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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military

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Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of...
An Optimist's Tour of the Future

An Optimist's Tour of the Future

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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

Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships

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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

On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA

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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...
Webtopia: The world wide wreck of tech and how to make the net work

Webtopia: The world wide wreck of tech and how to make the net work

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What Remains to be Discovered

What Remains to be Discovered

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In the Centre of Immensity

In the Centre of Immensity

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A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics

A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics

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You are Not a Gadget: a Manifesto

You are Not a Gadget: a Manifesto

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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (The Sunday Times Bestseller)

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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

The Short Story of Science: A Pocket Guide to Key Histories, Experiments, Theories, Instruments and Methods

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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

The Rise of the Robots: FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year

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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

The End Of Time

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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

Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety

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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

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

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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

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

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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 is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World

The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World

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Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Simplicity has become a brand and a cult. People want simple lives and simple solutions. And now our technology wants us...
Carotenoids Other Than Vitamin A, 2, Plenary and Selected Lectures Presented at the [Second] International Symposium on Carotenoids Other Than Vitamin A, Held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A., 6-9 May 1969

Carotenoids Other Than Vitamin A

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The Brain That Changes Itself

The Brain That Changes Itself

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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

New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything

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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...
Social Warming: How Social Media Polarises Us All

Social Warming: How Social Media Polarises Us All

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Author: Charles Arthur Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn't mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn't want to be used to harass...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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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

The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us

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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

Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution

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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

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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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

A Universe from Nothing

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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

Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

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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

Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

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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

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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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

Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It

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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

The Brain: Everything You Need to Know

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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

Basic Blockchain: What It Is and How It Will Transform the Way We Work and Live

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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

The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science

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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

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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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...
The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria Volume 2

The Genera of Lactic Acid Bacteria Volume 2

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Biology of the Skin and Hair Growth: Proceesing of a Symposium Held at Canberra, Australia, August 1964 [SIGNED]

Biology of the Skin and Hair Growth: Proceesing of a Symposium Held at Canberra, Australia, August 1964 [SIGNED]

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The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen

The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen

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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

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The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

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Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA

Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA

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Author: Gareth Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
The Doctor

The Doctor

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The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution

The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution

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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true...
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History

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Author: Sarah Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK *Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Financial...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate

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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science

Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science

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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

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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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

The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe

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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....