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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...
Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

Galileo's Daughter: a Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

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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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Mammoth: The Resurrection Of An Ice Age Giant

Mammoth: The Resurrection Of An Ice Age Giant

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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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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

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Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation

Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation

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Author: Ian Crofton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt...
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...
Saturn: Exploring the Mystery of the Ringed Planet

Saturn: Exploring the Mystery of the Ringed Planet

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The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

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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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The Body in Question

The Body in Question

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Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle: Unpublished Letters and Notebooks

Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle: Unpublished Letters and Notebooks

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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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Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing

Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing

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A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics

A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics

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The Finger Book

The Finger Book

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Author: John Manning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 What could fingers and sex possibly have in common? What does the shape of a child?s fingers reveal about future musical...
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...
The Beginning and the End of Everything: From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe

The Beginning and the End of Everything: From the Big Bang to the End of the Universe

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Author: Paul Parsons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Prepare to have your mind blown! A brilliantly written overview of the past, present and future of modern cosmology.' - DALLAS...
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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Breakthroughs

Breakthroughs

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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...
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...
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 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...
Company of One

Company of One

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Author: Paul Jarvis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A refreshing approach to entrepreneurship centered on staying small and avoiding growth - maximizing happiness, sustainability and profitability. Paul Jarvis left...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds

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Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs...
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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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love

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

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