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Gravitational Waves: How Einstein’s spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe

Gravitational Waves: How Einstein’s spacetime ripples...

Author: Brian Clegg
ISBN: 9781785783203
Format: Paperback
$27.99

On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy...  Read More >>

Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History

Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History

Author: Dorothy H. Crawford (Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for the Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198815440
Format: Paperback
$27.95

The story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. Combining tales of devastating...  Read More >>

Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier

Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter...

Author: Ali Almossawi
ISBN: 9781473650787
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The wildly popular author of Bad Arguments returns with a funny, smart introduction to algorithms -- those perennially...  Read More >>

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain...

Author: Lisa Feldman Barrett
ISBN: 9781509837526
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information...

Author: Vlatko Vedral (Professor of Quantum Information, University of Oxford and Professor of Physics, National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9780198815433
Format: Paperback
$23.95

In this engaging and mind-stretching book, Vlatko Vedral explores the nature of information and looks at quantum...  Read More >>

Water: the Key to New Energy: Cavitating Electrolyzers & Zero-Point Energy

Water: the Key to New Energy: Cavitating Electrolyzers...

Author: Moray B. King
ISBN: 9781939149909
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Physicist, King, expands, with diagrams, on how zero-point water energy can be used with the tremendous fluctuations...  Read More >>

From Micro To Macro: Adventures Of A Wandering Physicist

From Micro To Macro: Adventures Of A Wandering Physicist...

Author: Vlatko Vedral (Univ Of Oxford, Uk & Nus, S'pore)
ISBN: 9789813229518
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This is a popular science book exploring the limits of scientific explanation. In particular, it debates if all...  Read More >>

Modern Death

Modern Death

Author: Haider Warraich
ISBN: 9780715652794
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Nothing is more certain in life than death. Yet recent advances in medicine and technology have dramatically increased...  Read More >>

Plucked!: The Truth About Chicken

Plucked!: The Truth About Chicken

Author: Maryn McKenna
ISBN: 9781408707920
Format: Paperback
$42.99

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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Author: Paul Bloom
ISBN: 9780099597827
Format: Paperback
$26.99

We think of empathy – the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves – as the ultimate source of all...  Read More >>

Brain Rules for Ageing Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp

Brain Rules for Ageing Well: 10 Principles for Staying...

Author: John Medina
ISBN: 9781925322903
Format: Paperback
$32.99

How come I can never find my keys? Why don’t I sleep as well? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories?...  Read More >>

Biodiversitat - Warum wir ohne Vielfalt nicht leben koennen

Biodiversitat - Warum wir ohne Vielfalt nicht leben...

Author: Ewald Weber
ISBN: 9783662556238
Format: Mixed media product
$79.17

Mit einem Geleitwort von Michael Succow  Read More >>

A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction

A Taste for the Beautiful: The Evolution of Attraction...

Author: Michael J. Ryan
ISBN: 9780691167268
Format: Hardback
$47.99

From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives...  Read More >>

The Story of Shit

The Story of Shit

Author: Midas Dekkers ,  Nancy Forest-Flier
ISBN: 9781925355178
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A wonderfully wry, erudite and altogether charming investigation into the most rarely discussed of bodily functions:...  Read More >>

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Groundbreaking Scientists and Their Conflicting Visions of the Future of Our Planet

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Groundbreaking Scientists...

Author: Charles C. Mann
ISBN: 9781509884179
Format: Paperback
$43.96

The Wizard and the Prophet tackles the biggest question we humans are facing: can the earth sustain our growing...  Read More >>

The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far

The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far

Author: Lawrence M. Krauss
ISBN: 9781471138553
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe

Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life...

Author: Louisa Preston
ISBN: 9781472920119
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Across billions of planets, life cannot be restricted solely to Earth--or can it? Scientist Louisa Preston chronicles...  Read More >>

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds...

Author: Daniel C. Dennett
ISBN: 9780141978048
Format: Paperback
$26.99

One of the world's most original and provocative thinkers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious...  Read More >>

The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

Author: J.L. Heilbron (Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780199684120
Format: Paperback
$19.95

How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and...  Read More >>

Quantum Information and Consciousness: A Gentle Introduction

Quantum Information and Consciousness: A Gentle Introduction...

Author: Danko D. Georgiev
ISBN: 9781138104488
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This book addresses the fascinating cross-disciplinary field of quantum information theory applied to the study...  Read More >>

Lakes: A Very Short Introduction

Lakes: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Warwick F. Vincent (Professor and Canada Research Chair, Département de biologie & Centre d''études nordiques (CEN), Université Laval)
ISBN: 9780198766735
Format: Paperback
$18.95

Ranging from vast inland seas to hydro-reservoirs, lakes are unique, complex, ecosystems. Warwick Vincent introduces...  Read More >>

Spaceport Earth

Spaceport Earth

Author: Joe Pappalardo
ISBN: 9780715652848
Format: Hardback
$34.99

The twenty-first century space industry is changing drastically where private sector companies (e.g. Richard Branson’s...  Read More >>

The Laser Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman

The Laser Inventor: Memoirs of Theodore H. Maiman

Author: Theodore H. Maiman
ISBN: 9783319619392
Format: Hardback
$129.35

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