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Wonders of the Solar System Text On...

Andrew Cohen

Wonders of the Solar System Text Only

The Sunday Times BestsellerIn Wonders of the Solar System – the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series – Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel and visit.The Wonders of the Solar System – from the giant ice fountains of Enceladus to the liquid methane seas of Titan and from storms twice the size of the Earth to the tortured moon of Io with its giant super-volcanoes – is the Solar System as you have never...

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Andrew Cohen

Wonders of Life

Andrew Cohen

Wonders of Life

What is Life? Where did it come from? Why does it end?In this beautiful and definitive new book, Professor Brian Cox takes us on an incredible journey to discover how a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the Universe – life itself.There are thought to be as many as 100 million different species on Earth – each and every one governed by the same laws. Everything in the Universe, from the smallest microbe to the largest cluster of galaxies, is...

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Andrew Cohen

Science: A History in 100 Experimen...

Mary Gribbin

Science: A History in 100 Experiments

A history of science distilled into 100 notable experiments – epic moments that have fuelled our understanding of Earth and the Universe beyond.The history of science is a fascinating and long one, covering thousands of years of history. The development of scientific experiments involves some of the most enlightened cultures in history, as well as some great scientists, philosophers and theologians. As the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman said, ‘If it disagrees with experiment, it...

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Mary Gribbin

50 Ways to F**k the Planet

David Glick

50 Ways to F**k the Planet

In a world where we're bombarded with advice on going green, authors Mark Townsend and David Glick take a refreshing line and tell us how NOT to go green. Indeed, they're here to help us f**k up the planet good and proper. And it's easier than you think.An irreverent celebration of environmental doom and gloom, 50 Ways to F**k the Planet takes the 'eco-handbook' in an outrageous new direction, exposing fifty very real and very scary threats facing the world today and showing just how...

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David Glick

Leaving Reality Behind: Inside the...

Regula Bochsler

Leaving Reality Behind: Inside the Battle for the Soul of the Internet

A’ NO LOGO’ for the net Generation – a no-holes barred story of the battle for the control of the internet, that reads like a thriller.In November 1999, at the height of the e-commerce gold rush, an extraordinary hearing took place in a Los Angeles courtroom. On one side, the billion-dollar darling of Wall Street, eToys.com, the brain child of Toby Lenk, one of the hottest entrepreneurs of his generation. On the other side, etoy.com, a group of cutting-edge European artists, hungry for fame, who...

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Regula Bochsler

High Tide: How Climate Crisis is En...

Mark Lynas

High Tide: How Climate Crisis is Engulfing Our Planet

The No Logo of climate change – a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened on a global scale.Climate change is not a concern for the future. It's happening right now. In this book – based on the latest scientific evidence – the author takes us around the world to show the impact of global warming already being felt in people's lives.From sand-buried houses in China to thawing Alaskan plains, the author witnesses some of...

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Mark Lynas

Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics =...

Graham Tattersall

Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics = Happiness

The quirky offspring of ‘QI’ and ‘Freakonomics’, ‘Geekspeak’ melds ingenious statistical analysis with edifying trivia to explain away some curious facts of life.Curiosity is our human birthright, and destiny. As a species we are to prone to think, ruminate, reflect, cogitate, deliberate and philosophise. We do all these things, and why? To explain away the world around us, to find solace in knowledge, to answer all those seeming unanswerables: why are we here? Is there a God? Is there life...

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Graham Tattersall

How to Make a Human Being: A Body o...

Christopher Potter

How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence

A startling investigation of what it means to be human.Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being? And could we ever make one?In order to answer these questions, other questions get in the way:What is it like to be a human being?What is it like to be some other kind of animal?What is reality?What is consciousness?Is there a God?What is love?Why live?The questions proliferate.But all these questions can be viewed as facets of a single question:What is...

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Christopher Potter

Bad Science

Ben Goldacre

Bad Science

Full of spleen, this will be a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science.When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an 'Aqua Detox' footbath, releasing her toxins into the water, turning it brown, he thought he'd try the same at home. 'Like some kind of Johnny Ball cum Witchfinder General', using his girlfriend's Barbie doll, he gently passed an electrical current through the warm salt water. It turned brown. In his words: 'before my...

