Sex, Drugs and DNA

M Stebbins

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• In a frank, edgy and entertaining style that pulls no punches this book reveals the truth about modern biology and debunks the commonest myths surroun... Lees meer

Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955

A Einstein, M Born

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• A classic collection of correspondence between two Nobel Prize winners, The Born-Einstein Letters, is also highly topical: scientists continue to stru... Lees meer

10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet)

M Hanlon

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatc... Lees meer

Middle World

M Haw

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic one of pebbles, planets, and galaxies there is another world, strangely neglect... Lees meer

Print Is Dead

J Gomez

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating liter... Lees meer

The Whole Story

T Murcott

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Alternative medicine is a fifty billion dollar per year industry, yet it continues to generate strong opposition by the orthodox medical establishment... Lees meer

de la Mettrie's Ghost

C Nunn

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman d... Lees meer

Eternity

M Hanlon

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed. Mike Hanlon believes that not only is humankind not doomed, but that we may be around for mill... Lees meer

Light Years

Brian Clegg

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• The fully updated 2nd edition of this critically acclaimed book covers the exciting developments in light science of the past five years. Light Years ... Lees meer

Lonesome George

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• 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,... Lees meer

Viruses vs. Superbugs

T Häusler

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope from the pas... Lees meer

The Making of Champions

G Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• The status of sport, and of its greatest protagonists, has never before flown so high. This project utilizes current thoughts within the sport, behavi... Lees meer

Science and Controversy

A Meadows

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Sir Norman Lockyer left Nature, the world's leading scientific journal, as his lasting memorial. But his life, and controversial theories, are an impo... Lees meer

Broken Genius

J Shurkin

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th ce... Lees meer

The Living End

G Brown

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• The decline of infections, starvation, warfare, heart attack and stroke has allowed people to reach extreme old age but ushered in disability, dementi... Lees meer

Born-Einstein Letters, 1916-1955

A Einstein, M Born

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• 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 ... Lees meer

de la Mettrie's Ghost

C Nunn

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• This book is about how we make choices. Drawing together evidence from 21st century chemistry to Victorian politics, enlightenment philosophy, Roman d... Lees meer

Climate Change Begins at Home

D Reay

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• 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 bo... Lees meer

Ancestral Roots

T Clack

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Human evolution explains how we have found ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. Issues of modern living; depression, obesity, and environme... Lees meer

Viruses vs. Superbugs

T Häusler

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Each year thousands of people die from bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Alternative drugs are urgently needed. A surprising ray of hope from the pas... Lees meer

Bones, Rocks and Stars

C Turney

• Paperback | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Understanding how we pinpoint the past is crucial to putting the present in perspective and planning for the future. Now, for the first time, journali... Lees meer

Living with Enza

M Honigsbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• 'Never since the Black Death has such a plague swept over the face of the world, ' commented the Times, '[and] never, perhaps, has a plague been more ... Lees meer

Broken Genius

J Shurkin

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th ce... Lees meer

Space on Earth

C Cockell

• Hardcover | Engels | MacMillan Science
• Sir Arthur Clarke Award Winner Many environmentalists think going into space detracts from solving problems on Earth. Most space explorers feel enviro... Lees meer