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By: Robert Ehrlich
ISBN: 9780691094953
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Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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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By: Alice Gregory
ISBN: 9781472946164
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Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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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By: Peter Woit
ISBN: 9780099488644
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Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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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By: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691144252
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Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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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By: Tobias Dantzig
ISBN: 9780452288119
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Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2007
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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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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By: Gordon Hempton
ISBN: 9781416559108
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Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Atria Books
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By: S. George Philander
ISBN: 9780691126227
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Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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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By: John Casti
ISBN: 9780349111339
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Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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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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By: Amir D. Aczel
ISBN: 9780743464796
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Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: Atria Books
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By: Dr Gianna Bouchard
ISBN: 9781350228153
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Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th July 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dylan Evans
ISBN: 9780007126132
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Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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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By: Karl Kruszelnicki
ISBN: 9780732285357
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Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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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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By: William F. Ruddiman
ISBN: 9780691173214
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Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Maryn McKenna
ISBN: 9781408707920
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Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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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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By: Helen Scales
ISBN: 9781592405817
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Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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An underwater adventure with the sea creature that has captured human imagination for thousands of years.
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By: Amir D. Aczel
ISBN: 9780307591821
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Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
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By: Allison B. Kaufman
ISBN: 9780262537049
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Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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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By: JohnJoe McFadden
ISBN: 9780006551287
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Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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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By: Helge Kragh
ISBN: 9780691095523
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Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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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By: Hannah Holmes
ISBN: 9781864713046
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Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Random House Australia
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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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By: Cynthia Barnett
ISBN: 9780804137119
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Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2016
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Michael Nielsen
ISBN: 9780691160191
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Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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: Susan Elizabeth Hough
ISBN: 9780691128078
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Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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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By: Damian Farrow
ISBN: 9781741140675
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Publication Date: Aug 2003
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The facts, myths, curiosities and absurdities of sports science - something for every sports fan.
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