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Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution
Author: Skylar Tibbits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are...
Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons: From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Author: Paul Nahin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable Heat,...
The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words
Author: Virginia Trimble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 504 The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed...
Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain--And How They Guide You
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Author: Rebecca Schwarzlose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Enlightening and ambitious... a book that travels into rich terrain, charted by a smart and eager tour guide."--New York Times Book...
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the...
Astronomical Mindfulness: Your Cosmic Guide to Reconnecting with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets
Author: Christopher G De Pree Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Using the power of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, this unique, illustrated guide is filled with...
Life, Death and Biscuits
Author: Anthea Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heart-breaking story of courage and compassion from the front line of the toughest battle our nurses...
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome
Author: Sally Adee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can...
Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet-And Our Mission to Protect It
Author: Nicole Stott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a...
Into the Grey Zone: Exploring the Border Between Life and Death
Author: Dr Adrian Owen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2006 Dr Adrian Owen and his team made medical history. They discovered a new realm of consciousness, somewhere between...
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
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Author: Roberto Trotta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An astronomer "who writes like a poet" (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" (Nature) inquiry into how the night...
The Atomic Human: What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI
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Author: Neil D Lawrence Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From a renowned computer scientist, this book seeks the distinctive human quality that will prevail against artificial intelligence. If artificial...
The Immunity Cookbook: How to Strengthen Your Immune System and Boost Long-Term Health, with 100 Easy Recipes
Author: Kate Llewellyn-Waters Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 If we feel run down and we want to support our immune system, most of us tend to pop some vitamins....
Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic
Author: Matt Strassler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space....
The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond
Author: Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland, Galway) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 358 Are we alone in the universe, or are there other life forms 'out there'? This is...
Planetary Geoscience
Author: Harry Y. McSween, Jr (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 350 For many years, planetary science has been taught as part of the astronomy curriculum, from...
Decoding the World
Author: Po Bronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure...
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, The Cold War and the Birth of
Author: Benjamin Breen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.' The...
Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human
Author: Rob Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A savoury account of how the pursuit of delicious foods shaped human evolution Nature, it has been said, invites us to...
When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters
Author: Professor Michael Banissy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and Livewired Why is a hugged...
The World of All Creatures Great & Small: Welcome to Skeldale House
Author: All Creatures Great and Small Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Welcome to the wonderful world of Skeldale House: the veterinary surgery and bustling waiting room for the locals...
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
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Author: Kenneth Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 WINNER OF THE 2024 ASJA BOOK AWARD, BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER NEW...
Poached
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Author: Rachel Love Nuwer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against...
Takeaway Food Packaging Now
Author: Yvett Arzate Gomez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 With every passing year, the strength of takeaway food packaging design becomes stronger, particularly with the increased popularity and ease...
Lightning Often Strikes Twice: The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 You may well be familiar with the fact that lightning, contrary to the popular saying, often strikes the same place twice....
The Anatomists' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Secrets of the Human Body: Volume 4
Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Anatomists Library is a fascinating chronological collection of the best anatomical books from six centuries, charting the evolution of both...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
Author: Joe Roman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the...
Lights On!: The Science of Power Generation
Author: Mark Denny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Power generation is a relatively recent concern because humans had little need for sustained power until the dawn of...
On the Trail of Stardust: The Guide to Finding Micrometeorites: Tools, Techniques, and Identification
Author: Jon Larsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Stardust-also known as micrometeorites-is the oldest matter anywhere. Nothing has traveled farther to reach Earth. For a century, scientists have searched...
Light to Life: The miracle of photosynthesis and how it can save the planet
Author: Raffael Jovine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food...
Coal: Nature and Culture
Author: Ralph Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial...
How to Save the World For Free
Author: Natalie Fee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Just what we need to get the job done' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 'Smart, easy ways to make a positive impact' Foreword Reviews...
Stochastic Thermodynamics: An Introduction
Author: Luca Peliti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The first comprehensive graduate-level introduction to stochastic thermodynamicsStochastic thermodynamics is a well-defined subfield of statistical physics that aims to interpret thermodynamic...
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Journey into the vast depths of the observable universe by visualising the most spectacular images in astronomy in stereoscopic 3D....
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Author: Harry Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the critically-acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an...
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 The ultimate non-technical guide to the fast-developing world of quantum computing. Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years....
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy
Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 235 Does science have all the answers? The view that it does is known as scientific naturalism or scientism, and is now...
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
Author: Perri Klass (New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Only one hundred years ago, even in the world's wealthiest nations, children died in great numbers?of diarrhea, diphtheria,...
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
Author: Michael Klare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change-still linked, for many people, with...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
Author: Bill McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep...
The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
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Author: Paul Steinhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories...
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Author: David Sloan Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can...
The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World
Author: Ziya Tong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Our naked eyes see only a thin sliver of reality. We are blind in comparison to the x-rays that...
Einstein And Culture
Author: Gerhard Sonnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 427 Popular images of Albert Einstein often depict him as either an almost superhuman solitary genius or as a counter-cultural rebel. In...
Food for Free: 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Richard Mabey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new...