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  • Aphrodisiacs

    The Science and the Myth

    by Peter V. Taberner ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The planning and writing of this book has taken rather longer than I had originally intended; what began as a modest literary project for two second-year medical students has expanded over eight years to become a complete book. The subject matter lent itself all too easily to a sen sationalist approach yet, on the other hand, a strictly scientific approach would probably have resulted in a dull ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

    by Thoreau ...
    In 1839, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John set out on a two-week journey by rowboat from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire and back. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, published in 1849, recounts that journey through a series of essays organized by the days of the week. Thoreau meditates on nature, history, philosophy, and literature as the rivers ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English for Writing Research Papers

    by Adrian Wallwork ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on reasons why papers written by non-native researchers are rejected due to problems with English usage. It draws on English-related errors from around 5000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts by PhD students, ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Science: Sorted! Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff

    by Glenn Murphy ...
    What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1,000 CDs into an mp3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones and TV remote controls work?Glenn Murphy, author of Why is Snot Green?, answers these and lots of other brilliant technology questions in Robots, Chips and Techno Stuff. This fact-filled book is packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • The Faber Book of Science

    by John Carey ...
    The Faber Book of Science introduces hunting spiders and black holes, gorillas and stardust, protons, photons and neutrinos. In his acclaimed anthology, John Carey plots the development of modern science from Leonardo da Vinci to Chaos Theory. The emphasis is on the scientists themselves and their own accounts of their breakthroughs and achievements. The classic science-writers are included - ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Yeast technology

    Edited by Gerald Reed ...
    Yeasts are the active agents responsible for three of our most important foods - bread, wine, and beer - and for the almost universally used mind/ personality-altering drug, ethanol. Anthropologists have suggested that it was the production of ethanol that motivated primitive people to settle down and become farmers. The Earth is thought to be about 4. 5 billion years old. Fossil microorganisms ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Dynamic Secularization

    Information Technology and the Tension Between Religion and Science

    by William Sims Bainbridge ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book discusses secularization, arguing that it may be more complex and significant than is generally recognized. Using a number of online exploration methods, the author provides insights into how religion may be changing, and how information technology might be energized in this process.Working from the premise that the relationship between science and religion is complex, the author ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Cool Engineering Activities for Girls

    by Lana Flakes, Heather E. Schwartz ...
    Series series Girls Science Club
    Get your science groove on, and check out these awesome engineering projects: Tie-dye t-shirts made with markers, Jewelry made from old CDs, A s’mores cooker powered by the sun. Engineering is easy when you’re having this much fun! ... Read more

    $29.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Industrial Medicine Desk Reference

    by David F. Tver ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Increased public concern over the control of environmental forces and industrial hazards has led to awareness for the need for improved conditions for all who work. Industry has expanded and developed new p'~ducts and new methods. A great many occupational diseases have accompanied this progress. Too much of the present data and knowledge have been obtained following accidents or sad experience. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Many Faces of George Washington

    Remaking a Presidential Icon

    by Carla Killough McClafferty ...
    A look into the life of America's first president and the efforts to recreate what he may have actually looked like at different points of that life.George Washington's face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since his birth in 1732. And yet even in his lifetime, no picture seemed to capture the likeness of the man who is now the most iconic of all our presidents. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Normal

    The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome

    by Lawrence Osborne ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Asperger's has never been clearly defined, bordering autism on one side and high intelligence and verbal eccentricity on the other. The disease is a kind of cultural lightning rod. First, it's a condition onto which we project the very real and well-founded fears of social isolation inherent in mental illness. But also attached to it is a kind of admiration and envy and (among those who suffer ... Read more

    $32.09 CAD

  • Simulating the Earth

    Experimental Geochemistry

    by J. Holloway ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This is a book about the why and how of doing experiments on rocks, minerals, magmas, and fluids. It could have as logically been subtitled "Experimental petrology" as "Experimental geochemistry," but we chose geochemistry to emphasize the broad and overlapping nature of current experimental work. We have tried to aim the book at a general readership which we hope will include advanced ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD