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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Author: R. D. Laing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult figure in...
Water and Peace: A journey through the world's most explosive conflict zones in search of deep water
Author: Dr Alain Gachet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In countries where scarce surface water causes disease and conflict, an abundance of water can bring peace. With the growing...
The Rainforests: A Celebration
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Atom (Icon Science)
Author: Piers Bizony Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How 200 years of classical physics was turned on its head. Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius,...
Siddhartha
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Author: Herman Hesse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with...
Big Data: How the Information Revolution Is Transforming Our Lives
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks...
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
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Do Robots Make Love?: From AI to Immortality - Understanding Transhumanism in 12 Questions
Author: Laurent Alexandre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Should we enhance the human condition with technology? Does anyone really want to live for a thousand years? Could AI end...
The Life of Poo: Or why you should think twice about shaking hands (especially with men)
Author: Adam Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Poo! Most of us don't really like to talk about it. In fact, many of us would probably rather it didn't...
The Genome Generation
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Deep Sea: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Jon Copley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Uncover what lies at the deepest depths of our oceans... In ten brief and informative essays, marine biologist and TV science...
I Used to Know That: Maths
Author: Chris Waring Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 If memories of learning algebra bring you out in a cold sweat and thoughts of quadratic equations cause you feelings of...
A Briefer History of Time, A
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Flora of Victoria: Vol 1: Introduction
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Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses,...
The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds
Author: Katie Spalding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A hilarious look at how the line between 'genius' and 'extremely lucky idiot' is finer than we'd like to admit. The...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To
Author: Kit Yates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A TIMES ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'The ideal guide to what is not just a fiendishly...
The Great Mathematical Problems
Author: Professor Ian Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 There are some mathematical problems whose significance goes beyond the ordinary - like Fermat's Last Theorem or Goldbach's Conjecture -they...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To
Author: Kit Yates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James...
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Author: Amy Webb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Synthetic biology is the technique that enables us not just to read and edit but also write DNA to program living...
Who's Afraid of Butterflies? Our Fears and Phobias Named and Explained
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The Music of the Primes: Why an unsolved problem in mathematics matters
Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 20 years later The Music of the Primes is still a groundbreaking popular science book. This new edition...
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
Author: Gisli Palsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on...
Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The hidden role of fungi inside and all around us. From beneficial yeasts that aid digestion to toxic molds that...
Climate Clangers: The Bad Ideas Blocking Real Action
Author: Jennifer Rayner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 The impacts of climate change keep getting worse, but the typical framing of the problem and the solutions so far being...
Vector: A surprising story of space, time, and mathematical transformation
Author: Robyn Arianrhod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'The story I'll tell here is about the evolution of the way we humans record and make sense of all the...
The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity
Author: Claudia de Rham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity's true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her life. Claudia de Rham...
The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
Author: Mark Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to...
Sharks and Other Ancestors
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Fortunes in Minerals: Simple Tests and How to Make Them
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Hydrophthalmia or, Congenital Glaucoma
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The Big Switch
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The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
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Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History
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Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human
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Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?: Quarterly Essay 31
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Fever Hospital: A History of Fairfield Infectious Diseases HospitaL
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Time: From Micro-seconds to Millennia - The Search for the Right Time
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Java Man
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The Wollemi Pine: The Incredible Discovery of a Living Fossil from the Age of the Dinosaurs
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The Mind of a Bee
Author: Lars Chittka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees. Most of us are aware of the hive mind - the...
The Little Book of Exoplanets
Author: Joshua N. Winn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A concise and accessible introduction to exoplanets that explains the cutting-edge science behind recent discoveries. For centuries, people have speculated...
Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem-solving and Creativity
Author: Robert Hannigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us...