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Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us

Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us

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Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A work of remarkable scope' - Guardian FT Best science books of 2018 PRIMATE CHANGE has been adapted into...
The Hidden Mathematics of Sport

The Hidden Mathematics of Sport

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Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 This fascinating book explores the mathematics involved in all your favourite sports. The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a unique and...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour

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Author: Kai Kupferschmidt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A globe-trotting quest to find blue in the natural world - and to understand our collective obsession with this bewitching colour....
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from

A Brief History of Mathematical Thought: Key concepts and where they come from

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Author: Luke Heaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Mathematics is a product of human culture which has developed along with our attempts to comprehend the world around...
The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience

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Author: Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 An "elegant", "engrossing" (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why --...
How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life

How Long is a Piece of String?: More hidden mathematics of everyday life

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Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. Have...
The Sydney Harbour Bridge (Revised edition)

The Sydney Harbour Bridge (Revised edition)

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Author: Peter Spearritt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 '...clear, concise and vibrant history takes the reader on the journey from 19th-century dreams to 20th-century reality.' - Troy Lennon, Daily...
Physics in 50 Milestone Moments: A Timeline of Scientific Landmarks

Physics in 50 Milestone Moments: A Timeline of Scientific Landmarks

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Author: James Lees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Physics in 50 Milestone Moments is a lively, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to physics, its history, and its practitioners. Uniquely, it...
Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

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Author: Jack Ashby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022 A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully...
How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain

How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain

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Author: Kimberley Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A practical manual for your brain.' - Dr Megan Rossi, author of Eat Yourself Healthy A groundbreaking science-based guide...
Gone: A search for what remains of the world's extinct creatures

Gone: A search for what remains of the world's extinct creatures

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Author: Michael Blencowe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A modern must-read for anyone interested in protecting our earth and its incredible wildlife, Gone tells fascinating stories of 11 extraordinary...
Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History

Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History

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Author: Douglas Boyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many...
The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics

The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics

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Author: Clifford A. Pickover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 From the ingenious author of The Math Book and The Physics Book comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty...
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

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Author: Dr Ian Stewart (University of Warwick) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians...
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science

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Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the...
Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained

Why It's Not All Rocket Science: Scientific Theories and Experiments Explained

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Author: Robert Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various...
3-Minute Stephen Hawking: Digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels

3-Minute Stephen Hawking: Digesting his life, theories and influence in 3-minute morsels

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Author: Paul Parsons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 The 3-Minute series offers the essence of the world's most important figures with all the padding removed. It divides up their...
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts

Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts

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Author: Martin Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This fascinating book tells the story of the Soviet space dogs, illustrated with legendary photographer Martin Parr's vintage space-dog...
30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies

Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies

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Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't

Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't

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Author: Junaid Mubeen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to...
Flames of Extinction: The race to save Australia's threatened wildlife

Flames of Extinction: The race to save Australia's threatened wildlife

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Author: John Pickrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Scientists estimate more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced during Australia's Black Summer bushfire season. Many species -...
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

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Author: Emma Marris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Winner of the 2022 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award * Winner of the 2022 Science in Society Journalism Award (Books) *...
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge

The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge

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Author: Hubert Krivine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Our planet's elliptical orbit around the Sun and its billions-of-years existence are facts we take for granted, matters every literate high...
Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical

Proof!: How the World Became Geometrical

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Author: Amir Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our world On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man...
100 Things to See in the Southern Night Sky: From Planets and Satellites to Meteors and Constellations, Your Guide to Stargazing

100 Things to See in the Southern Night Sky: From Planets and Satellites to Meteors and Constellations, Your Guide to Stargazing

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Author: Dean Regas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A handy field guide for the optimum stargazing experience, whether you're travelling, camping, or in your own backyard! The night sky...
The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

The Deep History Of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains

$52.99$15.00
Author: Joseph LeDoux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You

What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You

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Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the...
30-Second Space Travel: 50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens

30-Second Space Travel: 50 key ideas, inventions, and destinations that have inspired humanity toward the heavens

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Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As Space X works to reduce the barriers of access to space and Virgin Galactic forges a path to commercial spaceflight...
The Planets

The Planets

$39.99$25.00
Author: Professor Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'So staggering you go "whoa!" every few seconds' Guardian 'Really impressive' Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets

Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets

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Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time

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Author: Gaia Vince Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows...
Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To

Ouch!: Why Pain Hurts, and Why it Doesn't Have To

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Author: Margee Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts. But how would you...
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world

The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world

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Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet

NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet

$79.99$40.00
Author: Piers Bizony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 196 Gorgeously illustrated with NASA photography, the large-format (12 12 inches) NASA Missions to Mars examines everything from the first tentative steps...
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

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Author: Joseph Jebelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way. The earliest human...
The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality

The Quantum World: The disturbing theory at the heart of reality

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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Forget everything you thought you knew about reality. The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places...
A Planet Full of Plastic

A Planet Full of Plastic

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Author: Neal Layton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Everything is made of stuff. Some things are made of paper, like this book. And some things are made of PLASTIC. If...
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

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Author: Jonathan Balcombe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama - 'Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness

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Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021 What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we...
Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet

Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet

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Author: Richard Panek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An award-winning science writer plumbs the depths of the greatest mystery in physics, showing how gravity has shaped our universe, minds,...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life

Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life

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Author: Rob Eastaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to our everyday lives. An entertaining guide to how maths is relevant to...
Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them

Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them

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Author: David MacNeal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Creepy, beautiful, icky and amazing." --Penny Le Couteur, author of Napoleon's Button Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant...
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication

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Author: Tom Mustill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A must-read' New Scientist 'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg 'Enthralling' George Monbiot 'Brilliant' Philip Hoare A thrilling investigation into the pioneering world of...
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA

On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond

The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond

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Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist's...