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Love, in Theory
Love, in Theory by Elodie Cheesman Pan MacMillan Australia Romy is a young lawyer working in employment law in Sydney with two failed relationships under her belt. She’s nearing her mid-twenties and feels it’s time she takes the scientific way to find her true love. She gets advice from family and friends and checks a few books that have a bit to say about the science of finding love. Then she tries to put it into practice. She meets Hans, an engineer from Germany and he truly meets her criteria. They hit it off from the start and soon end up in a relationship. But there’s also James, who she…
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Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Historically, the contributions of women to science have been poorly documented and it’s really mainly in recent history that they’ve been given much more than a mention. So to have a book about women in science is pretty amazing. It’s also maddening and sad that what we know of women in science could even begin to fill only just one volume. And yet, the information is so scant as to having to piece together the puzzle of where women would have played their roles. This volume discusses women in the scientific world from ancient times to the contemporary. Early history is conjecture to a certain degree, based on what we…