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Small Inventions that Made a Big Difference
Author: Helen Pilcher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Small inventions - modest yet essential, diminutive in size and humble in stature - are an essential component of every element...
Plant Names: A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature
Author: Roger Spencer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Plant Names is an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial and common names for plants and the conventions for...
50 Things to Do by the Sea
Author: Easkey Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton...
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis: The Most Credible Theory of Human Evolution
Author: Elaine Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Why do humans differ from other primates? What do those differences tell us about human evolution? Elaine Morgan gives...
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...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
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...
A Comprehensive Guide to Gamekeeping & Shoot Management
Author: J. C. Jeremy Hobson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This book shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus...
Killer Dinosaurs
Author: Format: Mixed Media Number of Pages: From the Velociraptor to the T-Rex, this book will uncover all kinds of fascinating facts from what they ate to some of their...
Ions in Solution: Basic Principles of Chemical Interactions
Author: J Burgess (University of Leicester, UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 This outline of the principles and chemical interactions in inorganic solution chemistry delivers a course...
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 8
Author: Douglas Futuyma (Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, The State University of New York, Stony Brook) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 404 This new volume...
Fracture of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference of Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3-7, 2006
Author: E.E. Gdoutos Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 1416 The 16th European Conference of Fracture (ECF16) was held in Greece, July, 2006. It focused on all aspects of...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds,...
We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World
Author: Mark Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Our systems are failing. Old models - for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply - are creaking...
The Book of Inventions: Amazing Ideas that Changed the World
Author: Tim Cooke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Let this book take you on a guided tour through the world's most significant, innovative and amazing technological inventions. Find out...
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...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
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...
The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential
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Author: David Adam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how...
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...
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,...
Get TikTok Famous Fast
Author: Will Eagle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Grab your phone and your friends and start making fame-worthy content today! Get TikTok Famous Fast is a bite-sized...
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
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...
The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics
Author: Clifford A. Pickover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 From the ingenious author of The Math Book and The Physics Book comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty...
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Author: Oliver Letwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying....
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...
DNA
Author: Dr Kat Arney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The Compact Guide: DNA provides a fascinating look at the world of the double helix and examines who...
Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves
Author: Caitlin O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others....
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...
Inferior: The true power of women and the science that shows it
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Inferior is more than just a book. It's a battle cry - and right now, it's having a galvanising...
Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. The first book...
Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World
Author: Mark Miodownik Format: Paperback / softback 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...
Planet Awesome
Author: Stacy McAnulty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 40 'Hi, I'm Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.' In this hilarious and informative book filled to the...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers
Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are...
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything
Author: Mike Berners-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing...
The 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number of...
Science Makers: Making with Machines
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 MACHINES...
How to Grow a Human: Reprogramming Cells and Redesigning Life
Author: Philip Ball Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A cutting-edge examination of what it means to be human and to have a 'self' in the face of...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of its Ice
Author: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A history of the first race to Antarctica that weaves the great polar discoveries of the nineteenth century...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul J. Nahin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic...
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites...
Outbreaks and Epidemics: Battling infection from measles to coronavirus
Author: Meera Senthilingam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out...