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Science: general issues
Brand: University of Texas Press
By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the sleeping, earthbound world, astronomers probe the secr..
38.47£
Brand: Oneworld Publications
Knowledge is power… A landmark new series from a prize-winning scientist and communicator In this major trilogy, Sean Carroll opens up the world of physics and shows that you don't necessarily need a science degree to gain a deeper insight into the ..
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Brand: Bod Third Party Titles
Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Amphibien - in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1864. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschied..
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Brand: Bod Third Party Titles
Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Säugetiere - in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1860. Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschie..
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Brand: Wiley
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition has been hailed as a major contribution to the plant sciences literature and critical acclaim has been matched by global sales success. Maintaining the scope and focus of the first edition, t..
142.11£
The Biology Laboratory Manual by Vodopich and Moore was designed for an introductory biology course with a broad survey of basic laboratory techniques. The experiments and procedures are simple, safe, easy to perform, and especially appropriate for..
71.77£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The study of bioluminescence-visible light emitted by living organisms-is truly in progress, as these 35 papers contributed by 49 of the leading scientists active in this field attest. Not since E. Newton Harvey's Bioluminescence in 1952 has there a..
106.90£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short spacewarps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and ti..
22.35£
Brand: Transworld
"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers."In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BB..
9.70£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physics. . . . The book not only deals with a topic of importance and interest to all scientists, but is also a polished literary work, described (accurate..
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The technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolera..
18.47£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Blood is life, its complex composition is finely attuned to our vital needs and functions. Blood can also signify death, while 'bloody' is a curse. Arising from the 2021 Darwin College Lectures, this volume invites leading thinkers on the subject to..
22.92£
Brand: Fox Chapel Publishing
This amazing book from the famous Naked Scientists offers a fun way to introduce science to kids, with 50 simple experiments that produce spectacular results. Want to know how to create fireworks from a bag of chips? Turn rice into quicksand? Genera..
12.69£
ISBN: 9781739629601Publisher: Midland Tutorial ProductionsImprint: Midland Tutorial ProductionsPublished date: 15 Jun 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 562gHeight: 254mmWidth: 178mmSpine width: 14mm..
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Brand: Faber & Faber
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.'An excellent popular science book.'DARA Ó BRIAIN'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'ANNA BURNS, Book..
13.73£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDESHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE'Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snori..
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The opening of the Palaeozoic era, some 570 million years ago, coincides with a remarkable burst of evolutionary activity. In British Paleozoic Fossils 443 species from this time, and the following 350 million years, are illustrated and described. ..
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Brand: Cambridge University Press
How do scientists impact society in the twenty-first century? Many scientists are increasingly interested in the impact that their research will have on the public. Scientists likewise must answer the question above when applying for funding from go..
30.54£
Brand: Columbia University Press
An internationally renowned chemist, popular television personality, and bestselling author, Hervé This heads the first laboratory devoted to molecular gastronomythe scientific exploration of cooking and eating. By testing recipes that have guided ..
16.69£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
'A fascinating celebration of the impact that structural engineering has on all our lives…[an] eye-opening book' The Sunday Times In BUILT, structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our..
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Brand: Profile
In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of e..
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Brand: Yale University Press
Explore the eighteenth‑century Indian astronomical observatories called the Jantar Mantars, massive, stunning structures built to observe and understand the heavens Between 1724 and 1730, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astron..
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Chandra A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar - Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago Press
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes."Wali has given us a magnificent portrait..
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In his hair-raising adventures across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, Chris Thorogood treads a death-defying path over cliffs, up erupting volcanoes, through typhoons, and out into the very heart of the world’s vast, green wilderness. Alon..
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