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Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners

Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is...

Author: Tom Koppel
ISBN: 9780743453592
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs...

Author: Stephen Hawking
ISBN: 9780762419227
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Bestselling author and physicist Hawking explores the ""masterpieces"" of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500...  Read More >>

Galileo’s Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter

Galileo’s Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making...

Author: Roger G. Newton
ISBN: 9780674018488
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Newton sets the stage for Galileo’s discovery with a look at biorhythms in living organisms and at early calendars...  Read More >>

It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity

It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity...

Author: N. David Mermin
ISBN: 9780691122014
Format: Hardback
$110.88

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Terrors of the Table: The curious history of nutrition

Terrors of the Table: The curious history of nutrition...

Author: Walter Gratzer (Emeritus Professor, King's College London)
ISBN: 9780192806611
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Terrors of the Table tells the absorbing story of our struggle to recognise the connections between diet, health,...  Read More >>

Faces of Science: Portraits

Faces of Science: Portraits

Author: Mariana Ruth Cook ,  Gerard Piel
ISBN: 9780393061185
Format: Hardback
$65.95

An intimate look at the people behind some of the great discoveries of our time.  Read More >>

25 Big Ideas in Science: The Science That's Changing our World

25 Big Ideas in Science: The Science That's Changing...

Author: Robert Matthews
ISBN: 9781851683918
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search for Hidden Universes

The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud and the Search...

Author: Richard Panek
ISBN: 9781841152783
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A book which offers fresh perspectives on the scientific developments of the past hundred years through the complementary...  Read More >>

Longitude

Longitude

Author: Dava Sobel
ISBN: 9780007214228
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution...  Read More >>

BOOK OF CLOUDS

BOOK OF CLOUDS

Author: John Day
ISBN: 9781402728136
Format: Paperback
$39.47

See the sky as you never have before. Using a series of his awe-inspiring images, photographer and scientist John...  Read More >>

Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-way Street of Global Warming

Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-way Street...

Author: D. Reay
ISBN: 9780230007543
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Packed with provocative case studies, calculations and lifestyle comparisons, this entertaining and authoritative...  Read More >>

Darwin, The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea

Darwin, The Indelible Stamp: The Evolution of an Idea...

Author: Charles Darwin ,  James D. Watson
ISBN: 9780762421367
Format: Hardback
$79.07

"""For the first time ever in one volume, here are four of the most influential works of Charles Darwin, reprinted...  Read More >>

Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming

Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of...

Author: Robert Ehrlich
ISBN: 9780691124049
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Evaluates the evidence for the sort of strange-sounding ideas that can shape our lives. This book takes up issues...  Read More >>

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction

The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford University Press)
ISBN: 9780192804990
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Leofranc Holford-Strevens explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years...  Read More >>

The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone

The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone

Author: Diane Goldstein ,  Kenneth W. Ford
ISBN: 9780674018327
Format: Paperback
$53.95

The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing...  Read More >>

Happiness

Happiness

Author: Nettle
ISBN: 9780192805584
Format: Hardback
$19.95

The pursuit of happiness has been recognized by everyone from poets to politicians as what makes the world go round....  Read More >>

Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet

Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration...

Author: Steve Squyres
ISBN: 9781401301491
Format: Hardback
$68.51

From the charismatic scientist and leader of the Mars Exploration Rover mission comes a riveting, behind-the-scenes...  Read More >>

Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today

Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today

Author: John Dupré (, Professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780199284214
Format: Paperback
$53.95

Presents an introduction to evolution and what it means for our view of humanity, the natural world, and religion....  Read More >>

Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time Machine

Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First...

Author: Jenny Randles
ISBN: 9780743492591
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents

Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents

Author: Raymond Tallis
ISBN: 9781843541271
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography of Maurice Wilkins

The Third Man of the Double Helix: The Autobiography...

Author: Wilkins
ISBN: 9780192806673
Format: Paperback
$50.95

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