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Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes...
Author: Matt Ridley ISBN: 9781841157467 Format: Paperback	$33.61
Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries... Read More >>

The Coming Global Superstorm

The Coming Global Superstorm
Author: Art Bell , Whitley Strieber ISBN: 9780743470650 Format: Paperback	$18.45
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Taking Life to Extremes

Taking Life to Extremes
Author: Dr. Kenneth Kamler ISBN: 9781841198798 Format: Paperback	$38.99
A scientific nail-biter that takes readers where no reality television show would dare go - and proves what survival... Read More >>

City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics

City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics
Author: Jeff Hecht ISBN: 9780195162554 Format: Paperback	$82.95
Tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of... Read More >>

Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Author: Steven Strogatz ISBN: 9780141007632 Format: Paperback	$24.99
Presents the story of order in the universe, the harmony that comes from cycles in sync. This book considers a range... Read More >>

The Story of Mankind

The Story of Mankind
Author: Hendrik Van Loon ISBN: 9781417920914 Format: Paperback	$113.39
Offers an overview of the entirety of human history. A 1921 bestseller, this book won the first Newbery Medal in... Read More >>

Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General

Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History...
Author: Charles Tanford (Emeritus Professor, Duke University) ISBN: 9780192804945 Format: Paperback	$43.95
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How Steam Locomotives Really Work

How Steam Locomotives Really Work
Author: Semmens , Goldfinch ISBN: 9780198607823 Format: Paperback	$32.95
The technology underlying steam trains was one of the foundations of the industrial revolution in the 19th Century,... Read More >>

Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice Age Saga of Homo erectus

Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice Age Saga of Homo erectus
Author: Noel T. Boaz (, International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research, Spokane) , Russell L. Ciochon (Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Professor and Chairman, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa) ISBN: 9780195152913 Format: Hardback	$56.95
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Explanations: styles of explanation in science

Explanations: styles of explanation in science
Author: John Cornwell (Director, Science and Human Dimension Project, Jesus College, Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198607786 Format: Hardback	$50.95
Scientists often talk about the search for meaning, and about explanations that can make sense of the universe.... Read More >>

Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History of Toxic Mold

Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History...
Author: Nicholas P. Money (Associate Professor in the Department of Botany, Associate Professor in the Department of Botany, Miami University) ISBN: 9780195172270 Format: Hardback	$77.95
When an investigation in Ohio revealed that babies suffering from a lung illness had been exposed to a black mold... Read More >>

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach ISBN: 9780393324822 Format: Paperback	$36.83
""One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.""—Entertainment... Read More >>

Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth

Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth
Author: Mark S. Blumberg ISBN: 9780674013698 Format: Paperback	$55.95
In this entertaining and illuminating book, biopsychologist Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules... Read More >>

matematica e cultura 2004

matematica e cultura 2004
Author: Michele Emmer ISBN: 9788847002913 Format: Hardback	$131.87
Si parla di fumetti nel libro del 2004 con quella che sta diventando una tradizione con il fumetto stile Disney... Read More >>

Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don't Know) about Earthquakes

Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don't Know)...
Author: Susan Elizabeth Hough ISBN: 9780691118192 Format: Paperback	$62.99
Recounts that improvements in earthquake recording capability in the 1960s and 1970s set the stage for a period... Read More >>

Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN

Solar Labyrinth: Exploring Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE...
Author: Robert Borski ISBN: 9780595317295 Format: Paperback	$47.39
Gene Wolfe's BOOK OF THE NEW SUN has been hailed by both critics and readers as quite possibly the best science... Read More >>

Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth
Author: Gabrielle Walker ISBN: 9780747568506 Format: Paperback	$23.26
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In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang of Evolution

In the Blink of an Eye: How Vision Sparked the Big Bang...
Author: Andrew Parker ISBN: 9780465054381 Format: Paperback	$47.39
A talented young scientist unlocks the secrets of nature's ""Big Bang"" 550 million years ago, speculating that... Read More >>

Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain

Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's...
Author: Carolyn Abraham ISBN: 9781840465495 Format: Hardback	$38.79
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Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter

Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making...
Author: Roger G. Newton ISBN: 9780674013315 Format: Hardback	$60.59
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Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery

Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of...
Author: John Waller (, Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University of Melbourne) ISBN: 9780198609391 Format: Paperback	$43.95
Shows that many of our greatest heroes of science were less than honest about their experimental data and not above... Read More >>

Faszination Physik

Faszination Physik
Author: Katja Bammel , G. 't Hooft, ISBN: 9783827414205 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Die Faszination Physik richtet sich an Studierende der Physik und an alle, die sich für Experimente und Erkenntnisse... Read More >>

Explaining the Universe: The New Age of Physics

Explaining the Universe: The New Age of Physics
Author: John M. Charap ISBN: 9780691117447 Format: Paperback	$79.99
Offers a view of the physicist's world. Providing a review of the 20th century's transformation of physics, this... Read More >>

Do Animals Think?

Do Animals Think?
Author: Clive D. L. Wynne ISBN: 9780691113111 Format: Hardback	$138.60
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Bicycling Science

Bicycling Science
Author: David Gordon Wilson , Jim Papadopoulos ISBN: 9780262731546 Format: Paperback	$73.79
A new, updated edition of a popular book on the history, science, and engineering of bicycles. Read More >>

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