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Did you know that breast milk contains substances similar to cannabis? Or that it's sold on the Internet for 262 times the price of oil? Feted and fetishized, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece. But in the modern world, the breast is changing...

A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and park is full of living organisms adapted for relationships with...

'Full of tips and life hacks that are backed up by cold, hard science' - Sun'Contains a staggering amount of common sense, scientifically solid advice, much of it new information to this particular reviewer, who will be adopting some of its principles...

In The Dark Side of Man, Michael Ghiglieri, a biologist and protege of Jane Goodall, takes on one of the most highly charged debates in modern science: the biological roots of bad behaviour. Beginning with rape, and moving on to murder, war, and...

Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon-to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813244Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956377807Author Manjir Samanta-LaughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Paradigm Revolution PublishingPublisher Paradigm Revolution...

Interdisciplinary education has been identified by many educational organisations in Europe and the United States as important for what lies ahead, and it has become a buzzword in some debates about educating for the future. Now, more than ever, higher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906308087Author Simon LevayFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Monday BooksPublisher Monday BooksWeight(grams) 208g

One of Britain's foremost astrobiologists offers an accessible and game-changing account of life on Earth.__________________Why is all life based on carbon rather than silicon? And beyond Earth, would life - if it exists - look like our own?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2017 (Australia) and Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Media Award 2017 (Australia). Short-listed for...

The question 'What is the meaning of life?' is one of the most fascinating, oldest and most difficult questions human beings have ever posed themselves. In an increasingly secularized culture, it remains a question to which we are ineluctably and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062071224Author Mario BeauregardFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 194g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853432040Author Michel OdentFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Free Association BooksPublisher Free Association Books

The Compact Guide: DNA provides a fascinating look at the world of the double helix and examines who we are, how we're wired, and how we repair ourselves. With information on so-called 'junk' DNA, how our genes evolved, heritability, the genetics of...

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...

In southern California, nearly a half century ago, a small band of researchers -- equipped with a new 200-inch telescope and a faith born of scientific optimism -- embarked on the greatest intellectual adventure in the history of humankind: the search...

Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a potentially critical part of this vital organ has been overlooked-until now. The Other Brain examines the growing importance of glia, which make up approximately 85 percent of the cells in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912550305Author May Theilgaard WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Nature Study Guild PublishersPublisher Nature Study Guild...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244386221Author Hisham Maksoud Toqa AbdelrahmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684715152Author Ron NewbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Lulu PressPublisher Lulu PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year, Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of bestseller Periodic Tales, is a splendidly entertaining journey through the art, science, literature and history of the human body.'Magnificent, inspired. He writes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534284Author Ian StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 714gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 170mm * 21mm

Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639231676Author Manly P HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Lushena BooksPublisher Lushena BooksWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

First issued in 1957 by Swallow Press, this classic guide to the art of plant identification is now familiar to an entire generation of students. Harrington who was Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium at Colorado State University, gives...

In this thoughtful exploration of a painful subject, Kathleen Taylor seeks to bring together the fruits of work in psychology, sociology, and her own field of neuroscience to shed light on the nature of cruelty and what makes human beings cruel. The...

Nuclear power is low carbon and reliable, but in recent years it has struggled to play a strong role in global plans for electricity generation in the 21st century. Many of those involved with nuclear power and environmental agencies see controlled...

'Our relationship with nature has changed . . . radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.'In The Human Age award-winning nature writer Diane...

The highest-energy particle accelerator ever built, the Large Hadron Collider runs under the border between France and Switzerland. It leapt into action on September 10, 2008, amid unprecedented global press coverage and widespread fears that its energy...

Suitable for both concept- and context-led approaches, this Revision Guide is Edexcel's own resource for the 2008 Edexcel GCE Biology specification. Written by experienced examiners, it features guidance from the people who write and mark exam papers and...

A fun, entertaining exploration of the ideas and people behind the growth of trigonometryTrigonometry has a reputation as a dry, difficult branch of mathematics, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In Trigonometric Delights,...

Discusses consciousness, the nature of God, sexuality, human knowledge, robots, and the future.Book InformationISBN 9780914171454Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ronin PublishingPublisher Ronin PublishingWeight(grams) 255g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982283018Author Stephen Bird C Eng McIbse MashraeFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Balboa Press UKPublisher Balboa Press UKWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498297967Author Marcel JousseFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

An elegantly dramatized and illustrated dialog on the square root of two and the whole concept of irrational numbers.ReviewsFrom the reviews: "Written by an expert teacher as a conversation between a 'master' and a 'pupil' on the threshold of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478769163Author Bernard J Nebel PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 998g

THE ECOLOGICAL SURVEY on which this book is based began to be planned in 1942, and since 1945 has been mainly centred upon Oxford University's estate at Wytham Woods, where a rich series of habitats from open ground and limestone to woodland with many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684112319Author Trudeau R JFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Stanford Inversiones SpaPublisher Stanford Inversiones Spa

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741290905Author Jeremy GriffithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Wtm Publications and Communications Pty LtdPublisher Wtm Publications and...