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A Cat's Guide to the Night Sky
In the company of Felicity the cat, discover the phases of the moon, the constellations and how to spot the Northern Lights and the Milky Way. This beautiful, fun book...
The Little Book of Big Explorations: Adventures into the Unknown That Changed Everything
Inspiring accounts of remarkable adventures and scientific discoveries that have revolutionized our understanding of our world and tested the limits of human endurance. This is a collection of trailblazing journeys...
What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
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See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world--from technology to health care and beyond. Almost all of us have sat...
Hawking
From his early days at Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. At twenty-one he was diagnosed with ALS, a disease that limited his...
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation RefinedaEURO"and RedefinedaEURO"Nature
From the first dog to the first beefalo, from farming to CRISPR, the human history of remaking nature When the 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded to the inventors of CRISPR,...
Nature's Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back
Shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on ConservationShortlisted for the 2024 Richard Jefferies AwardA Times Science Book of the Year 'Sophie writes fantastically, chronicling the most important issues...
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Science, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a result. But as Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein makes brilliantly clear,...
Pocket Nature: Leaf-Peeping
Reconnect with nature through the quiet practice of leaf-peeping. Every autumn, we're graced with a breathtaking spectacle as the leaves turn from green to amber and gold. But how often...
The Sky Atlas: The Greatest Maps, Myths and Discoveries of the Universe
'Beautiful ... endless, brilliant unforgettable stories' Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 6 'Combining myth and science, this breathtaking book [is] packed with stunning images' Daily Mail After the enormous international success...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
The Britannias: An Island Quest
The story of Britain told through its islands - a personal journey through an ancient landscape The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into...
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert...
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than
One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on science, history and humanity One of our most beloved...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the...
Fly Me to the Moon: An Art Quilt Journey
When the Apollo astronauts went to the moon, the whole world watched. When the Fly Me to the Moon art quilt challenge went out, it went global. This book showcases...
The Observant Walker: Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the (SIGNED)
When we go for a walk, whether in the countryside or city, we pass through landscapes full of natural beauty and curiosities both visible and invisible - but though we...
Lewis and Clark - across the Divide
Two hundred years ago Lewis and Clark, two men shaped by Jefferson's Enlightenment ideas, encountered an Indian world they only partly understood. Their discoveries and the artifacts from their journey...
The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies
A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the...
Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry
Arion's Lyre examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which...
Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture,...
Mr and Mrs Gould: The extraordinary true story about the life of
The grand story of the famous 'Birdman' John Gould and his talented wife Elizabeth, who revealed the astonishing world of Australian birds and wildlife in one of the most important...
Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western
Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space - to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo - images of...
The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its...
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...
Weather Almanac 2024: The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather
The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to UK weather with details of famous meteorologists and their influence....
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
A "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA's historic OSIRIS-REx mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of formation on life on earth braided with the remarkable life story...
Lure of the South Seas: Voyages of Dumont D'urville 1826-1840
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Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe
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The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things
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The Night Sky: An astronomers guide to the night sky and the universe
Discover the wonders of the Universe with this indispensable guide. The Night Sky is chock full of information explaining what, when and how to observe space and understanding the night...
The Copernicus Complex: The Quest for Our Cosmic (In)Significance
Though the concept of "the universe" suggests the containment of everything, the latest ideas in cosmology hint that our universe may be just one of a multitude of others-a single...
The War Below: AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'TODAY': Lithium, copper, and
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2024AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND THE FT BUSINESS BOOK...
The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life On Our Planet
A beautiful and informative history of life on our planet.It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living...
The War Below: AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'TODAY': Lithium, copper, and
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2024AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION, AND THE FT BUSINESS BOOK...
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and
The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books, our movies-our imaginations-are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines,...
Egypt Lost and Found:Explorers and Travellers on the Nile: Explorers and Travellers on the Nile
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Trees - 10 Things You Should Know: The perfect stocking filler [...]
Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet's ecosystem.In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth's...
Dead Sea Level: Science, Exploration and Imperial Interests in [...]
In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other...
Extrasolar Planets
This 2007 volume presents the lectures from the sixteenth Winter School of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, which was dedicated to extrasolar planets. Research into extrasolar planets is one...
Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope
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50 Earth Ideas
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Why I Love Australia
Author: Daniel HowarthFormat: Hardback, 260mm x 260mm, 270g, 32 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2020Featuring children's own words and heart-warming pictures, this board book is the perfect book for children...
Cold Burial: A True Story of Endurance and Disaster in the Barren Grounds
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Solar Power
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Wind Power
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
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All Through the Night: Why Our Lives Depend on Dark Skies
Author: Dani RobertsonFormat: Hardback, 141mm x 222mm, 430g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Best New Books on Space 2024 - Forbes'Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging'...