Brief Guide to Aliens
From Myth to Modern Science
Astrophysicist Adam Frank guides us through the search for extraterrestrial life and the questions we stand ready to answer.
Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career...
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Plastics: Just a Load of Rubbish?
Uncovering the Secrets of Seaweed and How It Can Help Save the Planet
A decade to save the planet.
That's the current call to arms. Targets are set, governments vow to do their bit and on a societal level we are encouraged to do ours by choosing to forego all things plastic. The question is whether this is the right de...
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Seaweed Revolution
How Seaweed Has Shaped Our Past and Can Save Our Future
The seaweed revolution is a fresh hope for tomorrow.
Seaweed develops in water everywhere, from the eternal glaciers to lagoons heated by the sun, from seas saturated with salt to the fresh water of our rivers. Yet we only know how to cultivate a fe...
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Smelling to Survive
The Amazing World of Our Sense of Smell
Smell is arguably the least understood sense, yet it has always been a vital component of the human experience, and that of all living creatures.
It has been used by plants and animals for millions of years to warn, to attract, to identify, to navig...
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Beat of Life
ISBN: PB: 9781915054517,
ISBN: HB: 9781800316058,
Legend Times Group,
Hero,
August 2022
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The heart is our most important – and perhaps most mysterious – organ.
Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sym...
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At the Edge of Mysteries
The Discovery of the Immune System from Smallpox to COVID-19
In December 2019 a new virus emerged, one that caused a global pandemic. Millions were infected. In the recesses of their fragile bodies a battle raged: between the immune system and the virus. But what is the immune system? What are its components?...
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Your Brain is Playing Tricks on You
How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions
Why are we often convinced that we're right even when we're wrong?
Why are we jealous, or paranoid, even when we have absolutely no reason to be?
Why is it so easy for fake news to spread around the globe and fool us?
It's because we don't see the w...
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Unnatural Selection of Our Species
At the Frontier of Gene Editing
How are we supposed to handle these new tools that could end up changing our genetic material?
The advancement of the new genetic technology has hurtled forward at breakneck speed. When the first genetically modified children, the twins Lulu and Nan...
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Silent Gene
Theory of Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780955464287,
Legend Times Group,
University of Buckingham Press,
February 2009
160 pp., 22,2x14,6 cm
160 pp., 22,2x14,6 cm
Charles Darwin wrote in "The Origin of Species" that "unless profitable variations do occur, natural selection can do nothing".
As Darwin recognised, natural selection reduces variation in favour of an optimum type. So, what is the true source of va...
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Science vs Superstition
The Case for a New Scientific Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9780955190988,
Legend Times Group,
University of Buckingham Press,
November 2006
130 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
130 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Where will humanity end up?
This is a collection of essays covering the most important critical thinking in the conflict between science and the return to the false notion of traditional thinking.
If the attack on science continues, it will endange...
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