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The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from the World of Science

The Mice Who Sing For Sex: And Other Weird Tales from...

Author: Lliana Bird ,  Dr Jack Lewis
ISBN: 9780751564679
Format: Hardback
$39.99

From the presenters of popular podcast Geek Chic's Weird Science comes a book with the answers to all the scientific...  Read More >>

ADHD

ADHD

Author: Paul H. Wender ,  David A. Tomb
ISBN: 9780190240264
Format: Paperback
$92.37

Drawing on over forty years of clinical and research experience, Paul Wender and new coauthor David A. Tomb have...  Read More >>

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control...

Author: William F. Ruddiman ,  William F. Ruddiman
ISBN: 9780691173214
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's...  Read More >>

Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements and Impacts

Engineering Women: Re-visioning Women's Scientific Achievements...

Author: Jill S. Tietjen
ISBN: 9783319407982
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Packed with fascinating biographical sketches of female engineers, this chronological history of engineering brightens...  Read More >>

Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View of Earth Observation

Seeing Our Planet Whole: A Cultural and Ethical View...

Author: Harry Eyres
ISBN: 9783319406022
Format: Hardback
$72.42

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from “the necessary distance” has wide and profound...  Read More >>

Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form

Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form...

Author: Esther Leslie
ISBN: 9781780236452
Format: Hardback
$64.69

For the very first time, Liquid Crystals tells the history of this anomalous and little understood phase of matter...  Read More >>

Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home but Probably Shouldn't: The Complete and Updated Edition

Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science: Experiments...

Author: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9780316395083
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The ultimate Theodore Gray collection, Completely Mad Science collects every one of Gray's dramatic, visually spectacular,...  Read More >>

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour

Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson ,  Michael A. Strauss
ISBN: 9780691157245
Format: Hardback
$105.47

*A New York Times Bestseller* Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's...  Read More >>

The Chemistry of Connection: Five Keys to a Richer, Happier, Fulfilling and Meaningful Life

The Chemistry of Connection: Five Keys to a Richer,...

Author: Patrick Holford
ISBN: 9781781807576
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The author has spent several years exploring what it means to be 100 per cent healthy. In this book, he explores...  Read More >>

Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind

Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and...

Author: Michael Charles Tobias ,  Jane Gray Morrison
ISBN: 9783319354668
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Their field research across the disciplines of comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and...  Read More >>

100 Chemical Myths: Misconceptions, Misunderstandings, Explanations

100 Chemical Myths: Misconceptions, Misunderstandings,...

Author: Lajos Kovács ,  Dezső Csupor
ISBN: 9783319344225
Format: Paperback
$142.29

100 Chemical Myths deals with popular yet largely untrue misconceptions and misunderstandings related to chemistry....  Read More >>

The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems

The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's...

Author: Matt Simon
ISBN: 9780143128687
Format: Hardback
$52.80

“A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better.” —Entertainment Weekly A fascinating exploration...  Read More >>

Why Icebergs Float: Exploring Science in Everyday Life

Why Icebergs Float: Exploring Science in Everyday Life...

Author: Dr Andrew Morris
ISBN: 9781911307037
Format: Paperback
$38.81

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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene

Author: Richard Dawkins (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198788911
Format: Paperback
$29.95

The 'extended phenotype' is Dawkins' key contribution to the gene's eye view of evolution given in The Selfish Gene....  Read More >>

Blood: A Very Short Introduction

Blood: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Chris Cooper (Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Essex)
ISBN: 9780199581450
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Blood is a vital component of the bodies of most multicellular animals. Chris Cooper discusses blood's critical...  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: 9781473632318
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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

Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World

Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World

Author: Marc Raboy (, McGill University)
ISBN: 9780199313587
Format: Hardback
$107.95

Mark Raboy's biography traces the origins and emergence of our present networked system of global communication...  Read More >>

Faktencheck Energiewende: Konzept, Umsetzung, Kosten – Antworten auf die 10 wichtigsten Fragen

Faktencheck Energiewende: Konzept, Umsetzung, Kosten...

Author: Thomas Unnerstall
ISBN: 9783662497760
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Dieses Buch schafft endlich Transparenz und Orientierung in der gesellschaftlichen Diskussion über die deutsche...  Read More >>

Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes

Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes...

Author: Dr. Marilyn J. Roossinck (Professor Emeritus) ,  Carl Zimmer
ISBN: 9780691166964
Format: Hardback
$62.99

This stunningly illustrated book provides a rare window into the amazing, varied, and often beautiful world of viruses....  Read More >>

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