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Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Proust Was a Neuroscientist

Author: Jonah Lehrer
ISBN: 9781847677853
Format: Hardback
$61.38

An illuminating and unusual book about how famous artists have anticipated the discoveries of neuroscience. 'Marks...  Read More >>

Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth

Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth

Author: Jay Hosler ,  Kevin Cannon
ISBN: 9780809094769
Format: Hardback
$50.03

Written by a noted comic author and professor of biology, this book features the same characters introduced in the...  Read More >>

The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski

The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski...

Author: Anthony James
ISBN: 9781845402204
Format: Paperback
$23.16

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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010

The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010

Author: Mircea Pitici ,  William P. Thurston
ISBN: 9780691148410
Format: Paperback
$37.99

An anthology featuring the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. It helps readers discover...  Read More >>

Embodiment, Emotion, and Cognition

Embodiment, Emotion, and Cognition

Author: Michelle Maiese
ISBN: 9781349366798
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Beginning with the view that human consciousness is essentially embodied and that the way we consciously experience...  Read More >>

Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates

Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates...

Author: K. Spracklen
ISBN: 9781349327690
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book provides an account of leisure through historical time, exploring the meaning and purpose of leisure in...  Read More >>

Switching to Solar: What We Can Learn from Germany's Success in Harnessing Clean Energy

Switching to Solar: What We Can Learn from Germany's...

Author: Bob Johnstone
ISBN: 9781616142223
Format: Paperback
$38.99

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Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific...

Author: Michael Specter
ISBN: 9780715639436
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Presents an examination of the irrationality at the heart of the scare mongering and pseudo-science that stand in...  Read More >>

Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can do at Home - But Probably Shouldn't

Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can do at Home...

Author: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9781579127916
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Demonstrates the wonders of science through 52 experiments. This book features 450 colour photographs which take...  Read More >>

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom...

Author: Nick Mann ,  Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9781579128142
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Mathematics and Culture I

Mathematics and Culture I

Author: E. Moreale ,  Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9783642056901
Format: Paperback
$224.27

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The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism

The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism

Author: Jürgen Tautz ,  Helga R. Heilmann
ISBN: 9783642097508
Format: Paperback
$131.87

With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs, this easily understandable text tells the story of honeybees in...  Read More >>

The Plastiki: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans

The Plastiki: An Adventure to Save Our Oceans

Author: David de Rothschild
ISBN: 9780061999826
Format: Hardback
$79.17

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Fire Bubbles and Exploding Toothpaste

Fire Bubbles and Exploding Toothpaste

Author: Steve Spangler
ISBN: 9781608321896
Format: Paperback
$39.47

A collection of scientific experiments and demonstrations that will educate and entertain investigators of all ages....  Read More >>

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman...

Author: Shelley Emling
ISBN: 9780230103429
Format: Paperback
$42.24

At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology...  Read More >>

Angeber haben mehr vom Leben

Angeber haben mehr vom Leben

Author: Matthias Uhl ,  Eckart Voland
ISBN: 9783827428073
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color

Nature's Palette: The Science of Plant Color

Author: David Lee
ISBN: 9780226470535
Format: Paperback
$59.40

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Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia

Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest...

Author: Gerhard Gerold ,  Michael Fremerey
ISBN: 9783642056178
Format: Paperback
$393.36

Southeast Asia constitutes one of the world's most extended rainforest regions. However, various forms of encroachment,...  Read More >>

Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together: The Askö Meetings and Papers

Bringing Ecologists and Economists Together: The Askö...

Author: Tore Söderqvist ,  Anna Sundbaum
ISBN: 9789048194759
Format: Hardback
$340.56

The Askö meetings were an annual forum where leading economists and ecologists came together to discuss the myriad...  Read More >>

50 Schlüsselideen Religion

50 Schlüsselideen Religion

Author: Peter Stanford ,  Sebastian Vogel
ISBN: 9783827426383
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Nature of Technology

Nature of Technology

Author: W.Brian Arthur
ISBN: 9781416544067
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Originally published in hardcover by Free Press in 2009.  Read More >>

Das Eiszeitalter

Das Eiszeitalter

Author: Jurgen Ehlers ,  J Rgen Ehlers
ISBN: 9783827423269
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Das Eiszeitalter ist eine Zeit extremer Klimaschwankungen, die bis heute nicht beendet sind. Zeitweilig bedeckten...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Planet Earth

The Little Book of Planet Earth

Author: Rolf Meissner
ISBN: 9781441929242
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Originally published in hardcover: New York: Copernicus, 2002.  Read More >>

Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success

Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists,...

Author: Thomas Cole ,  Thelma Jean Goodrich
ISBN: 9781617378973
Format: Paperback
$211.07

In the 21st century, academic medical centers across the United States continue to make scientific breakthroughs,...  Read More >>

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