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Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise in the Most Difficult Cases

Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise...

Author: Jamie Talan ,  Richard Firstman
ISBN: 9781932594379
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Deep brain stimulation primarily consists of implanting electrodes...  Read More >>

""Science Magazine"" State of the Planet 2008-2009: With a Special Section on Energy and Sustainability

""Science Magazine"" State of the Planet 2008-2009:...

Author: Donald Kennedy, PhD ,  Science Magazine
ISBN: 9781597264051
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Contains extracts from the pages of ""Science"" and is supplemented by contributions from the magazine's editors....  Read More >>

Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles

Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with...

Author: Keith Black ,  Arnold Mann
ISBN: 9780446581097
Format: Hardback
$65.97

BRAIN SURGEON combines the dramatic narrative power of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat with the fascinating...  Read More >>

Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old ancestor

Your Inner Fish: The amazing discovery of our 375-million-year-old...

Author: Neil Shubin
ISBN: 9780141027586
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Tells the story of how one creature's journey out of the water made the human body what it is today - and one man's...  Read More >>

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World...

Author: Tom Zoellner ,  Patrick Lawlor
ISBN: 9781400110322
Format: Audio
$92.37

The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield.  Read More >>

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World...

Author: Tom Zoellner ,  Patrick Lawlor
ISBN: 9781400140329
Format: Audio
$184.77

The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield.  Read More >>

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World

Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World...

Author: Tom Zoellner ,  Patrick Lawlor
ISBN: 9781400160327
Format: Audio
$65.97

The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield.  Read More >>

Darwin

Darwin

Author: Peter Whitfield ,  Peter Whitfield
ISBN: 9789626349441
Format: Audio
$39.55

Explains how Darwin came to his revolutionary views following his voyage on the Beagle - and his initial reluctance...  Read More >>

The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA

The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA...

Author: Mark Schultz ,  Zander Cannon
ISBN: 9780809089475
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Offers an introduction to the most basic facts of genetics, evolution, and life as we know it. This book includes...  Read More >>

Energise!

Energise!

Author: James Woudhuysen ,  Joe Kaplinsky
ISBN: 9781905636273
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A guide to the issues surrounding global warming and the future of the world's energy supplies. It takes no sides...  Read More >>

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history

Author: Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780199561445
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. Combining tales of devastating...  Read More >>

Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero

Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero

Author: E. Paul Zehr (University of Victoria)
ISBN: 9780801890635
Format: Hardback
$77.99

A fun foray of escapism grounded in sound science, Becoming Batman provides the background for attaining the realizable-though...  Read More >>

Why Evolution is True

Why Evolution is True

Author: Jerry A. Coyne
ISBN: 9780199230846
Format: Hardback
$28.95

Why Evolution is True focuses on the hard evidence that proves evolution by natural selection to be a fact. Weaving...  Read More >>

The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory

The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the...

Author: Torkel Klingberg
ISBN: 9780195372885
Format: Hardback
$52.95

As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload....  Read More >>

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs: Soft Tissues and Hard Science...

Author: Phillip Manning
ISBN: 9781426203848
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip Manning presents the most astonishing dinosaur fossil excavations...  Read More >>

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google...

Author: Nicholas Carr
ISBN: 9780393333947
Format: Paperback
$44.75

""Future Shock for the Web-apps era.... Compulsively readable—for nontechies, too.""—Fast Company  Read More >>

It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies

It Looked Good on Paper: Bizarre Inventions, Design...

Author: Bill Fawcett
ISBN: 9780061358432
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Includes military, scientific, commercial, and infrastructure disasters such as: The Lead water pipes of Rome; Tacoma...  Read More >>

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic...

Author: Sean B. Carroll
ISBN: 9781847247247
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's...

Author: Seth Shulman
ISBN: 9780393333688
Format: Paperback
$35.95

""A stellar example of historical investigation at its probing best.""—Chuck Leddy, Boston Globe  Read More >>

Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence

Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence...

Author: Gary Lynch ,  Richard Granger
ISBN: 9781403979797
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent...  Read More >>

Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own

Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic...

Author: David Bollier
ISBN: 9781595583963
Format: Paperback
$71.15

A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic free culture'and a radically different organisation...  Read More >>

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities...

Author: Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9780465013029
Format: Paperback
$44.75

From one of the world's most beloved popular writers on mathematics, a fun and challenging collection of games,...  Read More >>

Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein

Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein...

Author: John W. Moffat
ISBN: 9780061170881
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Is God a Mathematician?

Is God a Mathematician?

Author: Mario Livio (Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore)
ISBN: 9780743294058
Format: Book
$68.64

This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer...  Read More >>

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