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A Child Against All Odds by Robert M.L. Winston
Category: Health
Compared to the famously fecund rabbit, for whom a single act of coitus has a 90 per cent chance of creating a litter of up to 12 rabbits, humans are very infertile animals. Here in the UK, the average chance of conception is about 18 per cent per month. And in 98 per cent of cases, successful conceptio ...Show more
All About Biology by Robert Winston
Category: Education | 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: Education | 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
Bad Ideas? An Arresting History of Our Inventions by Robert Winston
Category: Science
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
Can Onions Cure Ear-Ache? - Medical Advice from 1769 by William Buchan; Melanie King (Editor); Robert Winston (Foreword by)
Category: Science
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
Explanatorium of Science by Robert Winston
Category: Education
Open up this book to reveal how science really works! Watch as mixtures merge and matter changes state. Discover how some chemical changes can be reversed, yet others can't, and why some reactions produce a bang! See bacteria at work in the world around us, and even inside the human digestive system. Un ...Show more
Home Activity Lab Exciting Experiments by Robert Winston
Category: Education
This jam-packed collection of fun and simple science experiments for kids is perfect for the classroom or at home. Make an erupting volcano, design rubber band planets, sail a soap-powered boat, and race balloon cars with Home Activity Lab, which offers exciting experiments for budding scientists. Inclu ...Show more
Home Lab: Exciting Experiments for Budding Scientists by Robert Winston
Category: Education
This award-winning science book is bubbling over with entertaining and educational experiments for budding scientists to follow at home or in the classroom. Build a soap-powered sailboat, recreate the Solar System out of rubber bands, construct your own colourful kaleidoscope, or make mouthwatering mo ...Show more
Human Instinct: How Our Primeval Impulses Shape Our Modern Lives by Robert M.L. Winston
Category: Non-Fiction
A fascinating investigation of our most basic instincts, accompanying the major BBC television series.Whether we recognise it or not instinct shapes our daily lives. It fashions the decisions we make moment to moment and our interaction with the people around us. From the ambition to be successful in ou ...Show more
Inventors by Robert Winston
Category: Education
Step into Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, relax on board Hideo Shima's speedy bullet train, and join movie star Hedy Lamarr to bounce ideas around in between takes. Inventors looks at the towering achievements of more than 50 inventors in great detail. From Lizzie Magie, who came up with the idea for the ...Show more
It's Elementary! Putting the Crackle into Chemistry by Robert Winston
Category: Education
This title offers an explosive look at chemistry with Robert Winston - now in paperback. How do you make a dog? Why are helium balloons lighter than air? What are the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone? It's Elementary! takes an amazing look at the stuff that stuff is made of. Discover the elements tha ...Show more
My Amazing Body Machine by Robert Winston
Category: Education
My Amazing Body Machine takes kids on a unique and exciting journey through all the working parts of human anatomy. From our intricately wired brain to our squeezing, squelching guts and relentlessly pumping heart, renowned scientist Robert Winston exlores each part of this living machine through incred ...Show more