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Ben Goldacre

Nature via Nurture: Genes, experien...

Matt Ridley

Nature via Nurture: Genes, experience and what makes us human

Acclaimed author Matt Ridley's thrilling follow-up to his bestseller Genome. Armed with the extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, Ridley turns his attention to the nature versus nurture debate to bring the first popular account of the roots of human behaviour.What makes us who we are?In February 2001 it was announced that the genome contains not 100,000 genes as originally expected but only 30,000. This startling revision led some scientists to conclude that there are simply not enough...

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Matt Ridley

Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Q...

David Duncan Ewing

Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life

Combining myth, biography, and wit, this is a highly original depiction of cutting-edge science and its profound implications, told through the scientists who are rewriting life on earth.Throughout history, the scientists’ personalities have astonished us. From Galileo to Jonas Salk, they push and stretch society’s boundaries though their great leaps of imagination and originality, providing us with everything from the wheel to rocket ships and penicillin. Today's masterminds in biotechnology...

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David Duncan Ewing

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New His...

David Quammen

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

Our understanding of the ‘tree of life’, with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.This book is about a new method of telling the story of life on earth – through molecular phylogenetics. It involves a fairly simple method – the reading of the deep history of life by looking at the variation in protein molecules found in living organisms. For instance, we now know that roughly eight per cent of the human genome arrived...

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David Quammen

The Secret Life of the Mind: How Ou...

Mariano Sigman

The Secret Life of the Mind: How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides

In this provocative, mind-bending international bestseller, prize-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman reveals his life’s work exploring the inner workings of the human brain.Sigman's ambition is to explain the mind so that we can understand ourselves and others more deeply. He shows how we form ideas during our first days of life, how we give shape to our fundamental decisions, how we dream and imagine, why we feel certain emotions, how the brain transforms and how who we are changes with it....

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Mariano Sigman

Czyste mięso

Natalia Mętrak-Ruda

Czyste mięso

Nadchodzi kolejna rewolucja naukowa, a hstoria dzieje się na naszych oczach: odkryto sposób na wytwarzanie wystarczającej ilości jedzenia dla wciąż rosnącej ludzkiej populacji. Ziemia ledwo dyszy. Wzrost zaludnienia i popytu na mięso, jaja, nabiał i skórę sprawia, że przemysłowa hodowla miliardów zwierząt stała się ze wszech miar szkodliwa. Nie ma nic naturalnego w kurze, której podaje się stymulatory wzrostu i hoduje w szopie z kilkudziesięcioma tysiącami innych, ani w krowie czy świni, które...

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Natalia Mętrak-Ruda

LUDZIE. KRÓTKA HISTORIA O TYM, JAK...

Tom Phillips

LUDZIE. KRÓTKA HISTORIA O TYM, JAK SPIEPRZYLIŚMY WSZYSTKO

Kiedy po raz kolejny pomyślisz, jak bardzo coś spieprzyłeś, ta książka przypomni ci, że mogło być o wiele gorzej… Ekscytująca podróż przez najbardziej kreatywne i katastrofalne porażki w historii ludzkości, począwszy od upadku naszego praprzodka z drzewa, do najbardziej spektakularnych współczesnych klęsk gatunku ludzkiego! W ciągu ostatnich siedemdziesięciu tysięcy lat, odkąd homo sapiens chodzi po Ziemi, przebyliśmy długą drogę. Sztuka, nauka, kultura, handel – w ewolucyjnym łańcuchu...

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Tom Phillips

Counselor Self-Care

Gerald Corey

Counselor Self-Care

Self-care is critical for effective and ethical counseling practice and this inspirational book offers diverse, realistic perspectives on how to achieve work–life balance and personal wellness from graduate school through retirement. In addition to the authors’ unique perspectives as professionals at different stages of their careers, guest contributors—ranging from graduate students, to new professionals, to seasoned counselors—share their experiences and thoughts about self-care, including...

