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How We Hear Music: The Relationship between Music and the Hearing Mechanism

How We Hear Music: The Relationship between Music and...

Author: James Beament
ISBN: 9780851159409
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Covers much of the acoustics a student needs, without mathematics or scientific background.  Read More >>

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America & Its Peoples

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North...

Author: Tim Flannery
ISBN: 9781877008566
Format: Paperback
$24.95

The sequel to Tim Flannery's The Future Eaters explores the creation of the North American continent, and the evolution...  Read More >>

Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind and Mankind

Thinking in Complexity: The Computational Dynamics of...

Author: Klaus Mainzer
ISBN: 9783540002390
Format: Hardback
$224.27

This is the fourth revised edition of Mainzer's book. The theory of nonlinear complex systems has become a successful...  Read More >>

Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning

Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind,...

Author: Pickover
ISBN: 9780195157994
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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Our Cosmic Habitat

Our Cosmic Habitat

Author: Lord Martin Rees
ISBN: 9780691114774
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Projekt Menschwerdung: Streifzüge durch die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen

Projekt Menschwerdung: Streifzüge durch die Entwicklungsgeschichte...

Author: Gerd-Christian Weniger ,  Wolf Erlbruch
ISBN: 9783827414250
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In geologischem Maßstab ist die Geschichte des Menschen noch sehr kurz; gerade zwei Millionen Jahre liegt das Auftreten...  Read More >>

Water from Heaven: The Story of Water from the Big Bang to the Rise of Civilization, and Beyond

Water from Heaven: The Story of Water from the Big Bang...

Author: Robert Kandel
ISBN: 9780231122443
Format: Hardback
$173.95

Covering a vast array of scientific fields and recent discoveries, this book tracks a remarkable substance in its...  Read More >>

Time Traveler

Time Traveler

Author: Michael Novacek
ISBN: 9780374528768
Format: Paperback
$41.79

Palaeontologist Michael Novacek is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct...  Read More >>

How Things are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers

How Things are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers

Author: Sharon Rose ,  Neil Schlager
ISBN: 9781579122744
Format: Hardback
$52.67

For anyone, young or old, who has ever wondered, ""how do they make those?"" This title offers an illustrated exploration...  Read More >>

Faszination Mathematik

Faszination Mathematik

Author: Guido Walz
ISBN: 9783827414199
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Anregend, umfassend und fundiert erschliesst das Werk in uber 50 ausfuhrlichen Essaybeitragen das ganze Spektrum...  Read More >>

The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living

The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living...

Author: Fritjof Capra
ISBN: 9780006551584
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A fierce attack on globalism -- and a manifesto for change.  Read More >>

Die Mathematik Und das Gottliche

Die Mathematik Und das Gottliche

Author: Clifford Pickover
ISBN: 9783827414304
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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El Nino: Unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker

El Nino: Unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker...

Author: J.M. Nash
ISBN: 9780446679923
Format: Paperback
$34.99

EL NINO is both a scientific detective story and an exploration of how weather really works.  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Dust

The Secret Life of Dust

Author: Hannah Holmes
ISBN: 9780471426356
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty world Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the...  Read More >>

A Terrible Beauty is Born: Clones, Genes and the Future of Mankind

A Terrible Beauty is Born: Clones, Genes and the Future...

Author: Brendan Curran (University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415287098
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A timely publication in light of current genetic headlines which examines how these extraordinary outcomes have...  Read More >>

Weather

Weather

Author: Philip Eden
ISBN: 9780826461971
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Three strands mark the progress of the weather/climate story through history and into the future: its effect on...  Read More >>

A Terrible Beauty is Born: Clones, Genes and the Future of Mankind

A Terrible Beauty is Born: Clones, Genes and the Future...

Author: Brendan Curran (University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415287081
Format: Hardback
$168.00

A timely publication in light of current genetic headlines which examines how these extraordinary outcomes have...  Read More >>

Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us

Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us

Author: Robert Buckman
ISBN: 9780801874079
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Your body has 100 trillion cells, but only ten trillion are human. The rest belong to the bacteria, fungi, viruses...  Read More >>

Belief in God in an Age of Science

Belief in God in an Age of Science

Author: John Polkinghorne
ISBN: 9780300099492
Format: Paperback
$16.95

John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist and theologian, explores the possibilities of believing in God in an age...  Read More >>

Consciousness: A User's Guide

Consciousness: A User's Guide

Author: Adam Zeman
ISBN: 9780300092806
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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The Origin of Life

The Origin of Life

Author: Paul Davies
ISBN: 9780141013022
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Is life written into the laws of nature, or just a bizarre accident, unique in the universe? How can a mix of non-living...  Read More >>

It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations Of Modern Science

It Must Be Beautiful: Great Equations Of Modern Science...

Author: Graham Farmelo
ISBN: 9781862075559
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A stunning and unique look at the great equations that lie at the heart of many of the most successful scientific...  Read More >>

Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us

Human Wildlife: The Life That Lives on Us

Author: Robert Buckman
ISBN: 9780801874062
Format: Hardback
$147.84

Your body has 100 trillion cells, but only ten trillion are human. The rest belong to the bacteria, fungi, viruses...  Read More >>

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