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AIDS is not caused by HIV. Coal and oil are not fossil fuels. Radiation exposure is good for you. Distributing more guns reduces crime. These ideas make headlines, but most educated people scoff at them. This title evaluates, for the general reader or student, nine seemingly far-out propositions culled from physics, biology, and social science.

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The science of our slumber, from the different stages of sleep and how our sleeping patterns change throughout our lives, to what happens when things go wrong.

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Tells a complex story about human beings and their attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle there is: how does the world work at the most fundamental level and what is the role of mathematics in its description It considers what the role of beauty may be in mathematics and physics.

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Demonstrates how odd and unusual math problems can be solved by bringing together basic physics ideas and powerful computers. This title looks at how the art of number-crunching has changed since the advent of computers, and how high-speed technology helps to solve conundrums such as the three-body, Monte Carlo, and gambler's ruin problems.

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An eloquent, accessible tour de force that reveals how the concept of number evolved from prehistoric times through to the 20th century.

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Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Nino. This book discusses the scientific, political, economic and cultural developments that shaped our perceptions of this force of nature. It outlines the history of El Nino, an innocuous current that appears off the coast of Peru around Christmas time.

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How did life on Earth get started Can we duplicate human thought in a computing machine How do children acquire language In PARADIGMS REGAINED Casti recounts the huge leaps science has made, and how new theories and candidate answers have emerged for almost all the big questions.

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An explanation of how the body's natural healing mechanisms work -- and how they can be triggered in non-chemical ways via the 'placebo effect'.

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This is the latest in Dr. Karl's mega-selling science series. Australia's favourite scientist answers more curly questions on life, the universe and everything. No-one conveys the excitement and wonder of science quite like Dr. Karl, and this takes us on another thoroughly entertaining exploration of the world around us.

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A compelling investigation of the scandal at the heart of poultry production in the US, the UK and beyond.

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An underwater adventure with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years.

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Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world.

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Quantum Evolution presents a revolutionary new scientific theory by asking: is there a force of will behind evolution Johnjoe McFadden shows that there is.

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A one-volume history of twentieth-century physics, the book takes us from the discovery of X rays in the mid-1890s to super-string theory in the 1990s.

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Are you neurotic, eager to please, and honest Or cheerful, gregarious, and disorganised Whatever you're like, with the tweak of a couple of genes, scientists can make a mouse just like you. Hannah Holmes shows us by humorously examining her own personality and those of her friends and family members that, almost everything comes from our genes.

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Argues that we are living at the dawn of the dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This title tells the story of an unprecedented new era of networked science.

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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into a household word. This work takes the reader into Richter's life story, setting it in the context of his family and interpersonal attachments, and the history of seismology.

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The facts, myths, curiosities and absurdities of sports science - something for every sports fan.