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Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it.' - DANIEL...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
Author: Charles Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A wonderful, wild, dazzling book. You will feel more human for having read it' - Literary Review 'Foster's daringly imaginative exploration...
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos
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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A...
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...
D Is for Desert: An ABC Desert Primer
Author: Ashley Marie Mireles Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Coming in hot! An arid ABC primer from armadillo and bedrock to yucca and zephyr. A is for armadillo...
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...
Testosterone: The Story of the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Author: Carole Hooven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its...
Under A Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
Author: Peter D PhD. Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 According to University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward, all but one of the major extinction events in the...
50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know
Author: Hayley Birch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Chemistry is at the cutting edge of our lives. How does a silicon chip work? How can we harness natural products...
Through Two Doors At Once
Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show...
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,...
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...
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth
Author: Michael Marshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination....
End Times: Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More
Author: Bryan Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of...
The Universe
Author: Richard Osborne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Where did the universe come from? From early religions through Greek philosophy and Western science, man has always attempted to discover...
Dogs Never Lie About Love: Why Your Dog Will Always Love You More Than Anyone Else
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Jeffrey Masson Format: Paperback...
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...
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
Author: Laurence Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you...
The Science of Fate: The New Science of Who We Are - And How to Shape our Best Future
Author: Hannah Critchlow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A truly fascinating - if unnerving - read' The Telegraph 'Acute, mind-opening, highly accessible - this book doesn't just...
The Industries of the Future
Author: Alec Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community...
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...
Talking to Robots: A Brief Guide to Our Human-Robot Futures
Author: David Ewing Duncan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us,...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions...
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
Author: Rose George Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells...
The Things that Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything
Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Here are many, many things that nobody knows. Why are so many giraffes gay? Has human evolution stopped?...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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Author: Joshua D Mezrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of...
Toy Mountain
Author: Stef Gemmill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Sam is tired of his toys. Why would he want his Grandma's old trainset and teddy when there's a toy factory...
Dunkleosteus
Author: Professor Ben Garrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A comprehensive look at the strongest force in nature. What causes extinction? Why do some species go extinct and not...
Edison
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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Author: David Sloan Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can...
Stephen Hawking
Author: Anita Croy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Stephen Hawking advanced our understanding of the universe more than any other scientist of his day. He spent his entire life...
The Tech-Head Guide: AI
Author: William Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Explore the rise of technology that may soon rule our lives! What is artificial intelligence, how does it work,...
How To Understand E =mc(2)
Author: Christophe Galfard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 The beginning of the 20th century heralded a scientific revolution: what a few brilliant minds uncovered about our reality in the...
Einstein's Shadow: The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
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Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
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...
Aliens: Science Asks: Is There Anyone Out There?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The ALIENS invasion is coming ... It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained
Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
Science Makers: Making with Living Things
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about LIVING...
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'...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why...
Building the World: Power Stations and Electricity
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 See the world from a whole new angle! This innovative series, illustrated with amazing isometric artwork, reveals the technology, science and...
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...
Fat: the Secret Organ: The surprising science behind the most misunderstood part of the body
Author: Mariette Boon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Everywhere we look, whether on TV or in a magazine, we're confronted with the same message. You need to...