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ReviewsFeathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of BirdsFebruary 2009
Would dinosaurs have tasted like chicken? John Long, a palaeontologist at Museum Victoria, thinks so. Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of ChinaNovember 2008
Everybody nowadays knows that the Chinese invented damn near everything: printing, gunpowder, compasses, wrought iron, navigation, chess, perfumed toilet paper ... The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity: How the Modern World is Making Us FatNovember 2008
Don't worry, this is not another diatribe on what you are doing or not doing that will inevitably lead to your rapid expansion and premature end. And there are no diet schemes or exercise plans. The Human Mind: and How to Make the Most of itFebruary 2009
The Human Mind is a three-part TV series presented by eminent British reproductive scientist and fervent science communicator Robert Winston. MatterFebruary 2009
Matter is the latest in Banks’ Culture series, a loosely connected string of self contained novels set in a universe crowded with sentient species at every possible level of development. From Here to Infinity: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Guide to AstronomyFebruary 2009
What exactly did Galileo see through his telescope? Is the Sun a perfect sphere? Are there multiple universes? A Ball, A Dog, and a Monkey: 1957- the Space Race BeginsFebruary 2009
The space race began on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the AtmosphereFebruary 2009
Starting 400 years ago with Galileo, Walker traces the tales of adventure behind centuries of atmospheric research. The Little Book of Maths: Theorems, Theories and ThingsFebruary 2009
This fun book is a great way to discover the wonder of maths without the need for calculators, integrals or graphs. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and ScienceFebruary 2009
It would take a rather more brash soul than this reviewer to read Bonk on the train without blushing. There's the unmistakable title in bold pink lettering surrounded by drawings of humans and animals in acrobatic couplings. Lamarck's EvolutionFebruary 2009
At the start of the 19th century, French scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck suggested characteristics acquired by an organism during its lifetime could be passed on to its offspring. The Black Hole WarFebruary 2009
The “Black Hole War” of the title was a deep rift that developed between the theories of general relativity (Hawking) and quantum mechanics (Susskind). Genomes and What to Make of ThemFebruary 2009
The book sets the scene with Austrian monk Gregor Mendel and follows the history of the science of genetics to Craig Venter, the maverick made famous by the Human Genome Project. World Without End?February 2009
Ian Whyte's most recent book covers 12,000 years of human history, looking at how the fate of some civilisations depended on the interaction between societies and their environments. Final TheoryFebruary 2009
An editor at Scientific American, this is Mark Alpert’s first science fiction novel, in which Einstein has actually found a way to reconcile gravity with the sub-atomic forces. |
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