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In our daily lives, in our memories and fantasies, our mental worlds overflow with faces. 'In Your Face' is an engaging...  Read More >>

Addresses the collective fascination with digital technologies. This title collects the essays that remind us that...  Read More >>

Presents a treatment that reports on the extinction crisis which threatens many languages worldwide. Through photos,...  Read More >>

Microcosmos is a remarkable photo-journey into everyday life through spectacular microscopic images.  Read More >>

Understanding what our universe is physically made of is one of the oldest and most researched scientific quandaries...  Read More >>

If scientists can't touch the Sun, how do they know what it's made of? And if we can't see black holes, how can...  Read More >>

Genius and breakthroughs appear to involve something magical. Andrew Robinson looks at what science does, and does...  Read More >>

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In the autumn of 2005, a band of researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome. The author offers an insider's...  Read More >>

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Award-winning journalist goes to the frontlines of the battle for endangered species and the desert environment....  Read More >>

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When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent 'grand design'...  Read More >>

A startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species  Read More >>

A scholar and advisor to the Pentagon explains the religious motivations of terrorists, and tells why suicide missions...  Read More >>

The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see  Read More >>

Der beruhmte Mathematiker und Philosoph Pythagoras hinterliess keinerlei Schriften. Doch was ware, wenn er es doch...  Read More >>

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Most of us are unaware of how much we depend on quantum mechanics on a day-to-day basis. Using illustrations and...  Read More >>

Most of us are unaware of how much we depend on quantum mechanics on a day-to-day basis. Using illustrations and...  Read More >>

Diese wiederum bilden die Grundlage der so außerordentlich breiten Palette der Anwendungen, die von der Compact...  Read More >>

Dann blickt der Autor nach vorn und entwirft einige Zukunftsszenarien, von denen die meisten durch den genetisch...  Read More >>

Like vampires, zombies have transcended their horror genre roots, gaining a widespread, if somewhat ironic, fan...  Read More >>

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A hugely accessible and entertaining exploration of the science of the everyday world around us.  Read More >>