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Small Wonders
Price: $26.95 Author: Idan Ben-Barak

Bacteria, viruses, genes, and proteins have never been so captivating. The author introduces us to all the characters in the world of microbiology and explains how every microbe plays its part in our health and survival. The information is couched in accessible language that guides the novice through this wonderland of human helpers.

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ID Quest For Identity
Price: $35.00 Author: Susan Greenfield

In her introduction to this personal look at the twenty-first century, Susan Greenfield identifies the need for balancing the necessary technical detail with the need to make the subject matter accessible. If ever anyone could make neuroscience interesting and understood, it is surely this author. She gives the reader the roadmap for defining individuality in an ever more complex world.

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The Little Book Of Maths
Price: $19.95 Author: Surendra Verma

Mathematical theorems, theories, puzzles, paradoxes, conjectures, and fallacies are explained in a straightforward and simple style, with the overriding intent being to make maths fun and engaging. The Kingdom Of Infinite Space Raymond Tallis

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Taming The Infinite
Price: $45.00 Author: Ian Stewart

This is an illustrated history of mathematics aimed at demystifying the world of numbers and formulae. Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University who has penned this book with the general reader in mind, going back to the beginning of maths in the ancient world.

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Archimedes To Hawking
Price: $55.00 Author: Clifford A Pickover

When we hear of them in their �official� capacity - Newton�s Law, Hubble�s Law - we tend to forget that there are individuals behind these names and that they were invariably brilliant, remarkable people. This book looks back across the centuries and puts a face to the name, as it were, giving the reader a wonderful insight into the great thinkers who forever changed their world and ours.

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Finding Moonshine: A Mathematician's Journey through Symmetry
Price: $45.00 Author: Marcus Du Sautoy

In a nod to symmetry this book itself is perfectly balanced, with a chapter for every month of the year. The elusive notion of symmetry is explored in all ealms and we are brought to an understanding of how pivotal it is to our very existence that there i

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The Oxford Book Of Modern Science Writing
Price: $65.00 Author: Richard Dawkins

Dawkins introduces each piece in this collection of the words and thoughts of some of the world's most revered thinkers. Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking are but three of the contributors to this erudite book. Dawkins' selection of essays,

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Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein
Price: $29.95 Author: Andy Dougan

Mary Shelley, through Frankenstein, was in fact describing not only the scientists' hope that they held the power over life and death in their hands, but also the city of Glasgow at a time when its citizens were undertaking the first resurrectionist exper

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Proust and The Squid
Price: $35.00 Author: Maryanne Wolf

On the inside jacket of this book the statement is made: 'we were never born to read'. We would surely beg to differ, but these words encapsulate the subject of this book. Neuroscientist, Maryanne Wolf, investigates the evolution of the brain and presents

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science
Price: $34.95 Author: Mary Roach

Many a scientist has devoted him/herself to the study of human sexuality; all in the name of science of course. Mary Roach looks not only at the research and the complexity of sexual physiology, but also with humour at the things some scientists study!

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Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying To Understand My Brain
Price: $29.99 Author: Dennis Cass

Subjecting himself to a battery of neurological tests and experiments, Cass becomes absorbed by the workings of his own brain. He investigates feelings such as fear and anxiety and then goes on to ponder the specifics of other brains such as that of his s

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The Naked Man
Price: $55.00 Author: Desmond Morris

Morris writes from a zoologist's perspective, examining the evolution of different biological features and viewing the human male as an abundant yet endangered species.

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Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret
Price: $33.95 Author: Seth Shulman

Whilst researching Bell's journals Shulman made a startling discovery; the possibility that Bell illegally copied part of Elisha Gray's invention in his creation of the telephone.

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The Complete Earth
Price: $99.95 Author: Douglas Palmer

Data from NASA's satellites have been collated to provide a digital atlas of our amazing globe. This unique guide provides an awe-inspiring perspective on our beautiful planet.

