50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know by J. V. Chamary
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Category: Science | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
50 Biology Ideas You Really Need to Know is your guide to the most significant and stimulating questions in the study of life. Why do species evolve? Can characteristics be inherited without DNA? Are all organisms made of cells? What makes us human? This book provides succinct answers to all these quest ...Show more
We are All Stardust - Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know by Stefan Klein
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Category: Science
World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer.When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize - winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, 'First and foremost, curiosit ...Show more
Chance: The Science and Secrets of Luck, Randomness and Probability by Jeremy Webb
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Category: Science
For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-te ...Show more
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
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Category: Science
The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global p ...Show more
A History of Life in 100 Fossils by Paul D. Taylor
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Category: Science
This is the epic story of life on Earth, uniquely retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found. A History of Life in 100 Fossils travels through 3.5 billion years of Earth's history and across all seven continents, showcasing the unusual and wonderful forms of life that have played a p ...Show more
Adam Spencer's World of Numbers by Adam Spencer
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Category: Science
What's a 'firkin'? Is a tardigrade animal, vegetable or mineral? How fast is Usain Bolt ... really? And what's the record for the most lobster rolls eaten in 10 minutes? All these questions and more are answered in Adam Spencer's World of Numbers. This is a book for young and old - for anyone who's ever ...Show more
Crucial Interventions - An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Nineteenth Century Surgery by Richard Barnett
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Category: Science
The nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as “a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science”; yet, over the next 150 years the feared, practical men of medicine benefited from a revolution in scientific progress and the inc ...Show more
Brain Ponderables by Tom Jackson
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Category: Science | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to the human brain, an authoritative reference book and timeline that examines the three pounds of matter inside our heads that does all our thinking for us. With 100 billion nerve cells joined by thousands more to every corner of the body, the brain is wired together with 10 ...Show more
Rare Treasures - From the Library of the Natural History Museum by Judith Magee
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Category: Science
The Library of the Natural History Museum contains one of the most exciting and comprehensive collections of natural history literature and artworks to be found anywhere in the world. It holds over half a million artworks, comprising one of Britain's biggest art collections and representing all the grea ...Show more
The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-Control and How to Master it by Walter Mischel
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Category: Science
A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behaviour later in life? Walter Mischel's now iconic 'marshmallow test,' one of the most famous experiments in the history of psychology, ...Show more
Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
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Category: Science
This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death - decisions that have to be made. There are accounts of operations that go wrong; of doctors who go to the bad; why autopsies are necessary; what ...Show more
Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
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Category: Science
The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. His vivi ...Show more