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Books on Science
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Richard Fortey
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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'I travelled to Haverfordwest to get to the past. From Paddington Station a Great Western locomotive took me on a journey westwards from London further and further back into geological time, from the age of mammals to the age of trilobites... Under the River Severn and into Wales, I was... more
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Fred Pearce
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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DEEP JUNGLE is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on Earth. Starting with man's earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce journeys high into the canopy -- home to two-thirds of all the creatures on our planet, many of whom never come down to earth. During his travels he... more
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David Quammen
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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Very readable exploration of island biogeography and extinction, which also encompasses travel, nature and ecology. "The witty, pithy, modest prose and the clever interweaving of science and storytelling are of a quality unrivalled in the field" Matt Ridley, }Sunday Telegraph{. Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of... more
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Margrit Coates
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Margrit Coates is an internationally acclaimed animal healer and communicator. In Angel Pets, she reveals how animals talk to us all the time and shares their incredible true stories. Meet Rusty, the lost dog whom Margrit guided home using the psychic connection between them; Mitzi, the brave little cat who... more
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Niall Edworthy
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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You don't have to be a dedicated birdwatcher to be a bird lover. Millions of us love the sight and sound of them and delight in the fact that wherever we are in the world, even in the desert or the Arctic, we are surrounded by birds. And yet even... more
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Charles Darwin
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2005]
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A classic that took the world by storm, raising havoc among scientists and religious people as its exposition apparently contradicted the account of the creation of the world of Genesis in the Bible, Charles Darwin s The Origin of Species remains the most Contents About the Author(s) When the eminent... more
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Christopher Winn
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2012]
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This glorious miscellany of good stories and fascinating facts about England, is the ultimate journey around the country, and includes history, legends, firsts, supremes, unusuals, inventions, birthplaces and gossip from each county. This irresistible miscelllany unearths the enthralling stories, firsts, birthplaces, legends and inventions that shape the country's rich and... more
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Richard Dawkins
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Richard Dawkins' polemic for atheism took the world by storm and caused a sensation when it was published last year. In it, Dawkins attacks God in all his forms. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being and demonstrates how religion fuels... more
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Stephen Hawking
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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The long-awaited paperback edition of this, the longest running >Sunday Times A Brief History of Time Star Trek Pink Floyd Reality on the Rocks Now a decade later, this edition updates the chapters throughout to document those advances, and also includes an entirely new chapter on Wormholes and Time Travel... more
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Richard Dawkins
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Subtitled, }The Evidence For Evolution{. Paperback edition of Dawkins' collection of modern scientific evidence which proves the theory of evolution. With a 32 pages of colour illustrations, 100 b/w picture sections and line drawings and graphs throughout. The hardback edition reached No.1 in the }Sunday Times{ bestseller list, and stayed... more
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Bill Bryson
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted... more
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Rupert Sheldrake
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2005]
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Questioning many concepts of life and consciousness, the visionary biologist describes his innovative theory of morphic resonance. Questioning many concepts of life and consciousness, the visionary biologist describes his innovative theory of morphic resonance. Described as the best candidate for burning there has been for many years??? by Nature on... more
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John Brockman
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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About the Book : A lively and eclectic sequence of more than 150 concise and intellectually challenging essays in which the world's leading thinkers reflect on how the internet has changed their modes of thought. A collection of 154 concise and readable essays, perfect for short bursts of intellectually... more
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Joanne Baker
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2007]
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An accessible introduction to the central ideas of physics, from the physical editor of }Science{ magazine. Includes concepts such as Mach's principle and dark matter. 50 b/w line illustrations. As well as outlining and explaining such historic breakthroughs in human understanding of the physical world as Kepler's law of planetary... more
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Steven Pinker
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2003]
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'In a work of outstanding clarity and sheer brilliance Steven Pinker banishes forever fears that a biological understanding of human nature threatens humane values' - Helena Cronin, author of "The Ant and the Peacock". 'A mind blowing, mind opening expose. Pinker's profoundly positive arguments for the compatibility of biology and... more
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Paul Davies
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2002]
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Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be done - without breaking the laws of physics... more
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Richard Dawkins ,
Lalla Ward
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2006]
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"Mount Improbable" is Dawkins's metaphor for natural selection, and the central message of this text is that DNA transcends the significance of the organism, and that organisms are merely vehicles for genes. How could such an intricate object as the human eye - so complex and so precise - have... more
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W Brian Arthur
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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Explores the way in which the technology that surrounds us and allows us to live our modern lives has actually been developed. Rather than coming from a one-off inventions, almost all the technology used today come from previous incarnations: these technologies are not being created, but are instead evolving. The... more
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Phillip A Laplante
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2004]
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The leading guide to real-time systems design-revised and updated This third edition of Phillip Laplante's bestselling, practical guide to building real-time systems maintains its predecessors' unique holistic, systems-based approach devised to help engineers write problem-solving software. Dr. Laplante incorporates a survey of related technologies and their histories, complete with time-saving... more
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John Gribbin
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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What are the boundaries of our universe? Could there be other worlds? Can there be different physical laws from the ones we know? Gribbin takes us on an extraordinary journey through the most fundamental questions in science, exploring the frontiers of reality. 'The master of popular science writing' }Sunday Times{... more