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While geeks' obsessive desire for data makes them constant curators of useless information, it also drives them to great lengths to find the solutions to everyday problems. How do you make the perfect cup of tea? What are the moves that will impress a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679768678Author Edward O. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pantheon Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

Why can't we tickle ourselves? Which properties give you the best chance of winning Monopoly? What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Is it possible to hurt your brain if you think too much? In this entertaining and enlightening tour of...

An accessible and hard-hitting look at the facts behind air pollution in everyday life.Take a deep breath. You'll do it 20,000 times a day. You assume all this air is clean; it's the very breath of life.But in Delhi, the toxic smog is as bad for you as...

This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Profound and well-structured, the contents combine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061238680Author Patrick BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 386g

From the use of metals by prehistoric man to the alchemical experiments of medieval and renaissance man to the complex chemical skills of contemporary man, Asimov traces the development of this building block of our technological world.Book...

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In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is over. Interviewing scientific luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, Francis Crick, and Richard Dawkins, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486247755Author Gary ChartrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Inspire and engage your students with this brand new Lower Secondary Science course from Collins offering comprehensive coverage of the curriculum framework including all suggested practicals and scientific enquiry skills. - Develop your...

A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.Do dragons actually exist? Is it possible to crush a person's head with your bare hands?What really happened when royal families interbreed? How...

Dawn of Modern Science explores the beginnings of science from the cosmology of ancient Greece to the cataclysmic conflict between the Medieval understanding of nature through spiritual contemplation and the Renaissance's revolutionary efforts to forge...

In this lively collection, Gardner examines the rich and hilarious variety of pseudoscientific conjectures that dominate the media today. With a special emphasis on parapsychology and occultism, these witty pieces address the evidence put forth to...

Did the Universe have a beginning? Will it have an end? Or has it always been the same, never changing? This is the subject of cosmology; the study of the Universe, and this book provides a perfect introduction to the subject for anyone that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401025Author Richard UtzFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 198g

By 1949, the idea of duplicating human thought processes in a computer was starting to surface, as the outgrowth of code-breaking work done by Alan Turing and others in Britain during the Second World War. This ingenious work of speculative scientific...

The "Heinemann Science Scheme" offers an approach to the QCA's Scheme of Work. Teacher's resource packs provide support with lesson planning, with each chapter matching the Scheme of Work, and in-built assessment. The scheme aims to improve on the Scheme...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359022526Author Andrew T StillFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 322g

A perfume-flavorist's practical description of most of the commercially available perfume and flavor chemicals, with their chemical structure and practical physical data, appearance, odor and flavor type, reported and suggested uses, production and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621387664Author Charles WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The author chronicles the search for . . . a theory to explain all natural fields and their interaction with particles. . . . Lives and contributions of physicists and cosmologists, starting with the pioneers of scientific cosmology in the 19th century,...

Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995250109Author Joan Chandler KomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Peak Performance Institute Inc.Publisher Peak Performance Institute Inc...

The modern industrialized world is a complex system on a scale never before witnessed in the history of humankind. Technologically dependent, globally interconnected, it offers seemingly limitless conveniences, choices, and opportunities. Yet this same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667200743Author Sophie CollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Portable PressPublisher Portable PressWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 253mm * 198mm *...

How do individuals decide whether to accept human causes of climate change, vaccinate their children against childhood diseases, or practice social distancing during a pandemic? Democracies depend on educated citizens who can make informed decisions for...

Many online applications, especially in the financial industries, are running on blockchain technologies in a decentralized manner, without the use of an authoritative entity or a trusted third party. Such systems are only secured by cryptographic...

Wisdom in the Open Air traces the Norwegian roots of the strain of thinking called "deep ecology"-the search for the solutions to environmental problems by examining the fundamental tenets of our culture. Although Arne Naess coined the term in the 1970s,...

As Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary, the futuristic tools of Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy continue to come to life. This book merges Star Trek scientific lore-how the science of the time informed the implementation of technology in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954415891Author Marcus HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Marcus HarrisonPublisher Marcus Harrison

Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skill-and as much deception-as Wernher von Braun. America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space travel, he had a closet full of secrets that...

Eloquent, urgent, and inspiring, "The Constant Fire" tackles the acrimonious debate between science and religion, taking us beyond its stagnant parameters into the wider domain of human spiritual experience. From a Neolithic archaeological site in...

'Shit happens', as the saying goes, but if you want to know why it does, the Undercover Scientist is on hand to explain all. Making his way through one of those days when everything seems to go wrong, Peter Bentley investigates the fascinating science...

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal...

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...

The Biology of Human Starvation was first published in 1950. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...

The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society's relationship to it. In recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter, and now in this fascinating book, Massimiano Bucchi provides a brief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244941130Author Larry ChurchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 150g