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The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse

The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight,...

Author: Jennifer Ouellette
ISBN: 9780143117377
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage to dieting, proving that even the...  Read More >>

The Wonder of Genetics: The Creepy, the Curious, and the Commonplace

The Wonder of Genetics: The Creepy, the Curious, and...

Author: Richard V. Kowles
ISBN: 9781616142148
Format: Hardback
$50.99

Why are some of us male and others female? What makes us short or tall, blond or brunette, light-skinned or dark?...  Read More >>

Virolution: Die Macht Der Viren in Der Evolution

Virolution: Die Macht Der Viren in Der Evolution

Author: Dr Frank Ryan ,  Andrea Kamphuis
ISBN: 9783827425416
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Wie einzigartig ist der Mensch?: Die lange Evolution der Gehirne und des Geistes

Wie einzigartig ist der Mensch?: Die lange Evolution...

Author: Gerhard Roth
ISBN: 9783827421470
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Eine tour de force durch die Lebensgeschichte des Geistes mit einer herausragend gelungenen Kombination aus Tiefe...  Read More >>

How Music Works: A listener's guide to harmony, keys, broken chords, perfect pitch and the secrets of a good tune

How Music Works: A listener's guide to harmony, keys,...

Author: John Powell
ISBN: 9781846143151
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Thalassaemia: The Biography

Thalassaemia: The Biography

Author: David Weatherall (Founder of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199565603
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Thalassaemia is the most common type of genetic disorder and yet public awareness of it is very low. Written by...  Read More >>

Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas

Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas...

Author: Julian Havil
ISBN: 9780691148229
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Math - the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions - usually produces reasonable results. But...  Read More >>

E.T. Talk: How Will We Communicate with Intelligent Life on Other Worlds?

E.T. Talk: How Will We Communicate with Intelligent...

Author: Fernando J. Ballesteros
ISBN: 9781441960887
Format: Paperback
$92.27

For a long time I have been giving scientific lectures in different countries and on diverse topics, generally related...  Read More >>

The Social Function of Science

The Social Function of Science

Author: J. D. Bernal
ISBN: 9780571272723
Format: Paperback
$51.75

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The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate

The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000...

Author: David Archer
ISBN: 9780691148113
Format: Paperback
$44.75

If you think that global warming means slightly hotter weather and a modest rise in sea levels that will persist...  Read More >>

Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel Writer

Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel...

Author: L. Abbott
ISBN: 9781349383900
Format: Paperback
$232.85

For almost forty years, Jane Dolinger traveled the world and wrote about her adventures, from the Amazon jungle...  Read More >>

The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History

The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History

Author: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691148236
Format: Paperback
$32.99

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, the author...  Read More >>

Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle

Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin,...

Author: Thea Cooper ,  Arthur Ainsberg
ISBN: 9780312648701
Format: Hardback
$65.97

It is 1919 and Elizabeth Hughes, the eleven-year-old daughter of America's most distinguished jurist and politician,...  Read More >>

Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel Writer

Jane Dolinger: The Adventurous Life of an American Travel...

Author: L. Abbott ,  L Abbott
ISBN: 9780230622081
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing...

Author: Kevin Davies ,  Johnny Heller
ISBN: 9781400168507
Format: Audio
$65.97

The author of the critically acclaimed Cracking the Genome writes a lively and deeply researched account of the...  Read More >>

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing...

Author: Kevin Davies ,  Johnny Heller
ISBN: 9781400148509
Format: Audio
$221.73

The author of the critically acclaimed Cracking the Genome writes a lively and deeply researched account of the...  Read More >>

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing and the New Era of Personalized Medicine

The $1,000 Genome: The Revolution in DNA Sequencing...

Author: Kevin Davies ,  Johnny Heller
ISBN: 9781400118502
Format: Audio
$92.37

The author of the critically acclaimed Cracking the Genome writes a lively and deeply researched account of the...  Read More >>

Marquinho Mendonca, Vol. 1

Marquinho Mendonca, Vol. 1

Author: Marquinho Mendonca
ISBN: 9780981669199
Format: Mixed media product
$76.56

This songbook starts our collection dedicated to promote the composers we regard as the Brazilian instrumental music...  Read More >>

Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria

Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria...

Author: Anne Maczulak
ISBN: 9780137015467
Format: Hardback
$65.97

"""In ""Allies and Enemies,"" Anne Maczulak takes the mystery out of bacteria. Practical, useful, and very readable,...  Read More >>

Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests

Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests...

Author: Rosemary Drisdelle
ISBN: 9780520269774
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us - and inside us. They have played an enormous role...  Read More >>

Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests

Parasites: Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests...

Author: Rosemary Drisdelle
ISBN: 9780520259386
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us - and inside us. This book puts amoebae, roundworms,...  Read More >>

The Science of Doctor Who

The Science of Doctor Who

Author: Paul Parsons (Icon Books, Ltd.)
ISBN: 9780801895609
Format: Hardback
$62.99

cosmologist and is ideal beach reading for anyone who loves science and watches the show-no matter which planet...  Read More >>

Sand

Sand

Author: Michael Welland
ISBN: 9780199588183
Format: Paperback
$18.95

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