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crushed nations and annihilated the entire Earth’s by population flood. The Hindu god Krishna told his disciples that risk in war is preferable to abstention from war, while the Qur’an states that ‘idolatry is more grievous than bloodshed’. With such encouragement in religious texts, it is perhaps not surprising that ‘holy’ wars, whether crusade or jihad, as well as individual acts of violence have occurred again and again over the centuries. 272 pages with b/w illus. £20 NOW £6


69534 SECRET LANGUAGE OF CHURCHES AND CATHEDRALS by Richard Stemp


Subtitled Decoding the Sacred Symbolism of Christianity’s Holy Buildings, here a lecturer at the National Gallery takes us from basilicas through Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic and beyond. The largely illiterate medieval audience could recognise the meanings and stories deliberately encoded into the churches and cathedrals. Today, in an age less attuned to iconography - such places of worship are often seen merely as magnificent works of architecture. This special and richly adorned book restores the lost spiritual meaning of these fine and fascinating buildings. The book has three parts - from walls to ceilings, with a theme by theme guide identifying significant figures, scenes, stories, animals, flowers and the use of numbers, letters and patterns in paintings, carvings and sculpture. The final part is an historical decoder, tracing the evolution of styles and the layers of meaning. 30 x 24cm with many plans and layouts including Salisbury Cathedral and Durham Cathedral. A sumptuous volume of 225pp, colour photos. £25 NOW £12


69479 NIV HOLY BIBLE: New International


Version by Hodder & Stoughton Publishers British spelling, grammar and punctuation allow this Bible to be read fluently and more easily understood. ‘Presented to…’ dedication page, a peach-soft beautifully designed maroon dust jacket, satin ribbon bookmark and maps of the Ancient Middle East, this is a truly luxurious gift or family reference edition. It is the newly updated version commissioned by the International Bible Society to reach out to people around the world with a faithful translation of God’s word. 1262pp. This edition has relatively large print laid out over two columns with very clear headers as to what is happening like Jesus and the miraculous catch of fish, Jesus reinstates Peter and so on.


£25 NOW £10 69504 HOLY BIBLE: New International


Version: Slipcased Gift Bible by Hodder & Stoughton


A small white slipcased mini gift Bible with silver edged pages and tiny print, exquisitely designed and printed on 1262 pages. The New International Version is a completely new translation of the Holy Bible made by over 100 scholars working directly with the best available Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek text. Here are tales of great courage, faith and daring matched by examples of extreme human stupidity and evil. The Bible gives guidelines for personal conduct and practical instructions about how to know and worship God. With ribbon marker. £12.99 NOW £4


SCIENCE


O physics! Preserve me from metaphysics! - Isaac Newton


70459 COLLINS DICTIONARY OF MATHEMATICS


by Ephraim Borowski and Jonathan Borwein A valuable reference book for students of mathematics at all levels from secondary school to master’s degree and also much of interest to a more general readership. In addition to clear headers and definitions are cross references and


synonymous terms, substantive biographical entries under every headword that includes a personal name plus extensive use of examples, mathematical equations and 400 explanatory diagrams. 9000 entries cover all aspects of pure and applied mathematics covering essential terms and concepts from mechanics, statistics, logic and more. 636pp ending with 44 Useful Constants and Millennium Prize Problems. £11.99 NOW £5


70406 THE EDGE OF PHYSICS: A Journey to Earth’s Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe


by Anil Ananthaswamy Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the nature of the ‘dark matter’ that makes up almost a quarter of the universe? Why does the universe appear fine- tuned for life and are there other universes besides our own? To


answer these difficult questions, the author sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to provide answers. He soon finds himself in remote and sometimes dangerous places. Here he is in the Atacama Desert in the Chilean Andes, one of the coldest, driest places on the planet where not even a blade of grass can survive. Its spectacularly clear skies and dry atmosphere allow astronomers to gather brilliant images of galaxies billions of light-years away. Here is the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope on Mount Pranal, where four massive domes open to the sky each night ‘like dragons waking up’. Readers are also taken deep inside an abandoned iron mine in Minnesota, where half-mile-thick rocks shield physicists as they hunt for elusive dark-matter particles, and to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet where engineers are drilling 1.5 miles into the clearest ice on the planet. Scientists and engineers are also building the world’s largest neutrino detector, which could finally help reconcile quantum physics with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The stories of the people who work at these and other


dramatic research sites - from Lake Baikal in Siberia to the Indian Astronomical Observatory in the Himalayas and the subterranean lair of the Large Hadron Collider - result in a compelling new portrait of the universe and our quest to understand it. 322 pages illustrated in b/w. £15.99 NOW £6.50


