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Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure.

Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge.

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) had a relatively brief, but remarkable life, lived in his beloved rural home of Glenlair, and variously in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London and Cambridge.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond.

Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life.

This is a book about discovery and disaster, exploitation and invention, warfare and science - and the relationship between human beings and the chemical elements that make up our planet.

This is a book about discovery and disaster, exploitation and invention, warfare and science - and the relationship between human beings and the chemical elements that make up our planet.

We are in the midst of a revolution.

We are in the midst of a revolution.

Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe.

Radio telescopes have transformed our understanding of the Universe.

How intelligent are dolphins?

How intelligent are dolphins?

Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations.

Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations.

Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically.

You cannot hide from radioactivity.

Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse.

Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse.

Depression is an experience known to millions.

Depression is an experience known to millions.

Rosalind Franklin is famous in the history of science for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, the start of the greatest biological revolution of the twentieth century.

Rosalind Franklin is famous in the history of science for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, the start of the greatest biological revolution of the twentieth century.

Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century.

Alan Turing is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century.

Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common.

Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common.

In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell.

In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell.

'Why are we losing the war against obesity and chronic disease?

Joseph Rotblat was the Jewish nuclear scientist whose disillusionment with nuclear weapons encouraged him to become one of the prime architects of the anti-nuclear movement, and resulted in his lifelong efforts to promote social responsibility in science.

Joseph Rotblat was the Jewish nuclear scientist whose disillusionment with nuclear weapons encouraged him to become one of the prime architects of the anti-nuclear movement, and resulted in his lifelong efforts to promote social responsibility in science.

Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality.

This is a story about sand and how science and silicon changed our lives.

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light.

The next wave of science writing is here.

The next wave of science writing is here.

In the developing world, the choices available to couples for fertility treatments in the 21st century are wider than ever before.

In the developing world, the choices available to couples for fertility treatments in the 21st century are wider than ever before.

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics.

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics.

Computation and its Limits is an innovative cross-disciplinary investigation of the relationship between computing and physical reality.

This is a story about sand and how science and silicon changed our lives.

This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light.

Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems.

It is generally thought that science, by its very nature, must always progress.

In this magnificently illustrated book, Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures.

Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words.

The highly admired scientist Linus Pauling, a double Nobel laureate in chemistry and peace, was once asked by a student.