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Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
$12.00
Author: Edward Posnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and...
Bush Life: Stories from the beating heart of rural Australia
Author: Beauty in the Bush Collective Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 There's an authenticity to bush life - an appreciation of raw beauty, simple rituals and genuine people. A...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
Living Planet: The Web of Life on Earth
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on...
The Trials of Life: A Natural History of Animal Behaviour
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough's classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology,...
Blue: A Scientist's Search for Nature's Rarest Colour
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....
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
$17.50
Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
Author: David Blistein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 over 60,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses, more than died annually in this country during the...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
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...
Epic Expeditions: 25 Great Explorations into the Unknown
Author: Ed Stafford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 262 'A fascinating and unique look at these celebrated expeditions.' -Sir Ranulph Fiennes Explorer and survival expert Ed Stafford looks...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - How to Build a Universe
Author: Prof. Brian Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
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Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
Mathematical Intelligence: What We Have that Machines Don't
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...
Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
Author: Clifford A. Pickover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History takes readers on a vast journey through the world of artificial intelligence, as found in...
Why do Buses Come in Threes?: The hidden mathematics of everyday life
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...
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
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...
Around the World in 80 Plants
Author: Jonathan Drori Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 216 An inspirational and beautifully illustrated book that tells the stories of 80 plants from around the globe. In his follow-up to...
Mountains: Over Australia's Blue Horizon
Author: Alasdair McGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 Australia's mountains may not stand as tall as the many mightier peaks stretched across other continents, but it is worth posing...
The Short Story of the Universe: A Pocket Guide to the History, Structure, Theories and Building Blocks of the Cosmos
Author: Gemma Lavender Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Short Story of the Universe is a new introduction to the subject of the universe. Covering 130 key components that...
The Language of Butterflies: How Thieves, Hoarders, Scientists, and Other Obsessives Unlocked the Secrets of the World's Favorite Insect
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Author: Wendy Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In this "deeply personal and lyrical book" (Publishers Weekly) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams...
Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
Author: Michael Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we...
Forest: Walking among trees
Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they...
The Nation of Plants: The International Bestseller
Author: Stefano Mancuso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome...
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...
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...
Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Author: Lucy Siegle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of...
Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture and...
The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature's Hidden Rules
Author: Tim Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Every morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on the roof of...
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...
The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one? Our books,...
Uluru: Kata Tjuta and Watarrka National Parks Field Guide
Author: Anne Kerle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 202 This handy guide is your key to the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre. It will...
Sensational: A New Story of our Senses
Author: Ashley Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our senses are at the heart of how we navigate the world. Whittling this high-powered and deliciously varied palette down to...
Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts
Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...
NASA Missions to Mars: A Visual History of Our Quest to Explore the Red Planet
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...
Edison
Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
The Last Giants: The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 This book comes at a critical time. Thirty years ago, Africa was home to a million elephants, today the...
The Cautious Traveller's Guide to The Wastelands: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Sarah Brooks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A breathtaking historical fantasy set onboard the Great Trans-Siberian Express 'I urge everybody to pick up a copy' STUART TURTON 'Be...
Woodcarving: Basic Techniques
Author: Ian Norbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 86 17 carefully chosen projects introduce all the techniques needed to begin wood carving and most can be finished in a weekend....
Science Workshop: 60 Creative Ideas for Budding Pioneers
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Learn, make and innovate with this bumper book packed with sixty projects. SCIENCE WORKSHOP is the go-to guide for creative and...
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Author: Heather Heying Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable...
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...
Adventures on Earth
Author: Simon Tyler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Graphic illustrator Simon Tyler explores the extremes of our planet - and the people who venture there - in his bold...
Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants
Author: James T. Costa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 380 Charles Darwin is best known for his work on the evolution of animals, but in fact a large part of...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
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...
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos
$12.00
Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 How did it all begin? Where is it all going?WHY GENERAL RELATIVITY LEAVES UNFINISHED BUSINESS WITH THE COSMOS A little over...