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Most Delicious Poison: From Spices to Vices – The Story of Nature’s Toxins

Most Delicious Poison: From Spices to Vices – The Story...

Author: Noah Whiteman
ISBN: 9780861544516
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Everything you’ve always wanted to know about poisons but have been too afraid to ask…  Read More >>

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2: From the Curious to the Quantum

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume...

Author: Vivian Appler (University of Georgia, USA) ,  Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
ISBN: 9781350234260
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Volume 2 of Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance investigates performances that illuminate the hidden...  Read More >>

Forging Modernity: Why and How Britain Developed the Industrial Revolution

Forging Modernity: Why and How Britain Developed the...

Author: Martin Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780718896898
Format: Paperback
$64.69

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Physics: 50 Essential Ideas

Physics: 50 Essential Ideas

Author: Robert Snedden (Author)
ISBN: 9781398824812
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Written in plain English with concise explanations, this is a wonderful introduction to physics for the general...  Read More >>

Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables

Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables

Author: Jo Wimpenny
ISBN: 9781472966926
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Turns a critical eye to Aesop's fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth behind these animal portrayals....  Read More >>

The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time

The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time

Author: Julian Barbour
ISBN: 9781784706678
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The first is that the most common explanation for time – entropy – is flawed: firstly, because we have no way of...  Read More >>

Consciousness: How Our Brains Turn Matter into Meaning

Consciousness: How Our Brains Turn Matter into Meaning...

Author: John Parrington
ISBN: 9781837730780
Format: Paperback
$25.99

What is the material basis of the thoughts that occur inside our heads? Where do imaginative, creative, or spiritual...  Read More >>

The Miracle of Our Universe: A New View of Consciousness, God, Science, and Reality

The Miracle of Our Universe: A New View of Consciousness,...

Author: Bernard Haisch (Bernard Haisch) ,  Marsha Sims (Marsha Sims)
ISBN: 9781637480144
Format: Paperback
$34.99

'A fascinating, comprehensive, and accessible exploration of life’s most fundamental questions. If you’re wondering...  Read More >>

A Transdisciplinary Introduction to the World of Cybernetics: Basics, Models, Theories and Practical Examples

A Transdisciplinary Introduction to the World of Cybernetics:...

Author: E. W. Udo Küppers
ISBN: 9783658421168
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This introduction to the world of cybernetics provides the basics and discusses the most important thought leaders,...  Read More >>

A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of Ai

A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of...

Author: Max Bennett
ISBN: 9780008560096
Format: Hardback
$42.99

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Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to Simple Questions

Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other...

Author: John Gribbin
ISBN: 9781837731008
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of...  Read More >>

A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of Ai

A Brief History of Intelligence: Why the Evolution of...

Author: Max Bennett
ISBN: 9780008560102
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be. 'I found...  Read More >>

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You

This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love...

Author: Dr. Susan Rogers ,  Ogi Ogas
ISBN: 9781529114010
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown

The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown...

Author: Adam Welz
ISBN: 9781399415873
Format: Hardback
$42.99

A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems--an homage...  Read More >>

Digital Photography Explained

Digital Photography Explained

Author: Peter S Pershan (Harvard Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9789811283925
Format: Paperback
$73.92

This book can serve as a missing guide for technical features of digital photography that many enthusiasts are unaware...  Read More >>

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State

Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Roland Jackson
ISBN: 9780822947905
Format: Hardback
$171.60

In twenty-first-century Britain, scientific advice to government is highly organized, integrated across government...  Read More >>

Digital Photography Explained

Digital Photography Explained

Author: Peter S Pershan (Harvard Univ, Usa)
ISBN: 9789811283420
Format: Hardback
$153.12

This book can serve as a missing guide for technical features of digital photography that many enthusiasts are unaware...  Read More >>

Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond

Peat and Whisky: The Unbreakable Bond

Author: Mike Billett ,  Dave Broom
ISBN: 9781913393908
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"""Outstanding ... among the most important books about whisky ever written."" Charles MacLean Bringing together...  Read More >>

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of...

Author: Cat Bohannon
ISBN: 9781529151244
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An ambitious, groundbreaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...  Read More >>

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of...

Author: Cat Bohannon
ISBN: 9781529151237
Format: Hardback
$69.99

An ambitious, groundbreaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...  Read More >>

No Wisdom Without Folly: The Extraordinary Life Of Francois Englert, Nobel Laureate

No Wisdom Without Folly: The Extraordinary Life Of Francois...

Author: Danielle Losman (-) ,  Jane Kuntz (.)
ISBN: 9789811283246
Format: Hardback
$179.52

This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him...  Read More >>

The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial...

Author: Matteo Pasquinelli
ISBN: 9781788730068
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"A ""social"" history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and...  Read More >>

Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs

Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs

Author: Pat Shipman
ISBN: 9780674293946
Format: Paperback
$32.95

The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral,...  Read More >>

Newton's Notebook: The Life, Times and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton

Newton's Notebook: The Life, Times and Discoveries of...

Author: Joel Levy
ISBN: 9781803994819
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Newton's Notebook is a biography of the great man, but a biography with a difference  Read More >>

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