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Euclid's Window
By Leonard Mlodinow
Paperback
Published 27-Feb-2003
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Ever since Pythagoras hatched a 'little scheme' to invent a set of rules describing the entire universe, scientists and mathematicians have tried to seek order in the cosmos. In this title, the author takes us on a journey through 3,000 years of genius and geometry, introducing the people who revolutionized the way we see the world around us.
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Earth
By Richard Fortey
Paperback
Published 07-Mar-2005
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The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world -- permanently.
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Our Necessary Shadow
By Tom Burns
Hardback
Published 06-Jun-2013
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A title that attempts to explain the whole subject of psychiatry. It reviews the historical development of psychiatry, the places where there is much agreement on treatment and where there is not, throughout alert to where psychiatry helps, and where it is imperfect.
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Curious Behavior
By Robert Provine
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Published 14-Aug-2012
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Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread--in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified, human behaviors. Our earthiest instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species.
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Art Instinct
By Denis Dutton
Paperback
Published 27-May-2010
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The need to create art is found in every human society, manifest in many different ways across many different cultures. Is this universal need rooted in our evolutionary past? The Art Instinct reveals that it is, combining evolutionary psychology with aesthetics to shed new light on fascinating questions about the nature of art.
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Right Hand, Left Hand
By Chris McManus
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Published 13-Nov-2003
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Winner of the Aventis Science Book Prize. 'A scientific detective story, a brilliant cross between Edgar Allan Poe and Gray's anatomy' J G Ballard, New Stateman Books of the Year
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Genes, Cells and Brains
By Hilary Rose
Hardback
Published 22-Oct-2012
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Dissecting the hype from the frontiers of bioethics, genomics and neuroscience.
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Universe Inside You
By Brian Clegg
Paperback
Published 03-Jan-2013
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Fascinating facts and mind-boggling science of the human body.
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Science Delusion
By Rupert Sheldrake
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Published 06-Dec-2012
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The scientific counter argument to Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion
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Inside The Centre
By Ray Monk
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Published 15-Nov-2012
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J Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.
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