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The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play... Læs mere
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The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb.
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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Rivalry, Adventure, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Young Readers Edition) (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A young readers adaptation of the New York Times bestselling book, The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary human history of the periodic table.
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Caesar's Last Breath: The Epic Story of The Air Around Us (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **‘Popular science at its best’Mail on Sunday‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ObserverWith every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world.
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The Violinist's Thumb: And other extraordinary true stories as written by our DNA (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Did the human race almost go extinct? Can genetics explain a cat lady's love for felines? And how did the right... Læs mere
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The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards.
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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