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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency - and in particular its Apollo lunar-landing program - wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. While working out how to get a nuclear warhead through the atmosphere, National Advisory Committee for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Catching Breath--the story of one of the world's oldest diseases--looks at the hidden biology behind the interaction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with its human host, and shows how drug resistance, the HIV epidemic, poverty and inequality work together to ensure that TB remains one of the most serious problems in world medicine."--Jacket flap.
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Series
Bloomsbury sigma volume 27
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us--how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria. We see what happens when the immune system turns on us, and how life is impossible without its protection. We learn how diseases try to evade the immune system and exploit its vulnerabilities, and we discover how scientists are designing new drugs to harness the power...
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Series
Bloomsbury sigma volume 23
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home, she regained mobility but recovering her sight was more problematic. At first what she saw was monochromatic. As color reappeared, she encountered synesthesia (experiencing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Long before there was the ready meal, humans processed food to preserve it and make it safe. From fire to fermentation, our ancestors survived periods of famine by changing the very nature of their food. This ability to process food has undoubtedly made us one of the most successful species on the planet, but have we gone too far? Through manipulating chemical reactions and organisms, scientists have unlocked all kinds of methods of to improve food...
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Bloomsbury sigma volume 34
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s--working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement--he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world--from New York to China--still think that 'GMO' foods are bad for their health or likely to damage the environment. But Mark has changed his mind. This book explains...
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Bloomsbury sigma volume 45
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores how scientists create superheavy elements, using giant machines to try to make single atoms of mysterious artefacts that have never existed on Earth. From the first elements past uranium and their role in the devlopment of the atomic bomb to the latest discoveries stretching the chemical world, Superheavy reveals the hidden stories lurking at the edge of the periodic table.
Creating an element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing...
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions - shock, sadness, fear - that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the...
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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the story of the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation: the time when the very first stars burst into life. These bodies were hundreds of times the size of the Sun and a million times more luminous, lonely blue giants that lived fast and died young in gigantic explosions, seeding the Universe with the heavy elements fundamental to the construction of galaxies, planets and eventually life itself."--Dust jacket flap.