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(Hardback)
By: Thomas Hager
ISBN: 9781419734403
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Abrams
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Beginning with opium, the "joy plant," which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager's subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain; the infamous knockout drops; the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives; the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals; Viagra, statins; and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies.
(Paperback)
By: Anil Ananthaswamy
ISBN: 9780715653913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2020
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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A scientific and globetrotting exploration of the physics experiments changing the ways we understand our universebringing the science of cosmology down to earth.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9780500024539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th September 2021
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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The first fully illustrated history of the chemical elements.
(Paperback)
By: Stewart Ross
ISBN: 9781789292091
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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A lively and highly readable account of the origins, invention and discovery of just about everything on the planet, the truly global sweep of The First of Everything ranges from the Big Bang to driverless cars.
(Paperback)
By: Libby Copeland
ISBN: 9781419747939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Abrams
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(Hardback)
By: Andrew Robinson
ISBN: 9780500251911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. This title features articles that offer an account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Robinson
ISBN: 9780500297063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Lisa Harvey-Smith
ISBN: 9781760761226
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Rooney Anne
ISBN: 9781785993145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Taylor Frey
ISBN: 9781419732744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2019
Publisher: Abrams
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(Hardback)
By: Arielle Eckstut
ISBN: 9781419734519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2020
Publisher: Abrams
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Organized by 50 of the most essential questions about color across a variety of fields--physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology--this book examines how and why we see color; how color relates to light; what the real primary colors are; how biology, language, and culture affect the colors that we see; and much more.
(Hardback)
By: Elsie Burch Donald
ISBN: 9780715654224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th September 2021
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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What are you, who are you and where are you going - the beginner's guide to modern science
(Paperback)
By: Richard P Feynman
ISBN: 9780141030883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describes everything from the author's love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. In this book, the author takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation, where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment.
(Hardback)
By: Colin Stuart
ISBN: 9781782436874
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through 13 of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at The Royal Institution of Great Britain over the last 200 years.
(Hardback)
By: Bruce Goldfarb
ISBN: 9781913068035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The unlikely tale of Frances Glessner Lee and her revolutionary work in forensic science through the creation of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of dollhouse-sized crime scene dioramas that she used to teach homicide investigators.
(Hardback)
By: Patrick Aryee
ISBN: 9781785947506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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For many years, humans have been using the natural world as inspiration for everything from fashion to architecture, and medicine to transport, and it may come as a surprise to learn how many inventions have been motivated by animal design and behaviour.
(Hardback)
By: Gail Dixon
ISBN: 9781784296148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The key concepts of science explained in 50 insightful essays
(Paperback)
By: Alok Jha
ISBN: 9781782069461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A brilliantly readable and entertaining guide to the 50 biggest threats facing our planet.
(Hardback)
By: Jordan Frith
ISBN: 9780262039758
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How RFID, a ubiquitous but often invisible mobile technology, identifies tens of billions of objects as they move through the world.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Crease
ISBN: 9781845292812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2002
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Join the hunt for the cosmic beauty in numbers with stories of the discovery of the ten most admired equations of all time.
(Hardback)
By: Becky Dr Smethurst
ISBN: 9781529086706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Black Holes are the universes strangest and most fascinating objects Dr Becky explains all, and why nearly everything you know about them is wrong.
(Paperback)
By: Brian Clegg
ISBN: 9781841196503
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The story of a philosophical and mathematical concept that has driven men insane
(Hardback, 0th New edition)
By: Liat Yakir
ISBN: 9781786788238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2024
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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A fascinating exploration of the truth behind love, attraction and sex combining humour, science and practical advice froma biologist specialising in hormones and genes.
(Paperback)
By: J.P. McEvoy
ISBN: 9781845296841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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From Stonehenge to String Theory - how astronomy has changed the world
