The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption by Simon Winchester
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William Smith was not rich or well-connected, but his passion for rocks and fossils, and his 20-year obsession with single-handedly mapping the geology of Britain made him one of the most significant men of the 19th century. But his vision cost him dear
Unwell Women: A Journey Through Medicine and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
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'We are taught that medicine is the art of solving our body's mysteries. And as a science, we expect medicine to uphold the principles of evidence and impartiality. We want our doctors to listen to us and care for us as people, but we also need their assessments of our pain and fevers, aches and exhaust ...Show more
A Brief History of Time from the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
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From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
The Force of Nature - The Life of Linus Pauling by Thomas Hager
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A biography of Pauling who roamed across the scientific disciplines, from chemistry to biology to medical research. He decried the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War Two, agitated against nuclear weapons, promoted vitamin C as a cure for the common cold and researched the idea of DNA.
CHANGING PATTERNS : AN ATYPICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY by MACFARLANE BURNET
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Howard Florey - The Making of a Great Scientist by Gwyn Macfarlane
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars : Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann
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In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the "Hockey Stick," a chart showing global temperature data over the past one thousand years. The Hockey Stick demonstrated that temperature had risen with the increase in indus ...Show more
Zero - The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
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Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. Zero is really something-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For ...Show more
The Great Tolbachik Fissure Eruption - Geological and Geophysical Data, 1975-1976 by S. A. Fedotov (Editor); Y. K. Markhinin (Editor); J. E. Agrell (Translator); M. R. Colenso (Translator); F. Cooley (Translator); A. Lee (Translator); D. McDuff (Translator); A. R. Prowse (Translator); P. MIles (Translator)
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In 1975-1976 a remarkable volcanic eruption took place on the Kamchtka peninsula, part of the Soviet Union's arc of active volcanoes. Dr Fedotov and his colleagues studied the largest basaltic eruption in history, one of the most important volcanic events in the twentieth century. During this prolonged ...Show more
Thumbs, Toes, and Tears : And Other Traits that Make Us Human by Chip Walter
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The fascinating evolutionary links between six seemingly unremarkable traits that make us the very remarkable creatures we are. Countless behaviors separate us from the rest of the animal kingdom, but all of them can be traced one way or another to six traits that are unique to the human race— our big ...Show more
Transplant - From Myth to Reality by Nicholas L. Tilney
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One of the most spectacular medical advances of the 20th century, organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation research traces the evolution of ...Show more
The Eerie Silence - Are We Alone in the Universe? by Paul Davies
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On April 8, 1960, a young American astronomer, Frank Drake, turned a radio telescope toward the star Tau Ceti and listened for several hours to see if he could detect any artificial radio signals. With this modest start began a worldwide project of potentially momentous significance. Known as SETI - Sea ...Show more