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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's …
Passionate Minds
The popular stereotype of the scientist as mad boffin or weedy nerd has been peddled widely in film and fiction, with the implication that the world of science is far removed from …
Unnatural Nature of Science
This book shows that many of our understandings about scientific thought can be corrected once we realise just how "e;unnatural"e; science actually is. Quoting scientists …
How We Live and Why We Die
How do we move, think and remember? Why do we get ill, age and die? Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about …
Malignant Sadness
'An excellent book, the most objective short account I know of all the various approaches to depression.' Anthony StorrSeveral years ago, Lewis Wolpert had a severe episode of …
Developmental Biology: A Very Short Introduction
From a single cell - a fertilized egg - comes an elephant, a fly, or a human. How does this astonishing feat happen? How does the egg 'know' what to become? How does it divide into …
Passionate Minds
The popular stereotype of the scientist as mad boffin or weedy nerd has been peddled widely in film and fiction, with the implication that the world of science is far removed from …
Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?
Why are there two sexes? How different are they and why? Why can't a woman be more like a man? Or should the question be: why can't a man be more like a woman?Controversy rages …
You're Looking Very Well
We now live longer today than at any time in history. In the UK, more people are aged over sixty-five than under sixteen and by 2050, over a third of the developed world will be …