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The Little Book of bees

The Little Book of bees

Author: C.H. Vergara ,  Karl Weiss
ISBN: 9781441929228
Format: Paperback
$57.95

This book takes a look at bees from a variety of perspectives, from the physiology of individual bees of different...  Read More >>

How James Watt Invented the Copier: Forgotten Inventions of Our Great Scientists

How James Watt Invented the Copier: Forgotten Inventions...

Author: René Schils
ISBN: 9781461408598
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Features 25 different scientists and the ideas which may not have made them famous, but made history…Typically,...  Read More >>

Diterpenes of Flowering Plants: Compositae (Asteraceae)

Diterpenes of Flowering Plants: Compositae (Asteraceae)...

Author: Fred Seaman ,  Ferdinand Bohlmann
ISBN: 9781461279457
Format: Paperback
$145.17

More than 1200 diterpenes have been identified from approximately 550 Compo sitae taxa (Figure 1 [pp. Conse­ quently,...  Read More >>

Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics

Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings,...

Author: Stephen Webb
ISBN: 9781441918529
Format: Paperback
$72.60

This book is an attempt to share some of the fascinating and exciting ideas of modern theoretical physics with a...  Read More >>

Deep Ancestry: How DNA Reveals the Roots of Your Family Tree

Deep Ancestry: How DNA Reveals the Roots of Your Family...

Author: Spencer Wells
ISBN: 9781426208959
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Künstliche Kniegelenke: Wege aus dem Schmerz

Künstliche Kniegelenke: Wege aus dem Schmerz

Author: C. Lüring ,  Karin Kühlwetter
ISBN: 9783642219894
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't...

Author: Roger Pielke, Jr.
ISBN: 9780465025190
Format: Paperback
$31.99

The world's response to climate change has been deeply flawed. The Climate Fix is where we begin to get it back...  Read More >>

Here Is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics

Here Is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics...

Author: Misha Angrist
ISBN: 9780062074232
Format: Paperback
$42.21

DNA technology has already changed our health care, the food we eat, and our criminal justice system. This title...  Read More >>

Schoolboy Science Remembered

Schoolboy Science Remembered

Author: Keith Souter
ISBN: 9781844680979
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A fantastic foray into the world of schoolday science which involved turning household goods into exciting but informative...  Read More >>

Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters

Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why...

Author: Gordon M. Shepherd
ISBN: 9780231159104
Format: Hardback
$40.95

A leading neuroscientist at Yale University embarks on an eye-opening trip through the human brain's flavor system,...  Read More >>

The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

The Elusive Wow: Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence...

Author: Professor Robert H Gray (University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780983958444
Format: Hardback
$79.07

""The Elusive Wow"" tells the story of the Wow! signal-one of the most intriguing radio signals ever seen by searches...  Read More >>

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Author: C. C. Gaither ,  Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither
ISBN: 9781461411130
Format: Hardback
$921.36

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Lake Views: This World and the Universe

Lake Views: This World and the Universe

Author: Steven Weinberg
ISBN: 9780674062306
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Nobel Prize–winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake...  Read More >>

Energy and Life: The Promise of Evolutionary Medicine and the Vital Role of Mitochondria

Energy and Life: The Promise of Evolutionary Medicine...

Author: Douglas C. Wallace ,  Robert Cooke
ISBN: 9781616142346
Format: Hardback
$68.64

Evolutionary medicine focuses on tiny organelles found in every cell in the body, called mitochondria. These are...  Read More >>

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

Author: Mircea Pitici ,  Freeman Dyson
ISBN: 9780691153155
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Discusses the features that distinguish mathematics from other disciplines of the mind. This title identifies some...  Read More >>

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Author: Melanie Mitchell (Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Computer Science, Portland State University)
ISBN: 9780199798100
Format: Paperback
$63.95

A fascinating look at the exciting new sciences of complexity and what they reveal about everything from ant colonies...  Read More >>

Labor Zelle: Molekulare Prozesse des Lebens

Labor Zelle: Molekulare Prozesse des Lebens

Author: David S. Goodsell ,  I. Tegtmeier
ISBN: 9783642784170
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Es zeigt die Vielfalt der Moleküle, die wie die Rädchen einer Maschine ineinandergreifen. Sie sind die Grundlage...  Read More >>

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Author: Ben Goldacre ,  Jonathan Cowley
ISBN: 9781452655895
Format: Audio
$79.17

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Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

Author: Ben Goldacre ,  Michael Page
ISBN: 9781452635897
Format: Audio
$221.73

Author Ben Goldacre exposes the epidemic of pseudoscience and gives listeners the tools they need to distinguish...  Read More >>

Experimental Embryology of Vascular Plants

Experimental Embryology of Vascular Plants

Author: B. M. Johri
ISBN: 9783642678004
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Since then, and particularly in this century, it has grown tremendously in its importance and in its intimate contacts...  Read More >>

Gliding for Gold: The Physics of Winter Sports

Gliding for Gold: The Physics of Winter Sports

Author: Mark Denny
ISBN: 9781421402154
Format: Paperback
$74.99

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Gliding for Gold: The Physics of Winter Sports

Gliding for Gold: The Physics of Winter Sports

Author: Mark Denny
ISBN: 9781421402147
Format: Hardback
$150.00

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Biotechnology and Ecology of Pollen: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Biotechnology and Ecology of Pollen, 9–11 July, 1985, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

Biotechnology and Ecology of Pollen: Proceedings of...

Author: David L. Mulcahy ,  Gabriella Bergamini Mulcahy
ISBN: 9781461386247
Format: Paperback
$580.77

MULCAHyl Pollen was long believed to serve primarily a single function, that of delivering male gametes to the egge...  Read More >>

Curves and Fractal Dimension

Curves and Fractal Dimension

Author: Claude Tricot ,  M. Mendes France
ISBN: 9781461286844
Format: Paperback
$145.17

A mathematician, a real one, one for whom mathematical objects are abstract and exist only in his mind or in some...  Read More >>

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