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Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: An irreverent guide to the world's most successful scientific theory - and what it means for you

Quantum Physics Made Me Do It: An irreverent guide to...

Author: Jérémie Harris
ISBN: 9781035402106
Format: Paperback
$26.99

What the most successful scientific theory in history teaches us about being human.  Read More >>

Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life

Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History...

Author: Jonathan Silvertown (Honorary Professor, Honorary Professor, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198876397
Format: Hardback
$42.95

Selfish Genes to Social Beings is a new history of life told from a different perspective: cooperation. Beginning...  Read More >>

Building Bridges Starts in the Mind: Engineering - More than Technical Solutions

Building Bridges Starts in the Mind: Engineering - More...

Author: Moritz Menge
ISBN: 9783658442347
Format: Hardback
$131.97

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Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Alien Earths: Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Author: Lisa Kaltenegger
ISBN: 9780241680988
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The world expert explains how we hunt new planets, then search them to find if we're alone in the universe For...  Read More >>

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs...

Author: Tim James
ISBN: 9781472148414
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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On the Origin of Time

On the Origin of Time

Author: Thomas Hertog
ISBN: 9781804991121
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog....  Read More >>

Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture

Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations...

Author: Andreas Wagner
ISBN: 9780861548064
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Why do some of nature’s marvels have to wait millions of years for their time in the sun?  Read More >>

Pathogenesis: How germs made history

Pathogenesis: How germs made history

Author: Jonathan Kennedy
ISBN: 9781804991893
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Humans did not make history - we played host. This major new history of the world, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, has...  Read More >>

Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

Author: Joe Roman
ISBN: 9781805221692
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World

Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs...

Author: Tim James
ISBN: 9781472148407
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A hugely entertaining exploration of unintentional world-changing discoveries in science, for fans of ELEMENTAL...  Read More >>

The Quantum Self

The Quantum Self

Author: Danah Zohar
ISBN: 9780688107369
Format: Paperback
$26.95

Combining physics, philosophy and psychology, this book offers a revolutionary theory of the origins and nature...  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: 9781529156171
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The definitive guide to the Female Body, Eve is the book women all over the world have been waiting for. A NEW...  Read More >>

It's Not Rocket Science

It's Not Rocket Science

Author: Ben Miller
ISBN: 9781408732380
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An engaging, accessible and fascinating voyage through science's 'mind-blowing best bits' by popular comedian and...  Read More >>

The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time

The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World...

Author: Richard Fisher
ISBN: 9781472285256
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Author: Charles Oxnard (Univ Of Western Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9789811283901
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Many people today deny the idea of Human Change (especially when the word 'evolution' is used). Many others, accepting...  Read More >>

Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Humans And Change: Seven Ideas Out Of The Ordinary

Author: Charles Oxnard (Univ Of Western Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9789811283086
Format: Hardback
$232.32

Many people today deny the idea of Human Change (especially when the word 'evolution' is used). Many others, accepting...  Read More >>

CHARGE: Why Does Gravity Rule?

CHARGE: Why Does Gravity Rule?

Author: Close
ISBN: 9780198885054
Format: Hardback
$35.95

Frank Close explores the deep, and as yet unresolved, puzzle of why matter is electrically neutral.  Read More >>

The Struggle of Parts

The Struggle of Parts

Author: Wilhelm Roux ,  David Haig
ISBN: 9780674290648
Format: Hardback
$78.95

Among the late nineteenth-century profusion of evolutionary ideas, Wilhelm Roux’s theory of a struggle for existence...  Read More >>

Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth

Taking Flight: How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed...

Author: Lev Parikian
ISBN: 9781783967827
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A celebration of the miraculous phenomenon of flight through fourteen species and across millions of years – from...  Read More >>

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks of Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math from Nerd Nite

How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi: Collected Quirks...

Author: Kristen Orr ,  Matt Wasowski
ISBN: 9781250288349
Format: Hardback
$49.99

In the vein of popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura and What If?, the co-founders of the global science...  Read More >>

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields...

Author: Sean Carroll
ISBN: 9780861546480
Format: Hardback
$42.99

'Luminous and straightforward.’ Carlo Rovelli  Read More >>

Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality

Power of the Invisible: The Quantessence of Reality...

Author: Sander Bais
ISBN: 9789048562879
Format: Hardback
$240.11

Quantum Physics is the solid basis of most of our understanding of nature and has been the driver of many technological...  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 >>

Last Word's Uncommon Women

Last Word's Uncommon Women

Author: Celia Hayley
ISBN: 9781474607643
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The official companion book to BBC Radio 4's Last Word, a rich tapestry of women's lives in the 20th and 21st centuries...  Read More >>

The Age of Cats: How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to Your Sofa

The Age of Cats: How Cats Evolved from the Savannah...

Author: Jonathan B. Losos
ISBN: 9780008339500
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist...  Read More >>

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