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Paperback / softbackLiftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Author: Tom Vanderbilt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an...
Pain: The Science of the Feeling Brain
Author: Dr Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pain is part of human existence but we understand very little of the mechanics of it. We damage...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why...
Time Trails: Rainforest
Author: Oivind Hovland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Prepare to take a chronological journey, from the first roots grown by newly evolved plants and trees, through blazing...
The Industries of the Future
Author: Alec Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
Brilliant Women: Pioneers of Science and Technology
Author: Georgia Amson-Bradshaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 In PIONEERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY you'll say hello to Hypatia, an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer. You'll learn...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you....
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'...
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'...
Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars
Author: Jennifer Berne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 A 2020 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! With an introduction from Neil DeGrasse Tyson about the importance...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to...
Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
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Author: Founding Publisher Michael Shermer (Occidental College) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A scientific exploration into humanity's obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the...
The Naked Scientist: Everyday Life Under the Microscope
$10.00
Author: Dr Chris Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Rise of the Rocket Girls The Women Who Propelled Us
Author: Nathalia Holt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and...
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
Author: Sean B. Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 For more than a century, we were restricted to studying evolution from the outside, observing its progress only...
Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER...
Science Makers: Making with Machines
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 MACHINES...
The Second Nature of Things: How and Why Things Work in the Natural World
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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: Will Curtis Format: Paperback...
The 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number of...