Product Description: Headlines bring news of the latest health scare, with worrying predictions for where developments in science will takes us. We want and need to understand the phenomena that influence our lives, but science is often more subtle and more complicated than the headlines would suggest...read more

Product Description: A man gives a lift to an unusual hitchhiker, a woman who has been thrown bound and naked from a car. On the journey he hears the bizarre but intriguing story of her predicament. It seems that there is nobody who could be the father of her child, least of all her rich powerful and vindictive husband...read more

Product Description: Presumed dead, a group of undergraduate students who go missing on a deserted Pacific island emerge one year later in two groups of ragged (and naked) survivors. All but one of the surviving women have conceived, and two students, plus their professor, are said to have died...read more

Robin Baker puts forward the thesis that evolution has programmed men to conquer and monopolise women while women, without even knowing they are doing it, seek the best genetic input on offer from potential sexual partners. Facts of life presented include: 10 per cent of children are not fathered by their "fathers", less than 1 per cent off a man's sperm is capable of fertilizing anything - the rest is there to fight off other men's sperm, "smart" vaginal mucus encourages some sperm but blocks others, and a woman is far more likely to conceive through a casual fling than through sex with her regular partner. Baker describes fictionalized scences and then explains the science behind the actions to demonstrate how our everyday behaviour fits into a pattern of evolution.

An authority on human sexual behavior and evolution offers a provocative look at how advances in reproductive technology will affect human behavior and relationships in the twenty-first century. Reprint. (view table of contents)

An evolutionary biologist and best-selling author of Sperm Wars share a vision of family life and family conflict that argues that all human behavior is the result of genetics. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Explodes the nuclear family once & for all, revealing the unacknowledged conflicts at the heart of even the happiest households. Fatherhood, motherhood, nurturing & care -- beneath these deep human instincts lies another that is still deeper -- the will to ensure our own genetic survival at the expense of others...read more

Argues that men inately believe their sperm will be competing with that of other men for the opportunity to fertilize an egg, and that women unconsciously promote this competition

Product Description: This book shows the full creative potential of the computer. Packed both with practical applications and new concepts, it demonstrates that computers do not simply perform old tasks more efficiently, but enable us to generate whole new worlds...read more

Product Description: The author, in the light of recent discoveries, explores the view held by some leading ornithologists that the mystery of bird navigation over thousands of kilometres has been solved. A bibliography provides references that demonstrate the sequence by which theories are developed...read more