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How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries

How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries...

Author: David George Haskell
ISBN: 9781911709985
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Discover how flowers revolutionised our world. While dinosaurs and mammals steal the spotlight, it was the rise...  Read More >>

Galen's Remedies in the Early Modern Period: Traditions, Theories, Transformations, and Trades (1400-1750)

Galen's Remedies in the Early Modern Period: Traditions,...

Author: Fabrizio Bigotti ,  John Wilkins
ISBN: 9783032007247
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Surviving the demise of his humoral pathology and anatomy, Galen’s works on simple and compound remedies (the so-called...  Read More >>

Blumenbach’s Racial Classification: Deconstructing the Timeless Call for Human Differentiation

Blumenbach’s Racial Classification: Deconstructing the...

Author: Victoria Shmidt ,  Simone De Angelis
ISBN: 9783032159496
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book explores how the elements of Blumenbach’s epistemology have been variously assembled in different...  Read More >>

The Fibre Factor: A Science-backed Guide to a Healthier Gut, Stronger Heart and Sharper Brain

The Fibre Factor: A Science-backed Guide to a Healthier...

Author: Joanna McMillan
ISBN: 9781761356728
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter

Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter

Author: Jenny Sundén ,  Susanna Paasonen
ISBN: 9780262052061
Format: Paperback
$115.00

""Building on a three-year (2020-2022) multi-sited study of three North European BDSM, fetish, and kink platforms...  Read More >>

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

Author: Beth Linker
ISBN: 9780691235516
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America - from eugenics and...  Read More >>

Wigmore on Carbon Monoxide: Medicolegal and Forensic Aspects of an Ancient, Silent Killer and Other Toxic Gases in Fires, Exhausts, and Explosions

Wigmore on Carbon Monoxide: Medicolegal and Forensic...

Author: James G. Wigmore
ISBN: 9781487570606
Format: Paperback
$270.00

Wigmore on Carbon Monoxide uncovers the fascinating history and ongoing dangers of carbon monoxide, the invisible...  Read More >>

Open Space: From Earth to Eternity--the Global Race to Explore and Conquer the Cosmos

Open Space: From Earth to Eternity--the Global Race...

Author: David Ariosto
ISBN: 9780593535035
Format: Hardback
$75.00

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The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the...

Author: Jessica Riskin
ISBN: 9780593852576
Format: Hardback
$70.00

The tumultuous life and radical science of a thinker ahead of his time, and the history of an idea that changed...  Read More >>

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author: Quinn Slobodian ,  Ben Tarnoff
ISBN: 9780241805114
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A pyrotechnic examination of Elon Musk as a symptom and avatar of our postliberal age Who on earth is Elon Musk...  Read More >>

The Nature Delusion: Why We Can’t Fix the World Without Fixing Ourselves

The Nature Delusion: Why We Can’t Fix the World Without...

Author: Tom Oliver (University of Reading)
ISBN: 9781529244472
Format: Hardback
$41.95

A one-of-a-kind book offering a unique perspective on how our connection with nature relates to the current environmental...  Read More >>

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties...

Author: Bill M. Mak (Kyoto University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781138477599
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the history of foreign astral science in China from the unique viewpoint of the knowledge introduced...  Read More >>

Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung in Kindertageseinrichtungen: Eine empirische Untersuchung zu den Vorstellungen pädagogischer Fachkräfte über frühe naturwissenschaftliche Bildung

Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung in Kindertageseinrichtungen:...

Author: Lena-Maria Kraska
ISBN: 9783658510589
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Im vorliegenden Buch werden zentrale Aspekte des Bereichs der frühen naturwissenschaftlichen Bildung in den Blick...  Read More >>

The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve

The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve...

Author: Dr Kevin Tracey
ISBN: 9781405978507
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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39 Ways to Save the Planet

39 Ways to Save the Planet

Author: Tom Heap ,  Arnold Schwarzenegger
ISBN: 9781911743095
Format: Paperback
$29.99

We have already devised many ways to reduce climate change - some now proven, others encouraging and craving uptake....  Read More >>

The Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world

The Genius of Trees: How trees mastered the elements...

Author: Harriet Rix
ISBN: 9781529921267
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The mind-expanding global story of how trees have used the elements to shape our world - possessing agency beyond...  Read More >>

Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920

Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920...

Author: Anthony E. Carlson
ISBN: 9781469694795
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Wetlands—particularly swamps—have evoked contradictory responses from different groups in the United States from...  Read More >>

Energy Resources: Examining the Facts

Energy Resources: Examining the Facts

Author: Jerry A. McBeath
ISBN: 9798216461104
Format: Paperback
$45.00

An authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America's energy picture,...  Read More >>

The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: Tanning Culture from Fad to Fear

The Rise and Fall of the Sunbed in Britain: Tanning...

Author: Fabiola Creed (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350461123
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explores changing representation of sunbed providers and consumers in Britain by analysing the role of the media,...  Read More >>

Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies

Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies...

Author: Gaia Bernstein (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781009257947
Format: Paperback
$41.40

Instead of blaming users for technology addiction and offering self-help measures, Unwired shifts responsibility...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Author: Allan Hepburn (McGill University, Montréal)
ISBN: 9781009536004
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Recognising herself as a child...  Read More >>

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence...

Author: John Green
ISBN: 9781529961447
Format: Paperback
$26.99

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare...  Read More >>

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