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Kaleidoscope Of Physics, The: From Soap Bubbles To Quantum Technologies

Kaleidoscope Of Physics, The: From Soap Bubbles To Quantum...

Author: Attilio Rigamonti (Univ Of Pavia, Italy) ,  Andrey Varlamov (Italian Nat'l Research Council, Italy)
ISBN: 9789811265242
Format: Hardback
$153.12

Why do rivers meander? How do you make a glass sing? What laws govern the shape of drops and bubbles? What happens...  Read More >>

The Memory of Trees: The future of eucalypts and our home among them

The Memory of Trees: The future of eucalypts and our...

Author: Viki Cramer
ISBN: 9781760762360
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Most Australians see their world through eucalypts. From towering forests to straggly woodlands, in city parks,...  Read More >>

Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals

Secret Worlds: The extraordinary senses of animals

Author: Martin Stevens (University of Exeter, University of Exeter, Professor of Sensory and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780198813682
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Our senses are limited compared to some animals that see in the ultraviolet, communicate using electricity, or navigate...  Read More >>

The Book of Minds: Understanding Ourselves and Other Beings, From Animals to Aliens

The Book of Minds: Understanding Ourselves and Other...

Author: Philip Ball
ISBN: 9781529069167
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Prize-winning science writer Philip Ball explores the diversity of thinking minds, from the variety of human minds...  Read More >>

Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory and Myth

Worlds in Shadow: Submerged Lands in Science, Memory...

Author: Patrick Nunn
ISBN: 9781472983510
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Discover ancient civilization that have disappeared beneath the ocean's surface and explore how the science of submergence...  Read More >>

Pugmarks and Carbon Footprints

Pugmarks and Carbon Footprints

Author: Rohan Chakravarty
ISBN: 9780143459897
Format: Paperback
$29.70

A comprehensive and satirical take on various aspects of the natural world and the threats to its conservation Pugmarks...  Read More >>

Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

Author: James Kinross
ISBN: 9780241543986
Format: Paperback
$35.00

An urgent investigation into a brave new world in science - the microbiome - and how it could save our health. The...  Read More >>

The Universe in a Box: A New Cosmic History

The Universe in a Box: A New Cosmic History

Author: Andrew Pontzen
ISBN: 9781787333093
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to...  Read More >>

The Universe in a Box: A New Cosmic History

The Universe in a Box: A New Cosmic History

Author: Andrew Pontzen
ISBN: 9781787333086
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to...  Read More >>

Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

Author: James Kinross
ISBN: 9780241543979
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An urgent investigation into a brave new world in science - the microbiome - and how it could save our health. The...  Read More >>

Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

Author: Paul G. Falkowski
ISBN: 9780691247687
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Looks at how ancient microorganisms in primordial oceans transformed the chemistry of the planet over billions of...  Read More >>

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count...

Author: Julian Havil ,  Andrew Granville
ISBN: 9780691247663
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly...  Read More >>

Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And Economics Of Climate Change

Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And...

Author: Guy Deutscher (Tel-aviv Univ, Israel)
ISBN: 9789811275913
Format: Paperback
$73.92

Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate...  Read More >>

Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And Economics Of Climate Change

Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And...

Author: Guy Deutscher (Tel-aviv Univ, Israel)
ISBN: 9789811274008
Format: Hardback
$126.72

Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate...  Read More >>

Wonderdog: How the Science of Dogs Changed the Science of Life – WINNER OF THE BARKER BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION

Wonderdog: How the Science of Dogs Changed the Science...

Author: Mr Jules Howard
ISBN: 9781472984227
Format: Paperback
$29.99

How dogs defied science and changed the way we think about animals What do dogs really think of us? What do dogs...  Read More >>

The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet

The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only...

Author: Jayne Buxton
ISBN: 9780349427959
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An impressively researched, compellingly executed counterweight to the arguments so far put forward around plant-based...  Read More >>

Road To Scientific Success, The: Inspiring Life Stories Of Prominent Researchers (Volume 3)

Road To Scientific Success, The: Inspiring Life Stories...

Author: Deborah D L Chung (Univ At Buffalo, The State Univ Of New York, Usa)
ISBN: 9789811247576
Format: Paperback
$126.72

The book is unique in its emphasis on the road to scientific success rather than the science itself. Scientists...  Read More >>

Road To Scientific Success, The: Inspiring Life Stories Of Prominent Researchers (Volume 3)

Road To Scientific Success, The: Inspiring Life Stories...

Author: Deborah D L Chung (Univ At Buffalo, The State Univ Of New York, Usa)
ISBN: 9789811247262
Format: Hardback
$258.72

The book is unique in its emphasis on the road to scientific success rather than the science itself. Scientists...  Read More >>

Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of...

Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen
ISBN: 9780691248158
Format: Paperback
$60.59

When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our...  Read More >>

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most...

Author: Jennifer Ackerman
ISBN: 9780861546909
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Take flight with the secret life of owls.  Read More >>

Raw Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health

Raw Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health

Author: Tom Lonsdale
ISBN: 9780645726534
Format: Paperback
$60.69

In Raw Meaty Bones: Promote Health, 'whistleblower vet' Dr Tom Lonsdale draws upon decades of research to explain...  Read More >>

Wind: Nature and Culture

Wind: Nature and Culture

Author: Louise M Pryke
ISBN: 9781789147209
Format: Paperback
$43.86

Explores the science behind wind, as well as how it has been imagined and portrayed in myth, religion, art and literature...  Read More >>

Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System

Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System

Author: Natalie Starkey
ISBN: 9781472960405
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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Being Human: How our biology shaped world history

Being Human: How our biology shaped world history

Author: Lewis Dartnell
ISBN: 9781847926715
Format: Paperback
$35.00

A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling...  Read More >>

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