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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
Paperback,
01/08/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction
Hardback,
15/07/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
An accessible and entertaining portrait of humans as a brilliantly inventive, yet self-destructive animal.
Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships
Hardback,
03/03/2020,
£14.99
£13.49
Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Hardback,
20/02/2020,
£14.99
£13.49
In 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the heat afterglow of the big bang.
- How Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924 predicted the existence of a weird state of matter close to absolute zero in which trillions of atoms behave as a single entity.
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Hardback,
05/03/2020,
£14.99
£11.00
An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.
How to Predict Everything: The Formula Transforming What We Know About Life and the Universe
Paperback,
02/04/2020,
£9.99
£8.99
How do you predict something that has never happened before?
Extraterrestrial Languages
Hardback,
18/10/2019,
£19.99
£17.99
If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?
Erasmus Darwin: Sex, Science, and Serendipity
Paperback,
27/06/2020,
£12.99
£10.00
A tour of the late eighteenth century English Enlightenment in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who (aside from his poetry and other scientific endeavours) was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his more famous grandson.
Science: A Four Thousand Year History
Paperback,
11/02/2010,
£14.99
£12.00
A groundbreaking new history of science, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, illuminating the financial interests, imperial ambitions, and publishing enterprises that have made science the powerful global phenomenon that it is today.
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
Hardback,
16/07/2020,
£18.99
£17.09
But what if science itself can't be relied on?Medicine, education, psychology, health, parenting - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.
The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual
Paperback,
06/08/2020,
£16.99
£15.29
John Tyndall was a leading scientific figure in Victorian Britain, who established the physical basis of the greenhouse effect, and why the sky is blue. This rich biography describes the colourful life and achievements of this brilliant communicator, physicist, and mountaineer, who ascended from humble beginnings to the heart of Victorian society.
What's Next?: Even Scientists Can't Predict the Future - or Can They?
Paperback,
05/10/2017,
£8.99
£7.00
Fatal Attraction: Magnetic Mysteries of the Enlightenment
Hardback,
07/04/2005,
£9.99
£8.00
A deftly written story of nature's most mystreious force, magnetism, and the spell it cast over three champions of enlightenment. Tales abounded of magnets' ability to attract reluctant lovers, but its expertise lay in he hands of seafarers, who had long used compasses to guide their ships.
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
Paperback,
26/01/2012,
£14.99
£12.00
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic science, the author reintroduces such figures as the Iraqi physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who practised the modern scientific method over half a century before Bacon.
Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
Hardback,
23/06/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
A tour of clocks throughout the centuries--from the sandglass to the telomere--to reveal the physical, biological, and social nature of time
Love is the Drug: The Chemical Future of Our Relationships
Hardback,
30/01/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
Love drugs and anti-love drugs exist and more powerful versions will be available in the near future: What are the ethics of using them, how will they affect society, and will they take the magic out of love? A cutting-edge book by two prominent ethicists on 'love drugs', and the implications they may have for us all. -- .
Introducing Meteorology: A Guide to Weather: 2019
Paperback,
27/02/2020,
£9.99
£8.99
Introducing Meteorology provides a succinct overview of the science of the. The initial chapters describe the development of the science, the atmosphere and the forces which govern the weather. The author then discusses weather influences at global and local scales before describing the science of weather forecasting.
Talk: The Science of Conversation
Paperback,
27/11/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
This book will change the way you think about talk. It will explain the big pay-offs to understanding conversation scientifically.
Paws: This Book Will Help You Take a Break
Hardback,
10/10/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
Cats have mastered the art of chilling out and, with a little help from this book, now you can too! Turn to this collection of care-free kitties for a dose of relaxation and inspiration. It's the purr-fect way to press 'paws' and enjoy a few moments of peace and quiet.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe
Paperback,
08/08/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
The mysterious phenomena that could unlock the secrets of the universe.
Astrobiology: The Search for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
Paperback,
05/09/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
Are we alone in the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there are stars in the sky?
Sea Inside
Paperback,
24/02/2014,
£10.99
£9.00
A startling book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for `Leviathan'.
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Hardback,
03/09/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer
Hacking the Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures
Paperback,
07/03/2019,
£12.99
£7.50
The cutting-edge science that will revolutionise the way we prevent disease
Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live
Paperback,
07/03/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Teach Us about Ourselves
Hardback,
14/03/2019,
£14.99
£13.49
Sky at Night: Book of the Moon - A Guide to Our Closest Neighbour
Hardback,
13/09/2018,
£10.99
£9.89
But far from being just a big rock out in space, the Moon has a phenomenal power over the earth, with its ability to create great waves, dictate the length of the day and summon the seasons. She uncovers the way the Moon has captured our imaginations, contemplates how it was formed, and uncovers why we need the Moon to protect our fragile earth.
Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Paperback,
03/12/2018,
£12.99
£11.69
Using items in the NASA archive together with expert narrative guidance, this history of how Americans got to space begins with Wernher von Braun's vision for voyaging to Mars and ends with Elon Musk's contemporary plan to get there. It covers the founding of NASA, the first American astronauts in space, the moon landings, the Challenger disaster, and the Hubble Telescope repairs--
Heart: A History
Paperback,
06/06/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
A doctor's inspiring obsession with the heart, seamlessly combining history, gripping scenes from the operating theatre and a moving personal story
Heart: A History
Hardback,
27/09/2018,
£14.99
£13.49
A doctor's inspiring obsession with the heart, seamlessly combining history, gripping scenes from the operating theatre and a moving personal story
Recovery
Paperback,
04/04/2019,
£3.50
£3.15
The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human lifeHow do we carry on when someone close to us dies?
Six Impossible Things: The `Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
Hardback,
04/04/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
A short guide to the six theories that try to explain the wild world of the quantum.
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Hardback,
30/05/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
`Roundly debunks racism's core lie - that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power' Reni Eddo-Lodge
Edith and Florence Stoney, Sisters in Radiology
Hardback,
21/07/2019,
£32.99
£29.69
This book explores the lives and achievements of two Irish sisters, Edith and Florence Stoney, who pioneered the use of new electromedical technologies, especially X-rays but also ultraviolet radiation and diathermy.
Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies and Minds
Paperback,
30/05/2019,
£8.99
£8.09
Apollo 11: The Inside Story
Paperback,
03/06/2019,
£12.99
£11.69
The amazing inside story of Apollo 11 - The Right Stuff for a new generation
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