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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
The Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice
Author: Matthew Syed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Can we really ALL be the best? Is the idea of innate ability holding us back? Could the ability...
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 Everywhere we look, whether on TV or in a magazine, we're confronted with the same message. You need to...
Planet Awesome
Author: Stacy McAnulty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 'Hi, I'm Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.' In this hilarious and informative book filled to the...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Sense: The book that uses sensory science to make you happier
Author: Russell Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How can colour prime you for creative thinking? What kind of music helps you run faster? Which scents can...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
The 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number of...
Science Makers: Making with Machines
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about MACHINES...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 #1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human...
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of its Ice
Author: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul J. Nahin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic...
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites...
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
Author: David Badre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 312 A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday lives. Why...
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Makes Habits Stick
Author: Russell A. Poldrack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change...
Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
Author: Kevin Hand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Inside the epic quest to find life on the water-rich moons at the outer reaches of the solar system....
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...
Get Technology: Be in the know. Upgrade your future: 20 thought-provoking lessons
Author: Gerald Lynch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Each day our lives become ever more entwined with and dependent upon technology - and yet there's a feeling that we...
Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures
Author: Nessa Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'A focused snapshot of a brave new world.' - Nature In 2018 the world woke up to gene editing...
Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
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Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
Author: Ziya Tong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 235 In seeking to defend a form of naturalism that avoids both scientism and the reduction of philosophy to science,...
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps
Author: Peter L. Falkingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 428 The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research...
Human Origins: 7 Million Years and Counting
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and...
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
Author: Michael Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we...
Astronomical: From Quarks to Quasars, the Science of Space at its Strangest
Author: Tim James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Space is the biggest, oldest, hottest, coldest, strangest thing a human can study. It's no surprise then, that the...
Einstein And Culture
Author: Gerhard Sonnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 427 Popular images of Albert Einstein often depict him as either an almost superhuman solitary genius or as a counter-cultural rebel. In...
Your Conscious Mind: Unravelling the Greatest Mystery of the Human Brain
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 What is consciousness? Is it real or just an illusion? And how does it work? What is this strange...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
Author: Cathy N. Davidson (Distinguished Professor and Director of the Futures Initiative, CUNY Graduate Center) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 88 In this report, Cathy Davidson and David...
Feeling Prickly Journal
Author: Matt Garczynski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Spiky friends, from hedgehogs and porcupines to blowfish and sea urchins, frolic through the pages of this adorable flexi...
The Nature Magpie: A Cornucopia of Facts, Anecdotes, Folklore and Literature from the Natural World
Author: Daniel Allen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection of anecdotes, facts, figures, folklore and literature, The Nature Magpie is a veritable treasure trove of humanity's...
Ice: Nature and Culture
Author: Klaus Dodds Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Ice has played a prominent role in the history of the earth and its living communities for millennia. We...
What Colour is the Sun?: Mind-Bending Science Facts in the Solar System's Brightest Quiz
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? How long can a goldfish remember things? Who thought up...
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical
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Author: Amir Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man...
Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts
Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...
How to Count to Infinity
Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it... Not falling in love, but counting. Animals and humans...
Gorilla
Author: Ted Gott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In Gorilla, Tedd Gott and Kathryn Weir provide a compelling and sometimes disturbing account of our relationship with this...
Beetle
Author: Adam Dodd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From ancient Egyptian deities to German automobiles, beetles have left an indelible mark on human cultures around the world....
The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and its Consequences
Author: Robin Boast Format: Hardback Number of Pages: We live in a digital age, within a digital economy, continuously engaged with digital media. Digital encoding lies at the heart of...