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The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women, and Mental Health

The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women,...

Author: Daniel Freeman (Professor of Clinical Psychology and MRC Senior Clinical Fellow, Oxford University) ,  Jason Freeman (Writer and editor)
ISBN: 9780198727583
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Are rates of psychological disorder different for men and women? The answer to this question, and its implications,...  Read More >>

Plate Tectonics: A Very Short Introduction

Plate Tectonics: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Peter Molnar (Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado)
ISBN: 9780198728269
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Plate tectonics caused a revolution in our understanding of the Earth. It has aided our understanding of why earthquakes...  Read More >>

Bakterien – ihre Entdeckung und Bedeutung für Natur und Mensch

Bakterien – ihre Entdeckung und Bedeutung für Natur...

Author: Gerhart Drews ,  Georg Fuchs
ISBN: 9783662453261
Format: Paperback
$155.22

Von den Anfängen naturwissenschaftlichen Denkens in der Antike über das Mikroskop bis zur synthetischen Biologie....  Read More >>

This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking...

Author: John Brockman
ISBN: 9780062374349
Format: Paperback
$52.77

The bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together...  Read More >>

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think

Author: Peter H. Diamandis ,  Steven Kotler
ISBN: 9781451616835
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

About The Size Of It

About The Size Of It

Author: Warwick Cairns
ISBN: 9781447291473
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Fun and fascinating - the secrets and tricks of how we measure the world around us' Conn Iggulden  Read More >>

Biocode: The New Age of Genomics

Biocode: The New Age of Genomics

Author: Dawn Field (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford eResearch Centre (OeRC), Oxford University) ,  Neil Davies (Executive Director, UC Berkeley - Gump South Pacific Research Station)
ISBN: 9780199687756
Format: Hardback
$45.95

In Biocode, Dawn Field and Neil Davies capture the scale and excitement of the rapidly growing field of genomics....  Read More >>

Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life

Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That...

Author: Enrico Coen
ISBN: 9780691165608
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria...  Read More >>

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott ,  Thomas Banchoff
ISBN: 9780691165554
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Reprint. Originally published: 6th ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1953.  Read More >>

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years...

Author: Andrew H. Knoll ,  Andrew H. Knoll
ISBN: 9780691165530
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion,...  Read More >>

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek,...

Author: Laura J. Snyder (St. John's University)
ISBN: 9780393077469
Format: Hardback
$53.25

The remarkable story of how an artist and a scientist in seventeenth-century Holland transformed the way we see...  Read More >>

Ada Lovelace: Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron's Daughter

Ada Lovelace: Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and...

Author: Benjamin Woolley
ISBN: 9781447272540
Format: Paperback
$38.79

The much-acclaimed biography of Ada Lovelace, reissued to tie-in with the bicentenary of her birth in 2015.  Read More >>

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Author: Philip Lymbery
ISBN: 9781408846346
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Farmageddon the quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms and food.  Read More >>

The Human Brain: A Guided Tour

The Human Brain: A Guided Tour

Author: Susan Greenfield
ISBN: 9781780226910
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Susan Greenfield, one of the world's pre-eminent scientists, takes the reader on a guided tour of the final frontier...  Read More >>

In Our Own Image: Will artificial intelligence save or destroy us?

In Our Own Image: Will artificial intelligence save...

Author: George Zarkadakis
ISBN: 9781846044366
Format: Paperback
$32.99

'TIMELY AND IMPORTANT' JIM AL-KHALILI In Our Own Image by Dr George Zarkadakis explores one of humankind’s oldest...  Read More >>

Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional – and What that Means for Life in the Universe

Lucky Planet: Why Earth is Exceptional – and What that...

Author: David Waltham
ISBN: 9781848318328
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In this pop-science masterpiece Waltham, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, argues that life on Earth is,...  Read More >>

Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound

Sonic Wonderland: A Scientific Odyssey of Sound

Author: Trevor Cox
ISBN: 9780099572404
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Sonic Wonderland  Read More >>

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life

Author: Prof Richard Dawkins ,  Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9781780226897
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The No.1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller. A fascinating explanation of how evolution works, from bestselling author of THE...  Read More >>

The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse

The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse...

Author: Lewis Dartnell
ISBN: 9780099575832
Format: Paperback
$32.99

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive? A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike....  Read More >>

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome...

Author: Nessa Carey
ISBN: 9781848318267
Format: Hardback
$44.99

From the author of the acclaimed The Epigenetics Revolution ('A book that would have had Darwin swooning' - Guardian)...  Read More >>

Science Not Just for Scientists!: Easy Explorations for Young Children

Science Not Just for Scientists!: Easy Explorations...

Author: Leonisa Ardizzone
ISBN: 9780876594841
Format: Paperback
$34.19

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