70412 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH: The


Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins Despite Darwin’s On the Origin of Species shaking society to its core back in 1859, and the theory of evolution being widely taught in schools throughout the 20th century. Even though evolution is accepted by many reputable scientists and theologians, hundreds of millions of people across the world remain unconvinced, preferring creationist or “Intelligent Design” arguments, which are, by their very nature, impossible to prove. Here Richard Dawkins, the world’s leading exponent of evolutionary theory, brilliantly describes and condenses the immense wealth of evidence for evolution, giving lie once and for all to the notion that it is “only a theory”. Sifting through the facts, from living examples of natural selection to those to be found in the fossil record, from the natural clocks that faithfully mark the vast epochs in which evolution has run its course to the development of embryos, and from plate tectonics to molecular genetics, he presents an airtight case for evolution, written with passion, clarity and wit. 32 pages of colour plates and b/ w illus. 470pp. $30 NOW £6


69960 RENAISSANCE GENIUS Galileo Galilei and His


Legacy to Modern Science by David Whitehouse Published in 2009 in celebration of the 400th anniversary of his first observations of our solar system and the stars beyond it, this lavishly produced exploration of the life and science of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is a real treat for the eyes and the


mind. Best known for perfecting the telescope lenses that enabled him to observe first our moon, then Jupiter and her moons, the peculiar appearance of Saturn, the phases of Venus and the phenomenon of sun spots, Galileo quickly found himself on a collision course with the Catholic Church once he realised the full implications of his observations. He turned the telescope from a curiosity into a scientific instrument of inestimable value, but less well known are his other accomplishments - the thermoscope, the geometric and military compass and his water-lifting machine. Accused of heresy and threatened with torture by the Inquisition, he was sentenced to spend his last years under house arrest. He was not officially pardoned until his opinions were accepted by the Catholic Church nearly 400 years later! Famed astrophysicist, broadcaster and author David Whitehouse weaves Galileo’s life seamlessly with the world of the Italian Renaissance at a crucial time. The quantity and quality of illustration are astounding and range from Renaissance oils to images from deep space collected by the modern descendants of Galileo’s invention. 256 8"×9½” pages. £16.99 NOW £7


70085 FRANCIS CRICK: Discoverer of the Genetic


Code by Matt Ridley A deeply intriguing account of one of biology’s most imaginative scientists written by the author of the bestseller ‘Genome’. Frances Crick, the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life, will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time.


He was the scientific pioneer who discovered the genetic code, the digital cipher at the heart of heredity that distinguishes living from non-living things. Ridley traces Crick’s life from middle-class mediocrity in the Midlands through a lacklustre education and six years designing magnetic mines for the Royal Navy to his leap into biology at the age of 31 and its astonishing consequences. A beautifully flowing text and a super short biography at the same time. 213pp in paperback. $13.99 NOW £5.50


70094 ORIGINS OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE


by Robert Jastrow and Michael Rampino


What is the origin of the Universe? How do stars and planets form? How does life begin? How did intelligence arise? Are we alone in the cosmos? Is there anybody out there who considers him/herself ‘no good at science’ but desperately


wants to know the answers to these questions? In a roller-coaster ride of 14 billion years of cosmic evolution, from the Big Bang to human evolution, this remarkable book presents a sweeping synthesis of the sciences ranging from astronomy and astrophysics to physics, chemistry, biology and geology to answer the kinds of questions that people are always asking. It creates a chronicle of events in which the swirling vapours in the primordial cloud of the Universe evolved over billions of years into conscious life. The lucid and entertaining presentation makes engaging reading and provides an excellent first overview of the subject for non-specialists. Coverage of the latest discoveries in astrobiology gives a sense of the excitement of this fast-moving field. Each section is usefully provided with a summary and answers to frequently asked questions. 395 paperback pages 19cm x 24cm lavishly illustrated in colour with two appendices: History of the Earth and Periodic table of the Elements.


£29.99 NOW £7.50


70099 SAXONS, VIKINGS AND CELTS: The Genetic


Roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes


The author is professor of human genetics at Oxford University and his company traces human genetic backgrounds. Who better, then, to put the case for using genetics as a tool for understanding the past? This informative book resulted from a systematic ten-year DNA survey


of more than 10,000 volunteers. It traces the true Bibliophile Books Unit 5 Datapoint, 6 South Crescent, London E16 4TL TEL: 020 74 74 24 74


genetic makeup of the British Isles and its inhabitants. Readers are whisked in short order from the Pontnewydd Cave in North Wales to the resting place of the Red Lady of Paviland and the tomb of King Arthur, then from Denmark and Norway to France, and from the Middle East to the USA, meeting en route such diverse characters as Julius Caesar, Robert the Bruce, Genghis Khan and the Venerable Bede. The science side of the affair is painlessly explained so, readers of a less than scientific bent, do not worry. We can read about amino acids, chromosomes, carbon-dating and bone collagen but are not overwhelmed by them. A most intriguing and incredibly interesting book. 306 paperback pages illustrated in b/w with maps, diagrams and appendix into which is compressed ‘just a small fraction of the genetic data from the Oxford Genetic Atlas Project’.


