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The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes' investigations of buoyancy to the discovery of dark matter, and then linking these to the history of science, as well as to...

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyDo doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global...

In thirty years, Rubik's cube, invented by Erno Rubik, has established itself as a neverending source of delight, frustration and intellectual stimulation to children and adults alike. There is a large literature on the subject, but one of the few books...

'A delight. Popular science doesn't come much better than this' IndependentEverything you might want to know about infinity - in history and all the way to today's cutting-edge science.Infinity is surely the strangest idea that humans have ever had...

What if the earth were square? Discover the amazing answers to some cooland weird questions aboutour world * What if the earth stopped spinning? * What if we could see sounds? * What if the moon fell down? * What if aliens landed and only wanted to talk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471661955Author Lois H. GreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How...

All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail...

Is life getting on top of you? Do you dream of being stranded on an island just for some alone time? Are you currently standing on a chair, screaming, 'Enough is enough!'? I get it. Your diary is full and your brain is racing. The hectic world we...

At a time of increasing volatility in healthcare provision, we are all having to become more responsible for our own well-being. This book - an imaginative, practical and accessible guide to our inner organs - is written for anyone who wants to improve...

A book which offers fresh perspectives on the scientific developments of the past hundred years through the complementary work of two of the century's greatest thinkers, Einstein and Freud. At the turn of the century there was a widespread...

In the mid-1800s, inveterate showman/salesman P. T. Barnum introduced a real-life Tom Thumb and spawned a huge movement of midget exhibits. Little people were paraded en masse throughout Europe and the New World, earning fame and fortune as the central...

This book is a unique insight into the beliefs and political ideology of the Ulster Defence Assocation (UDA) and the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). Featuring interviews with key members of these paramilitary groups, many conducted inside the Maze prison,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983958444Author Professor Robert H GrayFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Palmer Square PressPublisher Palmer Square PressWeight(grams)...

50 Science Ideas You Really Need to Know is your guide to the biggest questions and deepest concepts from across the whole of science. What was the Big Bang? How did life on Earth arise? What does quantum mechanics tell us about the universe? Is true...

This textbook explains Technology Roadmapping, in both its development and practice, and illustrates the underlying theory of, and empirical evidence for, technologic evolution over time afforded by this strategy. The book contains a rich set of examples...

Welcome to Scientific Python and its community. If you're a scientist who programs with Python, this practical guide not only teaches you the fundamental parts of SciPy and libraries related to it, but also gives you a taste for beautiful, easy-to-read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684833484Author Sherry TurkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399536632Author Kelly LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 300g

There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244183943Author Steffen ArctanderFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

This book offers an introduction to crime science; it is specifically for police and security professionals. Written by one of the founders of crime science and an expert in crime reduction, it considers the unique characteristics of the approach, its...

Tabloid headlines attack the binge drinking of young women. Debates about the classification of cannabis continue, while major public health campaigns seek to reduce and ultimately eliminate smoking through health warnings and legislation. But the...

Foundation Mathematics for Biosciences provides an accessible and clear introduction to mathematical skills for students of the biosciences. The book chapters cover key topic areas and their associated techniques, thereby presenting the maths in context...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172633Author Trebbe JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Majestic and awe-inspiring, mountains demand our attention. Through the centuries, they have both repulsed and attracted. They have been appreciated and despised as sites of divine and diabolic sublimity, as the dwellings of gods and demons, hermits and...

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737199816Author Deborah ThomsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Why do we speak the way we do, and what do our voices tell others about us? What is the truth behind the myths that surround how we speak? Jane Setter explores these and other fascinating questions in this engaging introduction to the power and the...

'Half Lives shines a light on the shocking history of the world's toxic love affair with a deadly substance, radium. Unnerving, fascinating, informative and truly frightening.' Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five'The story of this supposed cure-all in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434342676Author Charles James HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 552gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body-blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler-determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to...

This book provides important new evidence to support the thesis that the primary reason for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not to end the war in Japan, as was said at the time, but to 'make the Russians more manageable'. Drawing on recently...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486453583Author Maurice KraitchikFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It has manifested itself in wings, sails, horns, armour, and an even greater array of appendages since the time of its origin. In...

Rattling the Cage explains how the failure to recognize the basic legal rights of chimpanzees and bonobos in light of modern scientific findings creates a glaring contradiction in our law. In this witty, moving, persuasive, and impeccably researched...

What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and...

The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the light of modern science. Are we all descended from a single couple, a real-life Adam and Eve? Was the...

As featured on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week 'A rich, timely study for the era of "global ageing"'- Nature The ageing of the world population is one of the most important issues facing humanity in the 21st century - up there with climate change in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312141042Author Samuel C FlormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 295g