Introduces us to the stories of the brain science and the discipline of 'neuroplasticity'. This title allows you to meet the stroke victim who unable to feed or dress himself learned to move and talk again, and the maverick scientists over turning centuries of assumptions about the brain and it's more..

Packed with practical hints, study tips, short cuts and examples, this book is designed to help you throughout your degree. Designed for the geography students, it delves into coping with conflicting time commitments, constructing essays, presentations with posters and in class, managing different more..

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Designed for students following the OCR AS-Level Biology course, this book covers various topics on the course specification with revision notes, questions and exam practice sections. It offers a way for students to support their studies in the course and to prepare themselves in the run up to the more..

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Features the author's ride of 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. This book covers his journey through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune. more..

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from more..

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Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? This book is a science book discussing such questions. more..

Deals with what we know about climate change into the future of a small corner of the planet: the islands of Britain and Ireland. This title looks at six landscapes and one city to show how our world may have altered over the course of the century. more..