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Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's...

Author: Katy Price
ISBN: 9780226680736
Format: Hardback
$92.95

Suitable for those interested in popular science, this title focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain...  Read More >>

The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics

The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics

Author: Biman B. Nath
ISBN: 9781461453628
Format: Paperback
$100.29

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The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution

The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution...

Author: Keith Devlin
ISBN: 9781408822487
Format: Paperback
$19.99

The story of the man who introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concept of zero to Europe that transformed business...  Read More >>

Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right is Wrong

Deceived Wisdom: Why What You Thought Was Right is Wrong...

Author: David Bradley
ISBN: 9781908739346
Format: Hardback
$32.99

A skeptic's guide to debunking popular science myths and much 'received wisdom' that is just plain wrong  Read More >>

The Right Chemistry

The Right Chemistry

Author: Joe Dr. Schwarcz
ISBN: 9780385671590
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A big part of Dr. Joe's job as director of McGill University's Office of Science and Society is persuading people...  Read More >>

Poor Robin's Prophecies

Poor Robin's Prophecies

Author: Dr. Benjamin Wardhaugh
ISBN: 9780199605422
Format: Hardback
$28.95

From the reign of Charles II to the early 19th century, a curious Almanac - part 'teach-yourself mathematics', part...  Read More >>

Die Große Erneuerung: Zur Geschichte der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution

Die Große Erneuerung: Zur Geschichte der Wissenschaftlichen...

Author: Hans Wußing
ISBN: 9783034894586
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Die nach Inhalt, Methode und sozialer Relevanz durchgreifenden Umwälzungen in Mathematik, Astronomie, Physik, Chemie,...  Read More >>

The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal

The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont...

Author: Simon J. Knell
ISBN: 9780253006042
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix

The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix

Author: James D. Watson ,  Alexander Gann
ISBN: 9781476715490
Format: Hardback
$93.12

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

The Things that Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life, the Universe and Everything

The Things that Nobody Knows: 501 Mysteries of Life,...

Author: William Hartston
ISBN: 9780857896223
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The perfect quirky Christmas present for readers of New Scientist and anyone who enjoys QI. A fascinating and unputdownable...  Read More >>

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

The Best Australian Science Writing 2012

Author: Elizabeth Finkel
ISBN: 9781742233482
Format: Paperback
$36.20

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Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality - Illustrated Edition

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the...

Author: Manjit Kumar
ISBN: 9781848314146
Format: Hardback
$148.50

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Voyager: 101 Wonders Between Earth and the Edge of the Cosmos

Voyager: 101 Wonders Between Earth and the Edge of the...

Author: Sean B. Carroll (Author) ,  Ghost
ISBN: 9781848875432
Format: Hardback
$92.40

A fantastic voyage across 276 billion trillion miles of space and 13.5 billion years of time, told through more...  Read More >>

Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos

Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order...

Author: Peter Hoffmann
ISBN: 9780465022533
Format: Hardback
$52.00

How the noisy atomic cloud gives rise to the orderly world of the molecular machine-and to life itself  Read More >>

How Old Is the Universe?

How Old Is the Universe?

Author: David A. Weintraub
ISBN: 9780691156286
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Tells the incredible story of how astronomers solved one of the most compelling mysteries in science and, along...  Read More >>

Can We Travel Through Time?: The 20 Big Questions in Physics

Can We Travel Through Time?: The 20 Big Questions in...

Author: Michael Brooks
ISBN: 9781780875897
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas

The Art of Science: A Natural History of Ideas

Author: Richard Hamblyn
ISBN: 9780330490764
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Hamblyn's book adds enormously to the pleasure that there is in science.' Guardian  Read More >>

National Geographic Tales of the Weird: Unbelievable True Stories

National Geographic Tales of the Weird: Unbelievable...

Author: David Braun
ISBN: 9781426209659
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This reader features the most wildly popular, incredibly weird, and totally true stories from National Geographic’s...  Read More >>

The Secrets of Triangles: A Mathematical Journey

The Secrets of Triangles: A Mathematical Journey

Author: Alfred S. Posamentier ,  Ingmar Lehmann
ISBN: 9781616145873
Format: Hardback
$52.99

Everyone knows what a triangle is, yet very few people appreciate that the common three-sided figure holds many...  Read More >>

Illusion der Wirklichkeit: Wie ein Vorurteil die Realität erfindet

Illusion der Wirklichkeit: Wie ein Vorurteil die Realität...

Author: Gerhard Fasching
ISBN: 9783709172292
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Der Autor zeigt Zusammenhänge mit der zweitausendfünfhundert Jahre alten indischen Philosophie und vermittelt eine...  Read More >>

Astronautics: Summary and Prospects

Astronautics: Summary and Prospects

Author: Anatoli I. Kiselev ,  V. Sherbakov
ISBN: 9783709172186
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Since the first edition did not sufficiently cover the issues of space impact on ecology and the prospective development...  Read More >>

101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the World You Can't See

101 Quantum Questions: What You Need to Know About the...

Author: Kenneth W. Ford ,  Paul Hewitt
ISBN: 9780674066076
Format: Paperback
$88.95

This reader-friendly, richly illustrated book provides an engaging overview of quantum physics, from “big ideas”...  Read More >>

Practicing Sustainability

Practicing Sustainability

Author: Guru Madhavan ,  Barbara Oakley
ISBN: 9781461443483
Format: Hardback
$131.97

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Death By Chili Sauce

Death By Chili Sauce

Author: Richard Germain
ISBN: 9781906964955
Format: Paperback
$22.99

In Forrest Gump, Gump runs for 3 years and 2 months. In Be Kind Rewind, Jack Black becomes magnetised. In Monty...  Read More >>

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