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Backed up by years of editorial experience in both scholarly and commercial publishing, we represent authors across the sciences, as well as in mathematics, natural history, philosophy, health and medicine, technology, history, and many other areas of serious nonfiction. He currently runs the science factory, a literary agency specializing in popular science. Nobody knows better than the books editor, peter tallack, that we are in a golden age of popular science publishing, but you would never guess from this volume that other popular science books are available. Three years later he joined the londonbased literary agency. A box full of outside the box thinking times higher. Nobody knows better than the book s editor, peter tallack, that we are in a golden age of popular science publishing, but you would never guess from this volume that other popular science books are available. For this book, i chose a scheme that also had a limited number of subjects, because i originally thought that i would write about only subjects that were included in the science book, edited by peter tallack.
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There are many books that one can read about the history of science. It gives its reader a great overview of the history and development of science, especially in the fields of mathematics, physics, biology, astronomy, geology, medicine, and psychology. Science journalist ananthaswamy the edge of physics skillfully inspects the bewildering connections among brain, body, mind, self, and society. Each page has a short synopsis of the information needed to understand these different things, with a relevant picture on the following page.
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