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Idea of the Brain
A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Av Matthew Cobb
Häftad, 2021
184 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the YearThis is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain.Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as …
Smell
A Very Short Introduction
Av Matthew Cobb
Häftad, 2020
113 kr
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Our sense of smell - or olfaction as it is technically known - is our most enigmatic sense. It can conjure up memories, taking us back to very specific places and emotions, whilst powerful smells can induce strong feelings of hunger or nausea. In the animal kingdom smell can be used to find food, a …
Crick
A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain
Av Matthew Cobb
Inbunden, 2025
344 kr
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AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND CHURCH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025Winner of the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025Shortlisted for The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2026 'The definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of 20th-century science' Guardian Books of the …
Smell
A Very Short Introduction
Av Matthew Cobb
E-bok, 2020
92 kr
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Our sense of smell - or olfaction as it is technically known - is our most enigmatic sense. It can conjure up memories, taking us back to very specific places and emotions, whilst powerful smells can induce strong feelings of hunger or nausea. In the animal kingdom smell can be used to find food, a …
Smell
A Very Short Introduction
Av Matthew Cobb
E-bok, 2020
90 kr
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Our sense of smell - or olfaction as it is technically known - is our most enigmatic sense. It can conjure up memories, taking us back to very specific places and emotions, whilst powerful smells can induce strong feelings of hunger or nausea. In the animal kingdom smell can be used to find food, a …
Insect Taste
Vol 63
Av Philip Newland, Matthew Cobb m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
3524 kr
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Insect Taste offers an accessible overview to some of the many advances in insect taste research. The book covers how insects solve the basic problem of taste gustatory processing, from detection and transduction, through coding to the generation of behavior and the evolutionary biology …
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Av Matthew Cobb
Inbunden, 2015
507 kr
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Eleven Days in August
The Liberation of Paris in 1944
Av Matthew Cobb
E-bok, 2013
121 kr
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'I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation in war. But I had reckoned without the liberation of Paris - I had reckoned without remembering that I might be a part of that richly historic day. We were in Paris on the first day - one of the great days of all time.' (Ernie Pyle, …
Insect Taste
Vol 63
Av Frederic Marion-Poll, Matthew Cobb m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
4150 kr
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Insect Taste offers an accessible overview to some of the many advances in insect taste research. The book covers how insects solve the basic problem of taste gustatory processing, from detection and transduction, through coding to the generation of behavior and the evolutionary biology …
Insect Taste
Vol 63
Av Frederic Marion-Poll, Matthew Cobb m. fl.
E-bok, 2009
4242 kr
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Insect Taste offers an accessible overview to some of the many advances in insect taste research. The book covers how insects solve the basic problem of taste gustatory processing, from detection and transduction, through coding to the generation of behavior and the evolutionary biology …
Life's Greatest Secret
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Av Matthew Cobb
Häftad, 2016
166 kr
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Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof of Darwin's hypothesis that all …
Life's Greatest Secret
The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Av Matthew Cobb
E-bok, 2015
147 kr
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Life''s Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof of Darwin''s hypothesis that all …
Idea of the Brain
A History: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Av Matthew Cobb
E-bok, 2020
140 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford PrizeA New Statesman Book of the YearThis is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain.Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as …
Genetic Age
Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Av Matthew Cobb
E-bok, 2022
144 kr
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A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022''The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly complex area of science but also an ethical minefield'' Mail on SundayA new gene editing technology, invented just seven years ago, has turned humanity into gods. Enabling us to manipulate the …
Genetic Age
Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Av Matthew Cobb
Inbunden, 2022
280 kr
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A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)A new gene editing technology, invented just seven years ago, has turned humanity into gods. Enabling us to manipulate the genes …
Genetic Age
Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Av Matthew Cobb
Häftad, 2023
146 kr
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A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly complex area of science but also an ethical minefield' Mail on SundayA new gene editing technology, invented just seven years ago, has turned humanity into gods. Enabling us to manipulate the …
Crick
A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain
Av Matthew Cobb
Häftad, 2026
172 kr
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AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND CHURCH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWinner of the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025'The definitive backstory of one of the towering figures of 20th-century science' Guardian'Brilliant and inspiring. A landmark biography' Adam RutherfordFrancis Crick was a restless, relentless …
Resistance
The French Fight Against the Nazis
Av Matthew Cobb
E-bok, 2009
147 kr
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The French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II was a struggle in which ordinary people fought for their liberty, despite terrible odds and horrifying repression. Hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen and women carried out an armed struggle against the Nazis, producing underground …
Resistance
The French Fight Against the Nazis
Av Matthew Cobb
Häftad, 2010
144 kr
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The French resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II was a struggle in which ordinary people fought for their liberty, despite terrible odds and horrifying repression. Hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen and women carried out an armed struggle against the Nazis, producing underground …
