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The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs

The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant...

Author: David Hone
ISBN: 9781472911285
Format: Paperback
$23.99

The fascinating story of the king of the dinosaurs as never told before.  Read More >>

Peak: For Fans of Atomic Habits

Peak: For Fans of Atomic Habits

Author: Anders Ericsson ,  Robert Pool, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9780099598473
Format: Paperback
$26.99

'Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read Peak.' Fortune Do you want to stand out at work, improve...  Read More >>

The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory

The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the...

Author: Dr Julia Shaw
ISBN: 9781847947611
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Brain: What Everyone Needs To Know®

The Brain: What Everyone Needs To Know®

Author: Gary L. Wenk
ISBN: 9780190603403
Format: Hardback
$135.95

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Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith As NASA's Record-Setting Frequent Flyer

Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith As NASA's...

Author: Jerry L. Ross ,  John Norberg
ISBN: 9781557537850
Format: Paperback
$46.99

From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography...  Read More >>

101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for Beginners

101 Amazing Sights of the Night Sky: A Guided Tour for...

Author: George Moromisato
ISBN: 9781591935575
Format: Paperback
$27.99

George Moromisato introduces 101 objects and phenomena of the night sky, such as Saturn's rings and the Andromeda...  Read More >>

Beautiful Geometry

Beautiful Geometry

Author: Eli Maor ,  Eugen Jost
ISBN: 9780691175881
Format: Paperback
$79.07

If you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change...  Read More >>

Visions of Numberland: A Colouring Journey Through the Mysteries of Maths

Visions of Numberland: A Colouring Journey Through the...

Author: Alex Bellos ,  Edmund Harriss
ISBN: 9781408888988
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A ‘mathemagical’ colouring book, with 60 patterns to colour and 10 more that YOU create! For those who ponder the...  Read More >>

Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

Author: Steven Poole
ISBN: 9781847947581
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Explains why today's chess grandmasters, quantum physicists and psychologists are mining the last 2,000 years of...  Read More >>

An Astronomer's Tale: A Bricklayer’s Guide to the Galaxy

An Astronomer's Tale: A Bricklayer’s Guide to the Galaxy...

Author: Gary Fildes
ISBN: 9781784754389
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Situated in the beautiful forests of Kielder, Northumberland, within Europe’s largest protected dark sky park, it...  Read More >>

Field Notes from the Edge

Field Notes from the Edge

Author: Paul Evans
ISBN: 9781846044571
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Takes us through the in-between spaces of Nature - such as strandlines, mudflats, cliff tops and caves - where one...  Read More >>

The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster

The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster,...

Author: Robert Colvile
ISBN: 9781408840214
Format: Paperback
$20.99

The Great Acceleration is an energizing account from a brilliant new writer of how our society is speeding up--and...  Read More >>

The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat

The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make...

Author: Dr Stephan Guyenet
ISBN: 9781785041280
Format: Paperback
$49.99

'ESSENTIAL' —The New York Times Have you ever wished you could just stop eating the cake, even as you put another...  Read More >>

The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe

The Reality Frame: Relativity and our place in the universe...

Author: Brian Clegg
ISBN: 9781785782084
Format: Hardback
$46.99

Weaving together the great ideas of science, Reality's Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all...  Read More >>

The Everything Answer Book: How Quantum Science Explains Love, Death, and the Meaning of Life

The Everything Answer Book: How Quantum Science Explains...

Author: Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781571747624
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Goswami's basic premise is that quantum physics is not only the future of science, but is also the key to understanding...  Read More >>

Mars Ahead!: In Search of a New Home - Our Race to the Red Planet

Mars Ahead!: In Search of a New Home - Our Race to the...

Author: Lewis Pinault
ISBN: 9781408707623
Format: Hardback
$51.75

A journey through Space that explores what it might be like to live on the red planet - as well as a fascinating...  Read More >>

The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691176000
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Third printing. First paperback printing. Original copyright date: 2013.  Read More >>

Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills

Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical...

Author: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691175911
Format: Paperback
$65.87

In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex...  Read More >>

Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

Author: Paul A Offit
ISBN: 9781426217982
Format: Hardback
$49.99

For readers of no-nonsense tell-alls such as Being Mortal and Do No Harm, mediagenic doctor and research scientist...  Read More >>

The Perfect Bet: Taking the Luck out of Gambling

The Perfect Bet: Taking the Luck out of Gambling

Author: Adam Kucharski
ISBN: 9781781255476
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Chemistry of Plants and Insects: Plants, Bugs, and Molecules

Chemistry of Plants and Insects: Plants, Bugs, and Molecules...

Author: Margareta Séquin (San Francisco State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781782624486
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This book explains the natural chemical compounds that determine the fascinating interactions between plants and...  Read More >>

Fortress Plant: How to survive when everything wants to eat you

Fortress Plant: How to survive when everything wants...

Author: Dale Walters (Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC), Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198745600
Format: Hardback
$49.95

The survival of plants on our planet is nothing short of miraculous. They are food for a vast array of organisms,...  Read More >>

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

Author: Spencer Wells ,  Spencer Wells
ISBN: 9780691176017
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Reveals how developments in the cutting-edge science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family...  Read More >>

Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense

Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense

Author: Bob Holmes
ISBN: 9780393244427
Format: Hardback
$71.15

A journey into the surprising science behind our flavor senses.  Read More >>

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