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No Time to Lose
Peter Piot

ISBN10: 0393345513 ISBN13: 9780393345513
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Jun 2013
The story of a microbiologist's remarkable career, from identifying the Ebolavirus to pioneering AIDS research and policy. Peter Piot has had an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team... More

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ISBN: 9781846142710 - Permanent Present Tense

Permanent Present Tense
Suzanne Corkin

ISBN10: 1846142717 ISBN13: 9781846142710
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Allen Lane
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 May 2013
In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent an experimental psychosurgical procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. This title tells the story of the amnesiac Henry Gustave Molaison - known only as H M until his death... More

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The Spark
Kristine Barnett

ISBN10: 0241145627 ISBN13: 9780241145623
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Fig Tree
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 May 2013
The author's son Jacob has an IQ higher than Einstein's, a photographic memory, and he taught himself calculus in two weeks. At 9 he started working on an original theory in astrophysics that experts believe may someday put him in line for a Nobel... More

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Matthew Boulton
Anthony Burton, Jennifer Tann

ISBN10: 075246292X ISBN13: 9780752462929
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Apr 2013
A biography of Matthew Boulton Matthew Boulton, of the famous Boulton & Watt steam engine partnership, was an eighteenth-century designer and inventor. Before he partnered up with James Watt he was a successful industrialist manufacturing a range... More

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ISBN: 9781781592663 - Darwin's Apprentice

Darwin's Apprentice
Janet Owen

ISBN10: 1781592667 ISBN13: 9781781592663
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 18 Apr 2013
* An original study of Sir John Lubbock, written by an expert on both collecting practices and Sir John Lubbock. * A chance to learn more about the man who gave the nation bank holidays and the Ancient Monuments Act to protect our heritage. More

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ISBN: 9781742668567 - The Man Who Invented Vegemite

The Man Who Invented Vegemite
Jamie Callister

ISBN10: 1742668569 ISBN13: 9781742668567
Publisher: Murdoch Books Pier 9
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Apr 2013
" "Vegemite is perhaps Australia's most enduring cultural icon. But how did this pungent, salty black paste, which for most of us is how we start the day, come to be created? Cyril Callister was a passionate scientist and innovator... More

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ISBN: 9780300192476 - Dog Days, Raven Nights

Dog Days, Raven Nights
John M Marzluff, Colleen Marzluff

ISBN10: 0300192479 ISBN13: 9780300192476
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2013
Fresh out of graduate school, the authors left Arizona for a small cabin in the mountains of western Maine. Their mission: to conduct an extensive study of the winter ecology of the Common Raven under the tutelage of biologist Bernd Heinrich. More

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Circulation
Thomas Wright

ISBN10: 0099552698 ISBN13: 9780099552697
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Apr 2013
William Harvey's theory of circulation was as controversial in its day as Copernicus' idea that the earth revolved around the sun. This title charts the rise of the yeoman's son who demolished beliefs held by anatomists since Roman times... More

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ISBN: 9781844087884 - Keeping Hope Alive

Keeping Hope Alive
Dr Hawa Abdi

ISBN10: 1844087883 ISBN13: 9781844087884
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Apr 2013
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children in urgent need of medical attention. More

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LSD
Albert Hofmann, Amanda Feilding

ISBN10: 0199639418 ISBN13: 9780199639410
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Mar 2013
Albert Hofmann, who died in 2008 aged 102, synthesised LSD in 1938. Although his work produced other important drugs, it was LSD that shaped his career. Shortly before his death, Hoffman approved a new and updated translation of his autobiography... More

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