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The Secret Life of Cows
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Author: Rosamund Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 "Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."-Lydia Davis In this affectionate, heart-warming...
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...
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...
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
Author: Jack Ashby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future. Think of...
Champions of Illusion: The Best Illusions of the Twenty-First Century
Author: Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from...
The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics
Author: Clifford A. Pickover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 From the ingenious author of The Math Book and The Physics Book comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
Constellations: The Story of Space Told Through the 88 Known Star Patterns in the Night Sky
Author: Govert Schilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In CONSTELLATIONS, award-winning astronomy writer Govert Schilling takes us on an unprecedented visual tour of all 88 constellations in our night...
A Human's Guide To Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
Author: Kartik Hosanagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives,...
Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said 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...
This Book Will Blow Your Mind: Journeys at the Extremes of Science
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the...
The Theory of Everything Else
Author: Dan Schreiber Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 This is not a book of facts; it's a book of 'facts'. Should you finish it believing we became the planet's...
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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Author: Sean Carroll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and...
The Planets
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion...
Einstein's Shadow: The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
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Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to...
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...
Lost Science Astonishing Tales of Forgotten Genius
Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Acclaimed popular science writer Kitty Ferguson investigates little-explored byroads in the history of science, from Johannes Kepler's nearly disastrous venture into...
Natural Histories
Author: Tom Baione Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 For the first time, Natural Histories allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom-seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum...
Fire, Ice, and Physics
Author: Rebecca C. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 A PhD physicist (and self-professed fangirl) uses the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world--from ice walls...
The Physics of Life, The Evolution of Everything
Author, Adrian Bejan Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 272 The Physics of Life illuminates the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense and empowers the reader with a new...
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...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enriching --Publisher's Weekly Excellent and illuminating--Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social...
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...
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...
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains
Author: Joseph LeDoux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and...
Domesticated: Evolution in a Man-Made World
Author: Richard C. Francis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 The wolf evolved into the Pekingese, the wildcat into the tabby cat and the auroch into the milk-producing cow. This...
Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
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Author: David MacNeal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Creepy, beautiful, icky and amazing." --Penny Le Couteur, author of Napoleon's Button Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant...
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET...
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
Author: Steve Fiffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in...
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...
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Author: Tom Vanderbilt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an...
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Author: Heather Heying Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable...
30-Second Space Travel: 50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens
Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight...
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...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
The Science That Changed the World: Remarkable Discoveries and Breakthroughs
Author: Stuart Kumar-Terry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 History is full of men and women who asked big questions and found exciting answers. People are still making incredible discoveries...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe
Author: Paul Sen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its...
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
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Author: Brian Merchant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The secret history of the invention that changed everything-and became the most profitable product in the world. "The One Device is...
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
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Author: Dr Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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Author: Gaia Vince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows...
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...
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...
Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations
Author: Richard Mainwaring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Vic Tandy was a level-headed scientist, but there was no denying it: at this late hour in his lonely lab at...
Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions
Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar takes twenty-five remarkable and memorable...