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Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
$15.00
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Our senses are what...
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...
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...
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...
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters
Author: Freeman Dyson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic...
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...
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...
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
$12.00
Author: William Poundstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells...
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...
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
$10.00
Author: Caleb Scharf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Short-listed for Physics World's Book of the Year The Sunday Times...
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 Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery
Author: Graeme Donald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance...
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
Author: Mary Roach Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What happens when nature and humanity clash? In past centuries, wild animals who broke the law would be given lawyers and...
The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and
Author: Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 438 Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you...
How to Expect the Unexpected: The Science of Making Smart Predictions
Author: Kit Yates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A Waterstones Best Popular Science Book of 2023 'Delightfully clear and vivid to read...A splendid book! Philip Pullman 'Absolutely fascinating' James...
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution
$25.00
Author: Adam Forrest Kay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 'A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS' - Jean Bricmont The received wisdom in quantum physics is that,...
What's the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
$17.50
Author: Ian Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 See the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world--from technology to health...
Am I Normal?: The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don't Exist)
Author: Sarah Chaney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Before the nineteenth century, the term normal was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was a term used in maths,...
Cosmos Possible Worlds
Author: Ann Druyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Based on National Geographic s internationally-renowned television series, this groundbreaking and visually stunning book explores how science and civilization grew up...
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It
$20.00
Author: Erica Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits Whether we are...
Human Origins: 7 Million Years and Counting
$12.00
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Where did we come from? Where are we going? Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
$15.00
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 This "vivid and compelling account" (The Wall Street Journal) opens not only the inner workings of one of physics' greatest minds,...
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,...
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)...
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...
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...
Math Without Numbers
$15.00
Author: Milo Beckman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" The only numbers in this book are the page numbers....
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...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained
Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
$17.50
Author: Chiara Marletto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A luminous guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal that the scope of the universe is greater,...
Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World
Author: Professor Joshua Paul Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And...
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...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
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...
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...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Marianne Freiberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In Understanding Numbers, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas will show key number patterns and maths principles that are vital...
Accidental Astronomy: How Random Discoveries Shape the Science of
$20.00
Author: Chris Lintott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A "riveting real-life Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (The Telegraph), told "with an engaging voice, a diverting sense of humor, and...
Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall: The Laws That Make the World Work
$12.00
Author: Jeff Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Everything we do is touched by physics. Whether we're on the motorway, at the beach or in the pub, its laws...
Diamonds Everywhere: Awe-inspiring astronomy discoveries
Author: Tom Kerss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Answers to the mysteries of the cosmos for inquiring minds. Explore the entire cosmos in 101 fascinating topics - from mind-blowing...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
Accidental: The Greatest (Unintentional) Science Breakthroughs and How They Changed The World
Author: Tim James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Nominated for the best popular science book of 2024 by Smart Book. 'Who said science was dry? Certainly not Tim James'...
The Happy Brain: The Science of Where Happiness Comes From, and Why
Author: Dean Burnett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Do you want to be happy? If so - read on. This book has all the answers.* In The Happy Brain,...
How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection and Belonging
$12.00
Author: Jodi Rodgers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We could all use a Jodi in our lives' The New York Times 'A splendid book, full of warmth and understanding'...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
Author: Richard Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter...
The Brain: 10 Things You Should Know
Author: Professor Sophie Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Uncover the mind-blowing complexities of the brain and how it affects our personalities, behaviours and more. Written by Professor of...
A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
Author: Bret Stetka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted. Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago,...