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'In Silico' Simulation of Biological Processes
Wiley 2003; US$ 205.00Over recent decades vast amounts of biological data have been accumulated. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to apply traditional theoretical methods to the formulation of coherent pictures of cell and organ function because it is no longer possible for a human theorist to integrate all of the available information. Instead, computer technologies... more...
100 Ideas that Changed the World
Ebury Publishing 2011; US$ 13.34Every once in a while, an idea comes along that makes the entire world sit up and take notice. From the earliest understandings of our place in the solar system, via Darwinism, DNA, neutrons and quarks, right up to the theories that are pushing the boundaries of our knowledge today, we are forever propelled forward by our most gifted scientific minds.... more...
40 Days and 40 Nights
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education, decided in late 2005, pitted the teaching of intelligent design (sometimes known as "creationism in a lab coat") against... more...
40 Days and 40 Nights
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 13.99In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education , decided in late 2005, a Republican judge rendered a surprising verdict in a case that pitted the teaching of intelligent design... more...
50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: The Future
Quercus 2012; US$ 15.18What will the world look like in 2020, 2030 or even 2100? How will progress in scientific research affect human life in the areas of health and lifestyle, energy and the environment, politics and conflict, space exploration and even the ultimate questions of existence? This book offers an electrifying trip through the wonders ? and terrors ? awaiting... more...
Abductive Inference
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 42.00This book analyses abduction as an information-processing phenomenon. more...
About The Size Of It
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 6.38A serious and seriously funny book about weights and measures. It explains what they are, how they come about and how they are formed and shaped by the one guiding principle of measurement that no one ever mentions: that most of us have better things to think about. This is the only book devoted to the mishmash of bodges, estimates and rules-of-thumb... more...
Abstract Sex
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 140.00Astract Sex investigates the impact of advances in contemporary science and information technology on conceptions of sex. Evolutionary theory and the technologies of viral information transfer, cloning and genetic engineering are changing the way we think about human sex, reproduction and the communication of genetic information. Abstract Sex presents... more...
Acceptable Evidence
Oxford University Press, USA 1994; US$ 44.99Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.... more...
Access Denied
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 28.99African-Americans, Latinos and American Indians are still severely under-represented science, engineering and mathematics in the USA. These essays explore the participation of minorities in these fields and the outcomes of government and private programmes to increase opportunities. more...









