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Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs...

Author: Tim James
ISBN: 9781472148414
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Immune Mind: The new science of health

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

Author: Monty Lyman
ISBN: 9781911709176
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Delving into the recent discovery of the brain's immune system, Dr Monty Lyman reveals the extraordinary implications...  Read More >>

On the Origin of Time

On the Origin of Time

Author: Thomas Hertog
ISBN: 9781804991121
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog....  Read More >>

Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture

Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations...

Author: Andreas Wagner
ISBN: 9780861548064
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Why do some of nature’s marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?  Read More >>

Pathogenesis: How germs made history

Pathogenesis: How germs made history

Author: Jonathan Kennedy
ISBN: 9781804991893
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, has...  Read More >>

Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Author: Joe Roman
ISBN: 9781805221692
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs...

Author: Tim James
ISBN: 9781472148407
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A hugely entertaining exploration of unintentional world-changing discoveries in science, for fans of ELEMENTAL...  Read More >>

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

The Immune Mind: The new science of health

Author: Monty Lyman
ISBN: 9781911709169
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Delving into the recent discovery of the brain's immune system, Dr Monty Lyman reveals the extraordinary implications...  Read More >>

The Quantum Self

The Quantum Self

Author: Danah Zohar
ISBN: 9780688107369
Format: Paperback
$26.95

Combining physics, philosophy and psychology, this book offers a revolutionary theory of the origins and nature...  Read More >>

It's Not Rocket Science

It's Not Rocket Science

Author: Ben Miller
ISBN: 9781408732380
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An engaging, accessible and fascinating voyage through science's 'mind-blowing best bits' by popular comedian and...  Read More >>

Metamorphosis: How insects are changing our world

Metamorphosis: How insects are changing our world

Author: Erica McAlister ,  Adrian Washbourne
ISBN: 9781486318902
Format: Hardback
$34.99

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The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time

The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World...

Author: Richard Fisher
ISBN: 9781472285256
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable Energy

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable...

Author: Yasmin Ali
ISBN: 9781529382983
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Author: Charles Oxnard (Univ Of Western Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9789811283901
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Many people today deny the idea of Human Change (especially when the word 'evolution' is used). Many others, accepting...  Read More >>

Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real Intuition and Make Better Decisions

Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real...

Author: Joel Pearson
ISBN: 9781801293051
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Intuition follows basic rules, and Pearson explains that by understanding these rules and when and how to apply...  Read More >>

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable Energy

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable...

Author: Yasmin Ali
ISBN: 9781529382976
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An essential and personal primer on the global energy system that powers our world, from an engineer on a journey...  Read More >>

Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Author: Charles Oxnard (Univ Of Western Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9789811283086
Format: Hardback
$232.32

Many people today deny the idea of Human Change (especially when the word 'evolution' is used). Many others, accepting...  Read More >>

CHARGE: Why Does Gravity Rule?

CHARGE: Why Does Gravity Rule?

Author: Close
ISBN: 9780198885054
Format: Hardback
$35.95

Frank Close explores the deep, and as yet unresolved, puzzle of why matter is electrically neutral.  Read More >>

The Struggle of Parts

The Struggle of Parts

Author: Wilhelm Roux ,  David Haig
ISBN: 9780674290648
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Among the late nineteenth-century profusion of evolutionary ideas, Wilhelm Roux’s theory of a struggle for existence...  Read More >>

Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth

Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed...

Author: Lev Parikian
ISBN: 9781783967827
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A celebration of the miraculous phenomenon of flight through fourteen species and across millions of years – from...  Read More >>

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks...

Author: Kristen Orr ,  Matt Wasowski
ISBN: 9781250288349
Format: Hardback
$49.99

In the vein of popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura and What If?, the co-founders of the global science...  Read More >>

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields...

Author: Sean Carroll
ISBN: 9780861546480
Format: Hardback
$42.99

'Luminous and straightforward.’ Carlo Rovelli  Read More >>

Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality

Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality...

Author: Sander Bais
ISBN: 9789048562879
Format: Hardback
$240.11

Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of nature and has been the driver of many technological...  Read More >>

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

Author: Adam Gopnik
ISBN: 9781529414653
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest...  Read More >>

Last Word's Uncommon Women

Last Word's Uncommon Women

Author: Celia Hayley
ISBN: 9781474607643
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The official companion book to BBC Radio 4's Last Word, a rich tapestry of women's lives in the 20th and 21st centuries...  Read More >>

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