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Economist Steven Landsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy -What is real, What can we know, What is the difference between right and wrong, And how should we live. He begins with the broadest possible categories and then focuses on specific concerns, from a mathematical analysis of the arguments for the existence of God to the moral choices we face in the marketplace and the voting booth.

Free Press, 2009; 267 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Blood transfusion today is a routine medical procedure. Yet in the 17th century the idea of giving somebody blood rather than blood letting was dangerously unconventional. French mathematician Jean-Baptiste Denis, who had an interest in medicine was the first person to perform a blood transfusion on a human being. This fascinating tale of madness, corruption and intrigue roams from Classical Greece to 17th-century London and Paris.

Wiley, 2003; 223 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life in this erudite, anecdotal, and beautifully illustrates history. He reports from locations in 18 different countries and he also finds the sun in ancient religions and emperor's emblems, in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Nabokov's Lolita, and in a string of scientific discoveries that led to duplicating the sun in the hydrogen bomb.

Random House, 2010; 574 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Carl Linnaeus, 1707-1778, invented the system, now used worldwide, of giving living organisms 2 Latin names and through his Systema Naturae, published in 1735, brought order to all recorded knowledge about plants and animals. A keen traveller, collector, painter and geologist, his lifelong passion was for botany. This is a lively account of Linnaeus the man, his adventures in the wilds of Lapland, his family life, as well as his scientific achievements.

Frances Lincoln; 264 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Here Wayne Biddle investigates a question that has long haunted the US effort in the space race -how active was the German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun in the Nazi Party and in the use of slave labour, and how much did the Truman administration cover up to make von Braun clean enough for the postwar US missile programme. Biddle finds in von Braun a blinkered opportunist who could only apply tunnel vision to his meteoric career.

Norton, 2009; 220 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. The 4 amateur naturalists voyaged separately from Britain to the southern hemisphere
in search of adventure and scientific fame. Darwin's Armada recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of these explorers.
Norton, 2009; 423 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Have you ever wondered what makes seventh heaven and cloud nine so blissful and the number 13 so unlucky. Here's the 4-1-1 on the origins of numerical expressions and the importance of numbers in fiction, film, culture, and religion, including how 007 became James Bond's number, why did Ray Bradbury name his novel Fahrenheit 451, imaginary numbers and how they exist and more.

Reader's Digest, 2009; 174 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner offers this fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story -has the long-sought secret of youth at last been found. Weiner traces the fascinating history of the quest for longevity in art, science, and literature, and meets with leading intellectuals in the field who view aging as a curable disease.

Ecco, 2010; 310 pp.; EN; index; hb

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This follow-up to Desmond Morris' The Naked Woman rambles around each part of the male body, beginning with hair and working down to the feet. It is written from the zoologist's perspective and packed full of scientific fact and engaging anecdotes.

Thomas Dunne, 2008; 279 pp.; EN; index; hb

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Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. He deftly investigates the evolution of these scientific and political revolutions, demonstrating that they are inextricably bound. He shows how science was integral to the American Revolution, reflects on the history of liberalism, and surveys the forces that have opposed science and liberalism, from communism and fascism to postmodernism and Islamic fundamentalism.

Harper, 2010; 368 pp.; EN; index; hb

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