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Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan

Why Men Die First: How to Lengthen Your Lifespan

Author: Marianne J. Legato
ISBN: 9780230605176
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture

Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All...

Author: Robert Thompson
ISBN: 9780596514921
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in...  Read More >>

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to...

Author: Leonard Susskind
ISBN: 9780316016407
Format: Hardback
$73.89

""The Black Hole War"" is the thrilling story of Susskind's effort to reconcile Stephen Hawking's revolutionary...  Read More >>

Flower Hunters

Flower Hunters

Author: Mary Gribbin ,  John Gribbin
ISBN: 9780192807182
Format: Hardback
$32.95

The flower hunters were intrepid explorers - remarkable, eccentric men and women who scoured the world in search...  Read More >>

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Author: Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780199216802
Format: Hardback
$38.95

Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a rich and vibrant anthology...  Read More >>

Problems with Einstein's Relativity?: A Revised View of the Universe

Problems with Einstein's Relativity?: A Revised View...

Author: Selwyn E. Wright
ISBN: 9781425117702
Format: Paperback
$66.42

Although Einstein's General Relativity is not in doubt his Special Relativity appears to be in error. The propagation...  Read More >>

An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere

An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere...

Author: Gabrielle Walker
ISBN: 9780747592907
Format: Paperback
$43.96

We not only live in the air, we live because of it. At ground level air transforms miraculously; it wraps our planet...  Read More >>

Sterne: Was Ihr Licht Uber Die Materie Im Kosmos Verrat

Sterne: Was Ihr Licht Uber Die Materie Im Kosmos Verrat...

Author: Achim Weiss ,  Achim Wei
ISBN: 9783827419682
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the...

Author: Carl Sagan
ISBN: 9781439505281
Format: Paperback
$68.64

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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest...

Author: Arthur Allen
ISBN: 9780393331561
Format: Paperback
$53.95

""A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account.""—New York Times Book Review  Read More >>

Who's Who of the Brain: A Guide to Its Inhabitants, Where They Live and What They Do

Who's Who of the Brain: A Guide to Its Inhabitants,...

Author: Ken Nunn ,  Bryan Lask
ISBN: 9781843104704
Format: Paperback
$48.99

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Mismatch: The lifestyle diseases timebomb

Mismatch: The lifestyle diseases timebomb

Author: Peter Gluckman ,  Mark Hanson
ISBN: 9780199228386
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Our modern lifestyles, city-bound with abundant nutrition - are far removed from the hunter-gatherer lifestyles...  Read More >>

Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

Author: M Gazzaniga
ISBN: 9780060892883
Format: Hardback
$73.89

One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the...  Read More >>

The Birds, the Bees and the Platypuses: Crazy, Sexy and Cool Stories from Science

The Birds, the Bees and the Platypuses: Crazy, Sexy...

Author: Michael Gross
ISBN: 9783527322879
Format: Hardback
$105.57

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Riddled With Life

Riddled With Life

Author: Marlene Zuk
ISBN: 9780156034685
Format: Paperback
$36.96

We treat disease as our enemy, and germs and infections as things we battle. But what if we've been giving them...  Read More >>

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: Advice for Young Scientists

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: Advice...

Author: Peter Doherty, DVM (Chairman, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
ISBN: 9780231138970
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Useful for those interested in a career in science, the author recounts his unlikely path to becoming a Nobel Laureate....  Read More >>

Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past

Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past

Author: Chris Turney
ISBN: 9780230553828
Format: Hardback
$65.87

As science reveals how our planet works, it becomes ever clearer that nowhere is isolated. From the Alps to the...  Read More >>

Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

Author: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9780099507130
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Colour in art - as in life - is both inspiring and uplifting, but where does it come from?  Read More >>

Atom

Atom

Author: Piers Bizony ,  Jim Al-Khalili
ISBN: 9781840468731
Format: Paperback
$44.85

The thrilling human story of atomic theory.  Read More >>

The Way Toys Work: The Science Behind the Magic 8 Ball, Etch A Sketch, Boomerang, and More

The Way Toys Work: The Science Behind the Magic 8 Ball,...

Author: Ed Sobey ,  Woody Sobey
ISBN: 9781556527456
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Profiles 50 of the world's most popular playthings - including their history, trivia, and the technology involved...  Read More >>

Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

Falling for Science: Objects in Mind

Author: Sherry Turkle ,  Sherry Turkle
ISBN: 9780262201728
Format: Hardback
$76.43

Passion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific...  Read More >>

Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry

Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry

Author: Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9780465082377
Format: Paperback
$31.99

An eminent teacher and writer explores an idea both simple and complex, both multidisciplinary and unifying-the...  Read More >>

Biochemistry For Dummies

Biochemistry For Dummies

Author: John T. Moore ,  Richard H. Langley
ISBN: 9780470194287
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Are you baffled by biochemistry? You're not the first, and you won't be the last.  Read More >>

Matematica e cultura 2008

Matematica e cultura 2008

Author: Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9788847007932
Format: Paperback
$131.87

A Venezia, citta’ di ponti e di culture, si parla da oramai dieci anni di cultura e di matematica, si parla di arte,...  Read More >>

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