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An Optimist's Tour of the Future

An Optimist's Tour of the Future

Author: Mark Stevenson
ISBN: 9781846683572
Format: Paperback
$27.99

One curious man's journey to find out 'what's next?'  Read More >>

The Island of the Colour-blind

The Island of the Colour-blind

Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9780330526104
Format: Paperback
$26.99

From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.  Read More >>

The Man Who Knew Too Much: The inventive life of Robert Hooke, 1635 - 1703

The Man Who Knew Too Much: The inventive life of Robert...

Author: Stephen Inwood
ISBN: 9780230768451
Format: Paperback
$51.75

The strange and eventful story of one of the great unsung heroes of modern science.  Read More >>

The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true

The Magic of Reality: How we know what's really true...

Author: Richard Dawkins ,  Dave McKean
ISBN: 9780552778053
Format: Paperback
$26.99

It is the magic of reality - science. Packed with inspiring explanations of space, time and evolution, laced with...  Read More >>

The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does happen

The Quantum Universe: Everything that can happen does...

Author: Brian Cox ,  Jeff Forshaw
ISBN: 9780241952702
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Ballet of the Planets: A Mathematician's Musings on the Elegance of Planetary Motion

The Ballet of the Planets: A Mathematician's Musings...

Author: Donald Benson (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780199891009
Format: Hardback
$92.95

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion. The book shows how our understanding...  Read More >>

Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human...

Author: Barbara Natterson Horowitz ,  Kathryn Bowers
ISBN: 9780753539835
Format: Paperback
$45.00

Concerns about the recent explosions of diseases like HIV, the West Nile Virus, and other avian and swine flus that...  Read More >>

Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization

Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space...

Author: Cameron M Smith ,  Evan T. Davies
ISBN: 9781461411642
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization within the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the...  Read More >>

The Beach Book: Science of the Shore

The Beach Book: Science of the Shore

Author: Carl Hobbs
ISBN: 9780231160551
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Waves and tides, wind and storms, sea-level rise and shore erosion: these are the forces that shape our beaches,...  Read More >>

The Beach Book: Science of the Shore

The Beach Book: Science of the Shore

Author: Carl Hobbs
ISBN: 9780231160544
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Waves and tides, wind and storms, sea-level rise and shore erosion: these are the forces that shape our beaches,...  Read More >>

It's Not Rocket Science

It's Not Rocket Science

Author: Ben Miller ,  Ben Miller
ISBN: 9781405516945
Format: Downloadable audio file
$43.96

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The Science Delusion: Feeling the Spirit of Enquiry

The Science Delusion: Feeling the Spirit of Enquiry...

Author: Rupert Sheldrake
ISBN: 9781444764642
Format: Downloadable audio file
$51.72

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Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty and kindness

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A new theory of human cruelty...

Author: Simon Baron-Cohen
ISBN: 9780141017969
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Is it possible that - rather than thinking in terms of 'good' and 'evil' - all of us instead lie somewhere on the...  Read More >>

The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain

The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme...

Author: Simon Baron-Cohen
ISBN: 9780241961353
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Why are female brains better at empathasing? How are male brains...  Read More >>

Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit

Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit

Author: Ian Leslie ,  Rich Keeble
ISBN: 9781849164252
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Ian Leslie takes us on a fascinating journey which makes us question not only our own relationship to the truth,...  Read More >>

The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political Convictions – How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths

The Believing Brain: From Spiritual Faiths to Political...

Author: Michael Shermer
ISBN: 9781780335292
Format: Paperback
$27.99

'The Believing Brain is a tour de force integrating neuroscience and the social sciences to explain how irrational...  Read More >>

Alice in the Land of Plants: Biology of Plants and Their Importance for Planet Earth

Alice in the Land of Plants: Biology of Plants and Their...

Author: Yiannis Manetas
ISBN: 9783642283376
Format: Hardback
$129.35

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Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human

Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections...

Author: Jesse Bering
ISBN: 9780374532925
Format: Paperback
$63.33

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Everything Under the Sun: Towards a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet

Everything Under the Sun: Towards a Brighter Future...

Author: David Suzuki ,  Ian Hanington
ISBN: 9781743311899
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Renowned author, broadcaster and environmentalist explore the countless challenges facing the world and their interconnected...  Read More >>

British Palaeozoic Fossils

British Palaeozoic Fossils

Author: Natural History Museum
ISBN: 9780565093037
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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The Origin of Our Species

The Origin of Our Species

Author: Chris Stringer
ISBN: 9780141037202
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from Neanderthals, or do...  Read More >>

Secret Chambers: The inside story of cells and complex life

Secret Chambers: The inside story of cells and complex...

Author: Martin Brasier (Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199644001
Format: Hardback
$44.95

With vivid descriptions and master storytelling, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of...  Read More >>

Peeking at Peak Oil

Peeking at Peak Oil

Author: Kjell Aleklett ,  Michael Lardelli
ISBN: 9781461434238
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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