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A Nobel Laureate physicist argues that ours is not an age of information but an age of disinformation and ignorance, where access to knowledge is becoming increasingly restricted and even criminalized.

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Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The

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This brilliant and ambitious book is an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically - and a call for a new way of thinking about history. ' The proper sense of time, he argues, is one that allows us to appreciate the world and see what we are doing to it.

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Focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals that included the evolutionist and physician Erasmus Darwin, Rev Thomas Gisborne the evangelical philosopher and poet, Robert Bage the novelist, and Charles Sylvester the chemist and engineer.

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In The Dialectic of Duration Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary, Henri Bergson. For Bachelard, experienced time is irreducibly fractured and interrupted, as indeed are material events. At stake is an entire conce...

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In The Dialectic of Duration Gaston Bachelard addresses the nature of time in response to the writings of his great contemporary, Henri Bergson. For Bachelard, experienced time is irreducibly fractured and interrupted, as indeed are material events. At stake is an entire conce...

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How do we make the field and laboratory coherent How do we use statistics to help experimentation How do we integrate modeling and statistics This book answers these questions. It makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models.

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This book demonstrates that the subversiveness assumed in Chinas and Indias rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.

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This book demonstrates that the subversiveness assumed in Chinas and Indias rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally. It stresses a decolonial imperative for science governance to be responsive and effective in a cosmopolitan world.

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"For more than a century physicists have hoped that they were closing in on the Holy Grail of modern science: a unified theory that would make sense of the entire physical world, from the subnuclear re"

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*A witty, profound book about how all the most significant scientific discoveries are now all in the past. Also contains exclusive interviews with Stephen Hawkins etc.

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The search for our elusive human origins and an understanding of the mysteries of the human body have challenged the most inquisitive and imaginative thinkers from Egyptian times through the twentieth

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From the earliest fossilized prints left by a millipede on a volcanic island to Neil Armstrong's footprint, forever embedded in the lunar dust, Lockley reinterprets the story of evolution, recorded over millions of years in the strata and substrata of our planet and its environs.

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Takes you on a ride through the past 3.8 billion years of life on Earth exploring the complex and controversial issue of evolution. This title features the field trips that unearth some of the world's significant fossils, from microbes to mighty mammals, including the feathered dinosaurs that make the link between reptiles and birds.

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From da Vinci to van Gogh, Hitler to Howard Hughes, this is a fascinating investigation into how brain diseases and conditions like epilepsy, syphilis, schizophrenia and tumours have made their sufferers both famous and infamous and have in fact altered the course of history.

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Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague, and fire. A series of meetings of natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a method of thinking based on proof and experiment. This is account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society.

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"A beautifully written, thoroughly researched and relentlessly terrifying work, and a must-read for anybody with an interest in the environment or the future of our planet."--Salon.com

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This assessment of the revolutionary potential of artificial intelligence and robotics traces how technology arrived at this point and how artificial life, machine consciousness, extreme prosperity, and technological warfare will be hotly debated issues of the near future.

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The book asks: How are scientific developments impacting on human life and on the structure of societies How is science regulated, and how should it be regulated Are there ethical boundaries to scientific developments in some sensitive areas (robotic intelligence, biosecurity) -- .

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A cutting-edge science book in the style of Fermats Last Theorem and Chaos from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing.