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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Crown/Archetype 2010; US$ 16.00Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping,... more...
The Essential Tension
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 34.00 US$ 28.90"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."—Sir Peter Medawar, Nature more...
The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
Cambridge University Press 2014; US$ 25.00Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas. Ideal for non-scientists, physicists and cosmologists. more...
Strange Glow
Princeton University Press 2016; US$ 19.95 US$ 18.15More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get diagnostic x-rays, such as mammograms, and submit to full-body security scans at airports. We worry and debate about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the safety of nuclear power plants. But how much do we really know about... more...
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 6, Medicine
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 156.00A further volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation on China which introduces the history of medicine. more...
The Void
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 7.99What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This little book explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle's theories to black holes and quantum particles, and why our very latest discoveries about the vacuum can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. more...
Alternative Medicine?
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 22.99Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), Alternative Medicine? maps the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and lays bare the roots of today's distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine. more...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 33.00Reveals the diversity of goals, contexts and accomplishments in scientific study during the Middle Ages. more...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 34.00An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500–1700. more...
The Gene
Random House 2016; US$ 15.50Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times , The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on Sunday THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 ‘Dramatic and precise… [A] thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial and, to borrow... more...
