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When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

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...
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

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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 General Rule: A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures

The General Rule: A Guide to Customary Weights and Measures

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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 -...
Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World

Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: The Strange Maths Behind the Modern World

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Author: Richard Elwes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What can we learn from fish in a pond? How do social networks connect the world? How can artificial...
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet

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Author: John Naughton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Naughton is The Observer's "Networker" columnist, a prominent blogger, and vice president of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Times...
Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro

Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro

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Author: George Michelsen Foy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, "an exquisitely written and dramatic book...a literary page-turner"...
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

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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...
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

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Author: Graham Farmelo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteriesOne of the great insights of science is that the universe has an...
Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Uncentering the Earth: Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

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Author: William T. Vollmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, reportedly holding his just-published masterpiece, The Revolutions...
Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth

Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth

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Author: Benjamin von Brackel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 As humans accelerate global warming - while laying waste to the environment to erect cities and roads and clear wilderness...
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy

Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy

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Author: Robert Almeder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 235 Does science have all the answers? The view that it does is known as scientific naturalism or scientism, and is now...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times

The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times

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Author: Rob Percival Format: Hardback 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,...
Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

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Author: Ed Patrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas 'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford 'It's funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal...
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

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Author: Michael E Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have...
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species

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...
This Book is Not Rubbish: 50 Ways to Ditch Plastic, Reduce Rubbish and Save the World!

This Book is Not Rubbish: 50 Ways to Ditch Plastic, Reduce Rubbish and Save the World!

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Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Discover how YOU can ditch plastic, reduce rubbish and become an eco-warrior, not an eco-worrier, with 50 practical tips to really...
Animals

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....
The Curiosity Box: The Seashore

The Curiosity Box: The Seashore

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Author: Peter Riley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Have you ever looked at the objects inside a curiosity box? What did you see and what did they...
My First Fact File Oceans: Everything you Need to Know

My First Fact File Oceans: Everything you Need to Know

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Author: JEN GREEN Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Set sail on a voyage of discovery with Oceans (My First Fact File). Children will learn about the amazing...
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover the Origin of Life on Earth

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Author: Michael Marshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination....
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

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Author: Simon Mundy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial...
Blueprint: How our childhood makes us who we are

Blueprint: How our childhood makes us who we are

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Author: Lucy Maddox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'The best book I've read this year ... It's written in such a beautiful way' - Dr Suzi Gage,...
This Book is Cruelty-Free: Animals and Us

This Book is Cruelty-Free: Animals and Us

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Author: Linda Newbery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 If you've ever wondered how you can make your diet cruelty-free, whether it's ethical to own a pet, or...
Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life

Numb and Number: How to Avoid Being Mystified by the Mathematics of Modern Life

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Author: William Hartston (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Like it or not, our lives are dominated by mathematics. Our daily diet of news regales us with statistical forecasts,...
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

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Author: Laurence Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 You are a four-dimensional human. A constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring your inner life, increasingly coaxing you...
The Industries of the Future

The Industries of the Future

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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...
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?

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Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up...
The Science of Hope: Eye to Eye with our World's Wildlife

The Science of Hope: Eye to Eye with our World's Wildlife

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Author: Dr. Wiebke Finkler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 A breathtaking visual journey exploring why certain animal species capture our attention, and showcasing hopeful conservation efforts around the world....
Blow! Air

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...
Scorpion

Scorpion

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Author: Louise M. Pryke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 From the dawn of civilization scorpions have captured the human imagination. Yet the scorpion is a misunderstood animal...
Beetle

Beetle

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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....
Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution

Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution

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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...
Physick to Physiology: Tales from an Oxford Life in Medicine

Physick to Physiology: Tales from an Oxford Life in Medicine

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Author: Keith Dorrington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who survived hanging and became a celebrity,...
Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world

Amphibious Soul: Finding the wild in a tame world

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Author: Craig Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An awe-inspiring narrative about the power of nature and our place within it, from the creator of My Octopus Teacher, filmmaker...
The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times

The Meat Paradox: 'Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying' Bee Wilson, Financial Times

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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,...
Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years

Nature Fast and Nature Slow: How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years

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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...
Pelican

Pelican

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Author: Barbara Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 With its distinctive, comical walk, large bill and association with the conservation movement, the pelican has attained iconic status. But the...
Sardine

Sardine

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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...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology

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...
Night Sky Almanac 2024: A stargazer's guide

Night Sky Almanac 2024: A stargazer's guide

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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...
Code: STEM: Smart Homes

Code: STEM: Smart Homes

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Author: Max Wainewright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Discover how today's amazing inventions and technologies work while developing your coding skills In SMART HOMES, find out about...
A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age

A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age

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Author: Emmy J. Favilla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the...
2024 Guide to the Night Sky: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland

2024 Guide to the Night Sky: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland

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Author: Storm Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 The ideal gift for all amateur and seasoned astronomers. "This is a great guide to the night sky at a great...
Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet

Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet

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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...
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science

The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science

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Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks...
50 Things to Do by the Sea

50 Things to Do by the Sea

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Author: Easkey Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton,...
Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect

Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect

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Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In Synchronicity Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of the unlikely friendship between the Nobel-prize-winning quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the...
Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity

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...