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Knowledge is Power (Icon Science): How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science
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Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers
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The Ant and the Ferrari
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The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week 'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the modern-day magic we call...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Invincible: How we can train our hearts to beat stress and achieve success
Author: Dr Leah Lagos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Stress is not in your head, it's in your heart - this is the key to peak performance that Dr...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions
Author: Kate SummerscaleFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES,...
Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide
Author: Dylan EvansFormat: Paperback, 118mm x 168mm, 155g, 176 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2010The ideal guide to the most important idea ever to appear in the history of science....
Personality: A User's Guide
Author: Nikita Mikhailov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'The best introduction to personality psychology I have ever read' Robert Hogan, founder and president, Hogan Assessment Systems We are each...
Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of menstruation
Author: Dr. Jennifer Gunter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'The world's most famous and outspoken gynaecologist' (The Guardian) fights myths and fearmongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free...
The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle To Align The Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened To The Missing Ten Days
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Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, An-Bantam Press
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Charles Darwin
Author: J. David Archibald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this bedrock of biology books Darwin carved a new...
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
Author: Andrew H. Knoll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review How...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating, must-read book covering a vast array of topics from the arts to the sciences, technology to policy. This is...
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind
Author: Brian Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Every pet owner thinks their own dog, cat, fish or hamster is a genius. What makes CAN FISH COUNT? so exciting...
The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa
Author: Jonathan B. Losos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great...
Silk & Venom: The incredible lives of spiders
Author: James O'Hanlon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 There are more than 50 000 species of spiders. They surround us in our daily lives and, contrary to popular belief,...
The Best Australian Science Writing 2023
Author: Donna Lu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Should we alter animals' DNA to save them from extinction? What secrets will old ice reveal to us about the Earth's...
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Author: Adrienne Mayor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures...
Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world
Author: Brett Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 ** Shortlisted, 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award ** Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in...
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic...
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security
Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
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A Human's Guide to the Future
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From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Lamarck's Evolution: Two Centuries of Genius and Jealousy
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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
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Einstein's Heroes
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Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
Author: Michael Bhaskar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A fascinating book . . . Bhaskar is a reassuringly positive and often witty guide' Observer 'A fascinating, must-read book covering...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Author: Oliver Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez...
How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask
Author: David Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. Now more than ever, it's easy to feel overwhelmed...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week 'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the modern-day magic we call...
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable
Author: Stefan Buijsman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's...
The Triple Package: What Really Determines Success
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Great Feuds in Science
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History'S Worst Inventions
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The Private Life of the Brain
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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly
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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
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Longitude
Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how...
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller)
Author: Professor Anil Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to...
The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods
Author: Tom Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of Science is a new introduction to the complete subject of science. Covering 60 key experiments, from Archimedes'...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it.' - DANIEL...