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An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.

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Did you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you This book reveals the startling ways life on Earth is touched by our cosmic environment, and demonstrates why without such contact, life itself wouldn't be possible.

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Did you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you This book reveals the startling ways life on Earth is touched by our cosmic environment, and demonstrates why without such contact, life itself wouldn't be possible.

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Examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. This title focuses on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing.

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Welcome to Human 3.0.

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John's broader coverage of the evolution of sexual intimacy in the animal kingdom demonstrates that the gap between human and animal behaviour is not as large as many of you might have thought.

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Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions about life, the universe and everything. Questions such as: are virgin births possible (They are). Will a black hole suck you in (It won't) Is the most radioactive device in our homes the microwave (It's not, it's the smoke detector). (SA: Year 6 - Year 9).

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More people than ever are using alternative medicine. But, as expert Dr Paul Offit explains, these untested therapies are ineffective, expensive and even deadly.

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In his characteristically iconoclastic and original way, Stephen Jay Gould argues that progress and increasing complexity are not inevitable features of the evolution of life on Earth.

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How the noisy atomic cloud gives rise to the orderly world of the molecular machine-and to life itself

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In Lifelines, neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures, though in circumstances not of our own choosing.

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Hailed as a paragon of science journalism, "Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos" is the dramatic, heartbreaking, and often comical story of cosmology, and the men and women devoted to discovering the secrets of the universe.

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Love drugs and anti-love drugs exist and more powerful versions will be available in the near future: What are the ethics of using them, how will they affect society, and will they take the magic out of love A cutting-edge book by two prominent ethicists on 'love drugs', and the implications they may have for us all. -- .

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Covers the historical and biochemical roots of our connection with animals, and theirs with us. This book reveals both sides of this deep mutual connection and the way it has evolved since prehistoric times.

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A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

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In the early 1960s, three groups of physicists, working independently in different countries, stumbled upon an idea that would change physics and fuel the imagination of scientists for decades. This title offers personal stories and rivalries of the teams of scientists behind the Higgs boson.

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Combining myth, biography, and wit, this is a highly original depiction of cutting-edge science and its profound implications, told through the scientists who are rewriting life on earth.