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by Colin Tudge
Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men
by Professor Bryan Sykes
by Professor Bryan Sykes
Genetically speaking, the only difference between men and women is that where women have two X chromosomes, men have one X and one Y. It is surprising that one chromosome difference out of our total of forty-six can have such an important consequence...
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The Common Thread
by John Sulston & Georgina Ferry
by John Sulston & Georgina Ferry
John Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was pulled off in record time by an extraordinary collabo...
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Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond....
by Marina Benjamin
by Marina Benjamin
From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a provocative look at our fascination with space. Rocket Dreams is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in...
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The Seashell On The Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
by Alan Cutler
by Alan Cutler
Dubbed ' the founder of modern geology' by Stephen Jay Gould, the 17th century Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno was the first man to to suggest that the existence of fossils demanded a much longer history for the earth than the roughly six thousand ye...
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Quintessence
by Lawrence Krauss
by Lawrence Krauss
Will the universe continue to expand forever, reverse its expansion and begin to contract, or reach a delicately poised state where it simply persists forever? The answer depends on the amount and properties of matter in the universe, and that has gi...
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Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology
by Hilary Rose and Steve Rose
by Hilary Rose and Steve Rose
Today, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality. Based on Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection, Evolutionary Psychology with its claim that ...
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Emperor's Embrace
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
With fascinating insight, impeccable research, and captivating writing, controversial psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, a new father himself, showcases the extraordinary behaviour of outstanding fathers in the animal kingdom. From the emperor penguin, wh...
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The End Of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium
by Damian Thompson
by Damian Thompson
Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. It brings together the massacre at Waco, the Solar Temple suicides, the Japanese subway gas attac...
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The Strange Case Of Mrs Hudson's Cat: or Sherlock Holmes Solves the Einstein Mysteries
by Colin Bruce
by Colin Bruce
Learning the basic laws of physics - mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics - can be a struggle. But when that master of deduction, Sherlock Holmes, leads the way, those difficult concepts become crystal clear. Colin Bruce brings Ho...
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ISBN: 9780712661737
Format:Trade Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Category: Science: general issues
£9.99
The Day Before Yesterday: Five Million Years of Human HistoryFormat:Trade Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Category: Science: general issues
£9.99
by Colin Tudge
This brilliant and ambitious book is an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically - and a call for a new way of thinking about history. 'We learn', Tudge writes, 'to think only in desperat...
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