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The Physical Tourist: A Science Guide for the Traveler

The Physical Tourist: A Science Guide for the Traveler...

Author: John S. Rigden ,  Roger H Stuewer
ISBN: 9783764389321
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Travelers differ.At one extreme are random travelers who see what they accidentally bump into.At the other extreme...  Read More >>

Perché Nobel?

Perché Nobel?

Author: Marco Abate
ISBN: 9788847008106
Format: Paperback
$105.47

È noto a tutti che i premi Nobel sono il riconoscimento più importante nel mondo in campo scientifico, letterario,...  Read More >>

Alla ricerca della via più breve: Un'avventura matematica

Alla ricerca della via più breve: Un'avventura matematica...

Author: Peter Gritzmann ,  Stefano Ruggerini
ISBN: 9788847010888
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Il libro narra la vicenda di Rut, quindicenne, trasferitasi da poco in Germania con la famiglia, al seguito del...  Read More >>

Charles Darwin: Origins and Arguments

Charles Darwin: Origins and Arguments

Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 9781842433126
Format: Hardback
$22.95

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The Pleasure Center: Trust Your Animal Instincts

The Pleasure Center: Trust Your Animal Instincts

Author: Morten L. Kringelbach (Junior Research Fellow, Junior Research Fellow, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780195322859
Format: Hardback
$60.95

Many people believe that pleasure and desire are obstacles to reasonable and intelligent behavior. In The Pleasure...  Read More >>

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Author: Bernard de Fontenelle ,  Joseph Jerome Le Francais De Lalande
ISBN: 9781904799375
Format: Paperback
$33.00

Features six conversations between Fontenelle and the Marchioness of G - during evening strolls in the Marchioness'...  Read More >>

Ancestral Roots: Modern Living and Human Evolution

Ancestral Roots: Modern Living and Human Evolution

Author: T. Clack
ISBN: 9780230201828
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Human evolution explains how we have found ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Issues of modern living;...  Read More >>

One Jump Ahead: Computer Perfection at Checkers

One Jump Ahead: Computer Perfection at Checkers

Author: Jonathan Schaeffer
ISBN: 9780387765754
Format: Paperback
$131.87

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a decade since One Jump Ahead: Challenging Human Supremacy at Checkers...  Read More >>

Emotionspsychologie im Krankenhaus: Ein Leitfaden zur Überlebenskunst für Ärzte, Pflegende und Patienten

Emotionspsychologie im Krankenhaus: Ein Leitfaden zur...

Author: Wolfgang Seidel
ISBN: 9783827420336
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Zugegeben, ich habe diese vielen Fachbücher mit den - gen des Klinikers gelesen, und ich möchte im Folgenden nur...  Read More >>

Chemistry of Fireworks

Chemistry of Fireworks

Author: Michael S Russell
ISBN: 9780854041275
Format: Paperback
$64.66

""Aimed A level students, this book discusses the theory of fireworks in terms of well-known scientific concepts...  Read More >>

Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism...

Author: Malcolm Potts ,  Thomas Hayden
ISBN: 9781933771571
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Why do humans kill members of their own species intentionally, when few other animals do so? ""Sex and War"" traces...  Read More >>

Civil Service Reform in Post-Communist Countries: The Case of the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic

Civil Service Reform in Post-Communist Countries: The...

Author: Alexander Kotchegura
ISBN: 9789087280604
Format: Paperback
$143.88

Comprehensive analysis of the development of the Russian an Czech state administration.  Read More >>

Diamonds: The Quest from Solid Rock to the Magic of Diamonds

Diamonds: The Quest from Solid Rock to the Magic of...

Author: Christine Gordon
ISBN: 9789076886510
Format: Hardback
$356.40

This exclusive photo book tells the story of the diamond, from raw stone to jewel, in an extremely attractive way....  Read More >>

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Author: Len Fisher
ISBN: 9780465009381
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The IgNobel Prize-winning author of How to Dunk a Doughnut draws on the science of game theory to explain how human...  Read More >>

You: Being Beautiful: The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty

You: Being Beautiful: The Owner’s Manual to Inner and...

Author: Michael F. Roizen, M.D. ,  Mehmet C. Oz
ISBN: 9780007300877
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Multi-million-copy bestselling authors Drs Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz show you how to look and feel fabulous your...  Read More >>

Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity

Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity

Author: Robert Tavernor
ISBN: 9780300143348
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Offers an account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. This book explores...  Read More >>

Science is Golden

Science is Golden

Author: Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 9780732285364
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on Life, the Universe and Everything. No one conveys...  Read More >>

The Human Story: Where we Come from and How we Evolved

The Human Story: Where we Come from and How we Evolved...

Author: Charles Lockwood ,  John Long
ISBN: 9780980381337
Format: Paperback
$14.95

The Human Story The Human Story demystifies the fascinating cast of characters who hold the secret to human origins....  Read More >>

Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes...

Author: David Garfinkle ,  Richard Garfinkle
ISBN: 9780226283463
Format: Hardback
$49.95

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 >>

Genomes and What to Make of Them

Genomes and What to Make of Them

Author: Barry Barnes ,  John Dupre
ISBN: 9780226172958
Format: Hardback
$44.95

Offers an account of the genomic revolution and its promise. This book provides a history of the science of genetics...  Read More >>

Transcending the Speed of Light: Consciousness, Quantum Physics, and the Fifth Dimension

Transcending the Speed of Light: Consciousness, Quantum...

Author: Marc Seifer
ISBN: 9781594772290
Format: Paperback
$42.99

The space-time continuum of physics ignores the realm of the mind. But consciousness is unconfined by space or time...  Read More >>

A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life

A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life

Author: J. Craig Venter
ISBN: 9780141014418
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Craig Venter is no ordinary scientist, and no ordinary man. He is the first human being ever to read their own DNA...  Read More >>

Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918

Living with Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and...

Author: M. Honigsbaum
ISBN: 9780230217744
Format: Hardback
$258.72

'Never since the Black Death has such a plague swept over the face of the world,' commented the Times , '[and] never,...  Read More >>

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