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Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
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...
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...
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity
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Author: Charles Seife Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive-but what if his true...
Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It
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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...
A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems
Author: Joseph L Graves Jr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Evolution has, ever since its inception, been one of the most ideologically fraught fields in all of science. It...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
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Author: Marcus Du Sautoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 One of the world's great mathematicians shows why math is the ultimate timesaver--and how everyone can make their lives easier...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
The Human Swarm
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Author: Mark W. Moffett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from...
Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes
Author: Professor Tim Spector Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Since the discovery of DNA, scientists have believed that genes are fixed entities that cannot be changed by environment -...
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...
The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
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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,...
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)...
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
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Author: Sarah Stewart Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Sarah Stewart Johnson interweaves her own coming-of-age story as a planetary scientist with a vivid history of the exploration of...
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut
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Author: Samantha Cristoforetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's intimate account of her first journey to the International Space Station, to which she returns in 2022, as...
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...
Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 * FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to...
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...
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...
Welcome to the Circular Economy: The next step in sustainable living
Author: Claire Potter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Looking to live a life that goes beyond 'sustainability'? Welcome to the circular economy. But what it is exactly? Taking inspiration...
Cats vs Dogs: Misbehaving mammals, intellectual insects, flatulent fish and the great pet showdown
Author: New Scientist Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column....
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...
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....
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...
Night Sky Almanac 2023: A stargazer's guide
Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A beautiful gift for anyone interested in the night sky. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency
Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Cosmic Impact: Understanding the Threat to Earth from Asteroids and Comets
Author: Andrew May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block,...
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...
Common Sense Natural Beekeeping: Sustainable, Bee-Friendly Techniques to Help Your Hives Survive and Thrive
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Author: Kim Flottum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemical or human intervention. Today's bees face...
Every Life Is On Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things
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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...
From Alchemy To Ipo: The Business Of Biotechnology
Author: Cynthia Robbins-roth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "A tour-de-force for anyone who is interested in the biotech industry. I applaud the enormous achievement of Cynthia Robbins-Roth."-Frederick...
Almost Chimpanzee: Redrawing the Lines That Separate Us from Them
Author: Jon Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the autumn of 2005, researchers cracked the code of the chimpanzee genome and provided a startling new window...
Where the Universe Came from: How Einstein's Relativity Unlocks the Past, Present and Future of the Cosmos
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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...
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...
The Cosmos Explained: A history of the universe from its beginning to today and beyond
Author: Charles Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The Cosmos Explained is an exciting and beautifully designed book that charts the life of our universe from the Big Bang...
Telling Our Way to the Sea: A Voyage of Discovery in the Sea of Cortez
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Author: Aaron Hirsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD FOR NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE A FINALIST FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING...
Ready, Steady, Code!: Coding with Hopscotch
Author: Alvaro Scrivano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Get ready to code with this easy-to-use series full of projects and tips to get kids programming. Each book in the...
Meteorite: How Stones from Outer Space Made Our World
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Author: Tim Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Explore the universe and immerse yourself in the story of our solar system, planet, and life through meteorites. "Meteorite is a...
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread--And Why They Stop
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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 Art of Logic in an Illogical World
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Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news...
What a Wonderful World: Be inspired to care for our planet with 35 real-life stories and green tips
Author: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 Our world is WONDERFUL - and it's worth protecting. This book takes you on a breathtaking tour of our planet -...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
Strandings: Confessions of a Whale Scavenger
Author: Peter Riley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute,...
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...
Animals
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Author: 0 Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Being able to identify wild creatures in their natural environment adds an extra dimension to the enjoyment of being outdoors....
Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
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Author: Stephon Alexander Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "The rabbit hole gets wrestled here. An old school saying applies: the more you know, the more you don't know. Dance...
The Copernicus Complex: Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
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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...