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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...
The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle To Align The Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened To The Missing Ten Days

The Calendar: The 5000 Year Struggle To Align The Clock and the Heavens, and What Happened To The Missing Ten Days

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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...
The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

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Author: David N. LivingstoneFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 552 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity.Scientists, journalists, and...
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...
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...
Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, An-Bantam Press

Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist, An-Bantam Press

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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...
Don't Know Much about the Universe: Everything You Need to Know about the Cosmos But Never Learned

Don't Know Much about the Universe: Everything You Need to Know about the Cosmos But Never Learned

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Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

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Author: J. David Archibald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. In this bedrock of biology books Darwin carved a new...
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...
The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of the Earth's Antiquity

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The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research

The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research

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Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits

Why Am I Like This?: The Science Behind Your Weirdest Thoughts & Habits

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Author: Jen Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Why can't I stop taking photos? Why do I always feel like I'm missing out? Why can't I remember why I...
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...
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...
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...
Bittersweet: The story of sugar

Bittersweet: The story of sugar

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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...
The Polar World

The Polar World

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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...
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

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Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic...
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words

The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words

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Author: Virginia Trimble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 504 The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built

Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built

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Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality

The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality

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Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security

The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security

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Author: Stephen J. Collier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The origins and development of the modern American emergency state From pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming,...
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

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Author: Skylar Tibbits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane

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A Human's Guide to the Future

A Human's Guide to the Future

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Modern Marvels of Science

Modern Marvels of Science

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Exploring Science

Exploring Science

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The English Paracelsians

The English Paracelsians

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The Power to Heal: Ancient and Modern Medicine

The Power to Heal: Ancient and Modern Medicine

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This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year

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Author: Andrew Doig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity'...
From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World

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

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Author: Polly Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
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...
Lamarck's Evolution: Two Centuries of Genius and Jealousy

Lamarck's Evolution: Two Centuries of Genius and Jealousy

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