: Stephen Lilley
ISBN: 9789400749801
Format: Paperback
$155.22

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This Book is from the Future: A Journey Through Portals, Relativity, Worm Holes, and Other Adventures in Time Travel

This Book is from the Future: A Journey Through Portals,...

Author: Marie Jones ,  Larry Flaxman
ISBN: 9781601631503
Format: Paperback
$42.21

This Book Is From the Future examines the past, present and future states of time-travel research, but also looks...  Read More >>

Physics in Action Set: 8-Volumes

Physics in Action Set: 8-Volumes

Author: Andrew Dean Foland ,  David G. Haase
ISBN: 9781617531170
Format: Hardback
$565.40

Explores the fascinating science of matter and energy and their interactions. This practical series is a tour of...  Read More >>

Radioactivity: A Very Short Introduction

Radioactivity: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Claudio Tuniz (Assistant Director, Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics at Trieste, Italy)
ISBN: 9780199692422
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Radioactivity - the breakdown of unstable atomic nuclei, releasing radiation - is a fundamental process in nature,...  Read More >>

Why Millions Survive Cancer: The successes of science

Why Millions Survive Cancer: The successes of science...

Author: Lauren Pecorino (Principal Lecturer in Cancer Biology, University of Greenwich, UK; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine)
ISBN: 9780199658756
Format: Paperback
$40.95

The enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, and the science behind it, is revealed fully for the first time...  Read More >>

Galileo

Galileo

Author: John L. Heilbron (Department of History, University of California Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199655984
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Galileo is aptly known as 'the father of modern science'. But there is much more to him than his well-known discoveries...  Read More >>

1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica

1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica

Author: Chris Turney
ISBN: 9781921922725
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The rivalry between Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen is a familiar story; what fewer people know is that, in 1912,...  Read More >>

Hotel- und Barpsychologie: Psychologie für die Gastronomie

Hotel- und Barpsychologie: Psychologie für die Gastronomie...

Author: Claus Lampert
ISBN: 9783827430298
Format: Paperback
$100.29

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The Dual Nature of Life: Interplay of the Individual and the Genome

The Dual Nature of Life: Interplay of the Individual...

Author: Gennadiy Zhegunov
ISBN: 9783642303937
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Life is connected with individual living beings, yet it is also a collective and inherently global phenomenon of...  Read More >>

The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848-1918

The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg...

Author: M. Ash ,  J. Surman
ISBN: 9780230289871
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This volume challenges the widespread belief that scientific knowledge as such is international. Employing case...  Read More >>

The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems

The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning...

Author: Mark Levi
ISBN: 9780691154565
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers

Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691155005
Format: Paperback
$34.99

What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? We all encounter...  Read More >>

Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion

Chases and Escapes: The Mathematics of Pursuit and Evasion...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691155012
Format: Paperback
$34.99

We all played tag when we were kids. What most of us don't realize is that this simple chase game is in fact an...  Read More >>

Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures in Applied Mathematics

Slicing Pizzas, Racing Turtles, and Further Adventures...

Author: Robert B. Banks
ISBN: 9780691154992
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A collection of puzzles. Covering a range of fields, from geography and environmental studies to map- and flag-making,...  Read More >>

Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems

Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems...

Author: John J. Watkins
ISBN: 9780691154985
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Focuses on chessboard problems. From the Knight's Tour Problem and Queens Domination to their many variations, this...  Read More >>

Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings

Mathematical Excursions to the World's Great Buildings...

Author: Alexander J. Hahn
ISBN: 9780691145204
Format: Hardback
$174.24

From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers...  Read More >>

Ignorance: How It Drives Science

Ignorance: How It Drives Science

Author: Stuart Firestein (Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA)
ISBN: 9780199828074
Format: Hardback
$56.95

Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes...  Read More >>

Mathematics and Culture III

Mathematics and Culture III

Author: Michele Emmer ,  E Moreale
ISBN: 9783540342595
Format: Mixed media product
$158.27

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Elektromobilität: Hype oder Revolution?

Elektromobilität: Hype oder Revolution?

Author: Markus Lienkamp
ISBN: 9783642285486
Format: Paperback
$129.35

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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture,...

Author: David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780393342314
Format: Paperback
$32.95

""Meticulously researched and unapologetically romantic, How the Hippies Saved Physics makes the history of science...  Read More >>

Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

Author: Giulio Tononi
ISBN: 9780307907219
Format: Hardback
$105.60

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In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding

In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding...

Author: John Bradshaw
ISBN: 9780141046495
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While Others Go Extinct

On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While...

Author: Jonnie Hughes
ISBN: 9781851689439
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Renowned BBC natural history filmmaker uses his anthropological wiles to uncover the evolution of ideas and who...  Read More >>

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