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A Guide to Modern Science: How Technology Will Shape Our World
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The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world
Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
The Mummy
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The Gynaecological Cancer Guide: Sex Sanity and Survival
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Disenfranchised Grief: New Directions, Challenges, and Strategies for Practice
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The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
Author: James Kakalios Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Author: Eric R. Kandel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Neurological and psychiatric disorders have long been regarded as fundamentally different, depending on whether they appear to affect the brain...
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It...
Breathtaking: The UK's human story of Covid
Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between...
The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science
Author: Lliana Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis tackle the strange and surreal phenomena from the depths of the oceans to the limits...
The End of Bias: Can We Change Our Minds?
Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Drawing on ten years of immersion in the topic, Nordell digs into the cognitive science and social psychology that underpin efforts...
The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria Volume 2
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Biology of the Skin and Hair Growth: Proceesing of a Symposium Held at Canberra, Australia, August 1964 [SIGNED]
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How to Save the World For Free
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The Best Australian Science Writing 2014
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Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets
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Author: Tyler Nordgren Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 One of Amazon's Best Science Books of 2016On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon:...
Wild City: Encounters With Urban Wildlife
Author: Florence Wilkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The mark of a good nature book is that it opens your eyes to what is there, but you missed, and...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
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Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us about Creativity
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Author: Andreas Wagner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science In Life Finds a...
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Author: Scott E. Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Data, data, data: It's all one ever hears about these days. Science is all about big data. Our bosses call...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature
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How to Think Like Stephen Hawking
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The Chemistry of Cement and Concrete
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The Doctor
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The Discovery of the Hobbit
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Your Child's Health
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Throw Out Your Scales: 21 Ways to Ditch the Diet and Lose Fat Forever
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ICon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe
Author: Cathie Pelletier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It
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Author: Erica Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are...
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
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Author: Charles Seife Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true...
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Author: Michael E Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have...
The Life Scientific: Explorers
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Inside the lives of the scientists who are exploring the world, our universe, the past and ourselves. Based on the interviews...
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in...
Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change?
Author: Matt Winning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' - Adam Kay 'HOT MESS provides loads of...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...