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This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals About Your Waking Life

This Is Why You Dream: What Your Sleeping Brain Reveals...

Author: Rahul Jandial
ISBN: 9780593655719
Format: Hardback
$76.56

A fascinating dive into the purpose and potential of dreams Dreaming is one of the most deeply misunderstood functions...  Read More >>

The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications

The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After...

Author: Emily Oster ,  Dr Nathan Fox, MD
ISBN: 9781800817678
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A data driven guide of navigating pregnancy complications and what to expect when expecting again.  Read More >>

Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That...

Author: Chris van Tulleken
ISBN: 9781529160222
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Launching the runaway bestseller with ambitions to be the biggest non-fiction paperback of the year IT'S NOT YOU....  Read More >>

To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous Journey Through All of Science

To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before: A Joyous...

Author: Luke O'Neill
ISBN: 9780241994122
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A hugely accessible history of science that reveals the human stories behind the biggest discoveries Scientists...  Read More >>

Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

Author: Helen Czerski
ISBN: 9781804991961
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive...  Read More >>

Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes

Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes

Author: David Darling
ISBN: 9780861548033
Format: Paperback
$22.99

David Darling travels through space and time to find the largest, smallest, stickiest, loudest, quietest, fastest,...  Read More >>

Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science – and Address Humanity’s Biggest Challenges

Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock...

Author: Michio Kaku
ISBN: 9780141999456
Format: Paperback
$28.44

An exhilarating guide to the astonishing future of quantum computing, from the international bestselling physicist...  Read More >>

The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World

The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition...

Author: Patrick Nunn
ISBN: 9781399421058
Format: Paperback
$36.99

How much of what became the folk tales of our ancestors was rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and what can...  Read More >>

This Book Is Full of Holes: From Underground to Outer Space and Everywhere in Between

This Book Is Full of Holes: From Underground to Outer...

Author: Nora Nickum ,  Robert Meganck
ISBN: 9781486318407
Format: Hardback
$27.99

The stories of holes, from human-made holes to blue holes, sinkholes and even blowholes!  Read More >>

Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible Universe

Heart of Darkness: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Invisible...

Author: Jeremiah P. Ostriker ,  Simon Mitton
ISBN: 9780691258935
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Describes the saga of humankind's quest to unravel the secrets of the universe. This title explains the physics...  Read More >>

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading...

Author: Gary Marcus ,  Jeremy Freeman
ISBN: 9780691258829
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain science Includes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates...  Read More >>

How Great Thinkers Transformed Our Ideas: Share the insights of Newton, Hawking, Curie and other geniuses

How Great Thinkers Transformed Our Ideas: Share the...

Author: C C Hagan
ISBN: 9781805142546
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This book represents a slice of the history of ideas, science and philosophy and how the lives of great thinkers...  Read More >>

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness

Author: Nicholas Humphrey (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics)
ISBN: 9780198858546
Format: Paperback
$23.95

Conscious sensations ground our sense of self, but is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Will future...  Read More >>

Every Body Should Know This: The Science of Eating for a Lifetime of Health

Every Body Should Know This: The Science of Eating for...

Author: Dr Federica Amati
ISBN: 9780241663332
Format: Paperback
$36.99

DISCOVER THE SCIENCE OF EATING FOR A LIFETIME OF HEALTH Are you overwhelmed by conflicting nutritional advice?...  Read More >>

Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement

Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the...

Author: Dr Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer) ,  Prof John L. Heilbron (Professor Emeritus of History, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780192846105
Format: Hardback
$52.95

Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely baffling. From the moment...  Read More >>

Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How to Fail and Embrace the Unknown

Breakthrough: How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn How...

Author: Camilla Pang
ISBN: 9780241545331
Format: Hardback
$45.00

What can we learn about ourselves if we think like scientists? A scientist's journey from observation to discovery...  Read More >>

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better...

Author: J. Doyne Farmer
ISBN: 9780241201978
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A renowned complexity scientist promotes a revolution to make economic predictions more scientific, allowing us...  Read More >>

Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing World

Allergic: How Our Immune System Reacts to a Changing...

Author: Theresa MacPhail
ISBN: 9781802062830
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An eye-opening investigation-combining reporting, history and cutting-edge science-into allergies and their stunning...  Read More >>

Hemos recibido un mensaje extraterrestre: La verdad científica sobre la vida más  allá del planeta Tierra / We Have Received an Alien Message

Hemos recibido un mensaje extraterrestre: La verdad...

Author: Jorge Nicolás-Álvarez
ISBN: 9788466677257
Format: Paperback
$57.95

¿ESTAMOS SOLOS EN EL UNIVERSO? Jorge Nicolás-Álvarez(@fugastronautica) nos guía en un viaje fascinante por el...  Read More >>

The Meaning of Truth (Concise Edition)

The Meaning of Truth (Concise Edition)

Author: William James ,  Dr. Tadd Reutenik
ISBN: 9781804177945
Format: Paperback
$26.99

New, concise edition of one the most important pillars of modern philosophy. James' foundational work defines the...  Read More >>

The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)

The Book of Astronomy in Antiquity (Concise Edition)...

Author: Ptolemy ,  Professor Christián C. Carman
ISBN: 9781804177914
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Ptolemy’s The Almagest brought together the ideas of Greek Antiquity, that the sun and planets revolved around the...  Read More >>

The Republic: The Essential Philosophical Dialogue (Concise Edition)

The Republic: The Essential Philosophical Dialogue (Concise...

Author: Plato ,  Harold Tarrant
ISBN: 9781804177938
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Much of traditional Western thought began in Antiquity, flowing from the Platonic dialogues, The Republic being...  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 >>

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