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Dunkleosteus
Author: Professor Ben Garrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A comprehensive look at the strongest force in nature. What causes extinction? Why do some species go extinct and not...
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
Author: Laurence Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you...
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Author: James Nestor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of...
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why...
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Author: Leonard Susskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The second volume in Leonard Susskind's hugely popular, one-of-a-kind introductory series on physics In The Theoretical Minimum, world-class physicist...
Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids, abridged paperback edition: 26 Fun, Family-Friendly Experiments for Fun Around the House; Activities for STEAM Learners: Volume 3
Author: Liz Lee Heinecke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 Cook up some science at home with Little Learning Labs: Kitchen Science for Kids. Conduct physics, chemistry, and...
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe
Author: Paul Sen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its history' PHIL...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Science
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 A cool and exciting way to learn about science This book answers plenty of questions from science-mad children about the...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
Brilliant Women: Pioneers of Science and Technology
Author: Georgia Amson-Bradshaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 In PIONEERS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY you'll say hello to Hypatia, an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer. You'll learn...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you....
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
The Industries of the Future
Author: Alec Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
Meet Your Hormones
Author: Catherine Whitlock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Did you know that you have thousands, perhaps millions, of hormones in your bloodstream? Did you know that these complex chemical...
Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars
Author: Jennifer Berne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 A 2020 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12! With an introduction from Neil DeGrasse Tyson about the importance...
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Author: Manjit Kumar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling...
100 Things to Know About Science
Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Science is a huge topic, but this friendly book breaks it down into bite-sized chunks, making it an accessible introduction for anyone...
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of...
Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
Author: David Eagleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A revolutionary new understanding of the human brain and its changeable nature. The brain is a dynamic, electric, living...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
Author: Gareth Williams Format: Paperback 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...
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
Author: James Vincent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 We measure rainfall and radiation, the depths of space and the emptiness of atoms, calories and steps, happiness and fear. If...
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....
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 '10 Short Lessons in Time Travel lucidly sums up the essential parts of this fascinating subject.' John Gribbin ________________________ In Ten...
Ideas Are Your Only Currency
Author: Rod Judkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 FUTURE-PROOFING FOR THINKERS. 'What skills and abilities will a student need to prosper in five, ten, or fifteen years'...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
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Author: David M Friedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth...
Stuff You Should Know About the Human Body
Author: John Farndon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 In this fascinating introduction to the human body, large, colourful diagrams are brought to life by tiny people running...
Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Amir Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
Author: Laura J. Snyder (St. John's University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-a cloth...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency
Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
Author: Hubert Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high...
Building the World: Power Stations and Electricity
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 See the world from a whole new angle! This innovative series, illustrated with amazing isometric artwork, reveals the technology, science and...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain...
Catology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Cats
Author: Stefan Gates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Cat-ology explores the bizarre and very funny world of feline science. Packed with fascinating facts, quirky scientific revelations and weird stories...
Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes
Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by...
Eight Improbable Possibilities: The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Onceyou have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainlypossible,...
A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist
Author: Richard A. Fortey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021 What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we...
3-Minute Stephen Hawking: Digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels
Author: Paul Parsons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The 3-Minute series offers the essence of the world's most important figures with all the padding removed. It divides up their...
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
Author: Robert Hazen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A.I. is the future of science, technology, and business - and there's no one better to explore that future...
Odd Science - Incredible Creatures
Author: James Olstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Odd Science: Incredible Creatures is filled with weird and wacky facts that you've never heard before. Read about the dinosaur that...
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Author: Jevin D. West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in...
Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about your Body
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: Children are always asking questions and their bodies are an endless source of fascination to them. * this quirkily illustrated book...