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The Home of the Blizzard: Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14
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: Sir Douglas Mawson Format:...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see...
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future...
Letters from an Astrophysicist
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The most popular scientist in the world' (Sunday Times) bares his soul and answers the biggest questions in...
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in...
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday...
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Author: Jordan Ellenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn...
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...
A Short History Of Nearly Everything
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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...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the...
Basic Mathematics: An Introduction: Teach Yourself
Author: Alan Graham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 BASIC MATHEMATICS: AN INTRODUCTION teaches you all the maths you need for everyday situations. If you are terrified by...
The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery
Author: Seb Falk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A spellbinding journey through the life of an English monk, an age of discovery and the mysteries of the...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
Citizen Scientist: Studying Insects
Author: Izzi Howell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 There's nothing greater than collecting data! Investigate the world of insects through observation and scientific research. Study habitats, life cycles, food...
The Short Story of the Universe: A Pocket Guide to the History, Structure, Theories and Building Blocks of the Cosmos
Author: Gemma Lavender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of the Universe is a new introduction to the subject of the universe. Covering 130 key components that...
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...
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
Author: Peter Wohlleben Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees comes an exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the...
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Britain's greatest science writer comprehensively rebuts the creationists by pulling together the incontrovertible evidence for evolution Charles...
Maths Unwrapped: The easy way to understand and master mathematics
Author: Mattias Ribbing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Why do so many of us struggle to remember the maths we were taught at school? The answer is that we...
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Author: Lucy Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An urgent, comprehensive inquiry into how nature enriches the human psyche - and of the startling risks we face...
The World We Once Lived In
Author: Wangari Maathai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 In 21 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works Over the past 75...
Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan
Author: Robert J. Cribb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Wild Man from Borneo offers the first comprehensive history of the human-orangutan encounter. Arguably the most humanlike of all the...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained
Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows
Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef...
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come...
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 -...
Night Sky Almanac 2024: 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...
Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking the Secrets of Communication
Author: Kathleen M. Dudzinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Exciting new technologies and research methods help scientists unravel the mysteries of dolphin communication, intelligence, and culture Dolphins...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't
Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
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...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 235 In seeking to defend a form of naturalism that avoids both scientism and the reduction of philosophy to science,...
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"...
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Author: Russell Bonduriansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 There is much more to heredity than genes For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate...
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...
Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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Author: Nicola Twilley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley's Until Proven Safe tracks the idea of quarantine around the globe, through time and space, chasing...
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
Author: Bill McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep...
End Times: Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More
Author: Bryan Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of...
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps
Author: Seirian Sumner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A funny and beautifully written welcome to the enigmatic, weird and wonderful world of wasps' DAVE GOULSON, author of...
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks...
Earth-Shattering: Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, Biological Mayhem, Nuclear Meltdowns, and Other Hazards to Life in Our Universe
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Author: Bob Berman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in...
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps
Author: Peter L. Falkingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 428 The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research...
Nature Underfoot: Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us
Author: John Hainze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature "Put...
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse
Author: Elisa Gabbert (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase "Did...
Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
Author: Scott Solomon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens...
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History
Author: Paolo Zellini Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe? The...