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The Chemical History of a Candle

Michael Faraday was a great experimental scientist developing the first electric motor, generator and dynamo along with discoverying electromagnetic induction along with inventing the science of electrochemistry. However he was famous in his own day for his hu...

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Right Hand, Left Hand

Right Hand, Left Hand : The origins of asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Cultures, by Chris McManus, Professor of Psychology at University College London and winner ...

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Memory and Emotion

…memory is absolutely critical for our existence as human beings…it is, without doubt, our most important possession, our most critical capacity. We are, after all, our memories. ...

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Eureka! The Birth of Science

Andrew Gregory, author of Eureka! The Birth of Science, promises a book that 'attempts to capture the essence and the spirit of Greek achievement, and something of ...

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An Entertainment for Angels

"Franklin made a strong kite from a silk handkerchief and a cedar cross carrying a sharp, pointed wire. To the kite's string he attached a metal key carefully wrapped in dry ...

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The Next Fifty Years

'To undertake long range predictions is Promethean: The fate of predictions, if not of the predictor, is like to be unhappy. Still, the challenge is hard to ignore.' The Next Fift...

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Constant Touch

"...in 1910, in a spirit of tinkering, Ericsson built a telephone into his wife Hilda's car, the vehicle connected by wires and poles to the overhead telephone lines that had...

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Blood and Justice

Blood and Justice by Peter Moore describes the ancient and medieval theories of blood and the history of early experimentation into transfusion. At its heart is the tale of an in...

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Origins

This beautiful book chronicles the geological events that have shaped our restless world from the time of its origins, amidst the dust clouds of 2 huge supernovas four and a ...

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The Shocking History of Phosphorus

"The autopsy of a person who had died from phosphorus poisoning would reveal inflammation a haemorrhage in the stomach and bowel, the liver would show fatty changes and both ...
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