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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...
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future
Author: Dr Alice Gorman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Winner of the 2019 John Mulvaney Book...
Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe
Author: Paul Sen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Hugely readable and entertaining' JIM AL-KHALILI 'an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline's breadth, largely told through its history' PHIL...
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...
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
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Author: Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why --...
Wild Life: 50 Projects to Rewild Your Life From the Home to Outdoors
Author: Anna Carlile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Wild Life is an achingly beautiful gift book that introduces the concept of rewilding. No matter whether you live in the...
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
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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...
Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality
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Author: David J. Linden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 As a scientist, David Linden had devoted his career to understanding the brain processes and behaviors that are common to...
The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution
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Author: Charles S Cockell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking argument for why alien life will evolve to be much like life here on Earth We are all...
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...
Back to Nature: How to Love Life - and Save It
Author: Chris Packham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Rousing, polemical and heartfelt' - Gardens Illustrated 'An invitation to take action' - The Observer One thing has become clear this...
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
Author: Emma Marris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) *...
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...
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
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Author: Melanie Challenger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What makes us human, and why are we so sure we're different from other animals? Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional,...
8-Bit Apocalypse: The Untold Story of Atari's Missile Command
Author: Alex Rubens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The untold story of Atari's Missile Command With the advent of the arcade, Atari Inc. and its iconic game, Missile Command,...
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...
In Oceans Deep: Courage, Innovation, and Adventure Beneath the Waves
Author: Bill Streever Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty,...
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology,...
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts. *Lizards in Puerto Rico...
How to Build an Android: The True Story of Philip K. Dick's Robotic Resurrection
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Author: David F Dufty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In this remarkable behind-the-scenes narrative, David F. Dufty follows a group of scientists on their mission to create "Phil," a...
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...
Darwin Comes to Town
Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of...
Shark: Why we need to save the world's most misunderstood predator
Author: Paul de Gelder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 From shark attack survivor to the shark's biggest advocate, Paul de Gelder tells us just why these majestic diverse animals...
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...
Exotic Vetting: What Treating Wild Animals Teaches You About Their Lives
Author: Romain Pizzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day's work for the world's...
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...