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Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Leprosy in Colonial South India Medicine and Confinement Jane Buckingham Palgrave Macmillan Leprosy in Colonial South India is not only a history of a disease, it is also a history of colonial power in 19th-century British India as seen through the...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Scrutinising Science The Changing UK Government of Science Transforming Government Rebecca Boden, Maria Nedeva, Katherine Barker and Deborah Cox Palgrave Macmillan British science has undergone radical transformation during the past 20 years. This is less a result of scientific discoveries per se, but rather the structure...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Understanding the Present An Alternative History of Science Bryan Appleyard Tauris Parke Paperbacks Brian Appleyard explores universal issues of how far science should go, the effects – both positive and negative it has on our lives, and the prospective...

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	Eat Your Genes How Genetically Modified Food Is Entering Our Diet, Revised and Updated Edition Stephen Nottingham Zed Books This book gives us the facts about how genetically engineered food is entering our diet. It looks at what they are, how they are produced, why they remain...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Greenwich Time and the Longitude Official Millennium Guide Derek Howse Philip Wilson Publishers The history of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich has been revised to coincide with the Millenium. Color illustrations and updated text tell the story of...

Hardcover : $137.00 Buy	Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 Edited by Gloria Clifton and Gerard L. E. Turner Philip Wilson Publishers This publication lists over 5,000 scientific instrument makers and retailers working in the British Isles, together with a further 10,000 names of apprentices...

Hardcover : $63.00 Buy	Sundials An Illustrated History of Portable Dials Hester Higton Philip Wilson Publishers Sundials: An Illustrated History of Portable Dials fills a major gap i the published works on the subject. Most books previously printed have concentrated on...

Hardcover : $46.00 Buy	Venomous Earth How Arsenic Caused The World's Worst Mass Poisoning MacSci Andrew Meharg Palgrave Macmillan The history, chemistry, biology, geology and politics of the most notorious of all poisons.

Hardcover : $26.95 Buy	The Born - Einstein Letters Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times MacSci Max Born and Albert Einstein, Introduction by Werner Heisenberg, Foreword by Bertrand Russell, New Preface by Kip Thorne & Diana Buchwald Palgrave Macmillan Albert Einstein and Max Born were great friends. Their letters span 40 years and two world wars. In them they argue about quantum theory, agree about...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Mathematics With Love The Courtship Correspondence of Barnes Wallis, Inventor of the Bouncing Bomb MacSci Mary Stopes-Roe Palgrave Macmillan A look at how a British war hero used math to woo and win the girl

Trade Paperback : $212.00 Buy	Cancer Atlas of the United Kingdom and Ireland 1991-2000 Office for National Statistics Office for National Statistics Palgrave Macmillan This atlas presents data on cancer incidence and mortality from the whole of the UK and the Republic of Ireland in a uniquely useful and detailed way. It...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Zoos A Philosophical Tour Keekok Lee Palgrave Macmillan In this book, Keekok Lee asks the question, "what is an animal, and how does our treatment of it within captivity affect its status as a being?" This...

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The Whole Story

Alternative Medicine On Trial?

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Toby Murcott Palgrave Macmillan

Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry, yet it continues to generate strong opposition by the orthodox medical establishment. The...

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Climate Change Begins at Home

Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming

Dave Reay Palgrave Macmillan

Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the twenty-first century. But while government and industry fail to act, this book...

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Michael Hanlon Palgrave Macmillan Like all good science fiction, much of the cult classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series drew on scientific fact. Douglas Adams was a science and...

Hardcover : $34.00 Buy	Middle World The Restless Heart of Matter and Life MacSci Mark Haw Palgrave Macmillan Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic one of pebbles, planets, and galaxies there is another world, strangely neglected by...

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Space on Earth

Saving Our World by Seeking Others

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Charles S. Cockell Palgrave Macmillan

Many environmentalists think going into space detracts from solving problems here on Earth. Many astrophysicists feel environmentalism hampers their...

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Big Brain

The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence

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Gary Lynch and Richard Granger Palgrave Macmillan

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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Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet!)

A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries

Michael Hanlon Palgrave Macmillan

From the author of the bestselling The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes another incredible trip to an even more mysterious terrain....

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The Living End

The New Sciences of Death, Ageing and Immortality

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Guy Brown Palgrave Macmillan

The decline of infections, starvation, heart attack, and stroke has allowed people to reach extreme old age--and ushered in disability, dementia, and...

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Sex, Drugs and DNA

Science's Taboos Confronted

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Michael Stebbins Palgrave Macmillan

In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no punches this book reveals the truth about modern biology and debunks the commonest myths surrounding some...

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Lonesome George

The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon

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Henry Nicholls Palgrave Macmillan

Lonesome George is a 5 foot long, 200 pound tortoise, between 60 and 200 years old. In 1971 he was discovered on the remote Galapagos island of Pinta, from...

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Pleasurable Kingdom

Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good

Jonathan Balcombe Palgrave Macmillan

A rousing case for animal pleasure and its ethical and evolutionary implications

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Different Engines

How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science

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Mark Brake and Reverend Neil Hook Palgrave Macmillan

An exploration of how science fiction has driven progress

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