Science

An acclaimed writer-doctor shares moving stories of mental illness, in a book that signals the arrival of the next Oliver Sacks

A textbook on global pharmaceutical policies

Do corporations own the genetic codes to our future? McGiffen explores who's in control and what it means.

A study of climate change, one of the global challeneges of the twenty-first century

The Oxford Handbook of Panel Data examines new developments in the theory and applications of panel data.

In this engaging guide, Numerology expert Sonia Ducie answers the most frequently asked questions about the subject.

The fascinating history of electromagnetism and how, in the not-so-distant future, the Earth's poles will switch places - with potentially catastrophic results

A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave you breathless. Every Breath You Take combines scientific evidence with Mark's personal stories and advice on what you can do to improve air quality, giving us the low-down on what's up high.

A witty, accessible and entertaining journey through teh philosophies of time and space.

Ramachandran is the modern wizard of neuroscience. In The Tell-Tale Brain, we see the genius at work, tackling extraordinary cases, many of which mark turning points in neuroscientific knowledge. We see him hypothesizing, experimenting, failing, having epiphanies, experimenting, succeeding. In this utterly ...

"The rubella vaccine and others made with ... fetal cells have protected more than 150 million people in the United States, the vast majority of them preschoolers. The new cells and the method of making them also led to vaccines that have protected billions of people around the world from polio, rabies, ...

A witty and informative guide to the fundamental laws which govern the universe that's so simple that even a dog can understand!

Translated from a popular Russian educational series, this concise book explores the fundamental concept of integral calculus. Requires only some background in high school algebra and elementary trigonometry. 1963 edition.

From the bestselling author of Awakenings and Musicophilia.

In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. But now, through Dr Owen's pioneering techniques, we can talk to them - and they can talk back.

Suitable for courses in functional analysis and a valuble resource for researchers, this introductory treatment is based on the open mapping theorem, Hahn-Banach theorem, dual space construction, enlargement of normed space, and Liouville's theorem. 1988 edition.

An insight into the fundamental workings of the cosmos.

A moving first-hand account of a major breakthrough in the understanding and treatment of autistic conditions

The great genius of modern physics explains why quantum theory makes perfect sense