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The Secret Life of Cows

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...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

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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...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

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Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in...
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

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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...
Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed

Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed

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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...
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

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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...
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far

The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far

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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...
What If We Stopped Pretending?

What If We Stopped Pretending?

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Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to...
What's Inside?: Spacecraft

What's Inside?: Spacecraft

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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...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**...
The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast

The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast

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Author: Andrew Blum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who...
The Physics of Life, The Evolution of Everything

The Physics of Life, The Evolution of Everything

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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...
Expand Your Mind Science Bargain Book Box (17 Books)

Expand Your Mind Science Bargain Book Box (17 Books)

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Expand Your Mind Science Bargain Book Box (17 Books) Uncover fascinating insights into the world of science, technology, and innovation with the Expand Your Mind Science Bargain Book Box! This...
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts

Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts

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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

Lost Science Astonishing Tales of Forgotten Genius

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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...
We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply...
Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them

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...
Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To

Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To

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Author: Margee Kerr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you describe it?...
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)

Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)

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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...
Science Bargain Book Box

Science Bargain Book Box

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Science Bargain Book Box 🧬 Dive into the wonders of science with the Science Bargain Book Box, a carefully curated collection of nine fascinating books that explore the natural world,...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

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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...
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

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Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

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...
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical

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...
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

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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...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

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Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
Science Bargain Book Box 6 (18 Books)

Science Bargain Book Box 6 (18 Books)

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Science Bargain Book Box 6 (18 Books) 🌌 Explore the Wonders of Science with This Essential Collection! 🌌 The Science Bargain Book Box 6 features 18 captivating titles that delve...
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe

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...
The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history

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Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A...
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

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Author: Eben Kirksey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

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 Planets

The Planets

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Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to...
Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games

Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games

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Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Brilliantly clear and captivating prose' Stephen Fry A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind...
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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Author: Robert M Sapolsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 A groundbreaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by 'one of the best scientist-writers of our...
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain

How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain

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Author: Kimberley Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A practical manual for your brain.' - Dr Megan Rossi, author of Eat Yourself Healthy A groundbreaking science-based guide...
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

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Author: Leidy Klotz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "You need to read this book." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A great book changes the world you...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone

Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone

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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...
My First Book of Comparisons: How the world measures up

My First Book of Comparisons: How the world measures up

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Author: Ana Seixas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Packed full of facts this wonderfully illustrated book measures and compares everything from animals, space and dinosaurs to machines, sports and...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

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Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life

How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life

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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...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

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...
Look Up: Our story with the stars

Look Up: Our story with the stars

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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...
Scorpion

Scorpion

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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...
A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change

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Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain....
Astronomical Mindfulness: Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets

Astronomical Mindfulness: Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets

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Author: Christopher G De Pree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with...
Scale The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms

Scale The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms

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Author: Geoffrey West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything from cells and ecosystems...
See Inside Evolution

See Inside Evolution

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Author: Emily Bone Format: Board book Number of Pages: 16 Discover the amazing story of evolution in this book full of flaps to lift. Where did life come from? Why...