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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
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Adam Spencer's The Number Games
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The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives
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Words and Rules
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Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand's Native Sea Creatures
Author: Robert Vennell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARD BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF NONFICTION** An illuminating tour through the native sea creatures of...
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...
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
Author: Simon L. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of...
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...
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
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Author: Robert P. Crease (Stony Brook University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease tells the stories behind ten of the greatest equations in...
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...
Infomojis: Planet Earth
Author: Jon Richards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Did you know that Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago? Or about earthquakes, ecosystems and the Goldilocks Zone? Well, where...
The Google Story
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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...
Celestial Atlas: A Journey in the Sky Through Maps
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The Selfish Gene
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McDonald's: Behind The Arches
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth: A Scientific Exploration Into the Heart of Our Planet
Author: Dr David Whitehouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The journey to the centre of the earth is a voyage like no other we can imagine. Over 3,000 km...
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...
The Company of Trees: A Year in a Lifetime's Quest
Author: Thomas Pakenham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'The master. Puts all other modern tree-writers in the shade' John Lewis-Stempel, author of Meadowland Thomas Pakenham is an indefatigable champion...
DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good
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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...
Camp Panda: Helping Cubs Return to the Wild
Author: Catherine Thimmesh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Robert F. Sibert Honor Award winner "Complementing Thimmesh's thoughtful, engagingly written text are many arrestingly adorable color photographs of pandas in...
How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation-and How to Strike Back
Author: Ariel Ezrachi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Two market experts deconstruct the drivers and inhibitors to innovation in the digital economy, explain how large tech companies can stifle...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't
Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
An Optimist's Tour of the Future
Author: Mark Stevenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has...
Numbers: A beautiful gift for stockings this Christmas
Author: Colin Stuart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Uncover the language of our universe - numbers - in this wide-ranging whistle-stop tour of the history and majesty of mathematics....