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Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world

Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the...

Author: Simon Garfield
ISBN: 9781786892782
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe

The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe

Author: Prof. Brian Cox ,  Robin Ince
ISBN: 9780008276324
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme,...  Read More >>

Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

Author: Charles Spence
ISBN: 9780241977743
Format: Paperback
$26.99

""First published in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2017"" -- Title page verso....  Read More >>

This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world we call home

This is Planet Earth: Your ultimate guide to the world...

Author: New Scientist
ISBN: 9781473629776
Format: Paperback
$36.99

This Is Planet Earth is dedicated to the wonders of Planet Earth, the most amazing place in the known Universe....  Read More >>

The Brain in Minutes

The Brain in Minutes

Author: Rita Carter
ISBN: 9781786485793
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms,...

Author: Geoffrey West
ISBN: 9781780225593
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability

Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical...

Author: Rowan Hooper
ISBN: 9781408709467
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Superhuman is a fascinating, eye-opening and inspiring celebration of the best that the current human species has...  Read More >>

Gravity!: The Quest for Gravitational Waves

Gravity!: The Quest for Gravitational Waves

Author: Pierre Binetruy (Professor, Professor, Université Paris-Diderot)
ISBN: 9780198796510
Format: Hardback
$63.95

What force do the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, black holes, and gravitational...  Read More >>

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing...

Author: Juli Berwald
ISBN: 9781760640583
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A former ocean scientist goes in pursuit of the slippery story of jellyfish, rediscovering her passion for marine...  Read More >>

F*** You Very Much: The surprising truth about why people are so rude

F*** You Very Much: The surprising truth about why people...

Author: Danny Wallace ,  Danny Wallace
ISBN: 9781473564206
Format: Downloadable audio file
$20.46

That we say we don’t want rude politicians, but we vote for them anyway? Or that rude language can sway a jury in...  Read More >>

Blossoms: And the genes that make them

Blossoms: And the genes that make them

Author: Maxine Singer (Retired, Scientist Emerita, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. President Emeritus, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC)
ISBN: 9780198811138
Format: Hardback
$45.95

Flowers evolved to attract pollinators, so new generations of plant can form. But how do plants know when to bloom,...  Read More >>

Extremophiles: Where It All Began

Extremophiles: Where It All Began

Author: Koki Horikoshi
ISBN: 9784431566540
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Koki Horikoshi — discoverer of the alkaliphiles, microbes that thrive in alkaline environments — describes in his...  Read More >>

Chaos, Turbulenzen und kosmische Selbstorganisationsprozesse

Chaos, Turbulenzen und kosmische Selbstorganisationsprozesse...

Author: Ulrich von Kusserow
ISBN: 9783662558942
Format: Mixed media product
$105.57

Dieses Buch bietet eine anschauliche und reich bebilderte UEbersicht zur Vielfalt kosmischer Turbulenz- und Selbstorganisationsszenarien...  Read More >>

The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity

The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and...

Author: Byron Reese
ISBN: 9781501191626
Format: Paperback
$40.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Radioactivity and Radiation: What They Are, What They Do, and How to Harness Them

Radioactivity and Radiation: What They Are, What They...

Author: Claus Grupen ,  Mark Rodgers
ISBN: 9783319825540
Format: Paperback
$142.29

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Everything You Need to Know: The Mind

Everything You Need to Know: The Mind

Author: Niki Smith
ISBN: 9781912456055
Format: Paperback
$18.09

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Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN

Who Cares about Particle Physics?: Making Sense of the...

Author: Pauline Gagnon (formerly Senior Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9780198826279
Format: Paperback
$48.95

This book explains in clear terms for non-specialists what is happening at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle...  Read More >>

Deviate: The Creative Power of Transforming Your Perception

Deviate: The Creative Power of Transforming Your Perception...

Author: Beau Lotto
ISBN: 9781474601023
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Deviate by world-renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto is 'a more accessible, fun, interactive version of Daniel Kahneman's...  Read More >>

Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and...

Author: David Sumpter
ISBN: 9781472947413
Format: Hardback
$37.99

The surprising--and terrifying--story of how math and stats work in the real world.  Read More >>

Denialism

Denialism

Author: Michael Specter
ISBN: 9780715653036
Format: Paperback
$25.85

There is so much confusing and conflicting information about the world in which we live that the truth can be impossible...  Read More >>

The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiments

The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave...

Author: Gina Perry
ISBN: 9781925322354
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Competition. Prejudice. Discrimination. Conflict.  Read More >>

Der seltsamste Mensch: Das verborgene Leben des Quantengenies Paul Dirac

Der seltsamste Mensch: Das verborgene Leben des Quantengenies...

Author: Graham Farmelo ,  Reimara Roessler
ISBN: 9783662565780
Format: Mixed media product
$73.89

Der seltsamste Mensch ist der mit dem Costa-Buchpreis ausgezeichnete Bericht uber Paul Dirac, den beruhmten Physiker,...  Read More >>

Rainbows: Nature and Culture

Rainbows: Nature and Culture

Author: Daniel MacCannell
ISBN: 9781780239200
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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