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Intelligence in the Flesh - Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks

Explores the mind/body debate at the heart of intelligence and what it is to be human, applying technical neuroscience and psychology to ...

Astronomy For Dummies, (+ Chapter Quizzes Online)

Embark on your own personal journey into the night sky. Stardate: Today! Ever catch yourself staring up at the night sky and wondering ju...

A Crack in Everything - How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage

What is space? What is time? Where did the universe come from? The answers to mankind's most enduring questions may lie in science's grea...

In Search of Falling Stars - H.H. Nininger's Classic Find a Falling Star, Revisited & Expanded

In the early 20th century, the science of meteorites was at a low ebb. Then, in 1923, Harvey H. Nininger, a trained biologist, witnessed ...

NMR: THE TOOLKIT - How Pulse Sequences Work

This primer describes succinctly the range of NMR techniques commonly used in modern research, and explains how these experiments actuall...

The First Transplant Surgeon - The Flawed Genius of Nobel Prize Winner, Alexis Carrel

"Well researched and highly readable, The First Transplant Surgeon pulls off the difficult trick of re-evaluating Dr Alexis Carrel withou...

Down to the Bone - A Leukemia Story

A narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author's life and experiences as a leukemia patient.

Death Without Dignity? - Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Europe

In this book, John Wyatt analyses the arguments in favour of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide and shows how unstable their found...

What Is Art Education? - After Deleuze and Guattari

This edited book gathers seven established art educators-educator artists who address art education from the philosophical position of De...

Viruses - More Friends Than Foes: Revised Edition

Reviews of the Previous Edition: "Her style is chatty, and just when you want to break into the conversation and ask a question, she's th...

What If We Get It Right? - Visions of Climate Futures

Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future? Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an exi...

Trans America - A Counter-History

Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there w...

One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward - One Woman's Path to Becoming a Biologist

The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involv...

Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Volume I

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Quantum Theory

Quantum Theory contains the seminal works of quantum theory from the early years of the 20th Century, representing breakthroughs in scien...

The Scientist as Philosopher - Philosophical Consequences of Great Scientific Discoveries

How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators¿, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scie...

Cloud Computing in Astronomy

Beauty and the Brain - The Science of Human Nature in Early America

"Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-po...

Why Fish Don't Exist - A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall ...

Nerd A to Z: Your Reference to Literally Figuratively Everything You've Always Wanted to Know

Want to know how likely it is that robots will take over the world? Or what Viking heroes were really like? Find out in this guide to all...

Rivals - How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastio...

Artificial Era - Predictions, Problems, and Diversity in AI

A ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, including productivity, and job displacement, while identify...

Explanatorium of Science - Where the Wonders of the World are Revealed

This science book shows how the subject really works, with amazing photographs showing the ins and outs of chemistry, physics, and biolog...

The Heat Will Kill You First - Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a "masterful, bracing" (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that ...

The Science Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

The big ideas in science, simply explained, from anatomy to physics, plus the history of science from Copernicus to present day ideas on ...

Small Gases, Big Effect - This Is Climate Change

The international bestseller that gives you the facts about climate changeWhen students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to fi...

Science Research Writing - for native and non-native speakers of English (Second Edition)

This book enables STEMM researchers to write effective papers for publication as well as other research-related texts such as a doctoral ...

The Social Instinct - How Cooperation Shaped the World

Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us ...

The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work - Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study

A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made ...

Radical by Nature - The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

"A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (...

In a Flight of Starlings - The Wonder of Complex Systems

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned...

The Science Museum A Brief History of Stuff - The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Objects

Explore the past, present and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons. Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the ...

Radiation, vibration, environment, human

Ingolf Bernhardt studied physics at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and specialised in the field of biophysics. After successfully com...

Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is tra...

Profit - An Environmental History

Profit -- getting more out of something than you put into it -- is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the en...

The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn - Incommensurability in Science

"This book contains the text of Thomas Kuhn's unfinished book, The Plurality of Worlds: An Evolutionary Theory of Scientific Development,...

It's a Gas - The Magnificent and Elusive Elements that Expand Our World

'A witty, smart writer who has a great talent' Bill GatesWhy are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and...

The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics

This is the most authoritative and accessible single-volume reference book on applied mathematics. Featuring numerous entries by leading ...

Serendipity - The Unexpected in Science

"In science, it frequently happens that researchers look for something and find something else: understanding why leads us to the heart o...

The Long History of the Future - Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here

We love to imagine the future. But why is dramatic future technology always just around the corner, and never a reality? For decades we'v...

Plasticity in the Life Sciences

Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity. Since the early twentieth century, plasticity h...

The Clock in the Sun - How We Came to Understand Our Nearest Star

Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding new light on key di...

Robert Hooke's Experimental Philosophy

A critical biography of the seventeenth-century scientist's expansive life and work. Robert Hooke was England's first professional scient...

Eating and Being - A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves

"Eating and Being is a book about what we eat and who we are, and how the two are intertwined. Why do we eat what we do, and what do we t...

Freud's Student Years - A Psychobiography

In Freud's Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from [year] to [year], show...

The 50 Greatest Scientists - The Pioneers Who Have Changed Our World

In this stunning jacketed hardback, Jon Balchin introduces 50 of the world's most influential scientists of all time and explains their r...

Physics for Scientists and Engineers (International Edition)

The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media solution that will help students ...

The Last Lecture

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, a...

Peptide Antibodies - Methods and Protocols

This detailed new edition explores current methods for the production and use of peptide antibodies. The book delves into various aspects...

Exploring Natural Product Chemistry - The World in a Single Leaf

This book examines and summarises the developments and changes in approaches to organic and natural product chemistry over the past 40 ye...

Waste and Want - A Social History of Trash

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susa...

Protestant Modernist Pamphlets - Science and Religion in the Scopes Era

"This work is a hybrid of a scholarly edition and an academic monograph that focuses on the relation between science and religion in earl...

Letters for the Ages Great Scientists - Private Letters from the Greatest Minds in Science

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists. ?Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a ...

Abū Bakr Ibn Al-ʿarabī (D. 543/1148) - Legacy and Impact on the Transmission of Al-Ghazālī's (D. 505/1111) Thought in Al-Andalus

In this book, the contributors offer an account of the legacy of qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148), a pivotal figure in the trans...

The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables for a Planet in Crisis

One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial Times Before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated around ...

Of Firebirds & Moonmen - A Designer's Story from the Golden Age

This is a designer's story from the Golden Age, of Firebirds and Moonmen. It is the author's story of how, through chance and circumstanc...

Private Life of the Atom

Gravity - Newtonian, Post-Newtonian, Relativistic

Graduate textbook developing powerful approximation methods and their applications to real-life astrophysical systems.

Galileo's Finger - The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for mode...

Sociolinguistic Fieldwork

This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in 'the field'.