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Produced in collaboration with the Science Museum, and jointly written with my wife Mary, Don't Flush looks at the countless ways of using human and animal waste to make or process useful things: everything from explosives to leather..

 

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Don't Flush!

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The Ultimate book about ME

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Pox, Pestilence and Plague

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How They Made Things Work in the Age of Industry

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How They Made Things Work in the Middle Ages

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Would You Believe... Transport

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How the Egyptians Made Things Work

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The Train Under Your Feet

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HowThey Made Things Work in Tudor and Stuart Times

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How They Made Things Work: The Greeks

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How they Made Things Work in Roman Times

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Would You Believe it… Medicine

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Eureka

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Inventions Explained

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Experience Flight

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The Vanishing Rainforest

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Megabites Apes

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Datafiles Media & Communications

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Spiders' Secrets

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Plants Bite Back

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Stephen Biesty's Incredible Body

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Space Explorer Atlas

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Inventions: a Visual History


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