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Visions, physicist Michio Kaku looks to the future and guides the reader through the science of the next century. Based on many years of research into the pioneering efforts by theoreticians, and groundbreaking research that is taking place in laboratories around the world, Kaku leads us into the next century, predicting an even more far-reaching...

A Genetic History of the Jewish PeopleWho are the Jews? In this book, Harry Ostrer, an internationally renowned medical        geneticist, joins this century-old debate by exploring previous efforts to define a        biological basis for Jewishness and the recent discoveries of his own Jewish HapMap        Project team of investigators. Dr. Ostrer...

EnemiesSo what am I going to tell you? Not much so don't get excited. You probably want to know my name. Well, that's a bit of a problem. I got loads. But there is one name I like. Everybody called me it in the old days. No one does now cos no one in this city knows it. And that's fine. I don't like to remember. But I do like...

A History of a Mysterious ScienceThis is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery.   Mysterious from the start, radioactivity attracted researchers who struggled to understand it. What...

For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on        earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many        cases quite suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role        do human actions play in them? What do they tell us about the overall state...

Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 71 major international scholars, the   Oxford Handbook of Political Economy provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political economy and beyond....