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Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions

Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions

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Author: Rod PyleFormat: Hardback, 189mm x 246mm, 192 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2016Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World

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Author: Ziya TongFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 214mm, 456g, 384 pagesPublished: Canongate Books, United Kingdom, 2020Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to...
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir

Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir

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Author: Callum RobertsFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 222mm, 624g, 368 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Reef Life is a marine science memoir - the story of how Britain's pre-eminent marine...
Two-Week Wait: an IVF story

Two-Week Wait: an IVF story

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Author: Luke C. JacksonFormat: Paperback, 177mm x 234mm, 160 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2021An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50...
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

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Author: Juan Jose MillasFormat: Hardback, 135mm x 216mm, 224 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2022A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to...
The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails

The Perfect Tonic: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits and Cocktails

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Author: Camper EnglishFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 320g, 368 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book AwardAn intoxicating interconnected history of booze and...
A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings

A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings

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Author: Prof Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Richard Dawkins is one of the finest minds in science, and in this superb collection of essays and letters, he...
Brief Lives 3 - Newton

Brief Lives 3 - Newton

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Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner. Isaac Newton...
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions

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Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST...
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code

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Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has...
How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics

How Numbers Work: Discover the strange and beautiful world of mathematics

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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

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

From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

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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...
The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World

The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World

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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

Sensational: A New Story of our Senses

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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...
Trees: 10 Things You Should Know

Trees: 10 Things You Should Know

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Author: Carolyn Fry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem. In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn...
Invincible: How we can train our hearts to beat stress and achieve success

Invincible: How we can train our hearts to beat stress and achieve success

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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...
Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of menstruation

Blood: The science, medicine and mythology of menstruation

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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...
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science

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Author: Renee Bergland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature. Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin...
The Compact Australian Bird Guide

The Compact Australian Bird Guide

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Author: Jeff Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 The Compact Australian Bird Guide is an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated quick identification guide to all bird species regularly occurring in...
Wollemi: Saving a Dinosaur Tree

Wollemi: Saving a Dinosaur Tree

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Author: Samantha Tidy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Deep in the forest, an ancient wonder is about to be found. Descended from a family of trees going back 200...
Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe

Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe

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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,...
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

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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...
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

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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...
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind

Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind

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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

Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making

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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

The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa

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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

Silk & Venom: The incredible lives of spiders

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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

The Best Australian Science Writing 2023

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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

The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

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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

Wizards of Oz: How Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world

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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...
Tell Me Who?

Tell Me Who?

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Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Tell Me Who? is full of hundreds of surprising questions and fascinating answers which can provide teasing questions, settle arguments, and assist...
Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We're Losing to Technology

Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We're Losing to Technology

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Author: Graham Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do...
The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells

The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells

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Author: Richard Wingate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and...
The Life Scientific: Inventors

The Life Scientific: Inventors

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

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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 Life Scientific: Inventors

The Life Scientific: Inventors

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask

How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask

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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

The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics

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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...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World

Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World

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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a...
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable

Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable

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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...
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome

We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome

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Author: Sally Adee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can...
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)

How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)

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Author: Tom Chivers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way....
Aliens and Other Worlds: True Tales from Our Solar System and Beyond

Aliens and Other Worlds: True Tales from Our Solar System and Beyond

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Author: Lisa Harvey-Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Did life on Earth arrive on a meteorite from outer space? Are there living beings on planets beyond our solar system?...
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner

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Author: Dan Levitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular...
Slime: A Natural History

Slime: A Natural History

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Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago,...
The Life of Birds

The Life of Birds

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Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on...