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The atom. The Big Bang. DNA. Natural selection. All ideas that have revolutionised science - and that were dismissed out of hand when they first appeared. The surprises haven't stopped: here, Michael Brooks, bestselling author of 13 Things that Don't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060972813Author J. BronowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

How can new insights into evolution help us solve problems in life, art, business and science? 'A wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed.' Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors In Darwin's survival of the...

This book is designed to help biologists who must create their own illustrations and artists who are confronted with unfamiliar biological subjects. The author, an experienced biological illustrator, gives practical instructions and advice on the...

'Wolfe has an important story to tell and as a virologist at the forefront of pandemic forecasting, he is the perfect person to tell it' GuardianIn The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe - known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for...

Boldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy.Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. It has changed our cultural...

Exam Board: AQALevel & Subject: GCSE Combined Science: TrilogyFirst teaching: September 2016 Next exams: June 2024 AQA approved GCSE Science is changing and AQA GCSE (9-1) Biology for Combined Science Trilogy from Collins has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025555Author Basil AltaieFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon BooksPublisher Beacon BooksWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 18mm

On 14 March 1964 Richard Feynman, one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the 20th Century, delivered a lecture entitled 'The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun'. For thirty years this remarkable lecture was believed to be lost. But now Feynman's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615165554Author Donald A. ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Donald ThompsonPublisher Donald ThompsonWeight(grams) 97gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

How did time begin? What conditions led to humans evolving on Earth? Will we survive the Anthropocene? And is it really true that we're all made from stars? Combining knowledge from chemistry, biology, and physics, with insights from the social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515438205Author Nikola TeslaFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year 'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. Wilson Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what can they really tell us about how the universe began...

Tuberculosis is characterized as a social disease and few have been more inextricably linked with human history. There is evidence from the archaeological record that Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its human hosts have been together for a very long time...

Short-listed for the Society of Biology Book Award 2014 Long-listed for the Royal Society Winton prize for science books 2014In The Compatibility Gene, leading scientist Daniel M Davis tells the story of the crucial genes that define our relationships,...

Forget everything you thought you knew about reality.The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behaviour...

A deeply sourced, inclusive guide to all aspects of science writing with contributions from some of the most skilled and award-winning authors working today. Science writing has never been so critical to our world, and the demands on writers have never...

Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going. Finding this natural basis of life has proved elusive, but in the eloquent and creative Into the Cool, Eric D. Schneider and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737476313Author Ellen Johnston McHenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ellen McHenry's Basement WorkshopPublisher Ellen McHenry's Basement...

Of all the arts, photography has perhaps the closest association with science and technology: the physics of light and colour combined with chemistry to capture images. Lo-Fi Photography is an ideal introduction to the science that lies behind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735741413Author Jake RylandFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Jake RylandPublisher Jake RylandWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

The history of the computer is entwinedwith that of the modern world and with the life of one man, the brilliant buttroubled Alan Turing.How did the computer come to structureand dominate our lives so totally? In Jon Agar's enlightening story of...

Plant Biology is a new textbook written for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It is an account of modern plant science, reflecting recent advances in genetics and genomics and the excitement they have created. The book begins with a review...

Plants That Kill is not a field guide, clinical care manual, or pharmacology textbook-it is a fascinating and beautifully presented natural history of the world's most poisonous plants, the extraordinary strategies they employ for survival, and the...

After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. This groundbreaking new work traces the 'lives' of each member of our solar...

'A meticulous guide not only to the vagina but to changing perceptions of womanhood' OBSERVER'An empowering and enlightening book' IRISH TIMESThe vagina is the ultimate symbol of female power. Sexual power, creative power and the power to prevent harm...

A highly entertaining book debunking the many myths about the human body. Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong debunks the scientific myths we all take for granted. Written by author Matt Brown in his trademark humourous style, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728217543Author Bruce GoldfarbFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm * 28mm

For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the...

We may learn from our mistakes, but this work argues that, where experimental knowledge is concerned, we haven't begun to learn enough. It provides a critique of the subjective Bayesian view of statistical inference, and proposes the author's own...

Designing with living materials: thoughts on the paradigm shift and an overview of the state of research What is "Bioprotopia"? It is a vision of a world with buildings that grow, self-heal and create virtuous cycles where waste from one process feeds...

A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and...

After introducing the concept of the birthing pool in the 1970s, Michel Odent has continuously expanded his interest in the mysterious connections between humans and water. In Planet Ocean he shows that the evolution of the oceans - particularly the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486248950Author George GamowFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Howard Georgi is the co-inventor (with Sheldon Glashow) of the SU(5) theory. This extensively revised and updated edition of his classic text makes the theory of Lie groups accessible to graduate students, while offering a perspective on the way in which...

A useful scientific theory, claimed Einstein, must be explicable to any intelligent person. In Deep Down Things, experimental particle physicist Bruce Schumm has taken this dictum to heart, providing in clear, straightforward prose an elucidation of the...

Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the British Society for the History of Science Hughes...

From caveman to modern man ...Few people doubt that humans are descended from the apes; fewer still consider, let alone accept, the psychological implications. But in truth, man not only looks, moves and breathes like an ape, he also thinks like one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476715490Author James D. WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 977g

The Origin of Species may be the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure much of Charles Darwin's other works. His visit to the Galapagos lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years...