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30-Second Genetics: The 50 most revolutionary discoveries in genetics, each explained in half a minute
Author: Jonathan WeitzmanFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 195mm, 160 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2020Genetics is the study of heredity, and reveals how the characteristics of living organisms are determined...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley WardFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 257g, 320 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday'A dazzling account' Financial Times'Absorbing, surprising and...
Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty
Author: Dylan EvansFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 197mm, 288 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2013There is a special kind of intelligence for dealing with risk and uncertainty. It doesn't correlate with...
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See
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How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Think of a number between one and ten. No, hang on, let's make this interesting. Between zero and infinity. Even if...
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
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Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'Highly accessible, content-rich and eminently readable . . . Fascinating and informative . . . popular science at its best.'...
From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
Author: Gareth Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 UNRAVELLING THE DOUBLE HELIX covers the most colourful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of 'nuclein' in the...
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...
The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Author: Dr. Gail Saltz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Power of Different is an illuminating and uplifting examination of the link between brain differences and aptitude. Psychologist and...
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...
Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown
Author: Camilla PangFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 224mm, 349g, 256 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024What can we learn about ourselves if we think like scientists? A scientist's journey from...
The Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Author: Dr. Gail Saltz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Power of Different is an illuminating and uplifting examination of the link between brain differences and aptitude. Psychologist and...
The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World
Author: Alex O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From uncertainty and risk to ambiguity, emotion and non-verbal behaviour, life can be like a game of poker. So approach it...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A future classic of popular science' Mail on Sunday 'A dazzling account' Financial Times 'Absorbing, surprising and at times profound. After...
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 Power of Different: The Link Between Disorder and Genius
Author: Dr. Gail Saltz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE POWER OF DIFFERENT is an illuminating and uplifting examination of the link between brain differences and aptitude. Psychologist and...
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...
What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions
Author: Paul Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The story of the universe in thirty cosmological conundrums In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as...
Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, An-Bantam Press
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Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
Author: Kimberly Arcand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 In MAGNITUDE, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time,...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the most complicated object in the known universe
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? You are your brain. Everything that makes you you, and all your experiences...
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...
Pathogenesis: How germs made history
Author: Jonathan Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of...
Drinkology: The Science of What We Drink and What It Does to Us, from Milks to Martinis
Author: Alexis Willett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 ANDRE SIMON FOOD & DRINK BOOK AWARDS 'Like a new Bill Bryson, she offers an easy sharing...
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think
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Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits
Author: Jen Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Why can't I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I'm missing out? Why can't I remember why I...
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...
Why Trust Science?
Author: Naomi Oreskes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn...
The Physics Behind...
Author: Russ Swan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Can you really lose weight by consuming nothing but ice cream and beer? How does the latest blockbuster movie get squeezed...
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...
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian...
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...
Cousins: Our Primate Relatives
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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,...
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
Author: Steven Nadler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and...
The Extreme Life of the Sea
Author: Stephen R. Palumbi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes...
At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds
Author: Dan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Scientists in recent decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But we...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
Author: Skylar Tibbits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...
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...
Mold in Dr Florey's Coat, The: The Story of the Penicillin M iracle
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The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever...
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
Author: Elise Bohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from...