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Satellite: Innovation in Orbit

Satellite: Innovation in Orbit

Author: Doug Millard
ISBN: 9781780236599
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Satellite , an illustrated history that deconstructs the satellite as a cultural,political and technological artefact....  Read More >>

Chemistry in Your Kitchen

Chemistry in Your Kitchen

Author: Matthew Hartings (American University, USA)
ISBN: 9781782623137
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Introducing basic chemistry through everyday foods and meal preparations, this book is a fascinating read for anyone...  Read More >>

Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States

Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular...

Author: Rebecca Onion
ISBN: 9781469629469
Format: Hardback
$261.36

From the 1950s to the digital age, Americans have pushed their childrento live science-minded lives, cementing scientific...  Read More >>

Chemistry of Human Nature

Chemistry of Human Nature

Author: Tom Husband
ISBN: 9781782621348
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Why does chocolate taste so good? Why do we seek the one? This book starts with the fundamentals and then works...  Read More >>

Celebrating Soil: Discovering Soils and Landscapes

Celebrating Soil: Discovering Soils and Landscapes

Author: M.R. Balks ,  D. Zabowski
ISBN: 9783319326825
Format: Hardback
$90.54

This richly illustrated book celebrates the diversity, importance, and intrinsic beauty of soils around the world...  Read More >>

Viruses: More Friends Than Foes

Viruses: More Friends Than Foes

Author: Karin Moelling (Univ Of Zurich, Switzerland & Max Planck Inst For Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9789813147812
Format: Hardback
$124.20

Influenza, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or...  Read More >>

Die Erfindung der Zukunft: Sechs Innovationen, die die Welt veränderten

Die Erfindung der Zukunft: Sechs Innovationen, die die...

Author: Steven Johnson ,  Monika Niehaus
ISBN: 9783662502938
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Ein neuer Blick auf die Geschichte und Macht großer Ideen  In dieser bebilderten Darstellung sechs großer technologischer...  Read More >>

Big Science Transformed: Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States

Big Science Transformed: Science, Politics and Organization...

Author: Olof Hallonsten
ISBN: 9783319327372
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical...  Read More >>

How Long is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling Questions

How Long is Now?: Fascinating Answers to 191 Mind-Boggling...

Author: New Scientist
ISBN: 9781473628595
Format: Paperback
$26.99

New Scientist's brilliant million-selling Christmas book comes of age, exploring everything from the science of...  Read More >>

The Perfection Point: Predicting the Absolute Limits of Human Performance

The Perfection Point: Predicting the Absolute Limits...

Author: John Brenkus
ISBN: 9781509848034
Format: Paperback
$38.79

The fastest man, the highest jump, and the science behind the absolute limits of physical potential  Read More >>

Hidden Depths

Hidden Depths

Author: Robin Waterfield
ISBN: 9781509848027
Format: Paperback
$49.14

A readable, authoritative and fascinating history of hypnosis  Read More >>

Unstoppable

Unstoppable

Author: Bill Nye
ISBN: 9781250109446
Format: Paperback
$38.50

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Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human

Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human

Author: Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. (Mindsight Institute)
ISBN: 9780393710533
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A scientist’s exploration into the mysteries of the human mind.  Read More >>

Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of Numbers

Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched...

Author: James Essinger
ISBN: 9781783340712
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Soil: The Skin of the Planet Earth

Soil: The Skin of the Planet Earth

Author: Miroslav Kutílek ,  Donald R. Nielsen
ISBN: 9789402401318
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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The Water We Eat: Combining Virtual Water and Water Footprints

The Water We Eat: Combining Virtual Water and Water...

Author: Marta Antonelli ,  Francesca Greco
ISBN: 9783319386669
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water...  Read More >>

Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will

Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that...

Author: Geoff Colvin
ISBN: 9781857886603
Format: Paperback
$26.99

What hope will there be for us when computers take over most of the tasks that people now get paid to do? Humans...  Read More >>

Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements

Restless Creatures: The Story of Life in Ten Movements...

Author: Matt Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781785781155
Format: Paperback
$24.99

From flying pterodactyls to walking primates, the story of life as told through the evolution of locomotion.  Read More >>

Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America: A Long Lost Document of a Revolution in 19th Century Geological Theory

Foot Steps of the Ancient Great Glacier of North America:...

Author: Harold W. Borns, Jr. ,  Kirk Allen Maasch
ISBN: 9783319379418
Format: Paperback
$290.37

John K. DeLaski, M.D. practiced medicine in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine and, in addition, was a naturalist...  Read More >>

Arming the Confederacy: How Virginia’s Minerals Forged the Rebel War Machine

Arming the Confederacy: How Virginia’s Minerals Forged...

Author: Robert C. Whisonant
ISBN: 9783319362410
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This is a fresh look at the American Civil War from the standpoint of the natural resources necessary to keep the...  Read More >>

The Geek Guide to Life: Science's Solutions to Life's Little Problems

The Geek Guide to Life: Science's Solutions to Life's...

Author: Colin Stuart ,  Mun-Keat Looi
ISBN: 9780233005058
Format: Hardback
$45.00

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Imagine Math 3: Between Culture and Mathematics

Imagine Math 3: Between Culture and Mathematics

Author: Michele Emmer
ISBN: 9783319348315
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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