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Statistics without Tears: An Introduction for Non-Mathematicians
Author: Derek Rowntree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A clear and trustworthy guide to understanding statistics, a perennial bestseller now fully revised and updated. This book is...
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain
Author: Gina Rippon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An agenda-setting, myth-debunking book by neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon that demolishes the idea of biology as destiny and the...
Nature's Nether Regions: What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity and Ourselves
Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 What's the easiest way to tell species apart? Check their genitals. Researching private parts was long considered taboo, but scientists are...
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
Author: Paul Pettitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector...
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Author: Christiana Figueres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 We can survive the climate crisis. This book shows us how. We have two choices for our future, which is still...
Please Explain
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Karl Kruszelnicki Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Australia's favourite scientist's twenty-sixth book!...
The Moon: A Biography
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: David Whitehouse Format: Hardback...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...
2024 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
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...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is...
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
Author: Vaclav Smil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so...
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
Author: Michael Pollan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs Of all the many things humans...
The Ship
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: Simon Baker Format: Hardback...
Human Frontiers : The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Where next for humanity? Is our future one of endless improvement in all areas of life, from technology and travel to medicine,...
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Author: Benjamin von Brackel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 As humans accelerate global warming - while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness...
Science Makers: Making with Living Things
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about LIVING...
The Physics Behind: Discover the Physics of Everyday Life
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Author: Russ Swan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Uncovering the extraordinary science behind everyday life. From the Cloud to static, waterproof clothing and drones, there's a whole world of...
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....
The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars
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Author: Jo Marchant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A Best Book of 2020 NPR A Best Book of 2020 The Economist A Top Ten Best Science Book of 2020...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life on the Body in an Unjust Society
Author: Dr Arline Geronimus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Monumental ' IBRAM X. KENDI 'Eloquent, comprehensive and compassionate' LINDA VILLAROSA 'Superbly insightful' HARRIET A. WASHINGTON Fusing science and social...
Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality
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Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Ten Physicists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Reality explores the top ten greatest physicists of the last 400 years, their most...
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
Author: Kate Murphy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? This life-changing book will...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...
The Origin Of Species
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 This is the book that revolutionized the natural sciences and every literary, philosophical and religious thinker who followed. Darwin's...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul J. Nahin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic...
How to Solve the Da Vinci Code: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses of Mathematics
Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Can you outrun a bullet? How do you build an electronic brain? Could you slow down time? How do...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...
Untypical: How the world isn't built for autistic people and what we should all do about it
Author: Pete Wharmby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 It's time to remake the world - the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic...
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World
Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Saving the environment is our collective duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into...
Behind the Scenes at Galileo's Trial: Including the First English Translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus
Author: Richard J. Blackwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Galileo's trial in 1633 before the Roman Inquisition is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in the...
Know Thyself: The New Science of Self-Awareness
Author: Stephen M Fleming Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 How do you know when you've studied enough to pass an exam? Should you accept the testimony of an eyewitness?...
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play
Author: Cliff Kuang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A fascinating look at the secrets of user experience and how brilliant design changes everything, by Robert Fabricant, one...
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books,...
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's
Author: Dick Swaab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes...
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
Author: Robert Plomin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From one of the world's top geneticists, the controversial and cutting-edge book that's making us rethink who we are...
Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home
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Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing...
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control
Author: Paul Dye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age, SHUTTLE, HOUSTON explores the...
Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
Author: Mi Gyung Kim (Associate Professor, North Carolina State University ) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 613 In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public...
The Descent of Man: Selection in Relation to Sex
Author: Adrian Desmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man...
A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI
Author: Max Bennett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found this...
The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
Author: Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up...
The Science of the Oven
Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...
Animal Languages: The secret conversations of the living world
Author: Eva Meijer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Dolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork tailed drongos mimic the calls of other animals to scare them...
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...