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All About Biology by Robert Winston
Category: Children's Educational | Series: All About
What makes Earth an ideal place for life to survive? Professor Robert Winston will take kids back to Earth's beginnings showing how organisms live and survive in All About Biology. From the very big to the microscopic, meet the animals, plants, fungi and bacteria that play an important role in sustainin ...Show more
All About Chemistry (PB) by Robert Winston
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: All About
An explosive look at chemistry with Robert Winston, All about Chemistry answers all those intriguing questions your kids ask...Why are helium balloons lighter than air? What are the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone? All About Chemistry takes an amazing look at the what, why and how of science. From th ...Show more
All About Evolution by Robert Winston
Category: Children's Educational | Series: All About
Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen years old. But he was also her school maths teacher, and their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns with a new identity, a lo ...Show more
All About Your Brain by Robert Winston
Category: Children's Educational | Series: All About
Discover why you do what you do Join Professor Robert Winston and introduce your child to the most powerful, complicated computer network that exists - their brain. From what the different parts of the brain do and why it changes at different stages in a person's life, All About Your Brain uncovers the ...Show more
Bad Ideas? An Arresting History of Our Inventions by Robert Winston
Category: Science & Natural History
From the axe to the internet - the hidden dangers of man's impulse to invent. We are born with the instinct to create and invent. Indeed, our ability to do so is what separates us from the rest of the animal world. But have our creative ideas always produced desirable results? And have they always serv ...Show more
Bad Ideas?: An Arresting History of Our Inventions by Robert M.L. Winston
Category: Science & Natural History
In this relevant, timely book a leading scientist asks, are scientific advances a curse or a blessing? Professor Winston argues that contained within each of our finest inventions is the potential for great harm.
Body: An Amazing Tour of Human Anatomy by Robert Winston
Category: Non Fiction
A jaw-dropping tour of anatomy from Robert Winston, award winning author and TV presenter. From how your blood flows through the heart to how your food is digested, take a trip through your very own body and be astounded by its inner workings. A free interactive CD shows the body and it's movements in ...Show more
Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache? - Medical Advice from 1769 by William Buchan; Melanie King (Editor); Robert Winston (Foreword by)
Category: Gift
What common condition was once treated with cow dung? How might oyster shells relieve heartburn? Can eels really cure deafness? Is the secret to stopping a stubborn case of hiccups a simple ingredient found in most pantries? If you were struck by illness or injury in the late eighteenth century, you wou ...Show more
DK Human by Robert Winston
Category: Science
What does it really mean to be human? How do we actually differ from apes? All your questions answered in this definitive visual guide to being Human. From biology to beliefs, evolution to our future, a team of expert writers and consultants - led by author and broadcaster Robert Winston - tell the comp ...Show more
DK Human by Robert Winston (editor)
Category: Science
Human is a comprehensive, highly illustrated account of what makes us what we are: how we evolved, how our bodies develop and work, and how we think and behave both as individuals and as members of society. It not only examines the qualities we all share and that define us as a species, but also highlig ...Show more