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Gerald Corey

Introduction to Bioethics

Linda Baggott la Velle

Introduction to Bioethics

Provides comprehensive, yet concise coverage of the broad field of bioethics, dealing with the scientific, medical, social, religious, political and international concerns This book offers complete information about all aspects of bioethics and its role in our world. It tackles the concerns of bioethicists, dealing with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy. The book introduces the various modes of...

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Linda Baggott la Velle

Asymmetric Catalysis on Industrial...

Elke Schmidt

Asymmetric Catalysis on Industrial Scale

Edited by two of the experts in the field, the central aim is to show organic chemists working in process development that enantioselective catalysis is suitable for the large-scale production of enantioenriched intermediates. In so doing, it is equally a source of information and inspiration for academic research, and, with its contribution by Noble prizewinner W. S. Knowles, will also heighten the status of industrial catalyst specialists working in the exciting field of enantioselective...

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Elke Schmidt

Handbook of Green Chemistry and Tec...

James Clark H.

Handbook of Green Chemistry and Technology

Sustainable development is now accepted as a necessary goal for achieving societal, economic and environmental objectives. Within this chemistry has a vital role to play. The chemical industry is successful but traditionally success has come at a heavy cost to the environment. The challenge for chemists and others is to develop new products, processes and services that achieve societal, economic and environmental benefits. This requires an approach that reduces the materials and energy intensity...

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James Clark H.

Galilei Et Einstein

Santo Armenia

Galilei Et Einstein

À partir de phénomènes élémentaires est étudié la theorie de la relativité general d'Einstein, ensemble au principe de Galilei sur la chute libre des corps qui est la condition préalable. La divergence de ce principe de Galilée est notée car la masse du corps test n'est pas déduite de celle de la Terre et l'attraction mutuelle mutuelle des corps n'est pas évaluée. En outre, il convient de noter que la chute libre se produit selon des lignes radiales verticales qui ne sont pas parallèles....

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Santo Armenia

Brave Men, Dark Waters (Unabridged)

Ксюша Ангел

Brave Men, Dark Waters (Unabridged)

The legend was forged in the fires of World War II, when special units of elite navy frogmen were entrusted with dangerous covert missions. These Underwater Demolition Teams, as they were then called, soon became known for their toughness and fearlessness, and their remarkable ability to get the job-any job-done. Years later, the renamed US Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air, and Land) continued to be a wartime force to be reckoned with throughout the remainder of the twentieth century and into the...

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Ксюша Ангел

How To. Jak?

Randall Munroe

How To. Jak?

Najzabawniejszy i najmniej przydatny poradnik napisany przez genialnego autora niezwykle popularnego komiksu internetowego xkcd oraz bestsellerów „What If? A co, gdyby?” i „Tłumacz rzeczy”. Zgłębiając najbardziej skomplikowane metody wykonywania prostych czynności, Munroe nie tylko utrudnia zadanie sobie i swoim czytelnikom – tak jak w fascynujący sposób czynił to w „What If? A co, gdyby?”, tak i tu zachęca do eksplorowania najbardziej absurdalnych rozwiązań. Dzięki błyskotliwym infografikom i...

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Randall Munroe

Consequential Learning

Jack Shelton

Consequential Learning

In Consequential Learning, Jack Shelton speaks out about the disconnect between school systems and the communities around them. Today’s students enter their classrooms from a variety of backgrounds and communities, but their classroom education has relevance only inside school walls. Teachers can no longer view their students lives as beginning and ending with the school day. Shelton's concept of Consequential Learning recognizes that student’s learning takes place both in the classroom and...

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Jack Shelton

Education in a Postfactual World

Patrick M. Whitehead

Education in a Postfactual World

In this book, Whitehead argues against the fact-minded orientation of education and the practice of science. It is not that facts are unhelpful, but they have become a substitute for learning (learning is now tantamount to fact memorization). This change handicaps students by eliminating the possibility of creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking; it handicaps science by limiting the kinds of questions that can be asked and where to look for answers; and ultimately puts people out of touch...

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Patrick M. Whitehead

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