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The Manga Guide to Biochemistry

The Manga Guide to Biochemistry

Author: Masaharu Takemura ,  Kikuyaro Kikuyaro
ISBN: 9781593272760
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The latest addition to No Starch Press's EduManga series, ""The Manga Guide to Biochemistry"" uses Japanese comics,...  Read More >>

The Science of Golf

The Science of Golf

Author: John Wesson
ISBN: 9780199697113
Format: Paperback
$58.95

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A Woman's Disease: The history of cervical cancer

A Woman's Disease: The history of cervical cancer

Author: Ilana Lowy (Biologist and historian of medicine, and Senior Research Fellow, French National Institute for Health and Medical Research)
ISBN: 9780199548811
Format: Hardback
$36.95

Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse...  Read More >>

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

Missing Links: In Search of Human Origins

Author: John Reader
ISBN: 9780199276851
Format: Hardback
$92.27

What can a prehistoric skeleton tell us about human origins? From Neanderthal Man to 'Lucy' to the Flores Hobbits,...  Read More >>

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit...

Author: Richard Conniff
ISBN: 9780393341324
Format: Paperback
$31.95

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth, a colorful band of amateur naturalists explored the most...  Read More >>

Evolution That Anyone Can Understand

Evolution That Anyone Can Understand

Author: Bernard Marcus
ISBN: 9781441961259
Format: Paperback
$131.87

The function of scientific research is promoting the understanding of the world around us. Thus, we have seen research...  Read More >>

The Vestibular System: Function and Morphology

The Vestibular System: Function and Morphology

Author: T. Gualtierotti
ISBN: 9781461259046
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Vestibular physiology has acquired new interest in the past few years. then, that NASA sponsored the Symposium on...  Read More >>

Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency

Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency

Author: K.T. van Dusen ,  Sarnoff A. Mednick
ISBN: 9789400966741
Format: Paperback
$580.77

Cross sectional studies do not permit the investigation of careers because cross 1 PROSPECTIVE STUDIES OF CRIME...  Read More >>

Hubble: Imaging Space and Time 

Hubble: Imaging Space and Time 

Author: David H. DeVorkin ,  Robert W. Smith
ISBN: 9781426208942
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A wealth of astonishing images leads us to the very edge of known space, setting the stage for the new James Webb...  Read More >>

The Best Australian Science Writing 2011

The Best Australian Science Writing 2011

Author: Stephen Pincock
ISBN: 9781742233000
Format: Paperback
$29.95

From the elemental forces that drive our expanding universe to the delicate hairs on the back of your neck, science...  Read More >>

Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet is Unique

Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet is Unique

Author: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781118147979
Format: Hardback
$68.51

The acclaimed author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat searches for life on other planets Are we alone in the...  Read More >>

Physik ohne Realität: Tiefsinn oder Wahnsinn?

Physik ohne Realität: Tiefsinn oder Wahnsinn?

Author: H. Dieter Zeh
ISBN: 9783642218897
Format: Hardback
$119.00

Beschreiben die Begriffe der modernen Physik die „Realität“ oder sind sie nur Hilfsmittel und Rechenwerkzeuge? Wie...  Read More >>

Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display

Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate,...

Author: Howard Wainer
ISBN: 9780691152677
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. This...  Read More >>

IRobot - uMan: Künstliche Intelligenz und Kultur: Eine jahrtausendealte Beziehungskiste

IRobot - uMan: Künstliche Intelligenz und Kultur: Eine...

Author: Ulrike Barthelmeß ,  Ulrich Furbach
ISBN: 9783642229275
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Besonders deutlich werden die unterschiedlichen Sichtweisen, wenn mittelalterliche Golem-Mythen, die Philosophie...  Read More >>

Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science

Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science

Author: Marjorie Malley C.
ISBN: 9780199766413
Format: Hardback
$62.95

Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately...  Read More >>

The Physics of Invisibility: A Story of Light and Deception

The Physics of Invisibility: A Story of Light and Deception...

Author: Martin Beech
ISBN: 9781461406150
Format: Paperback
$79.07

It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate...  Read More >>

Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High Energy Physics: Charming the Cosmic Snake

Particle Accelerators, Colliders, and the Story of High...

Author: Raghavan Jayakumar
ISBN: 9783642220630
Format: Hardback
$184.67

This book takes the readers through the science behind particle accelerators, colliders and detectors: the physics...  Read More >>

Drive and Curiosity: What Fuels the Passion for Science

Drive and Curiosity: What Fuels the Passion for Science...

Author: Istvan Hargittai ,  Carl Djerassi
ISBN: 9781616144685
Format: Hardback
$52.99

All scientists possess curiosity and a certain level of drive to pursue their work. But what impels those few scientists...  Read More >>

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute...

Author: Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University)
ISBN: 9780393072983
Format: Hardback
$71.15

The epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales, and instruments for measurement.  Read More >>

The Beauty of Everyday Mathematics

The Beauty of Everyday Mathematics

Author: Norbert Herrmann
ISBN: 9783642221033
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort Through the Noise Around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies

Lies, Damned Lies, and Science: How to Sort Through...

Author: Sherry Seethaler
ISBN: 9780132849449
Format: Paperback
$65.97

What's healthy? What's unhealthy? What's safe? What's dangerous? Watch the news, and it's easy to be overwhelmed...  Read More >>

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