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In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical …

In The Rocket Men authors Rex Hall and Dave Shayler review this Soviet demonstration of technological progress from both the developmental and operational aspects which were …

Led by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the …

At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only …

Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great …

On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built …

A leading cancer specialist tells the compelling stories of three adult leukemia patients and their treatments, the disease itself, and the drugs developed to treat it.When you are …

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But …

Improving your life is much easier than you think. Whether it s losing weight, sleeping more, or restoring your work/life balance the secret is to start small.For years, we ve …