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How Long Is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Big or small, there's an answer to every question, and sometimes there are even a few!How long is now?...
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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Author: Rose George Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of...
2 Minutes to Sleep: Everyday Self-Care for Busy Lives
Author: Corinne Sweet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Two minutes is all you need to transform your sleep habits. Sleep is essential to our mental and physical health, yet...
The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future
Author: Hannah Critchlow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read' The Telegraph 'Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just...
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
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Author: William Poundstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the...
The Industries of the Future
Author: Alec Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community...
Your Planet Needs You!: An everyday guide to saving the earth
Author: Bernadette Vallely Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
The Climate is Changing, Why Aren't We?: A practical guide to how you can make a difference
Author: Daisy Kendrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'An inspirational and motivational must-read, packed with practical tips to push for positive change' Zanna van Dijk The climate is changing,...
Talking to Robots: A Brief Guide to Our Human-Robot Futures
Author: David Ewing Duncan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us,...
Fat: the Secret Organ: The surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body
Author: Mariette Boon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The International Bestseller, as featured in The Times Fat is a vital yet hugely under-rated organ. Fat has become...
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
Author: Sean B. Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only...
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Author: Albert Bourla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer's CEO...
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
Author: Simon Mundy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 As heard on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is...
10 Short Lessons in Renewable Energy
Author: Stephen Peake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Professor Stephen Peake takes us on a guided tour of the ten most essential aspects of this timely and fast-moving science,...
50 Things to Do by the Sea
Author: Easkey Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you....
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
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Author: Arthur Holland Michel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
Birds: A Species Guide: Volume 1
Author: Mark E. Hauber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Birds is a beautiful introduction to 75 of our feathered friends. From the everyday birds we see in our backyards...
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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Author: Martin J Blaser, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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Author: Joshua D Mezrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of...
How to Start and Run a B&B, 4th Edition
Author: Stewart Whyte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Owning a B&B is the dream of many ... More and more people are considering downshifting. Buying a property...
Heart: A History
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Author: Sandeep Jauhar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human...
Dunkleosteus
Author: Professor Ben Garrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A comprehensive look at the strongest force in nature. What causes extinction? Why do some species go extinct and not...
The Naked Scientist: Everyday Life Under the Microscope
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Author: Dr Chris Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to...
This Book is Cruelty-Free: Animals and Us
Author: Linda Newbery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 If you've ever wondered how you can make your diet cruelty-free, whether it's ethical to own a pet, or...
Killer Dinosaurs
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Author: Format: Mixed Media Number of Pages: From the Velociraptor to the T-Rex, this book will uncover all kinds of fascinating facts from what they ate to some of their...
Finite Element Techniques in Structural Mechanics
Author: Carl T. F. Ross (University of Portsmouth, UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 220 This advanced undergraduate and postgraduate text serves for courses in many engineering disciplines...
Ions in Solution: Basic Principles of Chemical Interactions
Author: J Burgess (University of Leicester, UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 This outline of the principles and chemical interactions in inorganic solution chemistry delivers a course...
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 8
Author: Douglas Futuyma (Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, The State University of New York, Stony Brook) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 404 This new volume...
Fracture of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference of Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3-7, 2006
Author: E.E. Gdoutos Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 1416 The 16th European Conference of Fracture (ECF16) was held in Greece, July, 2006. It focused on all aspects of...
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
Author: David Remnick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate...
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Author: James Nestor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the...
The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history. ** NEW...
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
Author: Dick Swaab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes...
Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery
Author: Roger Kneebone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 THE EXPERT ON EXPERTS SHOW US WHAT IT TAKES TO MASTER ANY SKILL What could a lacemaker have in...
Sleep: Change the way you sleep with this 90 minute read
Author: Nick Littlehales Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Proven solutions for better nights, from the 'sleep guru' to international sports stars. One third of our lives are...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds,...
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bill Gates' favourite scientist is on a mission to make facts matter Is flying dangerous? How much do the...
Physics of the Future: The Inventions That Will Transform Our Lives
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A whirlwind tour of technological possiblity' New Scientist We all wish we could predict the future, but most of...
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Selected for the BBC FOUR Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction longlist Getting a grip on the creation and ultimate...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
Author: Edward O. Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and...
The Future of War: A History
Author: Sir Lawrence Freedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A new approach to ideas about war, from 'Britain's leading academic strategist' (Economist) Where should we look for...
The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
Author: Dan Sperber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exploration of human rationality from two ground-breaking thinkers Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the...