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Edison
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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
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...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Author: David Sloan Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can...
Stephen Hawking
Author: Anita Croy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Stephen Hawking advanced our understanding of the universe more than any other scientist of his day. He spent his entire life...
How To Understand E =mc(2)
Author: Christophe Galfard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 The beginning of the 20th century heralded a scientific revolution: what a few brilliant minds uncovered about our reality in the...
Einstein's Shadow: The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
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Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
On the Trail of Stardust: The Guide to Finding Micrometeorites: Tools, Techniques, and Identification
Author: Jon Larsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For a century, scientists...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up...
Aliens: Science Asks: Is There Anyone Out There?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The ALIENS invasion is coming ... It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained
Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
Science Makers: Making with Living Things
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about LIVING...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice
Author: Matthew Syed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Can we really ALL be the best? Is the idea of innate ability holding us back? Could the ability...
Fat: the Secret Organ: The surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body
Author: Mariette Boon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Everywhere we look, whether on TV or in a magazine, we're confronted with the same message. You need to...
DNA Is You!: The Marvelous Science Behind Your One-of-a-Kind-ness
Author: Beatrice the Biologist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Learn all about how your DNA makes you who you are-an awesome, unique individual-in this fun and simple illustrated guide!...
Planet Awesome
Author: Stacy McAnulty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 'Hi, I'm Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.' In this hilarious and informative book filled to the...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Sense: The book that uses sensory science to make you happier
Author: Russell Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How can colour prime you for creative thinking? What kind of music helps you run faster? Which scents can...
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,...
The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 How our animal heritage affects the way we live From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and...
The 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number of...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
Science Makers: Making with Machines
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about MACHINES...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin...
New Scientist Instant Expert Where the Universe Came From
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Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers about Plastic
Author: Katie Daynes Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Why is there so much plastic in the world? How does it help us? What's the problem and how can...