£12.99 NOW £7


69943 E = EINSTEIN: His Life, His Thought and His Influence On Our Culture


edited by Donald Goldsmith


and Marcia Bartusiak Stephen Hawking writes about Einstein’s dream; Dennis Overbye on quantum trickery; Jim Holt asks


‘Time Bandits: What Were Einstein and Gödel Talking About?’ There is much more to Albert Einstein than just E=mc² and this anthology of 30 fascinating essays looks at his timelessness, the forgotten wife, the Crimean expedition, his bovine dreams, how he discovered Special Relativity, that famous equation, Einstein and the Jews and even his mistakes. Apart from many branches of physical science, Einstein also published widely on social and philosophical issues, both of science and of the state. He waged a constant fight for individual liberty of dignity against persecution and war. The first section looks at his professional, personal and political life and the final articles look into the icon’s enduring influences. 125 colour illus and many historical black and white photos, 352 large pages. £14.99 NOW £6


68951 BOOK OF THE MOON by Rick Stroud The book is organised thematically, starting with facts and figures, and including Astronomers, Gods and Myths, Astronauts, Cosmonauts and Lunar Exploration, Magic, Medicine, Werewolves and Science. The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union is narrated in detail with a timeline, then a few pages later we see a 17th century etching of an astrologer selling his soul to the devil. 368pp, illus in b/w and colour. £16.99 NOW £4.50


68990 SCIENCE BOOK by Cyril Aydon Learn about life, the Universe and everything - the heavens, accurate clocks and meteor showers, weighing the Earth, time and distance, planetary atmospheres, maury and oceanography, Darwin and natural selection, why the sky is blue, Becquerel’s discovery, chemical symbols, Mendeleyev’s dream, Columbus’s miscalculation, Galileo and the Pope, Faraday the showman, Newton and the cat flap, alphabets and moveable type, microscopes and telescopes, the Royal Society, counting in sixes, calculating pi, Arabic numerals, temperature, international standards and more. Timelines. 308pp in paperback, diagrams. £8.99 NOW £2.25


70027 EVERYDAY MATHS FOR GROWN-UPS by Kjartan Poskitt


We admit to making an excuse to leave the room if anyone mentions Maths, and we suspect that there are many amongst our otherwise super-intelligent readers who secretly feel the same. Now here is an easy-to-read book that explains all the shortcuts, tricks and tips that you need to tackle everyday Maths


with confidence. With this cute little volume you can learn how to: avoid the loan sharks, crack long division, work out poker and bookies’ odds and spot the best supermarket bargains. You will also learn how to make a rough guess at an answer before you start. So stop thinking that a ‘scalene triangle’ sounds like a painful skin disease, and get happily calculating. 166 pages with glossary and scores of illustrations in b/w. £9.99 NOW £3.50


70053 YOU ARE HERE: A Portable History of


the Universe by Christopher Potter Potter blasts us through the vast vacuum of space, packing in facts about satellites, planets and rotating black holes, and taking us to the outer limits of an expanding Universe. Then he sucks us back through the mini-universes inside ourselves, to atoms and their component particles and on into Quantum Theory. Chapter headings include 26 Degrees of Separation, Light on the Matter, Hail the Birth of Stars, In and Out of Africa and We Are There. His deft handling of difficult subjects make this the greatest popular science story ever told. 294pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


69047 MOON SHOT by Dan Parry Millions of people held their breath on 16th July 1969 as Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the Moon. How did they learn to depend on one another as they endured this most intense period of their lives? From the personal tragedies they encountered along the way to the terrifying climaxes of a mission that redefined humanity, ‘Moon Shot’ tells the compelling true story of an event that captured the imagination of generations. 312pp in paperback, colour and b/w photos. £11.99 NOW £3


70109 VENUS by Patrick Moore Sir Patrick Moore fixes his gaze on Venus, Earth’s sister planet and the ‘jewel of the sky’. Venus is a planet similar in size, mass, density and volume to our own, but there the resemblance ends. It is an inferno with a scorching hot surface, a thick and chocking atmosphere of carbon dioxide and cloud cover rich in sulphuric acid. The atmospheric pressure at the surface is 92 times that on Earth and, therefore, no place for Man. Orbiting American and Russian spacecraft equipped with radar imaging systems have revealed a land of vast plains, high peaks, impact craters, volcanoes and great lava flows. Sir Patrick investigates our past and present knowledge of Venus. The earliest known observations were Babylonian, when Venus was the mother of the gods and the personification of women. The Greeks


