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The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
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Author: Yates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A brilliant and entertaining mathematician illuminates seven mathematical principles that shape our lives. "Kit Yates shows how our private and social lives...
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more (Frank Bruni, The...
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
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Author: Sean Carroll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and...
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...
When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky
Author: Erik Asphaug Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists. In...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
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Author: Heino Falcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The International Bestseller On April 10, 2019, award-winning astrophysicist Heino Falcke presented the first image ever captured of a black hole...
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...
The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
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Author: Andrew Blum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 From the acclaimed author of Tubes, a lively and surprising tour of the infrastructure behind the weather forecast, the people who...
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 Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
Author: Euan Angus Ashley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate....
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...
The Social Lives of Animals: How Co-operation Conquered the Natural World
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Some animal societies hold a mirror up to the human world: elephants hold funerals for departed family members. Pinyon jays run...
Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations
Author: Richard Mainwaring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Vic Tandy was a level-headed scientist, but there was no denying it: at this late hour in his lonely lab at...
NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet
Author: Piers Bizony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 196 Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format (12 12 inches) NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentative steps...
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
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Author: Daphne Sheldrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Astonishing...You may be tempted after the last page to sell all your possessions and join [Sheldrick's] cause.--The Boston Globe The first...
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...
Quantum: A Guide For The Perplexed
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said that...
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...
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Author: Heather Heying Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable...
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...
The Oceans: A Deep History
Author: Eelco J. Rohling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system It has often been said that we know...
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...
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
Author: Hubert Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high...
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
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Author: Rose George Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An eye-opening exploration of blood, the lifegiving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of...
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
Author: Tom Chivers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'Even one glass of wine a day raises the risk of cancer' 'Hate crimes have doubled in five years' 'Fizzy drinks...
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
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Author: William Poundstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the...
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...
Forgotten Women: The Scientists
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 FORGOTTEN WOMEN is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021 What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we...
The Secret Life of Cows
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Author: Rosamund Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 "Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."-Lydia Davis In this affectionate, heart-warming...
Birds: A Species Guide: Volume 1
Author: Mark E. Hauber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Birds is a beautiful introduction to 75 of our feathered friends. From the everyday birds we see in our backyards...
The Hidden Mathematics of Sport
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This fascinating book takes a novel and intriguing look at sport, by exploring the mathematics behind the action. This fascinating book...
The Physics of Life, The Evolution of Everything
Author, Adrian Bejan Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 272 The Physics of Life illuminates the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense and empowers the reader with a new...
A Human's Guide To Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control
Author: Kartik Hosanagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Wharton professor and tech entrepreneur examines how algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to run every aspect of our lives,...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
On the Trail of Stardust: The Guide to Finding Micrometeorites: Tools, Techniques, and Identification
Author: Jon Larsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For a century, scientists...
30-Second Space Travel: 50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens
Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life
Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
Author: Steve Fiffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in...
Helgoland: The Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
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Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father...
30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute
Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...