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This book shows that many of our understandings about scientific thought can be corrected once we realise just how "unnatural" science actually is. Quoting scientists from Aristotle to Einstein, the...

With poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young...

This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age...

In this classic work Anne Sayre, a journalist and close friend of Franklin, puts the record straight.

The untold story of the woman who helped to make one of humanity's greatest discoveries - DNA - but who was never given credit for doing so. "Our dark lady...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKThe Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history,...

'There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil' Bill Gates__________We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us...

Meet Your Bacteria introduces you to all of your tiny tenants, and reveals the fascinating inner workings of your body, and the importance of these usually helpful (but sometimes harmful)...

Winner of the 2010 Royal Society Prize for science booksPowerful new research methods are providing fresh and vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining the atomic...

"The Ancestor's Tale" is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join...

The leading textbook for undergraduate exercise physiology courses, "Physiology of Sport and Exercise, Fifth Edition" has been fully updated in both content and design. The authors, all distinguished researchers and...

How was it that a single "genesis event" could create billions of galaxies, stars and planets? This book demonstrates how just six numbers, imprinted in the Big Bang, determine the...

Your guide to quickly turn data into results. Transform your skills, data, and business-and create your own BI solutions using software you already know and love: Microsoft Excel. Two business...

There is a breed of computer simulations, known as "artificial worlds" or "would-be-worlds", that allows scientists to create artificial versions of real-life phenomena inside their computers. This work describes how...

Debating the philosophical issues of artificial intelligenceCan a computer have an artificial mind? The Simulation of Human Intelligence is a book on a series of lectures, which featured international contributors....

Exploring the relationship between the universe and human aesthetic appreciation, this survey uncovers new and unexpected links between the arts and the sciences. It draws upon a range of subjects...

Back on the earth after three spaceflights, Chris Hadfield's captivating memoir An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth reveals extraordinary stories from his life as an astronaut, and shows how...

Covering subjects ranging from the personal to the wholly scientific, this is a collection of Stephen Hawking's essays and other pieces, revealing him as scientist, man, concerned world citizen and...

In April 1992 astrophysicist George Smoot announced how he and his team of scientists had found "ripples in the fabric of space-time" that were made in the first trillionth of...

This work goes to the heart of contemporary moral and political dilemmas arising from the challenges of pluralism and rapid change, the inability of traditional society to cope with these,...

A noted astrophysicist presents a lively and accessible introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe"A strikingly lucid account of the expansion, not just...

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers...

Armed with a new set of tools and theories, biologists, psychologists, physicists and philosophers are knocking down the walls that have traditionally divided their fields and are joining in the...

The motivation for this book arose, in part, from a need for detailed replies to a number of queries and criticisms from readers of the author's previous book, The Emperor's...

The 5,000-year struggle to align the heavens with the clock and what happened to the missing ten days. Measuring the daily and yearly cycle of the cosmos has never been...

The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem. Queen Victoria's armpit led to the development of antiseptics.Robert Jenkin's ear started...

The progression and evolution of measurement has run parallel to the development of civilisation. From early systems that made universal trade possible all the way to modern methods that allow...

Big Tech has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the...

A Guardian Book of the YearA Prospect Book of the YearA Financial Times Most Anticipated Book'A charming, fascinating foray into corners of history ... the perfect book for our golden...

An urgent book on generative artificial intelligence exploring the risk and benefits looming in this seminal moment'Easily the best exploration to date on the perils and promise of AI." -ASHLEE...

Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise and illness, and shift as we age. Our attitudes to bodies, and especially to...

The key to understanding technology lies not in the future--but in the past. That's the contention of Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories, a grand tour through past and present to explore...

Understanding maths has never been easier.Combining bold, elegant graphics with easy-to-understand text, Simply Maths is the perfect introduction to the subject for those who are short of time but hungry...

A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2013If you ever regretted not taking physics in college,or simply want to know how to think like a physicist,this is the book for...

We have learnt that there is safety in numbers. Our understanding of the world around us has grown with our appreciation of its habits and repetitions. We live in a...