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Für die Entwicklungsländer bedeutet sie mehr, und vor allem auch gehaltvollere Nahrung, und kann so mithelfen, das...  Read More >>

This title presents a series of interviews in which natural objects such as an electron, a black hole, a galaxy,...  Read More >>

This book connects observations from our everyday lives to the scientific principles that explain them. You will...  Read More >>

""Perkins' style is engaging—not for eggheads only—and the brainteasers are entertaining and surprisingly fresh.""—Chicago...  Read More >>

Computers are ubiquitous yet to many they remain objects of irreducible mystery. This text looks at the question...  Read More >>

A collection of essays, speeches, and reports by J. D. Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 and...  Read More >>

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From the day that Paul Ehrlich hailed his newly discovered treatment for syphilis as the magic bullet, antibiotics...  Read More >>

Robert Wright challenges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Wright...  Read More >>

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Is there life on Mars? If not, why not? These questions have gripped mankind throughout the twentieth century. In...  Read More >>

In the tradition of Paul Aron's Unsolved Mysteries of American History, this book explores roughly thirty as-yet-unanswered...  Read More >>

First published in 1926, this classic book sets out an exhaustive investigation into the sources of Atlantean tradition,...  Read More >>

Take the first step toward a whole new world of statistical prowess with this delightful, easy-to-follow guide....  Read More >>

How does the conscious mind relate to the physical body? 'Emergence' theory states that: the mind 'emerges' from...  Read More >>

The scientific quest seen as a search for nature's secrets.  Read More >>

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do....  Read More >>

""Time"" magazine brings together the 100 most significant and compelling discoveries of our time, from Einstein's...  Read More >>

An account of how language actually works.  Read More >>

A book on dietary toxins, soundly based on validated medical and scientific information. Explains the principal...  Read More >>

A description of a scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement...  Read More >>

Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual...  Read More >>

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This text considers and explains the history of cloning, the scientific reasons behind cloning research and the...  Read More >>

A revealing look at Darwin's influence on the American poet Robert Frost  Read More >>