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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328987808Author Tim FolgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *...

Drug-resistant bacteria - known as superbugs - are one of the biggest medical threats of our time. Here, a doctor, researcher, and ethics professor tells the exhilarating story of his race to beat them and save countless lives. When doctor Matt...

A groundbreaking book that will transform how we understand ourselves and our families by revealing that everything we thought we knew about genetics is wrong. Your experiences, no matter how seemingly inconsequential - from bullies to crushes to what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618446636Author John HorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm * 25mm

Containing around 200 fascinating science puzzles posing real-world questions for you to ponder and solve at home. The answer to each problem explains a scientific principle in easy-to-understand terms, so not only are you solving puzzles, you are also...

The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only...

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...

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...

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...

Infinity is a profoundly counter-intuitive and brain-twisting subject that has inspired some great thinkers - and provoked and shocked others.The ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave...

How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought that only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a Creator? How does the cosmos create? That's the central question of a...

The classic, bestselling book on the emerging field of DNA activation, CONSCIOUS HEALING, now updated and expanded with a wealth of empowering new information, is far more than the inspiring story of the development of a "revolutionary healing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979127670Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theoriesand formulae.The Curious World of Science embraces both views and much more besides. Focusing on the human endeavours at the heart of science, it...

Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he's never held a conventional academic appointment. He seized the world's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471350651Author STEWARTFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

The more science tells us about the world, the stranger it looks. Ever since physics first penetrated the atom, early in this century, what it found there has stood as a radical and unanswered challenge to many of our most cherished conceptions of nature...

A groundbreaking work of science that confirms, for the first time, the independent existence of the mind-and demonstrates the possibilities for human control over the workings of the brain. Conventional science has long held the position that 'the mind'...

From breakfast toast to evening wine, yeast is the microscopic thing that we cannot live without. We knew what yeast did as an invisible brewer and baker long before we had a clue about the existence of microorganisms. Ten thousand years ago, our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g

Max Maths Primary - A Singapore Approach is a six-level course in mathematics for young learners. It offers a complete solution for schools following the Cambridge Primary maths curriculum framework, and has been specifically designed to support students...

Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values. This volume articulates a pragmatist stance for the study of the making of values in society, exploring various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837168760Author Sir Charles Galton DarwinFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

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...

The renowned Oxford Chemistry Primers series, which provides focused introductions to a range of important topics in chemistry, has been refreshed and updated to suit the needs of today's students, lecturers, and postgraduate researchers. The rigorous,...

Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. ...

"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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628841770Author Jason ScottsFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Speedy Publishing BooksPublisher Speedy Publishing BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm)...

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 *...

'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night MagazineA mind-warping excursion into the wildly...

Sunday Times Book of the YearThis is a book about what it feels like to be exceptional - and what it takes to get there. Why can some people achieve greatness when others can't, no matter how hard they try? What are the secrets of long life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930491083Author Fred Alan WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Moment Point Press Inc,USPublisher Moment Point Press Inc,US

"Swords and lances, arrows, machine guns and even high explosives have had far less power over the fate of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea and the yellow-fever mosquito." Both shocking and entertaining, this masterpiece of popular...

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...

'Poignant and lyrical...Slater's experience makes her a convincing travel guide into the history, creation and future of psychotropics.' - The New York Times Book Review A groundbreaking and revelatory story of the psychotropic drugs that have shaped our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471379072Author Rob EastawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Disch traces Sci-Fi's phenomenal growth from the supernatural tales of Edgar Allen Poe to the utopian dreams and technological nightmares of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, to today when it has become a multi-billion dollar global entertainment industry...

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...

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 9780244386344Author Rick AppletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 64g