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Darwin - The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea

Darwin - The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea...

Author: Charles Darwin ,  James D. Watson
ISBN: 9780762430512
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Offers four of Charles Darwin's most influential works, with an introduction and commentary by Nobel Prize winning...  Read More >>

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law for Unity in Physical Law

Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the...

Author: Peter Woit
ISBN: 9780465092765
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Has physics gone off in the wrong direction? Peter Woit presents the other side of the growing debate on string...  Read More >>

Blood of the Isles

Blood of the Isles

Author: Bryan Sykes
ISBN: 9780552154659
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society

Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena...

Author: Jason Hawes ,  Grant Wilson
ISBN: 9781416541134
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book

Restless Skies: The Ultimate Weather Book

Author: Paul Douglas
ISBN: 9781402752230
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Improved technology is teaching us more about the weather all the time and with new knowledge comes new concerns...  Read More >>

Das Ratsel der Schneeflocke: Die Mathematik der Natur

Das Ratsel der Schneeflocke: Die Mathematik der Natur...

Author: Dr Ian Stewart (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9783827419347
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Wissenschaft und Asthetik, Unterhaltung und Anspruch, hohe Mathematik und pures Vergnugen mischen sich in diesem...  Read More >>

Los Errores de la Historia

Los Errores de la Historia

Author: Roger Rössing
ISBN: 9788496746107
Format: Paperback
$26.40

This dynamic compilation has a wide selection of historical anecdotes describing mistakes people have made. Esta...  Read More >>

Supervolcano: The Castrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History (Could Yellowstone be Next)

Supervolcano: The Castrophic Event That Changed the...

Author: John Savino ,  Marie Jones
ISBN: 9781564149534
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Approximately 75,000 years ago, an event occurred that almost wiped out human life. According to a stunning new...  Read More >>

Tutti i numeri sono uguali a cinque

Tutti i numeri sono uguali a cinque

Author: Stefano Sandrelli ,  Daniele Gouthier
ISBN: 9788847007116
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Abbandonandosi alle digressioni, alle emozioni, alle intuizioni del cuore, alle immagini, alle sensazioni che affiancano...  Read More >>

High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student

High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student...

Author: Jeremy Iversen
ISBN: 9780743283663
Format: Paperback
$73.89

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The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals...

Author: Thomas Hager
ISBN: 9781400082148
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 244 Other Questions on the World of Science

Do Cats Have Belly Buttons?: And Answers to 244 Other...

Author: Paul Heiney
ISBN: 9780750946452
Format: Hardback
$33.61

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Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without Special Relativity

Relativity in Curved Spacetime: Life without Special...

Author: Eric Baird
ISBN: 9780955706806
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Relativity theory has become one of the icons of Twentieth Century science. It's reckoned to be a difficult subject,...  Read More >>

The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel,...

Author: David M. Friedman
ISBN: 9780060528157
Format: Hardback
$71.15

Tells the story of celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh and Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Alexis Carrel's five-year-long,...  Read More >>

Aus dem Tritt geraten: Warum unsere Welt nicht mehr zu unseren Körpern passt

Aus dem Tritt geraten: Warum unsere Welt nicht mehr...

Author: Peter Gluckman ,  S. Vogel
ISBN: 9783827418715
Format: Hardback
$47.49

Unsere Gene, die Laufe unserer Evolution selektiert wurden, und die vielfältigen Prozesse, welche die Entwicklung...  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: 9780192807199
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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

Warum Vögel singen: Eine musikalische Spurensuche

Warum Vögel singen: Eine musikalische Spurensuche

Author: David Rothenberg ,  A. Held
ISBN: 9783827418609
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Gestützt auf Gespräche mit Neurowissenschaftlern, Ökologen und Komponisten geht der Autor der schwer zu beantwortenden...  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: 9780393330519
Format: Paperback
$47.39

DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.  Read More >>

After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning

After Dolly: The Promise and Perils of Cloning

Author: Roger Highfield ,  Ian Wilmut
ISBN: 9780393330267
Format: Paperback
$42.11

A brave, moral argument for cloning and its power to fight disease.  Read More >>

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming to California in the Age of Schwarzenegger

I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen: Coming...

Author: Amy Wilentz
ISBN: 9780743264402
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Beating the Odds: The Hidden Mathematics of Sport

Beating the Odds: The Hidden Mathematics of Sport

Author: Rob Eastaway ,  John Haigh
ISBN: 9781905798124
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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In Der Technikwelt Leben: Vom Nat rlichen Werkzeug Zur Alltagskultur

In Der Technikwelt Leben: Vom Nat rlichen Werkzeug Zur...

Author: H Must ,  David E Nye
ISBN: 9783827418630
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: ...and Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body

When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: ...and Other...

Author: Lisa Seachrist Chiu ,  Judith A. Seachrist
ISBN: 9780195327069
Format: Paperback
$28.95

From the gene that causes people to age prematurely to the ""bitter gene"" that may spawn broccoli haters, this...  Read More >>

So Gewinnt Man Den Nobelpreis: Das Geheimnis Guter Wissenschaft

So Gewinnt Man Den Nobelpreis: Das Geheimnis Guter Wissenschaft...

Author: M Wiese ,  Peter Doherty
ISBN: 9783827418708
Format: Hardback
$52.67

Kann man sich leidenschaftlich fur Politik, Fussball oder Rhythm n' Blues interessieren und trotzdem ein kreativer...  Read More >>

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