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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...
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...
Life Story
Author: Mike Gunton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Life Story is a tale of survival, laying bare the extraordinary journey animals must make to achieve life's goal to continue...
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 Industries of the Future
Author: Alec Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This book answers the question: 'What's next?' The Internet had a world-changing impact on businesses and the global community...
The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation That Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know about Life and the Universe
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Author: William Poundstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, a fascinating look at how an equation that foretells...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why...
Aliens: Science Asks: Is There Anyone Out There?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The ALIENS invasion is coming ... It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of...
Blow! Air
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Author: Nuria Jimenez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 35 All animals and plants require clean air. In this book, children learn about why we need air, the value...
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity
Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In a time of pandemic and tyranny Our Malady is an urgent diagnosis of the vital link between health...
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
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Author: Arthur Holland Michel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on...
Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects
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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...
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
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Author: Martin J Blaser, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "In Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser sounds [an] alarm. He patiently and thoroughly builds a compelling case that the threat...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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Author: Joshua D Mezrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of...
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...
How Are We Going to Explain This?: Our Future on a Hot Earth
Author: Jelmer Mommers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin...
Einstein's Shadow: The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
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Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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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...
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...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 2.67 Trillion Internet Searches Each Year Using Technology
Author: Paul Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Do you know how many zeros there are in a duotrigintillion? Or which country has the greatest number 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...
Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End
Author: David Darling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 200 Which will get us first? The asteroid hurtling towards us from outer space? The Black Plague: Round Two? Swiss...
Get Technology: Be in the know. Upgrade your future: 20 thought-provoking lessons
Author: Gerald Lynch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Each day our lives become ever more entwined with and dependent upon technology - and yet there's a feeling that we...
My Encounters with Minibeasts: From Purple Moonbeams to Itchy Cows
Author: Densey Clyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 My Encounters with Minibeasts is a collection of stories about insects and spiders by naturalist Densey Clyne, who is...
The General Rule: A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures
$10.00
Author: Vivian T. Linacre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 An essential collection of articles, tables and notes, to define and explain the modern uses and relationships -...
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...
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...
Carnation
Author: Twigs Way Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Carnations permeate our culture from the wedding bed to the funeral wreath. Derided in Shakespeare as 'nature's bastards', they challenged the...
Beetle
Author: Adam Dodd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From ancient Egyptian deities to German automobiles, beetles have left an indelible mark on human cultures around the world....
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...
Lost Science: Astonishing Tales of Forgotten Genius
Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Acclaimed popular science writer Kitty Ferguson investigates little-explored byroads in the history of science, from Johannes Kepler's nearly disastrous venture into...
Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution
Author: Mary Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018 Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by...
Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
Author: Alex Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality
$10.00
Author: Jaron Lanier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father...
Beyond Infinity
$12.00
Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "[Cheng] does a great service by showing us non-mathematician schlubs how real mathematical creativity works." -- Wall Street Journal How big...