Making the Monster - The Science Behind Mary Shelley's ...
The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influen...
How to Make Coffee - The science behind the bean
Caffeine is the most widely consumed mind-altering molecule ...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories: Global Edi...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories continues to rev...
Gluten Exposed - The Science Behind the Hype and How to...
From the internationally renowned expert on celiac disease a...
Mask of the Sun - The Science, History and Forgotten Lo...
Mask of the Sun recounts the forgotten lore behind this amaz...
Run Like You Stole Something: The Science behind the Sc...
Run Like You Stole Something: The Science behind the Score L...
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories w...
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories with M...
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories
Essential Environment: The Science Behind the Stories - Univ...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories
Environment: The Science behind the Stories - University tex...
Aero-hydrodynamics and the Performance of Sailing Yacht...
Aero-hydrodynamics and the Performance of Sailing Yachts: Th...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories, Global Edi...
Environment: The Science behind the Stories, Global Edition ...
Value Pack: Environment: The Science Behind the Storie,...
Value Pack: Environment: The Science Behind the Storie, Mast...
Making The Monster - The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenste
Cover Me - The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time
From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger Jimi Hendrixs version of Bob Dylans All Along the Watchtower; the Beatles rocking out with Twist and Shout.; Aretha Franklin demanding Respect. Wit...
The Boy Behind The Curtain
Being a coppers son, Ive always got one eye out for trouble. I cant help it. But I dont go looking for it anymore. In Tim Wintons fiction, chaos shapes the lives of his characters. So too Wintons own life. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtain take us behind the scenes, revealing the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have...
Don`t Look; Don`t Touch; Don`t Eat: The Science Behind
Every flu season; sneezing; coughing; and graphic throat-clearing become the day-to-day background noise in every workplace. And coworkers tend to move as farâand as quicklyâaway from the source of these bodily eruptions as possible. Instinctively; humans recoil from objects that they view as dirty and even struggle to overcome feelings of discomfort once the offending item has been clea...
The Science Magpie - Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams and even jokes across the scientific disciplines and from sciences bejewelled history. Science, humankinds greatest intellectual achievement, is capable equally of delight and amusement as much as learning and the advancement of knowledge. The Science Magpie brings together a hugely diverse collection of classic, common and unu...
RHS Botany for Gardeners - The Art and Science of Gardening Explained & Explored
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valuable introduction to the study of plant science. Gardeners Illustrated RHS Botany for Gardeners is more than just a useful reference book on the science of botany and the language of horticulture it is a practical, hands-on guide that will help gardeners understand how plants grow, what affects their performance, and how to get better results. Illustrated throughout with ...
Time Your Body - The Science of Keeping It Healthy
Join the editors of TIME for a fascinating and illuminating journey inside a world that we ought to know well, but are too close to see: the human body. Harnessing the most advanced visual technologies available to medical science-CAT scans and ultrasound, MRIs, EKGs and more-the book shows the workings of the bodys systems in revelatory new ways. Yet this splendidly illustrated volume is far mo...
Cure - A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
A rigorous, sceptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the minds extraordinary ability to heal the body. Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partners voice? If so, then youve experienced how dramatically the workings of your mind can affect your...
The Testament of Mary
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2013 A heartfelt, powerful work. The Wall Street Journal Lovely, understated and powerfully sad, The Testament of Mary finally gives the mother of Jesus a chance to speak. NPR In a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been los...
Monster In The Closet (The Baltimore Series Book 5)
The Sunday Times bestselling author of Every Dark Corner returns with an exclusive novel celebrating ten years of Karen Roses thrillers in the UK. MONSTER IN THE CLOSET reunites readers with characters from Karen Roses bestselling Baltimore series. A mother is dead, and now her killer hunts the child that witnessed the brutal crime
Private Investigator Clay Maynard locates missing children ...
Science(ish) - The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies
Just like you, Dr Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards have watched movies and been sucked into those fictional worlds. Unlike you, theyve written an amusing book exploring and unpicking these much-loved stories, revealing the science within. Theyve chatted to some of the most respected names in science to get to the bottom of these alternate realities. And if at any point the reader is confused, r...
The Making of Return of the Jedi - The Definitive Story Behind the Film
Just as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute concludes New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzlers trio of breathtaking books celebrating George Lucass classic saga. Once again, the authors unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives has yielded a m...
The Science of Intelligent Achievement - How Smart People Focus, Create and Grow Their Way to Success
Smart strategies for pragmatic, science-based growth and sustainable achievement. The Science of Intelligent Achievement teaches you the scientific process of finding success through your most valuable assets: Selectivity how selective are you with who and what you let into your life? Ownership how dependent are you on others for your happiness and success? Pragmatism how consistent ...
Paranormality - The Science of the Supernatural
People are emotionally drawn to the supernatural. They actively want weird, spooky things to be true . . . Wiseman shows us a higher joy as he deftly skewers the paranormal charlatans, blows away the psychic fog and lets in the clear light of reason. Richard Dawkins Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena dont exist. But in the same way that the science of s...
Science and the City - The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than dont, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work? Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables t...
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else - The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
The stories behind Australias many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names. From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book. Australias vast spaces and ir...
Children's Book of the Movies - Explore the Magical, Behind-The-Scenes World of the World
Now kids can explore the magical, behind-the-scenes world of cinema in the Childrens Book of the Movies. Exploring the glamorous world of the movies with child-friendly text and pictures, this definitive guide to cinema reveals how movies work: who makes them, the jobs they have, and the tools and techniques they use. It showcases top movie stars and characters, introduces groundbreaking mus...
What We Cannot Know - From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained
`Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting Bill Bryson Britains most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know. Is the universe infinite? Do we know what happened before the Big Bang? Where is human consciousness located in the brain? And are there more undiscovered particles out there, beyond ...
The Girl You Left Behind
A hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible weepy from the author of the international bestsellers Me Before You and After You. What happened to the girl you left behind? France, 1916. Sophie Lefevre must keep her family safe whilst her adored husband Edouard fights at the front. When she is ordered to serve the German officers who descend on her hotel each evening, her home becomes riven by ...
Diet for the Mind - The Latest Science on What to Eat to Prevent Alzheimer's and Cognitive Decline
The link between diet and Alzheimers is now scientifically proven and by following the MIND diet you can cut your risk of dementia by as much as 53%. In Diet for the MIND, Dr Martha Clare Morris, lead creator of the MIND diet, presents the foods scientifically proven to prevent cognitive decline. Emphasizing whole grains, leafy greens, lean proteins, beans, and vegetables, and also flagging ...
The Boy Behind The Curtain
In Tim Wintons fiction, chaos waits in the wings and ordinary people are ambushed by events and emotions beyond their control. Wintons own life has also been shaped by havoc. The extraordinarily powerful true stories that make up The Boy Behind the Curtain take us behind the scenes, revealing the accidents, both serendipitous and traumatic, that have influenced his view of life and fuelled ...
Perdita - The Life of Mary Robinson
Sex, fame and scandal in the theatrical, literary and social circles of late 18th-century England. One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinsons life was marked by reversals of fortune. After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, at age fourteen, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtors prison...