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Sam Kean
From New York Times -bestselling author Kean comes more incredible and vibrant stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by DNA.
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Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is…
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Published in 2014 by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. –Title page verso.
Did the human race almost go extinct? Can genetics explain a cat lady’s love for felines? And how did the right combination of genes create the exceptionally flexible thumbs and…
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For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see…
New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb.
** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ** ‘Popular science at its best’ Mail on Sunday ‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ Observer With every breath, you literally inhale the history…
Incredible stories of love, history, and the nature of mankind, brought to us by the Periodic Table.
Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, July 2012 –Title page verso.
The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology…
A young readers adaptation of the New York Times bestselling book, The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary human history of the periodic table.
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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold history of science’s darkest secrets, a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science’s darkest secrets, a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Traditional Chinese edition of The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it’s also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they…
A young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table.Why did…
Hilde Ostby,Ylva Ostby
Originally published in Norwegian in 2016 as ?A dykke etter sj?hester: En bok om hukommelse (Diving for Seahorses: A Book About Memory).
Translation of: ?A dykke etter sj?hester.
Sam D. Graham,Thomas E. Keane
This manual covers urologic surgery. Major emphasis is placed on technical details, surgical problems, pitfalls to be avoided and management complications.
