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Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
Bring Back the King The New Science of De-extinction
Author: Helen Pilcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you...
Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
Author: Gareth Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel...
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
Author: John Allen Paulos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a...
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Author: Cordelia Fine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Sex discrimination is supposedly a distant memory. Yet popular books, magazines and even scientific articles defend inequalities by citing...
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Author: Manjit Kumar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling...
100 Things to Know About Science
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Science is a huge topic, but this friendly book breaks it down into bite-sized chunks, making it an accessible introduction for anyone...
Slime: A Natural History
Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
Night Sky Almanac 2022: A stargazer's guide
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful...
Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
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Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...
Meet Your Hormones
Author: Catherine Whitlock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Did you know that you have thousands, perhaps millions, of hormones in your bloodstream? Did you know that these complex chemical...
The Weather Makers: The Past and Future Impact of Climate Change
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
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Author: Stephon Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don't know. Dance...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Origins of the Universe: The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Quantum Gravity
Author: Keith Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Nearly 60 years ago, Nobel Prize-winners Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson stumbled across a mysterious hiss of faint radio...
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...
This Book is Cruelty-Free: Animals and Us
Author: Linda Newbery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 If you've ever wondered how you can make your diet cruelty-free, whether it's ethical to own a pet, or...
Helgoland: The Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum...
Ideas Are Your Only Currency
Author: Rod Judkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 FUTURE-PROOFING FOR THINKERS. 'What skills and abilities will a student need to prosper in five, ten, or fifteen years'...
Northern Lights: The definitive guide to auroras
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The perfect gift for anyone with a desire to see the Northern Lights. Discover the incomparable beauty of the...
The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
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...
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Amir Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way...
An Entertainment for Angels (Icon Science): Electricity in the Enlightenment
Author: Patricia Fara Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men'. Lecturers attracted huge...
The History of Science
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Mankind has forever strived to learn. The tribe with the better weapons can hunt more efficiently, defend itself better...
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
Author: Euan Angus Ashley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate....
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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Author: Neil Shubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national...
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
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Author: David M Friedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth...
The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Forget everything you thought you knew about reality. The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
Author: James Vincent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If...
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....
Sleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night's Rest
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Author: Henry Nicholls Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A narcoleptic's tireless journey through the neuroscience of disordered sleep Whether it's a bout of bad jet lag or a stress-induced...
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 '10 Short Lessons in Time Travel lucidly sums up the essential parts of this fascinating subject.' John Gribbin ________________________ In Ten...
Birds: A Species Guide: Volume 1
Author: Mark E. Hauber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Birds is a beautiful introduction to 75 of our feathered friends. From the everyday birds we see in our backyards...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...
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 Oceans: A Deep History
Author: Eelco J. Rohling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system It has often been said that we know...
Darwin Comes to Town
Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of...
Building the World: Power Stations and Electricity
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 See the world from a whole new angle! This innovative series, illustrated with amazing isometric artwork, reveals the technology, science and...
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
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Author: Cedric Villani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In 2010, the French mathematician Cedric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a...
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 Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain...
Stuff You Should Know About the Human Body
Author: John Farndon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 In this fascinating introduction to the human body, large, colourful diagrams are brought to life by tiny people running...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Author: Frans de Waal (Emory University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling...
The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides...
Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
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Author: Jon Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It's the missing link between the birth of our universe--as...