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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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By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN: 9781847925978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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
(Hardback)
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: 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: 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: 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;
(Paperback)
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: Mark Changizi
ISBN: 9781935251767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: BenBella Books
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By: Matt Simon
ISBN: 9781472242013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2017
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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An absurdist, comical romp through evolution's weirdest solutions to nature's problems.
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By: Alok Jha
ISBN: 9781472209535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2016
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A biography of the strangest molecule in the universe. Alok Jha takes the most every day of subjects - water - and explodes it into a story that takes us from the Big Bang to the latest developments of modern science
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By: John List
ISBN: 9781847946751
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2015
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colourful examination of why people do what they do and how effective incentives can spur people to change their behaviour and achieve more.
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By: Charles C. Mann
ISBN: 9781509884186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The Wizard and the Prophet tackles the biggest question we humans are facing: can the earth sustain our growing population Our very existence is reliant on finding an answer to this one big question.
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By: Professor Bryan Sykes
ISBN: 9780008244453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The evolution of dogs and the forces that drove its amazing transformation from a fierce wild carnivore, the wolf, to the astonishing range of comparatively docile domesticated dogs that we know today.
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By: Rob Myers
ISBN: 9781770410619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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By: Alan Weisman
ISBN: 9780753559710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Arik Kershenbaum
ISBN: 9780241986844
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9781579128753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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The author of the bestselling book "The Elements" demonstrates essential scientific principles through 54 thrilling daredevil experiments. Every experiment is accompanied by full-color photographs that provide a front-row seat to rarely seen chemical reactions and glorious subatomic activity.
(Hardback)
By: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9780316395083
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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The ultimate Theodore Gray collection, Completely Mad Science collects every one of Gray's dramatic, visually spectacular, and ultimately enlightening scientific experiments-94 in all- into one complete volume.
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By: Christopher Summerfield
ISBN: 9780241694657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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