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How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask

How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask

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Author: David Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. Now more than ever, it's easy to feel overwhelmed...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics

The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics

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Author: Felix Flicker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week 'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the modern-day magic we call...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World

Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World

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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 How an unknown German and an Englishman on opposite sides of WWI created a scientific revolution In 1916, Arthur Eddington, a...
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable

Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable

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Author: Stefan Buijsman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's...
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome

We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome

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Author: Sally Adee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can...
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)

How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)

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Author: Tom Chivers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way....
From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

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

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Author: Polly Hope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
What Mad Pursuit

What Mad Pursuit

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The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind

The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind

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Aliens and Other Worlds: True Tales from Our Solar System and Beyond

Aliens and Other Worlds: True Tales from Our Solar System and Beyond

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Author: Lisa Harvey-Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 Did life on Earth arrive on a meteorite from outer space? Are there living beings on planets beyond our solar system?...
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins

Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins

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Author: Paul Pettitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological...
When the Last Lion Roars: The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts

When the Last Lion Roars: The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts

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Author: Sara Evans Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The illegal killing of Cecil - a famous and magnificent black-maned Zimbabwean lion - by an American big-game hunter in 2015...
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...
Slime: A Natural History

Slime: A Natural History

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Author: Susanne Wedlich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion even while it compels our...
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago,...
The Whole Shebang

The Whole Shebang

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The Life of Birds

The Life of Birds

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Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on...
Inferior: The true power of women and the science that shows it

Inferior: The true power of women and the science that shows it

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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...
Evolutions Captain

Evolutions Captain

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God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

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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

The Human Body Coloring Book: From Cells to Systems and Beyond

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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...
The Medicine Cabinet: The story of health & and disease told through extraordinary objects

The Medicine Cabinet: The story of health & and disease told through extraordinary objects

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Author: Natasha McEnroe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The Medicine Cabinet is a beautifully curated and expertly written compendium of over 100 astonishing objects related to the story of...
Rock Art Science

Rock Art Science

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EinsteinÕs Universe

EinsteinÕs Universe

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The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

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Kasimakara

Kasimakara

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New Horizons

New Horizons

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How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life

How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life

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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...
50 Shades of Grey Matter

50 Shades of Grey Matter

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The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless

The Infinite Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless

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The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly

The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly

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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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What is This Thing Called Science? an Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods: An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods

What is This Thing Called Science? an Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods: An Assessment of the Nature and Status of Science and Its Methods

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The Science of the Oven

The Science of the Oven

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Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World

Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World

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Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science

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Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

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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...
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences

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Author: Mary Jo Nye (Oregon State University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 708 A narrative and interpretative history of the physical and mathematical sciences from the early nineteenth century to...
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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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'...