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The Brain That Changes Itself
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A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black...
The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors
Author: Michael A. Salmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the seventeenth century, when the study...
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The best-selling physicist returns with a thrilling account of the search for the 'god equation' This is the story of a...
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...
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...
Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life
Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-east Asia
Author: Tadao Shimba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East Eastern Asia...
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals
Author: Jack Ashby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals...
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....
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....
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the welcoming veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the...
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor)
Author: Hugh Barker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the...
Kangaroos in Outback Australia: Comparative Ecology and Behavior of Three Coexisting Species
Author: Dale McCullough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A topic of perpetual fascination, the kangaroos of Australia have been the focus of myriad books and documentaries. Kangaroos...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency
Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
Author: Hubert Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high...
Green Nation Revolution: Use Your Future to Change the World
Author: Valentina Giannella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Take your place in the Green Nation, a nation without geographical borders that unites the youth of today in...
Photographing the Deep Sky: Images in Space and Time
Author: Chris Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Spectacular nebulae where stars are born, beautiful star clusters from the early formation of the Milky Way, and galaxies as far...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
Author: Laura J. Snyder (St. John's University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-a cloth...
Universal
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Author: Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2?...
Stephen Hawking
Author: Anita Croy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Stephen Hawking advanced our understanding of the universe more than any other scientist of his day. He spent his entire life...
Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
Author: Ed Patrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas 'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford 'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal...
The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The world we live in is stranger than we can possibly imagine. The closest we've got to understanding it...
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Author: Albert Costa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The definitive study of bilingualism from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
Author: Anthony Aguirre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote...
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
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Author: Samantha Cristoforetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's intimate account of her first journey to the International Space Station, to which she returns in 2022, as...
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
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Author: Robert Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with...
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
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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...
Killer Dinosaurs
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Author: Format: Mixed Media Number of Pages: From the Velociraptor to the T-Rex, this book will uncover all kinds of fascinating facts from what they ate to some of their...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to...
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe
Author: Cathie Pelletier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The No.1 International Bestseller that has sold over 15,000 hardbacks and over 165,000 paperbacks (Vista) and counting From groundbreaking...
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true...
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...
Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving mammals, intellectual insects, flatulent fish and the great pet showdown
Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column....
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Collection 11
Author: Royal Observatory Greenwich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A stunning gift for admirers of astrophotography. From the number one Astronomy publisher, this book showcases the most spectacular space...
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away
Author: Lisa Woollett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path...
The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time
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Author: Julian Barbour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the...
The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds
Author: Mark Humphries Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains work We see the last...
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 The enchanting international bestselling sensation on modern physics comes to paperback In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo...
Planet Awesome
Author: Stacy McAnulty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 'Hi, I'm Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.' In this hilarious and informative book filled to the...
Einstein And Culture
Author: Gerhard Sonnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 427 Popular images of Albert Einstein often depict him as either an almost superhuman solitary genius or as a counter-cultural rebel. In...
Einstein's Shadow: A Black Hole
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Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Hardback 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 take the...
An Equation for Every Occasion: Simple Formulas for Surviving the Unexpected
Author: Chris Waring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 If you're a little worried about what the future holds, you might be stock-piling cans of beans or building an underground...
Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
Author: Bryan Sykes (Oxford Ancestors) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan...