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Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions is running...
Space: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Rebecca Smethurst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 'Bite-sized, cutting edge science delivered with enormous enthusiasm - all you need to travel the cosmos' CHRIS LINTOTT 'A lot of...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It...
A Universe from Nothing
Author: Lawrence Krauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions: Where did our...
Breathtaking: The UK's human story of Covid
Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between...
This is Your Brain on Music
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In This Is Your Brain On Music Levitin offers nothing less than a new way to understand it, and its role...
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Author: Mark Miodownik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A unique and inspiring exploration of human creativity from one of the UK's best-known scientists A unique and inspiring exploration of...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, Max Tegmark...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an...
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It
Author: Dean Burnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500 million people....
The Brain: Everything You Need to Know
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 CAN YOU BOOST YOUR IQ? WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T FORGET ANYTHING? WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU GET AN IDEA?...
Basic Blockchain: What It Is and How It Will Transform the Way We Work and Live
Author: David Shrier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The only book you need to understand blockchain: what it is, how it works and how it will transform business, society...
The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science
Author: Lliana Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lliana Bird and Dr Jack Lewis tackle the strange and surreal phenomena from the depths of the oceans to the limits...
Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence
Author: Paco Calvo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A joy to read ... mind-expanding' Book of the Week, Guardian 'A bold and brave paean to our planet's ligneous, leafy...
Human Universe
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Engaging, ambitious and creative' Guardian Where are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times
Author: Rob Percival Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation,...
The Norm Chronicles: Stories and numbers about danger
Author: David Spiegelhalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Meet Norm. He's 31, 5'9, just over 13 stone, and works a 39 hour week. He likes a drink, doesn't do...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI...
Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 * FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez...
Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets
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Author: Tyler Nordgren Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 One of Amazon's Best Science Books of 2016On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon:...
Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us about Creativity
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Author: Andreas Wagner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How the principles of biological innovation can help us overcome creative challenges in art, business, and science In Life Finds a...
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
Author: Scott E. Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Data, data, data: It's all one ever hears about these days. Science is all about big data. Our bosses call...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
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...
Foodology: A food-lover's guide to digestive health and happiness
Author: Saliha Mahmood Ahmed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A spicy educational treat to be savoured: a delight.' Tim Spector 'This is an extraordinary fusion of science, literature, medicine...
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...
Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe
Author: Cathie Pelletier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1916, a nearly unknown German-born theoretical physicist named Albert Einstein had developed his theory of relativity, but hadn't yet been...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It
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Author: Erica Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are...
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...
A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War
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Author: Abbe R Gluck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 An unprecedented constellation of experts--leading cancer doctors, policymakers, cutting-edge researchers, national advocates, and more--explore the legacy and the shortcomings from...
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
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Author: Charles Seife Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true...
Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet
Author: Larry Crumpler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASA's most...
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Author: Cal Flyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES' BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER...
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human
Author: Jeremy DeSilva Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is...
Observing our Solar System: A beginner's guide
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The ideal gift for aspiring astronomers. The sights in our Solar System are dynamic reminders of our planet's position...
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Author: Michael E Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have...
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true...
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Author: Nicholas A. Christakis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in...
Hot Mess: What on earth can we do about climate change?
Author: Matt Winning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book' - Adam Kay 'HOT MESS provides loads of...
Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
Author: Ed Patrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas 'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford 'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal...
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...