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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pioneering...
Mystery of the Night Watchers
From the bestselling author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of One Hundred Clocks, A.M. Howell, comes a gripping new adventure filled with buried secrets and dark...
The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship Arctic
The 1854 collision at sea between the Arctic and the Vesta, a much smaller French steamship, set in motion one of the most harrowing events in maritime history, with enormous...
Look Inside Our World
Lift the flaps to take a fun, fact-filled journey around the world. With over 80 flaps to lift, intrepid explorers can discover our world, from the layers that make up...
Cut and Stick Space
All you need is scissors and glue to create out-of-this-world pictures in this cutting and sticking book. Children are invited to cut out shapes from the paper at the back...
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First
"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race...
Poetry of the Zodiac: Discover the secrets of each sign through verse
Poetry of the Zodiac is a fun and enlightening collection that takes you on a journey around the different signs of the zodiac wheel. Accompanied with beautiful illustrations, this book...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
Einstein's Universe: The Layman's Guide
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the universe operates by rules so strange and counterintuitive that only a handful of geniuses have...
The Unknown Universe: What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten
On 21 March 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of...
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...
Vodka & Sandstorms: What is life but one big adventure.
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Adventurer, B.A.S.E jumper, endurance athlete and writer, Luke Richmond is a man on a mission: to cram as much living into his lifetime as humanly possible. As an overweight and...
A Brief History of Time
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking's book explores such profound questions as: How did...
Zoom: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything
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From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you...
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is the building block of every cell that makes up every living...
The Discoverers: A History Of Man's Search To Know His World And Himself
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the first human who looked up at the stars and dared to ask why, to the brilliant minds who mapped continents,...
The Messier Album
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew catalogues in the history of science have proved as enduring — or as visually magnificent — as the one compiled by eighteenth-century French astronomer...
Waves In Astrophysics
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the frontier where mathematics meets the cosmos, Waves in Astrophysics stands as a landmark collection...
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying...
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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THE "EXTRAORDINARY" ( Booklist ) #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER--THE "HARROWING" ( The Washington Post ) SURVIVOR'S MEMOIR YOU WILL NEVER FORGET Aron Ralston, an experienced twenty-seven-year-old outdoorsman, was on a day's...
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New
The first English translation to appear since 1851, this volume contains a fascinating selection from the original Personal Narrative. One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the...
Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable
'A very enjoyable book that brilliantly blends science, insight and passion' TRISTAN GOOLEY The secret world of fungi is another kingdom. They do things differently there. Diverse beyond our wildest...
The Ghost Lake
'Remarkable' OBSERVER 'Deeply profound... this is no ordinary memoir' THE TIMES 'Astounding' ADAM FARRER 'Brave and luminous' SARAH LANGFORD 'Mesmerising' POLLY ATKIN 'Beautifully written' YORKSHIRE POST 'Steadfastly honest' GEOGRAPHICAL A...
The Great Divide
'A gorgeous, sweeping epic' ANN NAPOLITANO 'A master of prose' WASHINGTON POST ' One of my favourite writers' ROXANE GAY 'Spectacular' JOANNE SEFTON 'I didn't want it to end' SARA...
The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar
NOW IN PAPERBACK 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...
Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky
'An exhilarating exploration of how we've been touched by the cosmos across human history' LEWIS DARTNELL 'Combines scientific expertise with vivid storytelling and a childlike wonder that shines on every...
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
' John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element...
Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon...
Wild Places: Volume 6
Get back to nature and explore sites unspoilt by humankind with the latest addition to the Inspired Traveller's Guide series. We humans don't just love wild places. We need them;...
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world
An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher , filmmaker Craig Foster " Amphibious Soul is an important...
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge
A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change. Trouble with water - increasingly frequent, extreme...
Pressure: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying
A science fiction roleplaying game of bringing law and order to the dark and dangerous corners of the universe. Pressure: Industrial Science Fiction Roleplaying is a rules-light, story-focused game of...
To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not...
To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING A BBC WILDLIFE BEST BOOK OF 2025 A thrilling exploration of nature's symbiotic relationships by the award-winning author of Forget Me Not...
Wrinkles In Time
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the 1990s, a team of scientists made one of the most staggering discoveries in...
The Island of Lost Maps
In December 1995 Gilbert Bland was chased from a rare book room of Johns Hopkins University, clutching a 232-year-old map. He turned out to be one of the greatest map...
Surviving Galeras
The true-life adventure story of one of the world's leading volcano experts. In 1993, Stanley Williams was investigating Galeras, what he thought was a dormant volcano in Colombia. But it...
The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land,
This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still...
Tibet: The Secret Continent
The Land; Flora and Fauna; The People, Culture and Society; The Rise of the Tibetan Nation; A Golden Age; Religion; The Exploration of Tibet; Plunder and Destruction; Tibet and Its...
The Comfort of Distant Stars
'This audacious, brilliant novel has it all' CHIKA UNIGWE 'Expansive, elegant and pathbreaking' TOPE FOLARIN 'An equation of life, time and magic' NICK MAKOHA Ezeani is no ordinary child. He...
2023 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month
The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January-December...
The Planets: A Journey Through the Solar System
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With nearly 200 spectacular images, this book follows the tracks of robotic rovers over Mars, plunges through Titan's atmosphere on the back of a Hugyens probe, smashes into a camel...
The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System
Richly illustrated with full-color images, this book is a comprehensive, up-to-date description of the planets, their moons, and recent exoplanet discoveries. This second edition of a now classic reference is...
The Complete Idiot's Guide (R) to Theories of the Universe
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The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Theories of the Universe takes readers on an exotic journey through the religious, philosophical, and scientific theories of the nature and origin of our...
Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing
In May 2014, the mountaineer and scientist John All fell into a crevasse near Everest and took a series of videos as he struggled to climb out 70 feet of...
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
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From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time...