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008110
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London, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2008.
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460pDark Blue Spine
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Britannica guide
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Unbiased, comprehensive and up-to-date - the science and debates behind one of the key issues facing our planet.
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The big picture -
Climate change: a short introduction
What is climate?
A history of weather forecasting
The changing world -
The changing planet: land
The changing planet: hydrosphere
The changing planet: atmosphere
The decline in biodiversity
Ideas, arguments, and progress
Environmentalism: past, present, and future
Key environmental thinkers
Responses to change
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9781845298678 Pb.
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| 008503 | 363.73/BRI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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010436
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London, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2009.
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xviii, 382pBrown Spine
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Britannica guide
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From Gregor Mendel’s first experiments with peas during the eighteenth century to the announcement of the Human Genome Project in 1998, genetics have become the key to cracking many of the scientific ideas of our age. How much do our genes determine our personalities? What makes us different from other species? What is revealed behind the controversy of genetically modified food or stem cell research? This volume is the ideal companion for students or general popular science readers who wish to know the facts behind the latest research and discoveries.
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List of illustrations
Introduction
Part 1: Building life
Molecules of life
Understanding genes and DNA
Part 2: Genetics through time
Historical background
Heredity and evolution
Evidence for evolution
Part 3: Genetics and human health
Human genetics
Human genetic disease
Part 4: Genetic today and tomorrow
Animal and plant breeding
Biotechnology
Part 5: Controversies in genetics
10 ethica l issues in genetics
Glossary
Index
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9781845299446 Pb.
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| 010780 | 599.93503/BRI | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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011941
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London, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2008.
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378pRed Spine
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A perfect companion for travellers who wish to know the country beyond the tourist trail, for students and business people who need an overview of the culture and society, and for the general reader who wants to understand China's remarkable legacy and potent future.
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Context
History
The nation today
Culture
Places
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9781845298012 Pb.
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| I00261 | 951/MIR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
008620
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2008
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Great Britain, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2002.
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xxvi, 326pMaroon Spine
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A Brief Guide to
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A short engagingly written biography which is one of the best introductions to the life and times of Charles Darwin.
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List of illustrations and maps
A man of substance
A golden childhood
False starts
Enter Fitzroy
The great adventure
Southern lands
Earthquakes and islands
Homecoming
A married man
Secrets and sorrows
Forced into the open
The deed is done
The battle rages
Late harvest
Last days
A nation says goodbye
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9781845297206 Pb.
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004681
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London, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2003.
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xx, 476pBrown Spine
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In the wake of events since September 11, Harvey has revised and updated his analysis of the dangers facing today's world and added to it proposals for the structural reform of global security.
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1841196290 Hb.
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ID:
010076
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London, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2001.
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188pRed Spine
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In an arrangement partly encyclopedic and partly chronological, Dyson and his two dozen contributors divide all inventions into six periods; the breaks between periods are determined by when a technological era attained its acme, such as refinement of the steam engine by the 1830s. A continuity across the periods is the authors' recognition that some needs are timeless, such as the imperative to contain and transport fire; Dyson's piece about the friction match, invented in 1826, pays homage to a technical lineage that stretches back to our hominid ancestors more than a million years ago.
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Introduction: Man's need to invent
2.6 million BC to AD1: How technology made civilisation possible
AD1 to 1649: Spreading knowledge and shrinking the globe
1650 to 1829: Harnessing steam brings a new way of life
1830 to 1899: The story of light, sound and motion
1900 to 1944: Two world wars force the pace of change
1945 to 2000: Living with the chip and the gene
Index
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1841196177 Pb.
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011110
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Soul bird
/ Snunit, Michal; Golomb, Na'ama (ill.)
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2010
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London, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2010.
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40pBlue Spine
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Tells us about a soul bird who lives inside all of us, who has the keys to our innermost emotions and feelings.
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9781849010320 Hb.
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008708
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2004
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Great Britain, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 1994.
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186pBlue Spine
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This gripping book gives true accounts of the world's most powerful gangsters. A fascinating insight into the careers of the crime's most notorious and feared personalities
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The Sicilian Dons
From "Lucky" to Gotti: A miscellany of American Mafiosi
Murder incorporated
"Bugsy" Siegel: Casanova Mobster
Al Capone: Public enemy number one
Was Dillinger shot?
Bonnie and Clyde: Depression Mobsters
Emile the Nut and Jacques Mesrine
The Krays
Jack Spot and Billy Hill: The London Villians
:Jungle WII": Rachman and Michael X
Drug Barons
The Russian Mafia
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9781845290351 Pb.
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ID:
006025
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Great Britain, Constable & Robinson Ltd., 2005.
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186pRed Spine
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The stories in this chilling volume include new light on the Lizzie Borden controversy, the killing of Sir Edmund Godfrey, a decent and scrupulous man whose death has been called the greatest murder mystery in English history, and the Gorse Hall murder - one of the strangest cases of the century.
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Mysterious death of Justice Godfrey
What happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
Who killed Georgina Moore?
The Maybrick Mystery
New light on Lizzie Borden
The Gorse Hall Murder
The strange case of Hilary Rougier
The Black Dahlia murder
The murder of Shirley Collins
Who killed Serge Rubinstein?
The Zodiac mystery
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1845290139 Pb.
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