Book Reviews November 2008

When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish Lisa Seachrist Chiu Oxford University Press, 2006 ISBN: 0195169948 Advances in genetics mean that the genes behind a large number of medical conditions are being discovered. In lWhen a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish: ...and Other Amazing Tales about the Genes in Your Body Lisa Seachrist Chiu tells the stories of some of these. Continued..

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From Calculus to Chaos David Acheson Oxford University Press, 1997 ISBN: 0198502575 The aim of David Acheson's book: From Calculus to Chaos:An Indroduction to Dynamics is to make the mathematics of dynamical systems available to a wider audience than those choose to study it at university. Continued..

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The New Cosmic Onion Frank Close Taylor and Francis, 2007 ISBN: 1584887982 You've probably heard about the opening of the Large Hadron Collider, (and its unfortunate breakdown). You may have wondered what it is supposed to find out, and why particle physics requires such expensive equipment. If so then The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe by Frank Close might give you some of the answers. Continued..

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