Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George
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Category: Science
From a prize-winning writer, a fascinating exploration of blood: the stuff of life, the stuff of nightmares, and one of the most expensive liquids on the planet.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
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Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Am I Dreaming? New Science of Consciousness... by James Kingsland
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Category: Science
A scientific travel guide to altered states of consciousness - and what we can learn from them.
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (Roughly) Calculate Anything by Rob Eastaway
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Category: Science
Does that statistic make sense? How much will this round of drinks come to? And what are the chances of winning the lottery? Twice? Learn how to do complex maths with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power. Doing mathematics without a calculator seems like ...Show more
From Zero to Infinity (and Beyond) by Dr. Mike Goldsmith
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Category: Science
Helps children unlock the mysteries of maths and discover the wonder of numbers. This title includes information on: why zero is so useful; what a googol really is; why music, maths and space are connected; why bees prefer hexagons; how to tell the time on other planets; and more.
Moon - Photographing the Moon 1840-Now by Maarten Dings; Joachim Naudts
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Category: Science
On July 21, 1969, the first man set foot on The Moon. When Neil Armstrong was asked if this made him feel big, he answered: "No, it made me feel really, really small." 50 years later, this publication celebrates that special moment that put life on earth into a totally different perspective. It collects ...Show more
MAGICAL EXPERIMENTS SCIENTIFIC AMUSEMENTS TO ENTERTAIN AND INSTRUCT by GOOD ARTHUR
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Category: Science
The Double Helix (The Discovery of the Structure of DNA) by James Watson
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Category: Science
'It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, since DNA is an unusual substance, we are not hesitant in being bold.' By elucidating the structure of DNA, the molecule underlying all life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionised biochemistry. At the time, Watson was only 24 ...Show more
I, Mammal - The Story of What Makes Us Mammals by Liam Drew
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Category: Science
What makes a mammal a mammal? The answer is more complicated than you think I, Mammal is a history of mammals and their ancestors and of how science came to grasp mammalian evolution. After a misdirected football left new father Liam Drew clutching a uniquely mammalian part of his anatomy, he decided to ...Show more
Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future by Iwan Rhys Morus
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Category: Science
Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and ...Show more
Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants - Darwin's Botany Today by Ken Thompson
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Category: Science
Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages and most of his labours in that time were focused on experimenting with and observing plant ...Show more
Escape from Earth - The Secret History of How We Reached Space by Fraser MacDonald
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Category: Science
The long-buried truth about the dawn of the Space Age: lies, spies, socialism, and sex magickLos Angeles, 1930s: Everyone knows that rockets are just toys, the stuff of cranks and pulp magazines. Nevertheless, an earnest engineering student named Frank Malina sets out to prove the doubters wrong. With ...Show more