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Why Cats Land on Their Feet: And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles

Why Cats Land on Their Feet: And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes...

Author: Mark Levi
ISBN: 9780691148540
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel...  Read More >>

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the...

Author: Robert O. Kurzban
ISBN: 9780691154398
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. This title shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral...  Read More >>

Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life

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

Author: Enrico Coen
ISBN: 9780691149677
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Offers an account of how life transforms itself - from the production of bacteria to the emergence of complex civilizations....  Read More >>

X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life

X and the City: Modeling Aspects of Urban Life

Author: John Adam
ISBN: 9780691154640
Format: Hardback
$54.99

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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time

My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One...

Author: Lone Frank
ISBN: 9781851689149
Format: Paperback
$19.99

What if your future could be mapped out for you. Would you want to know?  Read More >>

Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness

Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness

Author: Kees van Deemter (Reader in Computing Science, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9780199645732
Format: Paperback
$35.95

Our lives are full of inexactitude. We say a person is tall or an action is just without the precision of measurement...  Read More >>

The Nuclear Environmentalist: Is There a Green Road to Nuclear Energy?

The Nuclear Environmentalist: Is There a Green Road...

Author: Juan José Gomez Cadenas ,  Cristina Ingiardi
ISBN: 9788847024779
Format: Paperback
$87.09

This book explains how society will face an energy crisis in the coming decades owing to increasing scarcity of...  Read More >>

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Author: Florence Williams
ISBN: 9781921922640
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Feted and fetishised, the breast is an evolutionary masterpiece....  Read More >>

Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Science

Author: Geoffrey Gorham ,  Robert Meldrum
ISBN: 9781743105184
Format: Audio
$38.76

The world hasn’t met with destruction on any of the long list of predicted doomsday dates, but the possibility may...  Read More >>

Evolving: The Human Effect and Why It Matters

Evolving: The Human Effect and Why It Matters

Author: Daniel J. Fairbanks
ISBN: 9781616145651
Format: Paperback
$38.99

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Pensare l'impossibile: Dialogo infinito tra arte e scienza

Pensare l'impossibile: Dialogo infinito tra arte e scienza...

Author: Luciano Boi
ISBN: 9788847016729
Format: Paperback
$105.47

In questo libro matematica e arte si incontrano, confrontando ed esplorando tre oggetti-concetti: nodi, buchi e...  Read More >>

The Marvelous Learning Animal: What Makes Human Behavior Unique

The Marvelous Learning Animal: What Makes Human Behavior...

Author: Arthur W. Staats
ISBN: 9781616145972
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Offers an exploration into how our ability to learn makes humans and human nature unique. This title explores how...  Read More >>

The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to Digital Consciousness

The Universal Machine: From the Dawn of Computing to...

Author: Ian Watson
ISBN: 9783642281013
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The computer unlike other inventions is universal; In the future ubiquitous computing, AI, quantum and molecular...  Read More >>

Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports

Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things...

Author: John D. Barrow (Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9780393063417
Format: Hardback
$71.15

An entertaining, eye-opening guide to what math and physics can reveal about sports.  Read More >>

Evolution - Fact or Fiction?

Evolution - Fact or Fiction?

Author: Nicholas Nurston
ISBN: 9781477106082
Format: Hardback
$87.83

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The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science: The Very Best Backyard Science Experiments You Can Do Yourself

The Ultimate Book of Saturday Science: The Very Best...

Author: Neil A. Downie
ISBN: 9780691149660
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos

The Book of Universes: Exploring the Limits of the Cosmos...

Author: John D. Barrow (Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9780393343113
Format: Paperback
$44.75

“There can be few better guides to the bewildering array of potential universes, and none so readable or entertaining.”—Manjit...  Read More >>

They Play, You Pay: Why Taxpayers Build Ballparks, Stadiums, and Arenas for Billionaire Owners and Millionaire Players

They Play, You Pay: Why Taxpayers Build Ballparks, Stadiums,...

Author: James T. Bennett
ISBN: 9781461433316
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Here is a fresh look at a political and economic puzzle: why do Joe and Jane Sixpack in the Bronx and Dallas pay...  Read More >>

Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas

Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas

Author: Mike Mcrae
ISBN: 9781616145835
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Human beings evolved in a tribal environment. This title examines the many ways in which our tribally oriented brains...  Read More >>

What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen

What Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science...

Author: Robert L. Wolke ,  Marlene Parrish
ISBN: 9780393341652
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Chock-full of exercises and strategies, this book will allow clients to deepen the key principles of interpersonal...  Read More >>

William Speirs Bruce

William Speirs Bruce

Author: Jesse Russell ,  Ronald Cohn
ISBN: 9785510520729
Format: Paperback
$52.67

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Speirs Bruce (1 August 1867 - 28 October 1921) was a London-born...  Read More >>

Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Artificial Intelligence: A Graphic Guide...

Author: Henry Brighton ,  Howard Selina
ISBN: 9781848312142
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Compact guide to the latest advances in this new scientific field.  Read More >>

Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way

Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found...

Author: Molly Birnbaum
ISBN: 9781846273841
Format: Paperback
$24.99

From a young chef who suddenly lost her sense of smell, a fascinating personal exploration of this most nebulous...  Read More >>

The Speed of Time

The Speed of Time

Author: Sharad B. Nalawade
ISBN: 9789381576007
Format: Paperback
$24.42

The Speed of Time is the most unusual book on popular science that you will read. The world you live in is stranger...  Read More >>

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom...

Author: Nick Mann ,  Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9781579128951
Format: Paperback
$32.99

With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually...  Read More >>

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