HART-DAVIS ADAM

(P/B) SCHROEDINGER'S CAT
Adam Hart-Davis is widely regarded as one of Britain's best science communicators. Here he traces the evolution of physics through 50 of its greatest experiments. Structured chronologically, Schrodinger's Cat starts with the earliest attempts by the ancients to explain astronomy and ends with the era of Big Science, involving supercomputers and the largest and most expensive experiments ever tried. From x-rays, radioactivity, and electrons to the impact of two world wars which produced radar and microwaves, tokamaks and nuclear power, and ...
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(P/B) PAVLOV'S DOG
Pavlov's dog was a slobbery creature. And yet despite all that spittle, he managed to revolutionise the history of experimental psychology. Find out how and why in this entertaining exploration from Adam Hart-Davis: clear and to-the point, his annotated history of this science's 50 most iconic experiments ranges from Bandura's Bobo doll and Milgram's obedience studies to Zimbardo's classic Stanford prison experiment, carefully outlining in each ease the results and implications. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FIBONACCI'S RABBITS
The word mathematics comes from the Greek word mathema, meaning knowledge or learning. And indeed mathematics is at the heart of almost all processes and patterns that occur in the modern world, yet many still find the discipline hard to fathom. Fibonacci's Rabbits solves this problem in bite-sized 'hops', de scribing the 50 most critical discoveries and revolutionary moments in the history of mathematics from Ancient Greece to the present day. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE STRING BOOK
The String Book opens with a note about an 8,000-year-old piece of string that was found at a Stone Age settlement in England, about which the editor of British Archaeology said, "I don't think the average person realizes what an important piece of technology string has been over the ages." The String Book is here to set that right. What the author calls a "cornucopia of cunning and knowledge" fills this informative and charming collection of history, knot instruction, facts and surprising trivia. The chapters and sections are: Roping Y...
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