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The story of the search for life on Marsand the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans thereDoes life exist on Mars? The question...

Pink warships that vanish at dusk, urinary maladies of an emperor, and a gold test for cocaine behold the chemistry of metal ions as never before....

Graph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs--mathematical structures showing relations between objects. With a...

From one of the worlds leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and...

Are you considering to test your own DNA? Do you want to learn more about your health and ancestry? Understand your DNA A Guide is about what you ...

Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and bi...

You are going to be transported by what Bernheimer has to say. You'll make different decisions and figure out how your brain is working and what sh...

'The four laws that do not drive the universe: elements of thermodynamics for the curious and intelligent. The second purpose of Ben-Naimâs book is...

In the summer of 2006 two books attacking string theory, a prominent theory in physics, appeared: Peter Woit's 'Not Even Wrong' and Lee Smolin's 'T...

The birth and evolution of our solar system is a tantalizing mystery that may one day provide answers to the question of human origins. From Dust t...

This accessible introduction to animal behaviour provides an authoritative yet reader-friendly guide for the interested naturalist. It presents cur...

Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and bi...

The prevailing scientific view of the world just doesn't work! Our most precious and accepted scientific principles, built over millennia by lumin...

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as ma...

The incredible story of Philip K. Dicks robotic resurrection and the androids utterly Dickian escape This compelling tale of androids, paranoi...

How can a plant as beautiful as the foxglove be so deadly and yet for more than a century be used to treat heart disease? The same is true of other...

If you read popular science, you might wonder what makes these books work: how do the authors manage to make the subjects that used to induce sleep...

From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in ani...

Wisdom of the Martians of Science refers to five scientists whose brilliance contributed to shaping the modern world. John von Neumann was a pionee...

Never Lose Your Nerve! chronicles the ups and downs of a Nobel Laureate's life. Professor Alan J Heeger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in...

This book won the INDIEFAB 2015 Bronze Award for Science (Adult nonfiction).Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) including plants and the foods ma...

This book is an essay collection, along with short stories, which attempts to explain some scientific ideas.Jeremy Bernstein was a long time staff ...

In anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong's television programmes he has often demonstrated the impact of extremes on the human body by using his own body as a...

This volume consists of a selection of the Albert Einstein Memorial Lectures presented annually at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. D...

Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term...

Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term...

Ever wondered . . . - what is earwax for?- when is the moon blue?- why are there only two sexes?- do doctors live longer?Informative, hilarious, so...

Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbe...

Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? It's the animal in us, we often hear when we've been bad. But why n...

The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was n...

After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth...

Ever since Carl Sagan first predicted that extraterrestrial civilizations must number in the millions, the search for life on other planets has gri...

Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth's rotation in an airplan...

This book is an essay collection, along with short stories, which attempts to explain some scientific ideas.Jeremy Bernstein was a long time staff ...

From Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly succes...

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of...

Now in its second edition, Sustainable Materials shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while s...

Wisdom of the Martians of Science refers to five scientists whose brilliance contributed to shaping the modern world. John von Neumann was a pionee...

'Outstanding Academic Title for 2014' by CHOICEEinstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear explanation of ...

This book won the INDIEFAB 2015 Bronze Award for Science (Adult nonfiction).Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) including plants and the foods ma...

This book captures the excitement of a formative phase of UK science during and immediately following WWII. It links back to scientists working at ...

Higgs Force tells the story of how physicists have unlocked the secrets of matter and the forces of nature to produce dramatic modern understanding...

This is a work that examines the many mysteries and anomalies regarding our Moon. It has been said that there is no scientific consensus of opinion...

Creation by Adam Rutherford tells the entire spellbinding story of life in two gripping narratives.'Prepare to be astounded. There are moments when...