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Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Author: Kermit Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 "Riveting. ... Pattison's uncanny ability [is] to write evocatively about science. ... In this, he is every bit as...
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...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
$15.00
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...
Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Author: Yasha Levine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by...
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...
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts
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...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
$15.00
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...
Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them
$12.00
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...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe
Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...
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...
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Author: Hope Jahren Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom...
The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out...
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
$15.00
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....
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...
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 Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
$10.00
Author: Diane Ackerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 With her celebrated blend of scientific insight, clarity, and curiosity, Diane Ackerman explores our human capacity both for destruction...
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
Author: James Barrat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype 'If you read just one...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Cosmic Womb: The Seeding of Planet Earth
Author: Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 Compelling evidence that life, intelligence, and evolution on Earth were seeded by comets and cosmic intelligence * Explains how life...
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...
Talking to Robots: How Humans and Machines Will Live Together in the Future
Author: David Ewing Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'If you want to see what that future might look like, Duncan's book is a fun place to start' NPR...
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus
Author: Lucy Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A killer disease ... an all-powerful Empress ... an extraordinary encounter ... the astonishing true story. No disease sparked as much...
The Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
$15.00
Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct
Author: Andreas Nieder (Professor of Animal Physiology, University of Tubingen) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through...
Animal Languages
Author: Eva Meijer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 How animals speak to each other and to humans, from chimpanzees who learn sign language to dogs who parse the meaning...
The Machine in the Ghost: Digitality and its Consequences
Author: Robin Boast Format: Hardback Number of Pages: We live in a digital age, within a digital economy, continuously engaged with digital media. Digital encoding lies at the heart of...