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Infectious Disease in India, 1892-1940
Policy-Making and the Perception of Risk
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

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Using case studies of cholera, plague, malaria, and yellow fever, this book analyzes how factors such as public health diplomacy, trade, imperial governance,...
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SuperFuel
Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future
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A new solution to our global energy crisis may lie in a simple element few know –thorium   At the dawn of the atomic age, uranium and thorium were equally...
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Betrayed by Nature
The War on Cancer
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Despite the medical advances of the last century, cancer kills over half-a-million people every year in the United States. Yet despite the tenacity of this...
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Ethics, Law and Professional Issues
A Practice-Based Approach for Health Professionals

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Ethical, legal and professional issues are at the heart of health care, but it can be tricky to balance and apply these three strands in practice. Taking a...
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Masters of the Planet
The Search for Our Human Origins
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50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their...
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The Power of the Sea
Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters
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The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury...
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Extreme Weather
A Guide To Surviving Flash Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Heat Waves, Snowstorms, Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters
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Flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, thunderstorms, and wildfires - these devastating events are happening around the world at an...
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Stephen Hawking
An Unfettered Mind
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Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our age--bestselling author of A Brief History of Time, celebrated theoretical physicist, and an...
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Great Ways to Learn Anatomy & Physiology
Palgrave Study Skills

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This highly visual text is the perfect companion for anyone studying anatomy and physiology. Offering innovative techniques to help students with their...
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The Roadmap to 100
The Breakthrough Science of Living a Long and Healthy Life

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With a baby boomer turning sixty every ten seconds, we are rapidly becoming an aging society. But cutting edge research on the connection between age and...

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Extreme Fear
The Science of Your Mind in Danger
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Fear is a mysterious force. It sabotages our ability to think clearly and can drive us to blind panic, yet it can also give us superhuman speed, strength, and...
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The Number Mysteries
A Mathematical Odyssey through Everyday Life
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Every time we download music, take a flight across the Atlantic or talk on our cell phones, we are relying on great mathematical inventions. In The Number...
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Plastic Fantastic
How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
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Highly regarded science journalist Eugenie Samuel Reich recounts the case of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön, who faked the discovery of a new...
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This Borrowed Earth
Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World
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Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are...
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Urban Green
Architecture for the Future

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Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural...
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Smart Medicine
How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care
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We’re a nation in love with the drama of the medical world—from fast-paced hospital life to the race to discover cures for diseases. In Smart Medicine, William...
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Broken Genius
The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

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The first biography of William Shockley--inventor of the transistor, father of silicon semi-conductors, and center of one of the most vicious controversies in...
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Running Out of Water
The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource
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While many believe that water is a renewable resource that will never go away, the truth is that the availability of this essential element is declining....
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Second Nature
The Inner Lives of Animals
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For centuries we believed that humans were the only ones that mattered. The idea that animals had feelings was either dismissed or considered heresy. Today,...
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Big Brain
The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence
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In this groundbreaking look at the evolution of our brains, eminent neuroscientists Gary Lynch and Richard Granger uncover the mysteries of the outsize...
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The Artificial Ape
How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution
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A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees,...
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Literature, Science, and a New Humanities
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance

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Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis"--that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is...
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The Business of Space
The Next Frontier of International Competition

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This book looks at the space industry from a business perspective, with a focus on international competition. The space industry traces its origins to the...
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Light Years
An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light
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This is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? Light Years is an engaging survey of everything we know of the universe's most...