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  • Better Than Yesterday

    by Jay Matthew ...
    This is a must for all doctors new to emergency medicine in South Africa. Written by a seasoned emergency medicine doctor, that has worked both in emergency departments and in the prehospital environment, it goes into detail about problems that doctors may encounter during daily practice. It offers quirky commentary and useful insights to help junior doctors cope in the field. Experienced doctors ... Read more

    R109,41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gene

    The story of the gene: our past, our future, ourselves.

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    An epic, dazzling history of the idea that defines us.From Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to the discovery of DNA and the CRISPR revolution in gene-editing, The Gene tells the story of how we came to understand heredity – to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans – land how that knowledge now allows us to rewrite life itself. Siddhartha Mukherjee combines scientific insight with ... Read more

    R276,22

  • The Dangerous Art of Alchemy

    A fascinating free e-short accompaniment to The Raven's Head

    by Karen Maitland ...
    A free e-short from 'Queen of the Dark Ages' Karen Maitland, author of Company of Liars, which explores medieval Dark Arts practices and the mysterious history of alchemy.**Includes real recipes devised by medieval alchemists and a free sample of Karen's gothic historical thriller, The Raven's Head**'An atmospheric and dark story' The Times on The Raven's Head</st... ... Read more

    Free

  • What's Gotten Into You

    The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

    by Dan Levitt ...
    For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms ... Read more

    R338,09

  • Reader, Come Home

    The Reading Brain in a Digital World

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how ... Read more

    R221,48

  • Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?

    A Book of Weird and Wonderful Science Facts

    by Wendy Sadler ...
    Have you ever wondered why golf balls have dimples or why your hair goes frizzy in the rain? Scientist Wendy Sadler has the answers in her book of Weird and Wonderful facts. Broken down into user-friendly chapters like sport, going out, the great outdoors, food and drink and the downright weird, Wendy gives the scientific answers to life's intriguing questions, likeWhy toast always lands butter ... Read more

    R54,61

  • Basics of … Beekeeping

    by Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth and Others ...
    This classic work has been greatly enhanced and extended with both photographs and images to illustrate the many facets of Beekeeping.A guide for the aspiring apiarist. All you need to know to get started in beekeeping. In this updated edition, a compilation of advice from Langstroth, Quinby, Huber, and a number of contemporary contributors, you will find everything you need to know about ... Read more

    R72,88

  • Geology of Utah's Mountains, Peaks, and Plateaus

    Including descriptions of cliffs, valleys, and climate history

    by William T. Parry ...
    Utah’s landscape is among the most spectacular in the world. It is a region of prominent peaks, sweeping valleys, dramatic canyons, and plateaus rimmed by sheer cliffs. Unique among western states, Utah’s landscape includes the Colorado Plateau, Basin and Range, and Rocky Mountains geologic provinces. Exposed rocks tell the geologic story of the region’s basement structures, overlying surface ... Read more

    R94,07

  • Concise Dictionary Of Science

    by V&S Publishers' Editorial Board ...
    We see application of science everywhere. Whether we are aware or not, science application plays a big part in our daily lives. While you are reading this page, an important element of optical science is in use. Electricity, for example, is one of the most important science discoveries ever made. As we walk in the public, we see almost everyone carrying a cellular phone. This is an application of ... Read more

    R145,69

  • Tote Katzen schnurren nicht

    Ein Panoptikum interessanter Dinge und Begebenheiten

    by Mathias Scholz ...
    In diesem kleinen Büchlein geht es um so etwas wie "interessante Dinge", um "Wissenswertes" sowie um bemerkenswerte "Begebenheiten" aus allen möglichen Wissensgebieten, die wiederum irgendwie miteinander verbunden und verbandelt (man könnte auch sagen "verschränkt") sind. Genauer, es geht um eine Auswahl von Dingen und Begebenheiten, die der Autor für sich als so interessant empfindet, dass er ... Read more

    R219,00

  • Michael Faraday : He Who Inspired Einstein | Biography of a Scientist Grade 5 | Children's Biographies

    by Dissected Lives ...
    Did you know that the great Albert Einstein was inspired by another scientist and inventor? Einstein’s inspiration was Michael Faraday, and this book is dedicated entirely to the latter. Read about Faraday’s life, including his education and upbringing. Walk with him as he works on experiments and becomes excited with his discoveries. Grab a copy today. ... Read more

    R82,10

  • Die Welträtsel

    Gemeinverständliche Studien über monistische Philosophie

    by Ernst Haeckel ...
    Die Welträtsel, in veralteter Schreibweise Die Welträthsel, ist der Titel eines Sachbuches aus der Feder des Biologen und Philosophen Ernst Haeckel aus dem Jahre 1899, es trägt den Untertitel "Gemeinverständliche Studien über monistische Philosophie". In diesem Werk stellt Haeckel sein monistisch geprägtes Weltbild als Lösung der Welträtsel einer breiten Öffentlichkeit vor, die Darwinsche ... Read more

    R42,00

  • Leptons And Quarks (Special Edition Commemorating The Discovery Of The Higgs Boson)

    by Lev Borisovich Okun ...
    The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, is to reflect the various stages of this 30+ years search. Along with the text of ... Read more

