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30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute
Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...
What Shape Is Space?: A primer for the 21st century
Author: Giles Sparrow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards What Shape is Space? is...
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...
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far
Author: Lawrence M. Krauss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced - how humanity...
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,...
Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus
Author: Richard J. Blackwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Galileo's trial in 1633 before the Roman Inquisition is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in the...
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...
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts
Author: Martin Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 In the 1950s the space race between the USA and the USSR was well and truly on, and was...
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...
Animal Languages: The secret conversations of the living world
Author: Eva Meijer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Dolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them...
The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Author: Mark Bowen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it...
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...
I Used to Know That: General Science
Author: Marianne Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 For those whose memories of learning science at school consist of burning magnesium and playing with iron filings and...
What's Inside?: Spacecraft
Author: David West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 24 Learn all about spacecraft, from the first space capsules to space planes and space shuttles. Have you ever wondered...
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...
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet
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Author: John Naughton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times...
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...
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
Author: Sharon Dr. Moalem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainHere are...
PIG: Tales from an Organic Farm
Author: Helen Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it about the humble pig that holds such a special place in our hearts? In a frosty...
Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein
Author: Andy Dougan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, Frankenstein, introduced readers around the world to the concept of raising the dead through scientific...
Written in Stone (Icon Science)
Author: Brian Switek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the...
The Particle Zoo: The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality
Author: Gavin Hesketh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What is everything really made of? If we split matter down into smaller and infinitesimally smaller pieces, where do...
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
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Author: Graham Farmelo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteriesOne of the great insights of science is that the universe has an...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems? How can we bring ruined land back to life? Where do roboticists...
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Author: Jonathan Balcombe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An Observer Book of the Year 2017 A Sunday Times must read A New York Times Bestseller Endorsed by...
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...
The I Used to Know That: Maths Activity Book: Stuff You Forgot from School
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Arithmetic, Probability, Fractions, Measurements - maths is one of those subjects that continue to throw a lot of us...
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 Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines
Author: Theodore Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Million-copy bestselling author of THE ELEMENTS, MOLECULES, and REACTIONS Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments, and...
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...
Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity
Author: Steven Connor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do....
Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution
Author: Mary Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018 Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by...
A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
Author: Emmy J. Favilla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the...
Apple
Author: Marcia Reiss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This book explores the apple's history and the latest debates about the use of agrichemicals, the rise of organic and heirloom...
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...
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of...
Rainforest
Author: Lewis Blackwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 There are no places richer in diversity and host to such a quantity of different living things. With a visually stunning...
Cornucopia Limited: Design and Dissent on the Internet
Author: Richard Coyne (Professor, Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment, The University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 294 Using the...
Run the Storm A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
Author: George Michelsen Foy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, "an exquisitely written and dramatic book...a literary page-turner"...
A Scheme of Heaven Astrology and the Birth of Science
Author: Alexander Boxer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today, but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool....
The Beginning and the End of Everything From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe
Author: Paul Parsons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 13.8 billion years ago, something incredible happened. Matter, energy, space and time all suddenly burst into existence in a cataclysmic event...
Unscaled How A.I. and a New Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future
Author: Hemant Taneja Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'A thought-provoking look at the technology that is changing the world of business and the benefits, pitfalls, and challenges...