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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
Author: Prof Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal...
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...
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...
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
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Author: J Craig Venter (J Craig Venter Institute) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 "Venter instills awe for biology as it is, and as it might become in...
Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently
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Author: Beau Lotto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Beau Lotto, the world-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker, takes us on a tour of how we perceive the world,...
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...
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...
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....
Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
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Author: William T. Vollmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, reportedly holding his just-published masterpiece, The Revolutions...
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...
Lights On!: The Science of Power Generation
Author: Mark Denny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Power generation is a relatively recent concern because humans had little need for sustained power until the dawn 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...
Figaro's Fleet
Author: Raymond Reagan Butler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 In 1776 the American rebel colonists were desperately in need of arms and financial backing, and the Frenchman Pierre Augustin...
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"...
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...
Darwin Comes to Town
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Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's...
Blaise Pascal Miracles and Reason
Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 This book, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal's life and work that are...
Moon Nature and Culture
Author: Edgar Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A witty and informative tale of everything lunar, tracing the moon's cultural resonance throughout humanity's history. Since humans first...
Understanding Numbers Simplify lifes mathematics. Decode the world around you. 20 thought-provoking lessons
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Author: Marianne Freiberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Understanding Numbers, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas will show key number patterns and maths principles that are vital...
Running for the Hills A Family Story
Author: Horatio Clare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together,...
Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers about Plastic
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Why is there so much plastic in the world? How does it help us? What's the problem and how can...
Voices of the Wild Animal Songs
Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe
Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us...
Beyond Infinity
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Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big...
Carnation
Author: Twigs Way Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the...
Scorpion
Author: Louise M. Pryke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 From the dawn of civilization scorpions have captured the human imagination. Yet the scorpion is a misunderstood animal...
Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World
Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial...
Will AI Replace Us?
Author: Shelly Fan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production Awards The past sixty years have...
My Encounters with Minibeasts From Purple Moonbeams to Itchy Cows
Author: Densey Clyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 My Encounters with Minibeasts is a collection of stories about insects and spiders by naturalist Densey Clyne, who is...
The General Rule A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures
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Author: Vivian T. Linacre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 An essential collection of articles, tables and notes, to define and explain the modern uses and relationships -...
Why Cant a Woman Be More Like a Man? The Evolution of Sex and Gender
Author: Lewis Wolpert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Why are there two sexes? How different are they and why? Why can't a woman be more like a...
Designing Reality How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution
Author: Neil Gershenfeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The 20th century witnessed two digital revolutions. Computing power has revolutionized every industry, from finance to agriculture to pharmaceuticals. We've got...