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Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

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Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' -- putting humankind at...
Carotenoids Other Than Vitamin A, 2, Plenary and Selected Lectures Presented at the [Second] International Symposium on Carotenoids Other Than Vitamin A, Held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A., 6-9 May 1969

Carotenoids Other Than Vitamin A

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Jung--The Key Ideas: A Teach Yourself Guide

Jung--The Key Ideas: A Teach Yourself Guide

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Author: Ruth Snowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Jung--The Key Ideas will quickly familiarize you with the revolutionary thinking of this famous man. It will teach you all the essential...
The Brain That Changes Itself

The Brain That Changes Itself

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Author: Norman Doidge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Meet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman...
Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe

Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe

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Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 It's one of the most important and fascinating questions human beings can ponder, and astrobiology is the emerging field of science...
The Science of Love and Betrayal

The Science of Love and Betrayal

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Mindsight: Change Your Brain and Your Life

Mindsight: Change Your Brain and Your Life

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A Guide to Modern Science: How Technology Will Shape Our World

A Guide to Modern Science: How Technology Will Shape Our World

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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day

The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day

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Author: James Kakalios Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves

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Author: Eric R. Kandel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Neurological and psychiatric disorders have long been regarded as fundamentally different, depending on whether they appear to affect the brain...
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us

The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us

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Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution

Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution

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Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running...
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality

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Author: Dr Julia Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world and the least well understood. This book sets out to answer...
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense

The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense

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Author: Barney Shaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It...
A Universe from Nothing

A Universe from Nothing

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Author: Lawrence Krauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

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Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs...
The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?

The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?

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Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that underpin efforts...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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Author: Harry Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI...
The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria Volume 2

The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria Volume 2

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Biology of the Skin and Hair Growth: Proceesing of a Symposium Held at Canberra, Australia, August 1964 [SIGNED]

Biology of the Skin and Hair Growth: Proceesing of a Symposium Held at Canberra, Australia, August 1964 [SIGNED]

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

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How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe

How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe

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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe

The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe

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Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels....
The Planets

The Planets

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Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism' Mail on Sunday

Homo Deus: 'An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism' Mail on Sunday

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The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Race to Split the Atom

The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Small Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the Race to Split the Atom

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Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes

Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes

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Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by...
Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression

Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression

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Author: Oliver Kamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

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Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
The Future Eaters: Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People

The Future Eaters: Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People

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The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution

The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution

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E=mc2

E=mc2

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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart

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Author: Rachel Botsman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If you can't trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions...
Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work

Herding Hemingway's Cats: Understanding how our genes work

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The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

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The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking

The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking

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An Equation for Every Occasion: Simple Formulas for Surviving the Unexpected

An Equation for Every Occasion: Simple Formulas for Surviving the Unexpected

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Author: Chris Waring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 If you're a little worried about what the future holds, you might be stock-piling cans of beans or building an underground...
Time

Time

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The Grand Design

The Grand Design

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Faster: Our Race Against Time

Faster: Our Race Against Time

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Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there

Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there

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