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By: Prof Steven Mithen
ISBN: 9780753820513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.
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By: Sarah Stewart Johnson
ISBN: 9780141981581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Michael Shermer
ISBN: 9781576076538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A thorough, objective, and balanced analysis of the most prominent controversies made in the name of science-from the effectiveness of proposed medical treatments to the reality of supernatural claims.
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By: Chris North
ISBN: 9781849903479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Celebrating the 55th anniversary of The Sky at Night, this book collects and answers questions sent in by viewers.
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By: Chris North
ISBN: 9781849906296
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781847925978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Soul of Genius: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and the Meeting that Changed the Course of Science
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By: Jeffrey Orens
ISBN: 9781643137148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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A prismatic look at the meeting of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and the impact these two pillars of science had on the world of physics, which was in turmoil.
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By: Frances Ashcroft
ISBN: 9780141046532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do. This title reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells.
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By: Alanna Mitchell
ISBN: 9781786075505
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earths poles will switch places with potentially catastrophic results
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By: Alanna Mitchell
ISBN: 9781786074249
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earths poles will switch places with potentially catastrophic results
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By: David Epstein
ISBN: 9780224091626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Offers an exploration of athletic success. This book shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not - like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball player - and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like the motivation to practice, might in fact have important genetic components.
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By: James Trefil
ISBN: 9781426217050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Written for science geeks and everyone curious about the world around us, this comprehensive sweep through modern science and technology is a solid family reference, covering the most important innovations and inventions in engineering, physics, medicine, chemistry, biology, and more.
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By: Daniel Lieberman
ISBN: 9780141399959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodies. This book of popular science explores how the way we use our bodies is all wrong. It asks how our bodies got to be the way they are, and considers how that evolutionary history - both ancient and recent - can help us evaluate how we use our bodies.
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By: Christopher J. Preston
ISBN: 9780262537094
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.
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By: Sam Kean
ISBN: 9781784161033
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2015
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards.
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By: Alexander C. Karp
ISBN: 9781847928528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: V. S. Ramachandran
ISBN: 9780099537595
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Cornerstone
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John, aged sixty, suffered a stroke and recovered fully, except in one respect: although he can see perfectly, he can no longer recognise faces, even his own reflection in a mirror.
Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture, she experiences a vivid emotion: denim = extreme sadness;
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By: Stephen Witt
ISBN: 9781847928276
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Lee Smolin
ISBN: 9780141018355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents an account of the state of modern physics: of how we got from Einstein and Relativity through quantum mechanics to the strange and bizarre predictions of string theory, full of unseen dimensions and multiple universes.
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By: New Scientist
ISBN: 9781473628618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A journey through 55 alternative realities, parallel worlds and possible futures from the million-selling New Scientist series.
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By: Neil Shubin
ISBN: 9780141041902
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What links the birth of the moon to our body clocks How did the creation of the Atlantic Ocean affect how we have children What does the water inside us and on Earth have to do with the deepest stretches of space This book deals with these questions.
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By: Wendy Leonard
ISBN: 9780007927791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Calling all of the trivia buffs! Loaded with over 200 entries and almost 2,000 bits of trivia, this book will arm you with hundreds of useless scientific tidbits perfect for curious minds.
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By: Mark Changizi
ISBN: 9781935251767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: BenBella Books
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By: Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9780375756801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A youthful Charles Darwin records his impressions of the flora, fauna, and geology of the South American coasts.
