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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
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: Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Format:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Adventures on Earth
Author: Simon Tyler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Graphic illustrator Simon Tyler explores the extremes of our planet - and the people who venture there - in his bold...
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...
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...
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...
Camouflage: 100 Masters of Disguise from the Animal Kingdom
Author: Steve Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Camouflage is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in defence mechanism and a cunning tactic for attack, this biological...
Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything
Author: Robert Hazen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth. Carbon. It is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey
Author: William Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For all the desert's dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was...
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...
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,...
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...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave...
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...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
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...