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This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and...

""What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?"" This was the question posed by John Brockman to a group of leading scientists and thinkers via his Edge.org website. The subsequent answers created a media storm and prompted a fiery debate...

A website's ranking on Google can spell the difference between success and failure for a new business. NCAA football ratings determine which schools get to play for the big money in postseason bowl games. Product ratings influence everything from the...

In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' -- putting humankind at the threshold of the most important and exciting phase of biological research, one that will enable us to actually write the...

'The text is lightly written but, underneath the entertaining gloss of anecdote and personal detail, this is actually an intensely serious and carefully constructed book, aimed at informing the educated public about science in general and nanotechnology...

Come on a journey into the heart of matter,and enjoy the process!,as a brilliant scientist and entertaining tour guide takes you on a fascinating voyage through the Periodic Kingdom, the world of the elements. The periodic table, your map for this trip,...

Inspire a new generation of capable and curious scientists.This book will help build pupils' understanding through clear explanations, practicals and skills-based activities, ensuring that they're ready for the next step in their learning and promoting a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395906637Author Vincent J. SchaeferFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams)...

'Making Media' uncovers what it means and what it takes to make media, focusing on the lived experience of media professionals within the global media, including rich case studies of the main media industries and professions: television, journalism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684839295Author DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 274g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401650Author Rodrigo Laham CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

"A sophisticated celebration of cultural diversity and of its enabling technologies...perhaps the best single volume relating the philosophical tradition to the broad issues raised by contemporary technologies." -ChoiceDiscusses the role of tools and...

As a psychologist specialising in court assessments, David Roland often saw the toughest, most heartbreaking cases. The emotional trauma had begun to take its toll - and then the global financial crisis hit, leaving his family facing financial ruin. So...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486490984Author William PoundstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880107150Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

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...

As Kenneth W. Ford shows us in The Quantum World, the laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an...

The need for error analysis is captured in the book's arresting cover shot - of the 1895 Paris train disaster (also available as a wall poster). The early chapters teach elementary techniques of error propagation and statistical analysis to enable...

Why is the sky blue and why are sunsets red? When can I see a rainbow? Why is the moon sometimes visible in daylight? In Out of the Blue skywatcher John Naylor offers practical advice about where and when you can expect to see natural phenomena, what you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967883Author John GribbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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

An original and radically revised view of British and US foreign policy, exposing the extent to which Anglo-American interests have shaped and damaged the current world order.About the AuthorMark Curtis has published widely on British and US foreign...

Memory binds our mental life together. We are who we are in large part because of what we learn and remember. But how does the brain create memories? Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel intertwines the intellectual history of the powerful new science of...

An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their...

This autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory...

For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few 17th-century minds started to decipher their true, organic nature, fossils had been eaten, dropped in goblets of wine, buried with the...

This volume preserves the format in which Discourse on Method was originally published: as a preface to Descartes's writings on optics, geometry, and meteorology. In his introduction, Olscamp discusses the value of reading the Discourse alongside these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871136640Author Howard K. BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet in the final decades of his life he was also ignored by...

When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486241043Author Morris KlineFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions? Don Glass and experts in their fields answer these questions and many more. Written for readers of all ages...

In Brain Fever, the internationally renowned medical scientist, Richard Moxon FRS, shares his experiences of bacterial meningitis, a fearful and devastating infection of the brain. In a clear, non-technical style, he explains what meningitis is, what...

This Student Book: features high quality, engaging content to motivate and support studentshelps students achieve their potential with a range of exam-style questions, sample student answers and step-by-step guidance on the new question typesprovides...

'Gribbin has inspired generations with his popular science writing' Jim Al-KhaliliA scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover 'life, the Universe, and everything'.From the mysteries of the subatomic world to the curious property of...

The Cosmic Mystery Tour takes us on a lightning tour of the mysteries of the universe enlivened by brief stories of the colourful characters who created modern science. It explores hot topics in physics and astronomy, including the recent discovery of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671724993Author Donald C. JohansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 409Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 590g

For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only through the fossil record. No longer. We can now also read the DNA record. As well as containing the operating instructions for everyday...