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The Obesity Code: the bestselling guide to unlocking the secrets of weight loss

The Obesity Code: the bestselling guide to unlocking...

Author: Dr Jason Fung
ISBN: 9781925228793
Format: Paperback
$43.96

We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but despite being inundated with diet advice we are only getting fatter....  Read More >>

The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters

The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life...

Author: Sean B. Carroll
ISBN: 9780691167428
Format: Hardback
$44.99

How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish...  Read More >>

How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation

How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science...

Author: Dr Andrew Newberg ,  Mark Robert Waldman
ISBN: 9781781807071
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Focuses on the pinnacle of the human experience: enlightenment. This book offers us the possibility to become permanently...  Read More >>

In Love With Betty The Crow: The First 40 Years Of The Science Show

In Love With Betty The Crow: The First 40 Years Of The...

Author: Robyn Williams
ISBN: 9780733335013
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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How to Click: How to Date and Find Love with Confidence

How to Click: How to Date and Find Love with Confidence...

Author: Trevor Silvester
ISBN: 9781444740950
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Find love in five simple steps.  Read More >>

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented...

Author: Jonathan Eig
ISBN: 9781447234814
Format: Paperback
$43.96

The story of the extraordinary characters behind the invention of the contraceptive Pill  Read More >>

Touch: The Science of the Sense that Makes Us Human

Touch: The Science of the Sense that Makes Us Human...

Author: David J. Linden
ISBN: 9780241184066
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Faith and Wisdom in Science

Faith and Wisdom in Science

Author: Tom McLeish (Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Professor of Physics and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780198757559
Format: Paperback
$33.95

Takes a fresh approach to the 'science and religion' debate, taking a scientist's reading of the enigmatic and beautiful...  Read More >>

Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates

Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates

Author: Jeffrey Bub (Distinguished University Professor, Distinguished University Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Maryland)
ISBN: 9780198718536
Format: Hardback
$83.95

Information theory is essentially about correlations, and the novel approach of Bananaworld is to get at what's...  Read More >>

Die Geburt der Quantenphysik: Boltzmann, Planck, Einstein, Nernst und andere

Die Geburt der Quantenphysik: Boltzmann, Planck, Einstein,...

Author: Rudolf P. Huebener ,  Nils Schopohl
ISBN: 9783658124519
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Das essential bietet einen Überblick zur Entstehung der Quantenphysik, beginnend bei Plancks Formulierung des Strahlungsgesetzes...  Read More >>

Art and Illusionists

Art and Illusionists

Author: Nicholas Wade
ISBN: 9783319252278
Format: Hardback
$129.35

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Love and Science: A Memoir

Love and Science: A Memoir

Author: Jan T. Vilcek ,  J Vilecek
ISBN: 9781609806682
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Adventures in Human Being

Adventures in Human Being

Author: Gavin Francis
ISBN: 9781781253427
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Oliver Sacks meets Bear Grylls in this unique voyage around the human body, from the prize-winning author of Empire...  Read More >>

Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata

Designing Beauty: The Art of Cellular Automata

Author: Andrew Adamatzky ,  Genaro J. Martínez
ISBN: 9783319272696
Format: Hardback
$155.22

This fascinating, colourful book offers in-depth insights and first-hand working experiences in the production...  Read More >>

Forensic Science: A Beginner's Guide

Forensic Science: A Beginner's Guide

Author: Jay Siegel
ISBN: 9781780748245
Format: Paperback
$22.99

This fully-updated second edition follows the evidence from the crime scene to the court room  Read More >>

Storm Force: How Britain Has Been Forged by the Wind

Storm Force: How Britain Has Been Forged by the Wind...

Author: Andrew Beattie
ISBN: 9781909930377
Format: Hardback
$38.79

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The Germ Files: Health-Conscious, Nutritious, Life-Changing Facts about the Microbes that Share Our Bodies and Our World

The Germ Files: Health-Conscious, Nutritious, Life-Changing...

Author: Jason Tetro
ISBN: 9780385685771
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Despite their reputation for making us ill, germs also perform a number of important functions that help keep us...  Read More >>

The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates

The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates

Author: Howard Bloom ,  Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9781633881426
Format: Paperback
$42.99

How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought that only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe...  Read More >>

A Mutant Ape? The Origin of Man's Descent

A Mutant Ape? The Origin of Man's Descent

Author: Michael Pitman
ISBN: 9780993006753
Format: Paperback
$56.93

arises from Science and the Soul (previous publication 9780993006722) - an expansion of the section called 'A Mutant...  Read More >>

Fungi: A Very Short Introduction

Fungi: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Nicholas P. Money (Professor of Botany and Western Program Director, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio)
ISBN: 9780199688784
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Fungi form an entire biological kingdom, and represent a great diversity of organisms. They are found in the soil,...  Read More >>

The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction

The History of Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction...

Author: William H. Brock (Emeritus Professor of History of Science, University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9780198716488
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This Very Short Introduction maps the historical development of chemistry from man's earliest exploration in the...  Read More >>

The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures

The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and...

Author: Christine Kenneally
ISBN: 9781863958066
Format: Paperback
$29.99

"""First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin,a member fo Penguin Group (USA LLC, 2014""--Title...  Read More >>

The Telomerase Revolution: The breakthrough that holds the key to slowing the aging process

The Telomerase Revolution: The breakthrough that holds...

Author: Michael Fossel
ISBN: 9781760291921
Format: Paperback
$36.99

We are at the beginning of a scientific revolution. Dramatic life extension has moved from science fiction to real...  Read More >>

Hippo Eats Dwarf

Hippo Eats Dwarf

Author: Alex Boese
ISBN: 9781509823192
Format: Paperback
$38.79

The world’s greatest urban myths, fakes and hoaxes, from Bonsai kittens to human-flavoured tofu  Read More >>

ContamiNation: My Quest to Survive in a Toxic World

ContamiNation: My Quest to Survive in a Toxic World...

Author: McKay Jenkins
ISBN: 9780399573408
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Date of publication from publisher website.  Read More >>

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