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By: Paul G. Falkowski
ISBN: 9780691173351
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Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Looks at how ancient microorganisms in primordial oceans transformed the chemistry of the planet over billions of years, eventually allowing the development of more complex forms of life, and how they continue to make life on earth possible.
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By: Stephen Jay Gould
ISBN: 9780099893608
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Publication Date: Oct 1997
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Peter Hoffmann
ISBN: 9780465022533
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Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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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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By: Steven Rose
ISBN: 9780099468639
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Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Andrew Masterson
ISBN: 9781925324860
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Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Random House Australia
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By: Dennis Overbye
ISBN: 9780316648967
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Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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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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By: Brian D. Earp
ISBN: 9781526145413
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Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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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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By: Meg Olmert
ISBN: 9780306818608
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Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Hachette Books
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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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By: Kathryn Harkup
ISBN: 9781472933768
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Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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By: Ian Sample
ISBN: 9780753541531
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Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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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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By: David Ewing Duncan
ISBN: 9780007161843
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Publication Date: Nov 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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.
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By: Coralie Colmez
ISBN: 9780465032921
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Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
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CSI meets John Allen Paulos-ten cases of the uses and abuses of mathematics in the courtroom
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By: Alexander J. Hahn
ISBN: 9780691145204
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Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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From the pyramids and the Parthenon to the Sydney Opera House and the Bilbao Guggenheim, this book takes readers on a tour of the mathematics behind some of the world's most spectacular buildings. It explores the elementary mathematics that enlivens the understanding of these buildings.
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By: Calvin Clawson
ISBN: 9780738202594
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Publication Date: Dec 1999
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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An eloquent, utterly charming guide to discovering the interconnectedness of mathematics.
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By: Calvin Clawson
ISBN: 9780738204963
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Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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A unique and utterly charming guide to the history of mathematics.
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By: Michael Harris
ISBN: 9780691175836
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Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources.
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By: Oliver Kamm
ISBN: 9781474610841
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Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A deeply researched and highly original investigation into depression which argues the case for embracing both art and science in our understanding and treatment of the condition
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By: Ian Robertson
ISBN: 9780857500199
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Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2010
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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That energy is transformed at your senses into the utterly unique weave of brain connections that is YOU.
New research has demonstrated the way in which the brain is shaped by experience and sculpted by our interactions with the world around us.
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By: Ian McFadyen
ISBN: 9781865083162
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Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Develops the suggestion that ideas can be transmitted across societies and generations and are subject to natural selection in the same way as are physical characteristics, a concept first proposed by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.
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By: Marc Hauser
ISBN: 9780349118093
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Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A ground-breaking book that will do for morality what THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT did for language.
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By: John F. Mongillo
ISBN: 9780313338809
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Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This accessible volume provides readers whether students new to the field or just interested members of the lay public with the essential ideas of the new science of nanotechnology using a minimum of jargon and mathematics.
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By: Penny Le Couteur
ISBN: 9781585423316
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Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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With lively prose and an eye for colorful and unusual details, Le Couteur and Burreson offer a novel way to understand the shaping of civilization and the workings of our contemporary world.
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By: Menno Schilthuizen
ISBN: 9780143127062
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Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 9780732285371
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Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, 'friendly' dolphins and 'killer' whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel's humps. In his 27 books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and advises readers to be wise. Here he continues his crusade to keep the world a rational place.
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