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The Botany of Desire
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore?s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca... more...
Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 82.00This highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook teaches all the mathematics for undergraduate courses in the physical sciences. Containing over 800 exercises, half come with hints and answers and, in a separate manual, complete worked solutions. The remaining exercises are intended for unaided homework; full solutions are available to instructors. more...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells?taken without her knowledge?became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first ?immortal? human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for... more...
Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 85.00Since it was first published, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell has quickly established itself as the most accessible and comprehensive introduction to this profound and deeply fascinating area of theoretical physics. Now in this fully revised and expanded edition, A. Zee covers the latest advances while providing a solid conceptual foundation... more...
The Men of the Mary Rose
The History Press 2013; US$ 24.78A J Stirland uses archaeological and skeletal evidence to give the reader a welcome insight into the lives and soldiers of the Mary Rose, from their ages and height to their health, diet and physical condition. more...
Uranium
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.00The astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fascinating window into the valor, greed, genius, and folly of humanity. A problem for miners in the Middle Ages,... more...
Paul Callaghan
Bridget Williams Books 2013; US$ 3.99Paul Callaghan: Luminous Moments' brings together some of Sir Paul Callaghan's most significant writing, offering eloquent narratives that will endure in this country's literature. more...
Silencing Science
Cato Institute 1999; US$ 8.00Milloy is a lawyer, an author (of several publications on risk assessment), and the publisher of the Junk Science Home Page. Gough, a biologist by training, is the director of science and risk studies at the Cato Institute and the author of numerous papers about the environment and occupational heal more...
A Universe From Nothing
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableInternationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why does anything exist? And how is it all going to end? 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is the question atheists and scientists are always... more...
The Future of Life
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 15.95One of the world?s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time and the natural treasures we are about to lose forever.... more...