e-mail: orders@bibliophilebooks.com 70423 THE TIME


MACHINE by H. G. Wells


EDITOR’S CHOICE


‘You cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.’ ‘My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong.’ Man can move easily enough in three dimensions of space so why not the fourth - Time? An intriguing after-dinner conversation takes an unexpected


turn when the host produces a small machine which promptly disappears into thin air. It has been sent into the future, he says, or maybe even the past. His sceptical guests try to fathom what they have just seen as the host unveils a full size machine, nearing completion. At a similar gathering one week later the host arrives late, ghastly pale and badly dishevelled. He has seen the future, and witnessed the evolutionary path Man has taken. It is a world populated by the Eloi - exquisite, frail, gentle creatures living in harmonious communes. They suggest to him a theory - that Nature has been tamed, violence eradicated, even intelligence has been made redundant in this secure, comfortable future- world. This dark vision of human destiny established H. G. Wells as the founding father of science fiction. 106pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £4


named it after their goddess of beauty. Colour photos are reproduced to a large size plus computer generated, three-dimensional perspective views of the volcanoes Sapas Mons, and Matt Mons, Bianchini’s map of Venus, spectacular double page colour radar map of Venus and dozens of other colour photos, plans and diagrams. 192 large pages in softback. £14.99 NOW £4.50


69953 MCMURTRIE’S HUMAN ANATOMY COLOURING BOOK


by Hogin McMurtrie For the curious layman, here is a simple way to find out more about the amazing human body. The detailed pages include


comprehensive use of the whole skeletal system, articular system,


muscular system, the central nervous system, the cardiovascular system and the reproductive system. Use any chapter in any order, and by colouring in the shaded, detailed drawings, it slows the student down to absorb the name, explanations, what part it plays, and inferior and posterior views of the body part. There is even a colour guideline to use and each tiny part is numbered so you can cross reference across the double page spread. Includes an overview of each body system, an at-a-glance identification of corresponding components and functions and a very useful perforated cardboard sheet to use as a hard drawing surface. Softback, 8" x 11", over 1,000 b/w illus. 320pp. A US bestseller we have specially imported in this updated, revised and user friendly edition. £12.99 NOW £5


27086 CONCISE GRAY’S ANATOMY by Gray/Professor C.H. Leonard AMA, MD In this, the 16th edition of the book are to be found the essential elements of the magisterial 1200-page ‘Gray’s Anatomy’, but available in a concise and useable form. In clear reset text and using the original illustrations from ‘Gray’s Anatomy’, the classic genius of the original work is distilled and presented as ‘a Dissecting room Companion’. The classic compact guide to the human body. 304pp. Facsimile paperback. ONLY £4


69284 ADVANCED CALCULUS: Second Edition by David Widder


David Widder (1898-1990) was one of the US’s most distinguished mathematicians and Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, and this is an unabridged facsimile reprint of the second edition of his Advanced Calculus. It leads students who are familiar with elementary calculus into solving theoretical problems which require advanced methodology, and is thus equally useful as a text in applied mathematics and in engineering. Each chapter contains definitions, theorems, proofs, examples and exercises, and every effort has been made to make the statement of each theorem so concise that the student will see the essential hypotheses and conclusions that can be made and drawn from it. The exercises are graded in difficulty. 520pp paperback. £19.99 NOW £6


69515 END OF THE CERTAIN WORLD by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan Subtitled The Life and Science of Max Born the Nobel Physicist Who Ignited the Quantum Revolution. Exhaustively researched from archives around the world, here is the very first biography of Max Born, a Nobel Prize winner whose role in the ‘Golden Age of Physics’ in the 1920s helped to shape the science of the 20th century and open the door to the modern era. Together with his Wunderkinder, including his assistant Werner Heisenberg, he solved the fundamental commutation law of quantum mechanics. But, whereas Heisenberg received his Nobel Prize in 1933, Born had to wait another 20 years for his. The pupils he had taught, among them Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner and John von Neumann, later helped to develop the atom bomb. In 1933, he was forced by the Nazis to emigrate to Great Britain and in 1957, issued a declaration calling on the West German government to renounce the use of nuclear weapons. 374 pages, photos. £18.99 NOW £4.50


69835 FERMAT’S LAST THEOREM by Simon Singh


Bibliophile is thrilled to have this bestselling book based on the BAFTA award-winning documentary film. Recognised as a classic of popular science writing, it is the story of a riddle that confounded the world’s greatest minds for 358 years. The story of Fermat’s Last Theorem is unique, and by the time author Singh met Andrew Wiles he had come to realise that it was truly one of the greatest stories in the sphere of scientific or academic endeavour. Although the maths involved in Wiles’s proof is some of the toughest in the world, he found that the beauty of Fermat’s Last Theorem lies in the fact that the problem itself is supremely simple to understand. 340pp in illustrated paperback. Diagrams. £8.99 NOW £4.50


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