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An investigation into standards, the invisible infrastructures of our technical, moral, social, and physical worlds.

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Guides readers through the advances in stem cell research, telling stories of the researchers who are exploring the potential of stem cells to cure cancer, grow new organs, and repair the immune system. This work also leads readers through a discussion of the question at the heart of the explosive ethical debate.

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How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth Where does the bell-shaped curve come from Drawing on areas of mathematics from probability theory, number theory, and geometry, this work highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions. It includes puzzles and problems of varying difficulty.

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Dr Chris Smith - The Naked Scientist - strips down science to its bare essentials to sort fact from fiction and replace myths and misinformation with some seriously interesting medical, technological and biological breakthroughs.

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In this groundbreaking and absorbing book Dr. Sharon Moalem, delves back into the evolution of man to offer a radical perspective on survival, the human body, and our understanding of disease. Survival of the Sickest will change the way you think about your body.

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A scientific nail-biter that takes readers where no reality television show would dare go - and proves what survival really means.

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Over the years, millions of school children must have written out their address in the same way their house number and street, their town, their country, their continent, planet Earth, the universe

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A scientist provides a close-up look at his discoveries about and evidence concerning life after death, offering revelations about the nature of life and death, the soul in the afterlife, and the meaning of eternity and charting his own personal odyssey in search of the mysteries of human existence.

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A sweeping overview of the scientific achievements of the 20th century, without question the greatest century for science in human history, by the legendary former publisher of Scientific American.

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In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans This work traces the history of this debate from Darwin. It aims to bring to life the people, the issues, and the passions that have surrounded the altruism debate.

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Showcasing selections from the work of renowned communicators such as Tim Flannery, Germaine Greer, Anna Funder and Paul Davies, this book is an inspiring exploration of the most exciting, elegant, powerful, and important writing about science and nature published in Australia and by Australians.

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Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating or poetic, but it will always be honest and rigorous about the research that underlies it. Editor Elizabeth Finkel showcases the nation's best science writing, drawn from some of this country's best publications.

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Now in its sixth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2016 brings together knowledge and insight from Australias brightest thinkers as they explore the intricacies of the world around us. This lively collection of essays covers a wide range of subjects, and challenges our persceptions of the world and how we exist within it.

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This book examines the facts and myths about the first human arrival in Australia and its region; what modern DNA tells us about the origin of Australian Aborigines; theories on the Indonesian hobbits; and who or what killed off Australia's giant marsupials. It explains the science behind the latest techniques in an accessible way.

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This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes.

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An invaluable introduction to the major ideas, discoveries, and personalities in the history of our quest for the origins of life, with an introduction by leading geneticist Steve Jones.

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From the author of The Prehistory of Sex a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul.

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And as a pragmatist he reveals his hopes and concerns as to how the information unlocked by the Human Genome Project will affect people's lives in the future.

The Common Thread is at once a compelling history of this most exciting of scientific breakthroughs and also an impassioned call for ethical responsibility in scientific research.

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When Copernicus proposed that the Earth was not the fixed point at the center of the known universe (and therefore we are not unique), he set in motion a colossal scientific juggernaut, forever changing our vision of nature.

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An introduction covers how to address creationists in different venues, how to deal with novel claims, and why accurate science is important.

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The former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry explores the mysteries of creative genius, using evidence from both arts and the sciences for a fascinating investigation.

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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.