    R496,90

  • Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft

    by Friedrich Engels ...
    Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft oder kurz: "Anti-Dühring", ist eine von Friedrich Engels zuerst 1877 fortsetzungsweise im Vorwärts veröffentlichte Streitschrift gegen Eugen Dühring unter Mitarbeit von Karl Marx. Sie wird zu den einflussreichsten Texten des Marxismus gerechnet. Ursprünglich auf Bitten Wilhelm Liebknechts verfasst, um den Einfluss Eugen Dührings zu schmälern, ... Read more

    R42,00

  • The Lamp of Learning

    Two Centuries of Publishing at Taylor & Francis

    by W. H. Brock, A. J. Meadows ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Publishing and Printing
    Originally published in 1998, when for two centuries Taylor & Francis had been committed to the publication of scholarly information. Ever since the launching of the Philosophical Magazine in 1798, the publishing company run by Richard Taylor and later by William Francis has specialised in the printing and publishing of scientific periodicals and books. Both founders wrote original scientific ... Read more

    R1 395,90

  • North American Wildland Plants

    A Field Guide

    by James Stubbendieck, Stephan L. Hatch, Neal M. Bryan, Cheryl D. Dunn ...
    North American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference assists individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals in identifying wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland plants in this book were selected because of their abundance, ... Read more

    R584,53

  • Penguins

    The Ultimate Guide Second Edition

    by Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, Julie Cornthwaite ...
    An acclaimed photographic guide to these marvelous and enigmatic birds—now in a new, updated editionPenguins are perhaps the most beloved birds. On land, their behavior appears so humorous and expressive that we can be excused for attributing to them moods and foibles similar to our own. Few realize how complex and mysterious their private lives truly are, as most of their existence takes place ... Read more

    R511,51

  • How it All Works

    All scientific laws and phenomena illustrated & demonstrated

    by Adam Dant, Brian Clegg ...
    In this beautiful and unique combination of art and science, this stunningly detailed book examines how the rules of science govern the the world around us, from the rooms in our houses to the planet, the solar system and the universe itself!The Universe is inconceivably complex. Its component parts though follow a set of unbreakable laws that have somehow been coded into their very fabric since ... Read more

    R386,39

  • Diamondoids

    Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

    by Sven Stauss, Kazuo Terashima ...
    Over the past few decades, carbon nanomaterials, most commonly fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene, have gained increasing interest in both science and industry, due to their advantageous properties that make them attractive for many applications in nanotechnology. Another class of the carbon nanomaterials family that has slowly been gaining (re)newed interest is diamond molecules, also ... Read more

    R2 467,94

  • The Mysterious Waves of Living Cells

    by Hubert Rudakemwa ...
    In this book, Rudakemwa shares with us intriguing questions which lead to thinking about the existence of a new way of communication used by living cells. These ideas lead to a new theory that revolutionizes the way we previously conceived the internal organization of living beings. Not only this theory is new in its own way but it also brings in many other stunning consequences about the living ... Read more

    R72,44

  • Bevölkerung

    Haben wir die Überbevölkerung erreicht ?

    by Fabienne P. ...
    Umweltbelastungen und der Verlust der Biodiversität sind einige der größten Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Im Zuge der rapiden technologischen Entwicklungen und der wachsenden Weltbevölkerung sind die natürlichen Ressourcen unseres Planeten zunehmend unter Druck geraten. Bevölkerungswachstum, Urbanisierung und Industrialisierung treiben den menschlichen Fußabdruck auf die Umwelt in nie ... Read more

    R179,00

  • Etude de la technologie Smart Grid / Micro Grid au travers du Démonstrateur GEPY

    (Gestion Electrique Postale Yvelines)

    by Jean-Louis Miègeville ...
    Cette publication a pour objectif de présenter les résultats de l’observation du fonctionnement du projet GEPY (Gestion Electricité Postale Yvelines); durant deux années.Ce projet consiste à tester sur le parking d’un site de La Poste, une ombrière dont le toit est constitué de panneaux photovoltaïques.Celle-ci permet d’abriter et d’alimenter en électricité photovoltaïque deux véhicules ... Read more

    R160,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Énergie thermonucléaire

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    by Encyclopaedia Universalis ...
    Le XXe siècle nous a appris que l'énergie de fusion thermonucléaire est la source d'énergie du Soleil et de la plupart des autres étoiles. C'est cette énergie qui produit le rayonnement électromagnétique X issu de la région centrale de notre étoile et qui, par diffusion, absorption et réémission, devient la lumière qui... ... Read more

    R140,00

  • The Book of Facts and Trivia

    Science

    by Terri Schlichenmeyer ...
    Entertaining, informative, and enlightening! Educational, eyebrow-raising, and profound. Science has never been this much fun! Take a weird and wonderful tour of the every branch of science with this treat of stories, trivia, and facts!From Earth’s weight gain thanks to the many tons of cosmic dust that falls on the planet each year to William A. Mitchell, the inventor of Tang, Cool Whip, and Pop ... Read more

    R292,09