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Science Without the Boring Bits: A Curious Chronology of Discovery, Invention and Wild Speculation
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...
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Author: Jay Gallentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
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
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...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 5, The Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences
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...
Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History
Author: Dr. Ajay K. Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inspirational story of hope and miracles as a small-town orthopedic surgeon forever changes one woman's life after performing...
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA
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...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love
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Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary
Author: Arnold Thackray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Our world today,from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the...
Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
Author: Gareth Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel...
ICon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
The Life Scientific: Explorers
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Inside the lives of the scientists who are exploring the world, our universe, the past and ourselves. Based on the interviews...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Doctor Jenner of Berkeley
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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the...
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
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Pasteur's Gambit
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I Contain Multitudes : The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Author: Ed Yong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words,...
Visions
Author: Michio Kaku Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 415 In this text, physicist Michio Kaku looks to this future and guides the reader through the science of the next century....
The Magnificent Moisants: Champions of Early Flight
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Max Perutz And The Secret Of Life
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The Wisdom of Science: Its Relevance to Culture and Religion
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Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,...
Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
Author: Vitalik Buterin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterin published a visionary paper outlining the ideas behind what would become Ethereum....
The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation
Author: Christopher Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. The Truth About Tesla sets the record straight. Nikola Tesla was...
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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Author: Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why --...
The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist's Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
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Author: Martin E. P. Seligman (University of Pennsylvania) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 One of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline,...
The Scientific Revolution
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Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
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Author: Stephen Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high...
Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution
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The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China
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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond
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Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
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Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
No Boundaries
Author: National Geographic Kids Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 In these inspirational, exhilarating, and poignant accounts of exploration, 25 female National Geographic explorers reveal their greatest successes, most epic...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of...
Science : a History 1543-2001: A History 1543-2001
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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained
Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...
Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...