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How do high mountain ranges form on the face of the Earth? This question has intrigued some of the greatest philosophers...  Read More >>

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Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry. But is it all nonsense? The Whole Story rounds...  Read More >>

What killed Charles II? Who thought he had discovered the perfect poison? Why did hatters go mad? This is an account...  Read More >>

Die Nanotechnologie ist die große Querschnittstechnologie des 21. Bestimmte Schlüsselthemen von grundlegender Bedeutung,...  Read More >>

In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, 'I think, therefore I am,' science has often overlooked emotions...  Read More >>

Suitable for those fascinated by how physics explains the universe and affects philosophy. The author's in-depth...  Read More >>

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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers'...  Read More >>

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Understanding Popular Science provides a framework to help understand the development of popular science and current...  Read More >>

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This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant...  Read More >>

What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape?...  Read More >>

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This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant...  Read More >>

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A user's manual for our everyday world! ""Whether a curious layperson, a trained physicist, or a beginning physics...  Read More >>

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Adrian Woolfson explores the ethical minefield of genetics in the latest book in the popular Intelligent Person's...  Read More >>

Presents stories that show the role and interest of identified genes and suites of genes acting to dictate behaviour,...  Read More >>

Wilmut, who shocked the world in 1997 when his team unveiled Dolly--the sheep cloned from a mammary cell, explains...  Read More >>

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