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020490
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London, Profile Books Ltd, 2015.
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vi, 266pBlack spine
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For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In Chance, a (not entirely) random selection of the New Scientist's sharpest minds provide fascinating insights into luck, randomness, risk and probability. From the secrets of coincidence to placing the perfect bet, the science of random number generation to the surprisingly haphazard decisions of criminal juries, it will explore these, and many other, tantalising questions. Following on from the bestselling Nothing and Question Everything, this book will open your eyes to the weird and wonderful world of chance - and help you see when some things, in fact, aren't random at all.
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9781781255438 Pb.
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| I01727 | 123.3/BRO | Main | Missing | General | |
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019636
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London, Vintage, 2015.
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341pRed spine
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Maybe an asteroid hit Earth. Perhaps a nuclear war reduced our cities to radioactive rubble. Or avian flu killed most of the population. Whatever the cause, the world as we know it has ended and now the survivors must start again. But how do we set about rebuilding our world from scratch? Once you've salvaged what you can from the debris, how do you grow food and make clothes? How do you generate energy and develop medicines? And once you've mastered the essentials, how do you smelt metals, make gunpowder, or build a primitive radio set? 'The Knowledge' is a journey of discovery, a book which explains everything you need to know about everything. Here is the blueprint for rebooting civilisation. It will transform your understanding of the world - and help you prepare for when it's no longer here.
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9780099575832 Pb.
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019487
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New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003.
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326pGreen spine
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Published fifty years after the discovery of the double helix of DNA, Nature via Nurture chronicles a revolution in our understanding of genes. Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture. Nature via Nurture is an enthralling, up-to-the-minute account of how genes build brains to absorb experience."--BOOK JACKET. "In February 2001 it was announced that the human genome contains not 100,000 genes, as originally postulated, but only 30,000. This startling revision led some scientists to conclude that there are simply not enough human genes to account for all the different ways people behave: we must be made by nurture, not nature. Yet again biology was to be stretched on the Procrustean bed of the nature-nurture debate. Matt Ridley argues that the emerging truth is far more interesting than this myth. Nurture depends on genes, too, and genes need nurture. Genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain, they also absorb formative experiences, react to social cues, and even run memory. They are consequences as well as causes of the will.
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978-0965804851 Hb.
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| I01586 | 304.5/RID | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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