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Your Brain is (Almost) Perfect
Price: $19.95 Author: Read Montague

A remarkable new perspective on the process of decision making by one of the world's leading computational neuroscientists.

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The Brain That Changes Itself
Price: $35.00 Author: Doidge Norman

A woman born with half a brain learns to function as though her brain is whole, aged brains are rejuvenated, learning disorders overcome and IQs increased in Doidge's case studies of neuroplasticity. A moving and inspirational exploration of how we perceive our brains, human nature and human potential.

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What Do You Care What Other People Think?
Price: $24.95 Author: Richard P Feynman

Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, tells short stories of his life - from facing his first wife's diagnosis of Hodgkin's Disease to uncovering baloney at NASA - this collection is moving, entertaining and insightful.

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The Anatomist: a True Story of Gray's Anatomy
Price: $32.95 Author: Bill Hayes

Henry Gray and Henry Carter were the author and illustrator, respectively, of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body. Drawing from diaries and letters, Bill Hayes recounts their process of creating this extraordinary resource.

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Super Crunchers: How Anything Can Be Predicted
Price: $35.00 Author: Ian Ayres

Economist Ayres explains the increasing appreciation for mining data and crunching numbers in all manner of pursuits. He provides examples of mathematicians, sport scouts, and wine buffs using statistical analysis to disclose the patterns that revolve aro

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Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics = Happiness
Price: $27.99 Author: Graham Tattersall

Characterising himself as a confirmed and superior geek, Tattersall is perfectly placed to combine statistical analysis with trivia to explain all manner of curiosities. For example, do you know how fast a fly is? Or, how to measure the weight of your hou

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Universe
Price: $120.00 Author: Fred Watson

Fred Watson is the astronomer in charge at Coonabarabran and brings his lifetime's knowledge to the subject. Included are detailed charts of the 88 recognised constellations and comprehensive profiles of each of the planets in our solar system.

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The Family that Couldn't Sleep
Price: $45.00 Author: DT Max

Fatal Familial Insomnia has been identified as the condition responsible for successive generational death in a Venetian family.

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A Pig with Six Legs and other Clouds
Price: $29.95 Author: Gavin Pretor-Pinney

Cloudspotting would surely lift anyone's spirits. Indeed, the Cloud Appreciation Society will love this collection of cloud poodles, pigs, dragons, pasta, and skateboarders.

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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
Price: $32.95 Author: Natalie Angier

New York Times contributor Angier takes us through the scientific canon via interviews with the worldís best scientists. Very much a celebration of all that is wondrous about science discovery, Angier opens our eyes, leaving us eager to learn more.

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Faust in Copenhagen
Price: $59.95 Author: Gino Segre

This book centres on the lives of seven physicists, all of whom were present in Copenhagen in April 1932 at a physics conference. The world, for all mankind, was about to change as a Faustian struggle between good and evil was beginning.

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A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
Price: $65.00 Author: Jim Endersby

It is a handful of organisms such as the guinea pig, the fruit fly, and the zebrafish which have helped us unravel one of life's greatest mysteries - inheritance. In this wonderfully original history of modern biology, we come to realise how inheritance s

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The Language of God
Price: $29.95 Author: Francis Collins

Dr. Collins is the head of the Human Genome Project and works at the cutting edge of the study of DNA. He is also a devout believer in God.

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Why Aren't They Here?
Price: $35.00 Author: Surendra Verma

This Melbourne based science journalist doesn't have the welcome mat out just yet, but is convinced other life forms will discover us.

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Galileo Anti-Christ
Price: $49.95 Author: Michael White

White's research for this book encompassed archives from the Vatican. He subsequently came to the conclusion that the apparent inevitability of Galileo's collision course with the Catholic Church may in fact have been the result of conspiracy and subtefug

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The Human Voice
Price: $24.95 Author: Anne Karpf

Describing the human voice as 'the story of a remarkable talent', Karpf reminds us of how incredible the human voice is and how, from the earliest time in life's cycle, we use this talent as our social glue. Interestingly, we are also reminded that regard

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