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The Very Hungry Caterpillar [Board Book]

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Description: Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week. This board book edition of....

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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

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Review: this book admittedly is not laid out in an obviously systematic way but i m not sure that matters. it got me interested in some things that i thought were rather boring, and on the whole though i haven t read it all through yet it does seem to the makings of a very....

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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Review: Not good: will I finish it? Won't I? Guess I'll have to if I want to assess fairly, but it'll be hard work. Arrogance seeps through every word and, at the end of the day, he's repeatedly hammering home one point that anyone with a degree of critical thinking will b....

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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

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Review: The book is an assemblage of good answers to some good questions. So why didn't I enjoy it? I think because in keeping faith with the contributors of answers, several answers to one question are included and a lot of each answer is the same, though expressed sli....

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The Selfish Gene

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Review: This is Professor Dawkins' finest piece of work. Not only does he provide his own knowledge and ingenious thinking, but he also ties together the works of Darwin, Hamilton, Fisher, Trivers, and many other great revolutionary Evolutionary Biologists. As a Geneticist....

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

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Review: This book is very badly written. The author's arrogance comes across in the preface when he claims he dismissed his editors suggestions to make his style 'better'. There are some interesting ideas here but they are not worth the effort.....

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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

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Review: This is one of the few books I feel that the star rating system fails. 5 stars is simply not enough! So enjoyable and thought provoking. It has made me want to revisit the works of authors I already knew, but they'll have to wait until I have read those authors tha....

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Jupiter's Travels

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Review: Having read a few other motorcycle travel books, it highlights how well balanced Ted Simon's writing is between places, people, the logistics of doing it, his own reflections, and the bike. It feels to be a more genuine and personal account than some other motorcyc....

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The Origin of Species (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

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Description: It's hard to talk about The Origin of Species without making statements that seem overwrought and fulsome. But it's true: this is indeed one of the most important and influential books ever written, and it is one of the very few groundbreaking works of science that....

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Turn Left at Orion: A Hundred Night Sky Objects to See in a Small Telescope - and How to Find Them

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Review: I bought a telescope, and after a couple of weeks, it went into a cupboard to gather dust. For the uninitiated, there's an awfull lot of dull stuff in the sky. Then I was given this for my birthday. Suddenly, it turns out there are a profusion of binary stars th....

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