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Inferior: The true power of women and the science that shows it
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Inferior is more than just a book. It's a battle cry - and right now, it's having a galvanising effect on...
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...
The Human Body Coloring Book: From Cells to Systems and Beyond
Author: Coloring Concepts Inc. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Color your way to understanding the human body and its systems with this interactive study guide from Coloring Concepts, designed...
How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
Author: Philip Ball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific...
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...
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Author: Mark Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has...
Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships
Author: Anna Machin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This book opens the Pandora's Box on this most complex and puzzling aspect of what it is to be human' Robin...
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
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'...
The Rise of the Robots: FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
Author: Martin Ford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently...
The End Of Time
Author: Dr Julian Barbour Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there...
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...
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2010, scientists led by J. Craig Venter became the first to successfully create 'synthetic life' -- putting humankind at...
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies...
The Brain That Changes Itself
Author: Norman Doidge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Meet the ninety-year-old doctor who is still practicing medicine, the stroke victim who learned to move and talk again and the woman...
New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking. When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It...
A Universe from Nothing
Author: Lawrence Krauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our...
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Author: Mark Miodownik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists A unique and inspiring exploration of...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, Max Tegmark...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an...
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It
Author: Dean Burnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500 million people....
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET AN IDEA?...
Basic Blockchain: What It Is and How It Will Transform the Way We Work and Live
Author: David Shrier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The only book you need to understand blockchain: what it is, how it works and how it will transform business, society...
The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science
Author: Lliana Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis tackle the strange and surreal phenomena from the depths of the oceans to the limits...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI...
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe
Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels....