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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

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her as slow, stubborn - or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backwards, was physically uncoordinated and she continually got lost. But by...

Modern Science is teamwork. But how can young academics go from being a productive member of a scientific team to leading their own? Entry level positions for PhDs in Science often require the infamous "people skills". The authors aim to equip young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949424Author Annalee NewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink of an evolutionary eye we have spread around the globe, taken control of Earth's...

Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and...

First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through...

One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's...

For decades, neuroscientists, psychologists, and an army of brain researchers have been struggling, in vain, to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. Now there is a clear trail to the answer, and it leads through the dense jungle of quantum physics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780731604951Author Mr Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint WTM Publishing & Communications Pty LtdPublisher WTM Publishing & Communications...

In this fascinating history, Cathy Cobb and Harold Goldwhite celebrate not only chemistry's theories and breakthroughs but also the provocative times and personalities that shaped this amazing science and brought it to life. Throughout the book, the...

A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters , is also highly topical: scientists continue to struggle with quantum physics, their role in wartime and the public's misunderstanding.Springer Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684835297Author Robert BuderiFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 836gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Epidemiology is one of the fastest growing and increasingly important sciences. This thorough analysis lays out the conceptual foundations of epidemiology, identifying traps and setting out the benefits of properly understanding this fascinating and...

The last of the five naked-eye planets discovered in ancient times, Mercury has long been an elusive, enigmatic world. As seen from the Earth, it never emerges far from the Sun, and astronomers in the telescopic era found it challenging to work out such...

The Corrosion Resistant Metals Committee and the Nuclear Metallurgy Committee of the Institute of Metals Division of The Metallurgical Society of AlME sponsored a 2-1/2 day symposium on "Corrosion by Liquid Metals". The symposium was held in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999802707Author Yasmin WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Halima PublishingPublisher Halima PublishingWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

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.'A wonderful book about one of the most important, brilliant...

How did it all begin? Where is it all going?A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. His theory changed the way we think about...

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to...

Spanning the years from World War II, when he was a civilian statistician in the operations research section of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, through his studies with Hans Bethe at Cornell University, his early friendship with Richard Feynman, and...

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know and what we do not know about information and entropy - two of the most frequently discussed topics in recent literature - and whether they are relevant to life and the entire universe...

An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who...

An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This brand new, updated edition also...

"Some people say, 'How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."--Richard P. Feynman Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-88)...

Modern audiences do not find dragons frightening. Fascinating as mythical creatures, yes, but terrifying, no. Yet, present them with a story about a virus that can kill a healthy adult in hours and they will have nightmares for weeks. The difference...

Penicillin is the drug of the twentieth century. It was the first of the antibiotics that, for decades after the Second World War, underpinned a popular belief that infectious disease had at last met its match. With the emergence of 'superbugs' in recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904098362Author Paul L SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wildtrack Publishing LimitedPublisher Wildtrack Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

This revised and expanded bestseller includes a new chapter on putting, a new appendix on the fundamental physics covered in the book, increased coverage of modern club design, and an updated reference section. As in the previous book, most of the...

Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly healthy state," writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the "peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature," Gould...

Why is it that Tony Blair always wore the same pair of shoes when answering Prime Minister's Questions? That John McEnroe notoriously refused to step on the white lines of a tennis court between points? And that President-elect Barack Obama played a game...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914055096Author Bukky Ekine-OgunlanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Olubukola Ekine-OgunlanaPublisher Olubukola Ekine-OgunlanaWeight(grams)...

The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture Ernst Kapp was a foundational scholar in the fields of media theory and philosophy of technology. His 1877 Elements of a Philosophy...

Astrology is the oldest of the occult sciences, and it has had an unshakeable hold on the human mind for centuries. Universities, such as Oxford and the Sorbonne, offer courses on it. In THE FATED SKY Benson Bobrick gives us a fascinating history of the...

From the medicine we take, the treatments we receive, the aptitude and psychometric tests given by employers, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear to even the beer we drink, statistics have given shape to the world we inhabit. For the media, statistics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937057299Author Sylvia VardellFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Pomelo BooksPublisher Pomelo BooksWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489736628Author Dr Julie Wei-ShatzelFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint LiferichPublisher LiferichWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970807Author Thomas TrowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Listen. Can you hear an aircraft passing overhead? A dog barking? The twittering of birds? In straining to listen, you have just sent a surge of electrical activity through millions of brain cells. In choosing to do this with your mind, you have changed...