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The Cartographers
Author: Peng Shepherd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Exquisitely written ... Be prepared to be swept away on an incredible journey' Brad Thor, #1 bestselling author of Black Ice...
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...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir
Author: Sarah Beeny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An instant Sunday Times bestseller Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home... Throughout...
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Author: Zeke Faux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAIL USED IN...
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Author: Brian Merchant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon...
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...
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal about our Uniquely Mathematical Mind
Author: Brian Butterworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Every pet owner thinks their own dog, cat, fish or hamster is a genius. What makes CAN FISH COUNT? so exciting...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times
Author: Rob Percival Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation,...
House Plants
Author: Mike Maunder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our penchant for keeping houseplants is an ancient practice dating back to the Pharaohs. House Plants explores the stories behind the...
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration
Author: Colin Burgess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the 20th century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery...
Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years
Author: Nicholas P. Money Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing...
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...
Mercury
Author: William Sheehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The last of the five naked-eye planets discovered in ancient times, Mercury has long been an elusive, enigmatic world. As seen...
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...
Sardine
Author: Trevor Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The sardine is a paradoxical fish. Seemingly insignificant, its exploitation has made fortunes for some and, when stocks have collapsed, caused...
Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture
Author: Sander L. Gilman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise, and illness, and shift...
Ice: Nature and Culture
Author: Klaus Dodds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Ice has played a prominent role in the history of the earth and its living communities for millennia. We have had...
Llama
Author: Helen Cowie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Known for their haughty demeanour, woolly charm, and propensity to spit when threatened, llamas have a rich and varied history. Since...
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...
Why We Love: The new science behind our closest relationships
Author: Anna Machin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'This book opens the Pandora's Box on this most complex and puzzling aspect of what it is to be human' Robin...
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...
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...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science
Author: Jimena Canales Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities - demons - to test the laws of nature...
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic...
How Birds Live Together: Colonies and Communities in the Avian World
Author: Marianne Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Featuring dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in...
The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist's Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality
Author: P. J. E. Peebles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical...
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Author: Lord Martin Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees...
Hard to Break: Why Our Brains Makes Habits Stick
Author: Russell A. Poldrack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behaviour...
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...
No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Author: Daniel Kennefick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'One of Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019' 'Finalist for the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association...
Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
Author: William A. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through...
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,...
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,...
A Course in Complex Analysis
Author: Saeed Zakeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Written with exceptional clarity and insightful style, A Course in Complex Analysis is accessible to beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates...
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...
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...
What Is a Bird?: An Exploration of Anatomy, Physiology, Behavior, and Ecology
Author: Tony D. Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 There are some 10,000 bird species in existence today, occupying every continent and virtually every habitat on Earth. The variety...
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....
Ant Architecture: The Wonder, Beauty, and Science of Underground Nests
Author: Walter R. Tschinkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Walter Tschinkel has spent much of his career investigating the hidden subterranean realm of ant nests. This wonderfully illustrated book...
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...
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...
Parrots of the World
Author: Steve Brookes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Parrots have always captured the imagination of humans. This beautifully illustrated book on the world s parrots explores all aspects of...
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...
Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet with a New Introduction by the Author
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Author: Andrew Blum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An engaging, narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday lives to see the dark beating heart of the Internet itself....
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Author: Sarah Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both...
Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet
Author: Colm O'Regan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now...
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...