The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, Paperback - Steven Johnson

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London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot. The old East End communities were gone forever. Told by the residents th...

Reducere. THE BRA THAT CHANGED THE WORLD... The 1970s saw women coming into their own, working hard to create new roles at home and in sports, culture, polit...

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The Story of the Fly explores how a humble insect, with its fascinating history and manifold talents, holds the answer to profitably solving some o...

Reducere. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Ar...

2020 Foreword Indie Award Honorable Mention in the "Health" Category A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, i...

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In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of...

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Reducere. In 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus--one tha...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

DescriptionThe Story of Trees takes the reader on a visual journey from some of the earliest known tree species on our planet to the latest fruit c...

This book is a "big history" of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It explores philosophical thought and how our past might affect our futur...

A groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From

A groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn's definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, ...

Reducere. We may not give much thought to the boxes in our freezers or the cans on our shelves, but behind the story of food preservation is the history of c...

Reducere. Can We Map Success? Successful people typically don't plan their success. Instead they develop a unique philosophy or attitude that works for them....

Reducere. When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-sp...

Bestselling author Richard Koch shares the secret map to success, revealing the attitudes and strategies that can create world-changing results in ...

Reducere. Can We Map Success? Successful people typically don't plan their success. Instead they develop a unique philosophy or attitude that works for them....

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Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Anne RooneyIllustration(s): Hardback with jacketNumber of pages: 128Collection: The Story of Everythin...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Devi SridharNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 169 x 243 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Revolutionary Phenotype is a science book that brings us four billion years into the past, when the first living molecules showed up...

Reducere. True Ghost Stories Of Terrifying Paranormal Activity, Haunted Houses And Spooky Places From Around The World... Who doesn't love a great ghost stor...

DescriptionOver the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability t...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Tobias HurterTranslator: David ShawNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 243 x 33Cov...

DescriptionA finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the ...

Presents a narrative history that reveals the roots of modern science in the medieval world. This book debunks many of the myths about the Middle A...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alfred North WhiteheadAlfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the co...

Reducere. There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded,...

Biblical Christianity is more than just another private religious view. It's more than just a personal relationship with God or a source of moral t...

Reducere. Sometimes called "black gold, " Iowa's deep, rich soils are a treasure that formed over thousands of years under the very best of the world's grass...

In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he'd already ...

Description100 True Ghost Stories is a bumper compilation of the first four True Ghost Stories books by Alan Toner, so if you have already bought V...

When and where did the ancestors of modern birds evolve? What enabled them to survive the meteoric impact that wiped out the dinosaurs? How did the...

The story of the science of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.Publisher: Hodder ...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Cathy (Cathy Crimmins) CrimminsNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 141 x 208 x 19Cover ty...

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Reducere. Following in the footsteps of music history/biography texts such as the infamous Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk and Sex, Drugs...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

In 1829, surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward placed soil, dried leaves, and the pupa of a sphinx moth into a sealed glass bottle,...