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March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen

March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen

Author: John L. Ingraham ,  Roberto Kolter
ISBN: 9780674035829
Format: Hardback
$76.43

Microbes go mostly unnoticed. We regard them as peripheral, disease-causing, food-spoiling troublemakers. This book...  Read More >>

The Brain and the Meaning of Life

The Brain and the Meaning of Life

Author: Paul Thagard
ISBN: 9780691142722
Format: Hardback
$81.71

Our cognitive and emotional abilities allow us to understand reality, decide effectively, act morally, and pursue...  Read More >>

Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order

Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order

Author: Paavo T. I. Pylkkänen
ISBN: 9783642062865
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Pylkkänen proposes that Bohm’s alternative interpretation of quantum theory resolves these paradoxes and thus enables...  Read More >>

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

Science: A Four Thousand Year History

Author: Patricia Fara (, Senior Tutor, Clare College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199580279
Format: Paperback
$38.95

A groundbreaking new history of science, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics...  Read More >>

The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past

The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological...

Author: Richard Fortey
ISBN: 9781847920713
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Guides readers throughout the British Isles. This work states that Britain was once divided into two parts separated...  Read More >>

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing...

Author: Michael Brooks
ISBN: 9781861976475
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.  Read More >>

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number...

Author: Professor Robin Dunbar
ISBN: 9780571253425
Format: Hardback
$35.00

Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour, through the groundbreaking experiments...  Read More >>

An Apple A Day: The Myths, Misconceptions and Truths About the Food we Eat

An Apple A Day: The Myths, Misconceptions and Truths...

Author: Joseph Schwarcz
ISBN: 9781851687268
Format: Paperback
$25.85

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Science - Lenticular Poster Book

Science - Lenticular Poster Book

Author:
ISBN: 9781742116921
Format: Hardback
$29.95

Discover the incredible world of science and uncover the theories and research that have shaped our world. Learn...  Read More >>

Good Vibrations: The Physics of Music

Good Vibrations: The Physics of Music

Author: Barry Parker
ISBN: 9780801892646
Format: Hardback
$72.99

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A Brief History of the Universe: From Ancient Babylon to the Big Bang

A Brief History of the Universe: From Ancient Babylon...

Author: J.P. McEvoy
ISBN: 9781845296841
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness

Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness

Author: Kees van Deemter (Reader in Computing Science, University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9780199545902
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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

Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200

Number Freak: A Mathematical Compendium from 1 to 200...

Author: Derrick Niederman
ISBN: 9780715637104
Format: Hardback
$33.61

Did you know that the Hundred Years War actually lasted 116 years? Do you know what decimoctoseptology is? Or what...  Read More >>

How To Teach Physics To Your Dog

How To Teach Physics To Your Dog

Author: Chad Orzel
ISBN: 9781416572282
Format: Hardback
$63.36

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Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger

Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger

Author: Jeff Wise
ISBN: 9780230614390
Format: Hardback
$71.28

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How to Find a Habitable Planet

How to Find a Habitable Planet

Author: James F. Kasting
ISBN: 9780691138053
Format: Hardback
$79.07

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British Mesozoic Fossils

British Mesozoic Fossils

Author: Natural History Museum
ISBN: 9781898298731
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This work provides information on which fossils one may expect to find amongst the wealth of geological horizons...  Read More >>

The Other Brain: from Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries About the Brain are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science

The Other Brain: from Dementia to Schizophrenia, How...

Author: R Douglas Fields (National Institutes of Health, Baltimore)
ISBN: 9780743291415
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Neurons fill only half the brain. The other half, consisting of...  Read More >>

Feedback and Control for Everyone

Feedback and Control for Everyone

Author: Pedro Albertos ,  Iven Mareels
ISBN: 9783642034459
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This intriguing and motivating book presents the basic ideas and understanding of control, signals and systems for...  Read More >>

Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden...

Author: Randi Hutter Epstein
ISBN: 9780393064582
Format: Hardback
$65.87

From a witty, relentlessly inquisitive medical writer, an eye-opening history of pregnancy and birthing joys and...  Read More >>

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic...

Author: Deborah Blum ,  Coleen Marlo
ISBN: 9781400115501
Format: Audio
$92.37

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover...  Read More >>

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic...

Author: Deborah Blum ,  Coleen Marlo
ISBN: 9781400145508
Format: Audio
$184.77

Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover...  Read More >>

Antimatter

Antimatter

Author: Frank Close (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Oxford University, and Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199578870
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Frank Close explores the strange mirror world of antimatter, revealing that the reality is even more fascinating...  Read More >>

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