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Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed With Time...

Author: Simon Garfield
ISBN: 9781782113218
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Author: Frans de Waal
ISBN: 9781783783069
Format: Paperback
$24.99

From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work which challenges everything...  Read More >>

Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations: Early Docking Technologies from Concept to Implementation

Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations: Early...

Author: David J. Shayler
ISBN: 9783319497686
Format: Paperback
$64.66

How could the newly authorized space shuttle help in the U.S. quest to build a large research station in Earth orbit?...  Read More >>

10 Dinge, die Sie uber Gravitationswellen wissen wollen: Von schwachsten Signalen und starksten Ereignissen

10 Dinge, die Sie uber Gravitationswellen wissen wollen:...

Author: Andreas Muller
ISBN: 9783662544082
Format: Mixed media product
$79.17

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The Secret Science of Superheroes

The Secret Science of Superheroes

Author: Mark Lorch (University of Hull, UK) ,  Andy Miah (University of Salford, UK)
ISBN: 9781782624875
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The Secret Science of Superheroes looks at the underpinning chemistry, physics and biology needed for their superpowers....  Read More >>

Animation: Grundlagen - 2D-Animation - 3D-Animation

Animation: Grundlagen - 2D-Animation - 3D-Animation...

Author: Peter Bühler ,  Patrick Schlaich
ISBN: 9783662539217
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Dieser Band der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“  behandelt die Prinzipien der Animation und führt in die grundlegenden...  Read More >>

The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding the Space Frontier in the Late Sixties

The Last of NASA's Original Pilot Astronauts: Expanding...

Author: David J. Shayler ,  Colin Burgess
ISBN: 9783319510125
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Three years later, following the sudden cancellation of the USAF’s highly classified Manned Orbiting Laboratory...  Read More >>

Big Data: Does Size Matter?

Big Data: Does Size Matter?

Author: Timandra Harkness
ISBN: 9781472920072
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Bloomsbury Sigma.  Read More >>

The Science of Game of Thrones: A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones

The Science of Game of Thrones: A myth-busting, mind-blowing,...

Author: Helen Keen
ISBN: 9781473632349
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A myth-busting, mind-blowing, jaw-dropping and fun-filled expedition through the world of Game of Thrones.  Read More >>

The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle

The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle

Author: Agust Gudmundsson
ISBN: 9783319551517
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This is the first book describing the glorious geology of Iceland’s Golden Circle and four additional excursions:(1)...  Read More >>

Fencing Paradise: The Uses and Abuses of Plants

Fencing Paradise: The Uses and Abuses of Plants

Author: Richard Mabey
ISBN: 9781909513105
Format: Paperback
$25.00

In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to...  Read More >>

The Space Shuttle Program: Technologies and Accomplishments

The Space Shuttle Program: Technologies and Accomplishments...

Author: Davide Sivolella
ISBN: 9783319549446
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book tells the story of the Space Shuttle in its many different roles as orbital launch platform, orbital workshop,...  Read More >>

Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields

Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms...

Author: Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer)
ISBN: 9780198759713
Format: Hardback
$52.95

Jim Baggott explores how our understanding of the nature of matter, and its fundamental property of mass, has developed,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science

Author: Iwan Rhys Morus (Professor of History, Aberystwyth University, Professor of History)
ISBN: 9780199663279
Format: Hardback
$66.95

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science offers readers an accessible and entertaining introduction to the history...  Read More >>

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome...

Author: Nessa Carey
ISBN: 9780231170857
Format: Paperback
$60.59

From the author of The Epigenetics Revolution (""A book that would have had Darwin swooning.""--Guardian) comes...  Read More >>

Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect Our Food and Health

Natural Defense: Enlisting Bugs and Germs to Protect...

Author: Dr Emily Monosson
ISBN: 9781610917186
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A hopeful look at our natural defences and the future of food and human health. Emily Monosson explores science's...  Read More >>

The Body Has a Head: The Inspirational Introduction to How the Body Works

The Body Has a Head: The Inspirational Introduction...

Author: Gustav Eckstein
ISBN: 9781911440574
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Awesome and magnificent as the body itself, here is the one book that explains the mysteries of human anatomy, from...  Read More >>

The Particle Zoo: The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality

The Particle Zoo: The Search for the Fundamental Nature...

Author: Gavin Hesketh
ISBN: 9781784298708
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis

Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis...

Author: Kathryn Lougheed
ISBN: 9781472930330
Format: Hardback
$36.99

Tuberculosis – an ancient disease, but not a disease of history. If we can understand the makings of TB, then maybe...  Read More >>

Creative Mobile Media: A Complete Course

Creative Mobile Media: A Complete Course

Author: Sylvie E Prasad (Univ Of East London, Uk)
ISBN: 9781786342812
Format: Paperback
$131.96

Creative Mobile Media provides a guide to the creation, production and display of media with mobile technology at...  Read More >>

Creative Mobile Media: A Complete Course

Creative Mobile Media: A Complete Course

Author: Sylvie E Prasad (Univ Of East London, Uk)
ISBN: 9781786342805
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Creative Mobile Media provides a guide to the creation, production and display of media with mobile technology at...  Read More >>

Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy

Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of...

Author: Steven Nadler ,  Ben Nadler
ISBN: 9780691168692
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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The Geek Guide to Life

The Geek Guide to Life

Author: Colin Stuart ,  Mun Keat Looi
ISBN: 9780233005218
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin

Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that...

Author: Matthew J. James (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Sonoma State University)
ISBN: 9780199354597
Format: Hardback
$95.95

The story of the 1905-1906 voyage by the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos Islands, during which over...  Read More >>

The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive

The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive

Author: David S. Stevenson
ISBN: 9783319529103
Format: Paperback
$85.36

This book looks at the persistence of life and how difficult it would be to annihilate life, especially a species...  Read More >>

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