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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World

Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World

Author: Gillen D’Arcy Wood
ISBN: 9780691283999
Format: Paperback
$34.99

On the eve of the bicentenary of the great eruption, this title tells the story of the weather chaos it wrought,...  Read More >>

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen
ISBN: 9780691283975
Format: Paperback
$34.99

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly...  Read More >>

Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects...

Author: Jelle Zeilinga de Boer ,  Donald Theodore Sanders
ISBN: 9780691283944
Format: Paperback
$34.99

On November 1, 1755 All Saints' Day a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city...  Read More >>

The Three Domains of Life: A Brief History of Biodiversity

The Three Domains of Life: A Brief History of Biodiversity...

Author: Andrea Maria Francesco Valli
ISBN: 9783032148018
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book unpacks the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, the intriguing theory of endosymbiosis,...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Cosmology

Deleuze and Cosmology

Author: Janae Sholtz (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Alvernia University) ,  Alain Beaulieu
ISBN: 9781399560894
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Illustrates the importance of cosmology in Deleuze's philosophy and its potential for multi-disciplinary transformation....  Read More >>

Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation

Earth and Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation

Author: Andrew H. Knoll
ISBN: 9780691182230
Format: Hardback
$54.99

From the world-renowned geobiologist and bestselling author of A Brief History of Earth, the epic story of a planetary...  Read More >>

Think Tank Science and Engineering: An Introduction

Think Tank Science and Engineering: An Introduction...

Author: Jiaofeng Pan
ISBN: 9789819532841
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book introduces think tank science and engineering as an emerging academic discipline, marking the evolution...  Read More >>

Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI

Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI

Author: Sarah Murray
ISBN: 9781479836376
Format: Hardback
$206.00

Far from a sudden technological revolution, everyday AI emerged through decades of cultural conditioning of smart...  Read More >>

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts

Author: Piotr Kacejko (Lublin University of Technology, Poland) ,  Jacek Szulczyk
ISBN: 9781032598802
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines...  Read More >>

Sound Affects: How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing and Our Planet

Sound Affects: How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing...

Author: Julian Treasure
ISBN: 9781529428841
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An epic journey to the heart of sound spanning disciplines, continents and centuries  Read More >>

Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach

Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach...

Author: Michael Tooley (College Professor of Distinction; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, College Professor of Distinction; Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder)
ISBN: 9780197801611
Format: Hardback
$245.95

In Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach, Michael Tooley offers detailed criticism of various approaches...  Read More >>

The Atomic Nucleus: History, Physics and Applications

The Atomic Nucleus: History, Physics and Applications...

Author: Wolfgang Osterhage
ISBN: 9783032177148
Format: Hardback
$388.10

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Reals by Abstraction. An Inquiry about Epistemic Economy in Mathematics: Volume I: Epistemic Economy and The Natural Numbers

Reals by Abstraction. An Inquiry about Epistemic Economy...

Author: Marco Panza
ISBN: 9783032001467
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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Deep Learning on Type Ia Supernovae

Deep Learning on Type Ia Supernovae

Author: Xingzhuo Chen
ISBN: 9783032130310
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges...

Author: Matt Strassler
ISBN: 9781541603370
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey to discover how the universe generates everything...  Read More >>

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: 9781911709992
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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

Atmospheres and Digital Media: Connection and Disconnection Across Everyday Life

Atmospheres and Digital Media: Connection and Disconnection...

Author: Francisca Porfírio (Universidade Lusófona of Portugal) ,  Rita Grácio (Lusófona University)
ISBN: 9781529252620
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do digital connections shape how we feel? From parenting...  Read More >>

The Waterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea

The Waterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea...

Author: Stephen Rutt
ISBN: 9781783969319
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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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 >>

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