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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...

During the second decade of human life, the body and brain undergo a profound and complex transformation, with emotions and intellect changing as rapidly and unpredictably as weight and height. These changes can be baffling - to teenagers and to those...

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

Abortion is now recognised as primarily a medical issue, rather than one of political and social importance; its regulation determined by the authority of doctors and other medical professionals. In the first comprehensive historical study of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671605735Author P. C. W. DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 392gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572584181Author Professor Jonathan GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Teach Services, Inc.Publisher Teach Services, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912557455Author Dr Rohan AgarwalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint RAR Medical ServicesPublisher UniAdmissionsWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 270mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733978903Author Nick KolendaFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Kolenda Group LLCPublisher Kolenda Group LLCWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In the tradition of Schroedinger's classic What Is Life?, this book is a tour-de-force investigation of the basis of life itself, with conclusions that radically undermine the scientific approaches on which modern science rests-the approaches of Newton,...

Does it sometimes seem that everyone else is doing 'smarter' things on their smartphones than you? Do you feel you're not taking full advantage of some of the amazing technology available today, or perhaps just don't know that it even exists? Martin...

This volume aims to provide the reader with an up-to-date account of knowledge, research, education, and clinical practice in the field of au tism, from an international perspective. The emphasis throughout is on the growing points of knowledge and on...

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

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...

"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...

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you'll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they'll see dollar signs: moviemakers know that science can be the source of great stories, with all the drama and action that...

More than just coincidence connects a Tate & Lyle lawsuit and artificial sweetener to Jamaican-born Chemist Bert Fraser-Reid. From his first experience of Chemistry through his diabetic father, to his determination and drive as a Chemistry student in...

Ten amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfully curated collection of ten mathematical curves, selected by Julian Havil for their significance, mathematical...

"Introducing Plato" begins by explaining how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. It provides a clear account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on...

In the 25 years since the 'Bodmer Report' kick-started the public understanding of science movement, there has been something of a revolution in science communication. However, despite the ever-growing demands of the public, policy-makers and the media,...

In Linus Pauling in his Own Words the Two-time Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling who was known for his scientific discoveries and of his breadth of knowledge, which spanned discipline shares a selections from his work.Edited by Barbara Marinacci, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542654Author James G. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Take a front row seat with Professor Luke O'Neill on a high-octane year. Luke has become one of the most well-known and trusted voices of Ireland's COVID-19 pandemic. A world-renowned immunologist, he was thrust into the spotlight as we struggled to make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784521530Author Gabriela Mueller MendozaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

An introduction to the field of science and religion. After surveying their volatile historical relationship, John Polkinghorne leads the reader through the whole array of questions that arise at the intersection of the scientific and religious quests...

What are we not seeing?Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that peer through skin, the mass spectrometers that detect the dead inside the living, or the high-tech surveillance systems that see with...

Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate its physical impact on the environment. This failure reveals a lack of interaction between economists and scientists, long separated from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912557073Author Rohan AgarwalFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint RAR Medical ServicesPublisher UniAdmissionsWeight(grams) 803gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

We live in a world, according to N Katherine Hayles, where new languages are constantly emerging, proliferating, and fading into obsolescence. These are languages of our own making: the programming languages written in code for the intelligent machines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394701578Author Loren EiseleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 170mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912557370Author Peter StephensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint RAR Medical ServicesPublisher UniAdmissionsWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

By the simple expedient of asking questions and conducting experiments to answer them, science has transformed our understanding of the world. It has made us who we are, and revealed a universe that is older, bigger and stranger than we could ever have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592405817Author Helen ScalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934586488Author Sahl Ibn BishrFormat PaperbackPage Count 834Imprint Cazimi PressPublisher Cazimi PressWeight(grams) 1093gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

White Blood is a history of human milk and tells the story of how babies have been fed from antiquity to modern times and why it matters. 'Breast is Best' is the popular mantra, but there is a perennial debate about the pros and cons of 'breast and...

Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.About the AuthorRobert S. Desowitz (1926-2008) was...

A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave you breathless. With seven million early deaths a year linked to air pollution, air quality is headline news around the world. But how do we measure air pollution and what on earth is an...

Love is one of the most complex and confusing emotions in the human experience. It consumes so much of our lives and yet we don't truly understand it - what it is on a biological, chemical and evolutionary level. This book takes you on a fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935776017Author David Issac RudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Gadflower PressPublisher Gadflower Press

Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth-an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486209418Author William M. IvinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...