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Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity

Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity...

Author: Marelene F. Rayner-Canham ,  Marlene F Rayner-Canham
ISBN: 9780941901154
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Contains biographical essays on 23 women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the 20th century,...  Read More >>

Chemical Industry at the Millennium: Maturity, Restructuring, and Globalization

Chemical Industry at the Millennium: Maturity, Restructuring,...

Author: Peter H. Spitz
ISBN: 9780941901345
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Concentrating on basic and speciality chemicals, this book examines many of the trends and market factors that have...  Read More >>

Conscious Robots

Conscious Robots

Author: Paul Kwatz
ISBN: 9780955069703
Format: Paperback
$20.67

If humans are made of robotic atoms, how can we have free will? How the delusion of freedom works, and how understanding...  Read More >>

Deadly Sunshine: The History and Fatal Legacy of Radium

Deadly Sunshine: The History and Fatal Legacy of Radium...

Author: David I Harvie
ISBN: 9780752433950
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A history of radium, as discovered by Marie Curie  Read More >>

Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision

Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious...

Author: Melvyn A. Goodale ,  David Milner
ISBN: 9780198568070
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Describes one of the most extraordinary neurological cases - one that profoundly changed the scientific study of...  Read More >>

Candid Science V: Conversations With Famous Scientists

Candid Science V: Conversations With Famous Scientists...

Author: Istvan Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics, Hungary) ,  Balazs Hargittai (St. Francis Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9781860945052
Format: Hardback
$385.54

Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists contains 36 interviews with well-known scientists, including...  Read More >>

World Atlas: Student Workbook

World Atlas: Student Workbook

Author: Eugene Palka ,  Jon Malinowski
ISBN: 9780471706915
Format: Paperback
$123.82

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Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction

Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction

Author: J. Allan Hobson (Director of the Neurophysiology and Sleep Laboratory and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School)
ISBN: 9780192802156
Format: Paperback
$21.95

What is dreaming and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange and often hard to remember? Modern science has given...  Read More >>

What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel: Further Adventures in Kitchen Science

What Einstein Told His Cook 2: The Sequel: Further Adventures...

Author: Robert L. Wolke ,  Marlene Parrish
ISBN: 9780393058697
Format: Hardback
$87.95

This sequel to 'What Einstein Told His Cook' is written in the same plain language that made the original a hit...  Read More >>

Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are

Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars,...

Author: Harvey Molotch
ISBN: 9780415950428
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Beam: The Race to Make the Laser

Beam: The Race to Make the Laser

Author: Jeff Hecht (Freelance writer and correspondent, Freelance writer and correspondent, New Scientist)
ISBN: 9780195142105
Format: Hardback
$131.95

Beam is the story of the three intense years from the birth of the laser idea to its breakthrough demonstration...  Read More >>

Introducing Genetics

Introducing Genetics

Author: Steve Jones ,  Borin Van Loon
ISBN: 9781840466362
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago....  Read More >>

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist...

Author: Richard Feynman
ISBN: 9780465023943
Format: Paperback
$29.99

This wonderful book, based on a previously unpublished three-part public lecture, shows us another side of Richard...  Read More >>

Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors

Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal...

Author: Stephen J. O'Brien
ISBN: 9780312339005
Format: Paperback
$42.11

TEARS OF THE CHEETAH is a collection of genetic detective stories that uncover the secret histories of exotic species...  Read More >>

Matematica e cultura 2005

Matematica e cultura 2005

Author: Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9788847003149
Format: Hardback
$131.87

oltre che di Pizzinato, di Pollock, grazie alla collaborazione della Guggenheim Collection di Venezia. E si parla...  Read More >>

Chasing the Molecule: Discovering the Building Blocks of Life

Chasing the Molecule: Discovering the Building Blocks...

Author: John Buckingham
ISBN: 9780750933469
Format: Paperback
$26.99

By the mid-19th century, chemists had established that many natural products were made of just: carbon, oxygen and...  Read More >>

Faszination Biologie: Von Aristoteles bis zum Zebrafisch

Faszination Biologie: Von Aristoteles bis zum Zebrafisch...

Author: Doris Freudig
ISBN: 9783827415813
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Kompetent, umfassend und gut verständlich beleuchten 29 von renommierten Vertretern ihres Faches verfasste Essays...  Read More >>

Energy In The 21st Century

Energy In The 21st Century

Author: John R Fanchi (Texas Christian Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9789812561954
Format: Paperback
$121.44

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Energy In The 21st Century

Energy In The 21st Century

Author: John R Fanchi (Texas Christian Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9789812561855
Format: Hardback
$253.44

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