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Clearing the Air: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
Author: Tim Smedley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2019** 'Read this book and join the effort to...
Through Two Doors At Once
Author: Anil Ananthaswamy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Some of the greatest scientific minds have grappled with this experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show...
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
Author: Gregory J. Gbur Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve...
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
$17.50
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian "Rovelli...
Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies
Author: Michael Brooks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A wonderful book...Delightfully varied...As with all the best science writing, this book doesn't just give answers, it also asks interesting questions.'...
End Times: Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More
Author: Bryan Walsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge...
On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins
Author: Mark Hallett (Dryaduir Hill Wildlife Reserve) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars fascinate us like few other creatures. They are...
The Brain in Context: A Pragmatic Guide to Neuroscience
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. The field of neuroscience has made remarkable strides...
The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond
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...
Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets
$17.50
Author: Tyler Nordgren Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 One of Amazon's Best Science Books of 2016On August 21, 2017, more than ten million Americans will experience an awe-inspiring phenomenon:...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
$15.00
Author: Adam Kucharski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 One of the Best Books of 2020 -- Financial Times One of the "Most 2020 Books of 2020" -- Washington Post...
Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World
Author: The Dalai Lama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Saving the environment is our collective duty. With each passing day, climate change is causing Pacific islands to disappear into...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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Author: Nichola Raihani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enriching --Publisher's Weekly Excellent and illuminating--Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
A Brief Welcome to the Universe: A Pocket-Sized Tour
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black...
How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Known Universe
$12.00
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How Your Brain Works explores the amazing world inside your head. Ever wondered what's going on inside your head? The brain...
Eureka!: Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year
Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Introduced by Jim Al-Khalili Could you surf down an erupting volcano? Why do zebras have stripes? Are you breathing the same...
Once a Wolf: The Science Behind Our Dogs' Astonishing Genetic Evolution
Author: Bryan Sykes (Oxford Ancestors) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 How did wolves evolve into dogs? When did this happen, and what role did humans play? Oxford geneticist Bryan...
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Mystery of Earth's Magnetism
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Author: Gillian Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Why do compass needles point north--but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's...
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of...
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Author: Nick Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For decades, biology has been dominated by information - the power of genes. Yet in terms of information there is no...
Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 * FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency
Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Fire: A Brief History
Author: Stephen J Pyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 What does a full-blown Fire Age look like? We are about to find out, and Australia will feel...
Aussie Ark
Author: Tim Faulkner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 From the time he was old enough to focus on an object, Tim Faulkner has had his eyes glued on things...
The Naked Scientist: Everyday Life Under the Microscope
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Author: Dr Chris Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Why use expensive beauty products when you can moisturise with jellyfish? Have you ever suspected pollution was to blame for...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
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Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain....
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the...
Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions
Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Packed with stunning images, including 75 illustrations created exclusively for this book, Blueprint for a Battlestar takes twenty-five remarkable and memorable...
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future
Author: Tracey Spicer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers' eyes to a transformative technological...
The Science Magpie: Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Author: Simon Flynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's bejewelled history....
The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
Author: Nessa Carey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The most important revolution in modern biology - and what it means for humanity. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling...
The World at Night: Spectacular photographs of the night sky
Author: Babak Tafreshi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world. Bringing...
Mending the Mind: The Art and Science of Overcoming Clinical Depression
Author: Oliver Kamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A tour de force . . . an important, affecting and effective book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL '[A] gorgeous and urgent book' STEVEN...
Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice
Author: Gillen D'Arcy Wood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughs.] Antarctica,...
Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving mammals, intellectual insects, flatulent fish and the great pet showdown
Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column....
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,...
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T-Rex Ever Found
Author: Steve Fiffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Over 65 million years ago in what is now South Dakota, a battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch -- perhaps mortally wounded in...
Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-east Asia
Author: Tadao Shimba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 A spectacular and lavish photographic guide to the birds of Japan, Korea, north-east China and the Russian Far East Eastern Asia...
Nature Underfoot: Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us
Author: John Hainze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity's relationship to nature "Put...
Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
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Author: Charles Foster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMAN A radically immersive exploration of three...
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 In this thought-provoking follow-up to his acclaimed StarTalk book, uber astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tackles the world's most important philosophical...
Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, The Universe and Us
Author: Professor Heino Falcke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black Holes For readers of...
Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender
Author: Frans de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 How different are men and women? Is gender uniquely human or do other primates also learn gendered roles? Drawing on...
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future
Author: Dr Alice Gorman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Winner of the 2019 John...
Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
$15.00
Author: Jeremy England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals...