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Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
Trees: 10 Things You Should Know
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
Tell Me Who?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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...