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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Author: Steven Pinker
ISBN: 9780140276053
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by...  Read More >>

Information Theory And Evolution

Information Theory And Evolution

Author: John Scales Avery (University Of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9789812384003
Format: Paperback
$174.24

This highly interdisciplinary book discusses the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also...  Read More >>

The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs

The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious...

Author: Brenda Denzler
ISBN: 9780520239050
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Offers an overview and valuation of the UFO/alien abduction movement as a social phenomenon positioned between scientific...  Read More >>

Living Mirrors: Coral Reefs of the World

Living Mirrors: Coral Reefs of the World

Author: Jack Stephens
ISBN: 9781884167263
Format: Hardback
$92.27

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The Oxford Book of Health Foods

The Oxford Book of Health Foods

Author: J.G. Vaughan ,  P.A. Judd
ISBN: 9780198504597
Format: Hardback
$62.95

The Oxford Book of Health Foods provides a scientific critique of the evidence for the medical and health claims...  Read More >>

On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction

On Fertile Ground: A Natural History of Human Reproduction...

Author: Peter T. Ellison
ISBN: 9780674011120
Format: Paperback
$63.95

Ranging from the latest achievements of modern fertility clinics to the lives of subsistence farmers in the rain...  Read More >>

Creation: Life and How to Make It

Creation: Life and How to Make It

Author: Steve Grand
ISBN: 9780674011137
Format: Paperback
$58.08

Working mostly alone, Grand produced Creatures®, a computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete...  Read More >>

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

Author: Spencer Wells ,  Mark Read
ISBN: 9780141008325
Format: Paperback
$31.02

Shows how the truth about our ancestors is hidden in our genetic code. This book reveals how developments in the...  Read More >>

Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer Virus

Hunting the 1918 Flu: One Scientist's Search for a Killer...

Author: Kirsty E. Duncan
ISBN: 9780802087485
Format: Hardback
$116.16

A detailed account of Kristy Duncan's experiences as she organized a multi-national, multi-discipline scientific...  Read More >>

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction on the Limits of Knowledge

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction on...

Author: John L. Casti ,  Joseph Henry Press
ISBN: 9780309095105
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Combines science fact with fiction. This book presents scientific and philosophical ideas of the 20th century.  Read More >>

Remnants Of The Fall: Revelations Of Particle Secrets

Remnants Of The Fall: Revelations Of Particle Secrets...

Author: William B Rolnick (Wayne State Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9789812381460
Format: Paperback
$87.12

A celebration of the beauty of the fundamental laws of nature. It seeks to facilitate understanding of the background...  Read More >>

Remnants Of The Fall: Revelations Of Particle Secrets

Remnants Of The Fall: Revelations Of Particle Secrets...

Author: William B Rolnick (Wayne State Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9789812380609
Format: Hardback
$161.04

A celebration of the beauty of the fundamental laws of nature. It seeks to facilitate understanding of the background...  Read More >>

Genes, Girls and Gamow

Genes, Girls and Gamow

Author: James D. Watson
ISBN: 9780198606932
Format: Paperback
$50.95

Genes, Girls and Gamow is an autobiographical account of Jim Watson's life, following on from The Double Helix....  Read More >>

Information Theory And Evolution

Information Theory And Evolution

Author: John Scales Avery (University Of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9789812383990
Format: Hardback
$359.04

An interdisciplinary discussion of the phenomenon of life, including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural...  Read More >>

Real Space: The fate of physical presence in the digital age, on and off planet

Real Space: The fate of physical presence in the digital...

Author: Paul Levinson
ISBN: 9780415277433
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In an inquiry that ranges from robots to religion, Paul Levinson asks why there is a deep-seated human desire to...  Read More >>

The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death

The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence...

Author: Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D. ,  William L. Simon
ISBN: 9780743436595
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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

The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau

The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy...

Author: Edward Regis
ISBN: 9780393021233
Format: Hardback
$68.51

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A Field Guide to Bacteria

A Field Guide to Bacteria

Author: Betsey Dexter Dyer
ISBN: 9780801488542
Format: Paperback
$57.25

""Although most people are aware that bacteria are all around us, few would guess that they produce such distinctive...  Read More >>

Science for Survival: Scientific Research and the Public Interest

Science for Survival: Scientific Research and the Public...

Author: Peter Cotgreave (Director, Save British Science)
ISBN: 9780712308915
Format: Hardback
$86.99

In the modern world, science and technology touch our lives every day. This text examines the ways in which society...  Read More >>

The Myths We Live By

The Myths We Live By

Author: Mary Midgley
ISBN: 9780415309066
Format: Hardback
$184.80

We are encouraged to think that the language of science opposes myth, but does it? Mary Midgley argues in her powerful...  Read More >>

The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

The Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

Author: Fulvio Melia
ISBN: 9780691095059
Format: Hardback
$87.99

Could Einstein have possibly anticipated directly testing the most captivating prediction of general relativity,...  Read More >>

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction

The History of Astronomy: A Very Short Introduction...

Author: Michael Hoskin (, Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780192803061
Format: Paperback
$21.95

An introduction to the history of Western astronomy from prehistoric times to the origins of astrophysics in the...  Read More >>

Facts And Mysteries In Elementary Particle Physics

Facts And Mysteries In Elementary Particle Physics

Author: Martinus J G Veltman (Univ Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Usa & Nikhef, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9789812381491
Format: Paperback
$76.56

A comprehensive overview of modern particle physics, which seeks to be accessible to anyone who wants to know how...  Read More >>

Facts And Mysteries In Elementary Particle Physics

Facts And Mysteries In Elementary Particle Physics

Author: Martinus J G Veltman (Univ Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Usa & Nikhef, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9789812381484
Format: Hardback
$171.60

A comprehensive overview of modern particle physics, which seeks to be accessible to anyone who wants to know how...  Read More >>

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