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E=mc 2 (Hb): A Biography of the Worlds Most Famous Equation
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Bill Gates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this urgent, authoritative book,...
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information.Author: Karl Kruszelnicki Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Australia's favourite scientist's twenty-sixth book! 'What...
Dr Karl's Short Back & Science
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Introducing Genetics: A Graphic Guide
Author: Steve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Genetics is the newest of all sciences - nothing useful was known about inheritance until just over a century ago. Now...
Northern Lights: The definitive guide to auroras
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 The perfect gift for anyone with a desire to see the Northern Lights. Discover the incomparable beauty of the...
A Short History of the World in 50 Animals
Author: Jacob F. Field Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A Short History of the World in 50 Animals provides a new perspective on the grand sweep of our planet's...
Look Up: Our story with the stars
Author: Sarah Cruddas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will...
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating' The Observer 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and...
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...
Blueprint: How our childhood makes us who we are
Author: Lucy Maddox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'The best book I've read this year ... It's written in such a beautiful way' - Dr Suzi Gage,...
Astronomical Mindfulness: Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
Author: Christopher G De Pree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with...
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...
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Author: Michael Klare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change-still linked, for many people, with...
Save the World: There is No Planet B: Things You Can Do Right Now to Save Our Planet
Author: Louise Bradford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together, we can change the world There is little doubt that our beautiful planet is now under huge threat;...
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
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Author: William Poundstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells the...
Cosmos Possible Worlds
Author: Ann Druyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Based on National Geographic s internationally-renowned television series, this groundbreaking and visually stunning book explores how science and civilization grew up...
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...
How You Feel: The Story of the Mind as Told by the Body
Author: James Tresilian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Close your eyes and ask yourself, 'what do I feel?' You might feel thirsty or tired. You might feel...
The Flightless Traveller: 50 modern adventures by land, river and sea
Author: Emma Gregg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Discover how to explore our beautiful world sustainably and responsibly with this trailblazing guide to flight-free travel. Seeking options that are...
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis
Author: Simon Mundy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 As heard on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times' best books...
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...
The Little Book of the Elements: A Pocket Guide to the Periodic Table
Author: Jack Challoner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Everything in the universe is made up of the elements - including us. Forged in the Big Bang, the elements and...
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain
Author: Dr Allan Ropper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to...
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future
Author: Chris Goodall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we...
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...
Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia
Author: Andrew Benwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Plants of Subtropical Eastern Australia describes the rich flora of this biogeographically distinct region located on the east coast of Australia, covering...
Everything You Know About Science is Wrong
Author: Matt Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 A highly entertaining, myth-busting read for anyone with even a passing interest in science. Hot on the heels of the fascinating...
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...
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...
The Nation of Plants: The International Bestseller
Author: Stefano Mancuso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome...
Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
Author: Edward Posnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and...
The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
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Author: Gary Ferguson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A riveting manifesto for the millions of people who long to forge a more vital, meaningful connection to the natural world...
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
Author: Nicholas Carr (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Boldly reactionary...What looks like feast, Carr argues, may be closer to famine' - Sunday Times 'Chilling' - The...
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It
Author: Dean Burnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500...
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
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Author: Arthur Holland Michel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on...
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...
Do Something for Someone Else: Meet 12 Real-life Children Spreading Kindness with Simple Acts of Everyday Activism
Author: Michael Platt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Meet 12 real-life children spreading kindness with simple acts of everyday activism. Meet kids - just like you - whose small...
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...
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...
An Introduction to Coping with Depression for Carers
Author: Tony Frais Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 An indispensable guide offering insight and support to carers of people with depression Looking after a person with depression...
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...
Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
Author: Bob Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace...
The Case Against Sugar
Author: Gary Taubes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 More than half a billion adults and 40 million children on the planet are obese. Diabetes is a worldwide...