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Blackwell's Bookshop

The Precinct Centre
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9RN
Website
Click here
Phone
0161 274 3331

What's on at Blackwell's Bookshop

Volcano

Waking the Giant

Sat 27 Oct 2012 11am - 12 noon

Bill McGuire argues that climate change is once more setting the scene for the giant to reawaken, and we can already see the signs...

Rainforest

The Goldilocks Planet

Sat 27 Oct 2012 2pm

Two leading geologists give important insights into dramatic changes in Earth's distant past, and the delicate balance that ensures our planet is 'not too hot, not too cold', but 'just right' to sustain life...

Molecules

Why Millions Survive Cancer

Sat 27 Oct 2012 3.30pm

The enormous recent progress in fighting cancer, and the science behind it, is revealed fully for the first time Lauren Pecorino, who looks to the future in our battle with this disease...

Runners

Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat

Sat 27 Oct 2012 5pm

Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. What are the limits of human performance? What stops us running faster, throwing longer, or jumping higher? Find out at this fascinating event...

Space

On Being

Sat 3 Nov 2012 11am

In this scientific 'credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers...

A splash in a pool of water

Why Humans Like to Cry

Sat 3 Nov 2012 2pm

Why have we developed art forms - most powerfully, music - which move us to sadness and tears?

Altas Experiment

Higgs: The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'

Sat 3 Nov 2012 3.30pm

The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So what is this particle called the Higgs boson?