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The first book written for a general audience that examines the mysteries of the human balance system, including why some researchers think Vincent Van Gogh may have suffered from Meniere's...
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Scholars have long argued that moral judgements arise from rational deliberations about what society determines is right and wrong. This has generated the idea that our moral psychology is founded...
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Could our sense of who we are really turn on a sliver of DNA? In our multiethnic world, questions of individual identity are becoming increasingly unclear. Now bestselling author Jon Entine vividly...
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The first professionally researched miscellany guide to the animal kingdom, packed with fascinating and bizarre facts· Did you know that the male flour beetle is the only animal which can mate...
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"This is the first real biography of the Earth - not only a brilliant portrait of the emergence and evolution of life on this planet, but a vivid and frightening look at Earth's remote future...
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While writing this book, Steve Jones had beside him the coral brooch that his sea captain grandfather brought back across the Indian Ocean as a gift for his wife. This simple object is a starting...
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Bridges made with spider silk; ships that swim like fish; rubber as supple as a dragonfly's wing … innovations like these are at the forefront of the concept of 'the new biology'. A way of using...
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THE SINGLE HELIX is a miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science. It brings to life a vast diversity of subjects, united under the banner of scientific truth - the universal solvent that...
In August 1930, on a boat trip from Bombay to England, the young Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that certain stars could end their lives by collapsing indefinitely to a...
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The first professionally researched miscellany guide to the animal kingdom, packed with fascinating and bizarre facts. Did you know that the male flour beetle is the only animal which can mate and...
Hardback: £9.99
For centuries, electricity was viewed as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked when rubbed. Then, in the 1790s, Alessandro Volta began the scientific investigation...