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'Fascinating, magisterially researched, and brilliantly written.' Steve Silberman, author of Neurotribes Thirty-two days underground. No heat. No sunlight. 4 June 1938. Nathaniel Kleitman and his research student make their way down the seventy-one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119591382Author C. P. SummerhayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science...

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr,...

Janice VanCleave once again ignites children's love for science in her all-new book of fun experiments-featuring a fresh format, new experiments, and updated content standards From everyone's favorite science teacher comes Janice VanCleave's Big Book of...

Ever wondered what a superhero eats for breakfast? Do they need a special diet to feed their superpowers? The odd metabolisms of superheroes must mean they have strange dietary needs, from the high calorie diets to fuel flaming bodies and super speeds,...

Cult classic, revised and updated. Alchemist D. Gold reveals the inner world of marijuana and hashish, uncovering secrets and modern techniques to enhance potency. First published in 1974, the original edition of Cannabis Alchemy sold over 100,000...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781483444024Author Justin AmeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Lulu Publishing ServicesPublisher Lulu Publishing ServicesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420965476Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486661032Author D C SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 655gDimensions(mm)...

The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at Harwell, Britain's atomic energy lab, disappeared without a trace. When he re-surfaced six years later, he was on the other side of...

Gravity is the weakest of the natural forces and yet it dominates our lives. We know how to make use of its properties and how to overcome it. But we can't control it. To do that we must be able to generate and control gravity's hidden companion force...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901579499Author Nicholas MeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Virtual ImagePublisher Virtual ImageDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm * 20mm

In this beautiful and thorough investigation, The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which color colors our world.Why is the sky blue, the grass green, a rose red? Most of us have no idea how to answer these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612030517Author Charles FortFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Spastic Cat PressPublisher Spastic Cat PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity and danger. ...

It is now generally recognized that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 not only decisively altered the basic concepts of biological theory but had a profound and lasting influence on social, philosophic, and religious thought. This...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6 billion years ago from the debris of the big bang and long-dead stars, at first it was nothing special,...

Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to blatant biases, deep systemic problems block women from advancing or push them out of science and technology entirely.Women in Science...

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) Chemistry for Combined Science from Collins has been...

Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are on is whizzing through...

An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter-and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit.When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae,...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of...

Geek out over the TARDIS, aliens, alternate timelines, parallel worlds, and all your favorite characters from the Doctor Who Universe!Doctor Who arrived with the Space Age, when the Doctor first began exploring the universe in a time-traveling spaceship...

Our nearest celestial neighbour, the Moon, has always been the most conspicuous feature in our night sky. It has compelled observers since the dawn of humankind, and all have tried to make sense in their own ways of the puzzles it poses and the questions...

Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was possibly the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was, without a doubt, a trail blazer who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359739127Author Samuel HahnemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128328Author Steve LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 274g

'Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?' remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking, the celebrated essayist Jim Holt...

How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is...

Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes...

'Often-complex ideas are explained with clarity and precision, but this is clearly a passion project for the author, and the book soars where he deploys more poetic language, as when musing on the deeper themes that arise from his central...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486651132Author William T. ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

The Craft of Scientific Writing is designed to help scientists and engineers - both professionals already active in the disciplines as well as students preparing to enter the professions - write about their work clearly and effectively. Written for use...

From the bestselling author of The Knowledge Web come fifty mesmerizing journeys into the history of technology, each following a chain of consequential events that ends precisely where it began. Whether exploring electromagnetic fields, the origin of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633374430Author Pamela A PopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Hitchcock Media Group LLCPublisher Hitchcock Media Group LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060958909Author Victoria BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 235g

In This Explains Everything, John Brockman, founder and publisher of Edge.org, asked experts in numerous fields and disciplines to come up with their favorite explanations for everyday occurrences. Why do we recognize patterns? Is there such a thing as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879696740Author M. F. PerutzFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U.S.Publisher Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,U...

If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a tornado in Texas? Chaos theory attempts to answer such baffling questions. The discovery of randomness in apparently predictable physical systems has evolved into a science that declares the...