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The Little Book of Space: An Introduction to the Solar System and Beyond
Author: Norman Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Space is spectacular This short, informative and engaging guide to the wonders of the universe will fascinate and inspire readers of...
Microlands: The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
Author: J. Craig Venter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic travelogue, brimming with the excitement of discovery. With characteristic panache, Venter unveils the teeming array of bacteria, viruses,...
Five Photons: Remarkable Journeys of Light Across Space and Time
Author: James Geach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The story of the Universe is written in the light that travels through it - light that we can capture. Nearly...
Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing...
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing...
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future
Author: Tracey Spicer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers' eyes to a transformative technological...
Light to Life: The miracle of photosynthesis and how it can save the planet
Author: Raffael Jovine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food...
Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination
Author: Michael Sims Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320Critically acclaimed author Sims sets out to open readers eyes to the miraculous events that occur in the passing of a single...
Affinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
Author: Mi Gyung Kim (Associate Professor, North Carolina State University ) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 613 In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public...
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth
Author: Benjamin von Brackel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 As humans accelerate global warming - while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness...
The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides...
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....
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Author: Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An awe-inspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, the international bestselling authors of Why Does E=MC2?...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
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...
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
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Author: Marcus Du Sautoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver--and how everyone can make their lives easier...
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
Author: Bill McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep...
Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows
Author: Roger Morgan-Grenville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 So at the age of 61, with no farming experience, he signed on as a part- time labourer on a beef...
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...
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
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Author: Neil Shubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of...
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
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Author: Leidy Klotz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "You need to read this book." --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A great book changes the world you...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't
Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
The Last Winter: The Scientists and Adventurers Trying to Save the World
Author: Porter Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of...
Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving mammals, intellectual insects, flatulent fish and the great pet showdown
Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column....
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,...
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
Author: Kimberley Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A practical manual for your brain.' - Dr Megan Rossi, author of Eat Yourself Healthy A groundbreaking science-based guide...
Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
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Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
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Author: Gaia Vince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows...
Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World
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Author: Tim Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Explore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites. "Meteorite is a...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
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Author: Adam Kucharski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 One of the Best Books of 2020 -- Financial Times One of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" -- Washington Post...
Sleepyhead: The Neuroscience of a Good Night's Rest
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Author: Henry Nicholls Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A narcoleptic's tireless journey through the neuroscience of disordered sleep Whether it's a bout of bad jet lag or a stress-induced...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
Author: Stephon Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don't know. Dance...
Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
Author: Tim Smedley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019** 'Read this book and join the effort to terminate air...
Superbugs: Deadly Microbes and the Extraordinary Race for a Cure: A Tale of Human Ingenuity
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Author: Matt McCarthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 International Bestseller "An amazing, informative book that changes our perspective on medicine, microbes and our future." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, New York...
Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age
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Author: Robert Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with...
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You
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Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Enlightening and ambitious... a book that travels into rich terrain, charted by a smart and eager tour guide."--New York Times Book...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enriching --Publisher's Weekly Excellent and illuminating--Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social...
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World
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Author: Laurence C Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening, sometimes alarming, and ultimately inspiring natural history of rivers and their complex and ancient relationship with human civilization...
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
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Author: Eben Kirksey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what...
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
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Author: Paul Steinhardt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the...