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Is There Life On Mars?: The 20 Big Universe Questions
Author: Stuart Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Is There Life On Mars? will help you start to answer 20 of the most perplexing and fascinating questions about the...
The Telescope in the Ice: Inventing a New Astronomy at the South Pole
Author: Mark Bowen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes in that it...
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
Author: Doug Most Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 404 In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew more congested, the streets became clogged with plodding,...
The Fight for Beauty: Our Path to a Better Future
Author: Fiona Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can't be given a monetary...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father of virtual...
Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements
Author: Matt Wilkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Most of us never think about how we get from one place to another. For most people, putting one foot in...
The Crowded Universe: The Race to Find Life Beyond Earth
Author: Alan Boss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 We are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe,we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like...
Eureka!: Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year
Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili Could you surf down an erupting volcano? Why do zebras have stripes? Are you breathing the same...
Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games
Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Brilliantly clear and captivating prose' Stephen Fry A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind...
Survival
Author: Louise McNaught Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 The world is experiencing an extinction crisis. This book shares the stories of 20 threatened species facing the challenge of survival,...
Untypical: How the world isn't built for autistic people and what we should all do about it
Author: Pete Wharmby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 It's time to remake the world - the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic...
Around the World in 80 Games: A mathematician unlocks the secrets of the greatest games
Author: Marcus du Sautoy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Brilliantly clear and captivating prose' Stephen Fry A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR 2023 An award-winning mathematician explores the maths behind...
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
Author: David Remnick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector...
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
Author: David Remnick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In...
Nine Musings on Time: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth about Time Travel
Author: John Gribbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible? Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector...
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 Human Body Coloring Book: From Cells to Systems and Beyond
Author: Coloring Concepts Inc. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Color your way to understanding the human body and its systems with this interactive study guide from Coloring Concepts, designed...
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the...
50 Ways to Save the Honey Bees: (and Change the World)
Author: J. Scott Donahue Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Fifty fun & buzz-worthy ways to "bee" a local hero! Did you know that honey bees pollinate a third of...
Fermat's Last Theorem (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Simon Singh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat's...
How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
Author: Philip Ball Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of new scientific...
The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
Author: Alison Richard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who...
Longitude
Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how...
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...
Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes
Author: Bernie Krause Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 A pioneer in the field of soundscape ecology explores the ways in which the voice of the natural world informs many...
The Science of the Oven
Author: Herve This (AgroParisTech) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 Mayonnaise "takes" when a series of liquids form a semisolid consistency. Eggs, a liquid, become solid as they are heated,...
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
Author: Freeman Dyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic...
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Author: Perri Klass (New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Only one hundred years ago, even in the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers?of diarrhea, diphtheria,...
Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing
Author: David Carson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Here is David Carson's personal story of his initiation into the healing rites of the Choctaw with medicine woman Mary Gardener....
The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
Author: Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into...
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...
Nature Underfoot: Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us
Author: John Hainze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature "Put...
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...
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....
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...
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...
Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author: Pascal Godefroit Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon...
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...
Gas Man
Author: Colin Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... That's about as far as you get, counting backwards, as you wait for surgery to begin...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus came from...
The Mission: A True Story
Author: David W Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." -Nature A "magnificent" (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever...
Million Dollar Maths: The Secret Maths of Becoming Rich (or Poor)
Author: Hugh Barker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the best way to beat the lottery odds? When is the...
Metazoa: Animal Minds and the Birth of Consciousness
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The follow-up to the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Other Minds A Times and Sunday Times Book of the...