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Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100: How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us?
$45.50The key scientific discoveries of the 21st century will emerge from the biosciences. These discoveries will impact our lives in ways we can only now begin to imagine. In this book, two of the field’s leading experts help us imagine those impacts. Paul and Joyce A. Schoemaker tour the remarkable field of biosciences as it stands today, and preview the directions and innovations that are most likely to emerge in the coming years. They offer a clear, non-technical overview of crucial current developments that are likely to have enormous impact, and address issues ranging from increased human longevity to global warming, bio-warfare to personalized medicine. Along the way, they illuminate each of the exciting technologies and hot-button issues associated with contemporary biotechnology – including stem cells, cloning, probiotics, DNA microarrays, proteomics, gene therapy, and a whole lot more. The Schoemakers identify emerging economic, political, and technical drivers and obstacles that are likely to powerfully impact the way the biosciences progress. Then, drawing on Paul Schoemaker’s unsurpassed experience helping global organizations prepare for the future, the authors sketch multiple long-term scenarios for the biosciences – and reveal how they will impact your health, family, career, society, even the Earth itself.
ISBN: 978-0137153855
Hardcover
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Shadows: Night of the Crash
$15.90The Crash happened in 2012. Alien space ships landed on Earth. Now the Earth is dark and cold. People are missing.
Everyone has a story about that night. Everyone is in danger…
ISBN: 9781846804595
Paperback
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Understanding Chemistry
$53.90This is the international edition of Prof Rao’s popular science book, an elementary introduction intended for high school students and others interested in appreciation of chemistry. Ideas and facts are presented, and a few questions raised, in order to interest the reader in the subject and to arouse curiosity. The book covers essential aspects of chemistry, features of the modern periodic table, bonding between atoms in molecules and substances, shapes and structures of molecules, metals and materials, alkalis and acids, carbon compounds, electronic structure of atoms, classification of elements, simple chemical reactions, biopolymers and man-made polymers and aspects of energy. There are also life sketches of chemists and procedures for a few experiments.
- Chemistry in a Capsule
- Elements and the Periodic Table
- The Chemical Bond
- Structures and Shapes of Molecules
- Chemical Energy
- Chemical Reactions
- Two Chemists
ISBN: 978-9812836038
Paperback
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Shadows: The Enemy Inside
$15.90There is a spy in The Firm. The Enemy have got in.
Matt Merton and Dexter must find the spy. But will one of them make a big mistake?
ISBN: 9781846804557
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Shadows: Loss of Nerve
$15.90Matt Merton finds an Enemy and he knows he must stop him. That’s his job. But he can’t do it.
Who can he trust if he can’t trust himself? Has Matt really lost his nerve?
ISBN: 9781846804588
Paperback
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Shadows: Face in the Crowd
$15.90Matt Merton sees his missing girlfriend on a busy street. He follows her to a house full of strange women.
Is it really Jane? Has he really found her at last?
ISBN: 9781846804533
Paperback
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Shadows: Dexter v Merton
$15.90The Enemy are at work again. The Firm fears an attack.
Can Matt Merton and Dexter trust who they meet in the woods? Or are they being led into a trap?
ISBN: 9781846804601
Paperback
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Visual Needs (Special Educational Needs)
$23.50Fazed by the difference between an optometrist and an ophthalmologist? Want to find out what the most common visual problems in children are? This lively and interesting book provides advice on exactly that.
ISBN: 978-0826478382
Paperback
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Shadows: City Eye
$15.90Another mission for Matt Merton. The Enemy plan an attack on the City Eye. People on the ride will die.
Can Matt get there first? Or will The Enemy win again?
ISBN:9781846804571
Paperback
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Treasure Trackers: Diving for the Ghost Galleon
$10.90Treasure Trackers are exciting adventure stories which take children to legendary and historical worlds. Follow best friends, Flynn and Mia, as they solve mysteries and find treasure. These stories include historical facts and real places, so you can use Treasure Trackers to introduce your students to the richness of the past, and the diversity of our world.
In Diving for the ghost Galleon, Uncle Earl, an expert archaeologist, has been asked to help locate the remains of a Spanish galleon that sank over 350 years ago. He is accompanied by his nephew, Flynn, and Flynn’s best friend, Mia. While diving, Flynn and Mia become disoriented and realise they have been transported back in time.
They are captured and taken aboard a pirate ship. The pirates are following the galleon. The Atocha, with plans to attack, but both ships are sunk by a hurricane. Mia and Flynn dive into the sea to escape. Returning to their own time, Mia and Flynn now know where the missing treasure is located.ISBN: 9781865094090
Paperback
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A Doctor in the House: The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad
$57.00In his twenty-two years as Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad transformed his country from an agricultural backwater into an industrial powerhouse that would become the seventeenth-largest trading nation in the world.
This remarkable achievement was not without controversy, and Dr Mahathir’s extraordinary vision and iron grip earned him both enemies as well as ardent admirers within and outside of Malaysia. He has been described—typically and paradoxically—as a tyrannical dictator, a bête noir, as well as inspiring, courageous and an outspoken defender of the downtrodden, the Third World, and moderate Islam.
At almost every turn Dr Mahathir rewrote the rules. This book reveals hitherto unknown aspects of this intensely private, but publicly bold, statesman. It provides a clear and compelling narrative of modern Malaysian political history as seen through the eyes of one its greatest shapers. It is neither apology nor defence, but a forceful, compelling and often exciting account of how Dr Mahathir achieved what he did in so short a time, and why.
ISBN: 9789675997228
Hardcover
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Treasure Trackers: Racing for the Birdman
$10.90Treasure Trackers are exciting adventure stories which take children to legendary and historical worlds. Follow best friends, Flynn and Mia, as they solve mysteries and find treasure. These stories include historical facts and real places, so you can use Treasure Trackers to introduce your students to the richness of the past, and the diversity of our world.
In the book Racing for the Birdman, a disturbing red rain is falling on remote Easter Island (Rapa Nui). Uncle Earl, Flynn and Mia are invited by Rapa Nui’s mayor to shed light on the mystery.
An encounter with a large statue, known as a moai, leaves a painful burn-like mark on Flynn’s arm. A medicine woman interprets the mark as a sign from the god Makemake that Flynn is the chosen one. He must return a stolen egg to a neighbouring island. If Flynn succeeds, the true Birdman can win the annual egg race.ISBN: 9781865094137
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