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How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Paperback,
06/01/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration
Hardback,
12/07/2021,
£25.00
£22.50
A thrilling, beautifully illustrated account of human space exploration, from the space race of the 1950s and '60s to the present day.
Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space
Hardback,
02/11/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
The radical history of space exploration from the Russian Cosmists to Elon Musk
Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Paperback,
03/02/2022,
£10.99
£9.89
Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing
Paperback,
10/02/2022,
£10.99
£9.89
'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times
'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple.
Secret World of Stargazing: Find solace in the stars
Hardback,
25/11/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
Venture into the great outdoors, switch off from your busy life and identify the wonders of the night sky.
Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
Hardback,
27/05/2022,
£23.95
£21.56
If existing models of the structure of the universe are correct, then 85 percent of the cosmos comprises a substance called dark matter. Yet no direct evidence of dark matter exists. Award-winning science journalist Govert Schilling details the quest to detect dark matter and how the search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit.
Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age
Hardback,
24/06/2022,
£22.95
£20.66
Social media and the always-connected digital life really are undermining our relationships. Carl Marci shows that our phone and Facebook habits aren't just distractions; they're altering our brains, harming our ability to communicate intimately. Fortunately, there are ways out. More than a critic, Marci offers solutions for tech-life balance.
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind
Paperback,
15/04/2021,
£8.99
£8.09
Limb by limb, case by case - some criminal, some historical, some unaccountably bizarre - Dame Sue Black reconstructs with intimate sensitivity and compassion the hidden stories in what we leave behind.
Kay's Marvellous Medicine: A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body
Paperback,
21/07/2022,
£8.99
£8.09
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Hardback,
03/02/2022,
£12.99
£11.69
A short, highly directed guide to an area of science that is little understood but increasingly part of public discourse by the Sunday Times bestselling author of HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST
Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of How We Navigate
Hardback,
20/01/2022,
£16.99
£15.29
Lose yourself in this extraordinary account of how we navigate the world.
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
Hardback,
10/02/2022,
£18.99
£17.09
Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our present social structures. An engrossing combination of natural science and social history: glaciology and sociology writ large.
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
Hardback,
17/02/2022,
£14.99
£13.49
Our ever-increasing intimacy with technology is changing our bodies and our brains. What can those at the frontiers tell us about what it means to be in a body now?
Little Book about the Big Bang
Hardback,
25/02/2022,
£21.95
£19.76
Tony Rothman offers a primer on the science of the big bang and the questions we still can't answer about the origins of the universe. Enlisting thoughtful analogies and a step-by-step approach, Rothman guides readers through dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity, and other topics at-and beyond-the cutting edge of cosmology.
Seven Pillars of Science: The Incredible Lightness of Ice, and Other Scientific Surprises
Paperback,
06/01/2022,
£8.99
£8.09
The seven fundamental - and surprising - scientific truths of our existence.
How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human
Paperback,
03/02/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical take on the human story and what it means for us today
Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds
Paperback,
03/02/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
The Earth writes its own story in the landscape. A novelist sets out on a journey to piece it together.
The End of Astronauts: Why Robots Are the Future of Exploration
Hardback,
01/04/2022,
£22.95
£20.66
Human space journeys are awe-inspiring but risky and immensely expensive. Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees argue that science calls for leaving space exploration to AI-guided robots, since robots range more widely and see more than any human can. Humanity's future in space must await decisions based on results from our ever-better machines.
Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - a Game of Theories
Hardback,
25/06/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful of scientific theories, but what does it actually mean? From Schrodinger's Cat to Many Worlds, Jim Baggott guides us through the many attempts to determine its meaning. Richard Feynman once declared that 'nobody understands quantum mechanics'. This book will tell you why.
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Hardback,
06/10/2022,
£25.00
£22.50
A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century
At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It's time to explore our universe's most mysterious inhabitants
Black Holes
The Curious World of Science: A visual miscelllany of stories, theories, discoveries & curiosities plucked from the scientific world
Hardback,
04/08/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
To some, science is simply a means to an end; to others it is an almost spiritual meditation on theories and formulae.
The Atlas of Atlases: Exploring the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them
Hardback,
20/09/2022,
£28.00
£25.20
A lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them.
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
Paperback,
16/09/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
'Required reading for everyone' Adam Rutherford
Medicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.
The Insect Crisis: Our Fragile Dependence on the Planet's Smallest Creatures
Paperback,
02/03/2023,
£10.99
£9.89
How would we live if insects no longer existed?
Beyond The Pale: Folklore, Family and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes
Paperback,
11/04/2016,
£14.99
£13.49
Emily is drawn to understanding her child's albinism by researching the cultural beliefs associated with albinism worldwide; a journey that takes her to a faraway continent, through her own family tree, and all the while unearthing discoveries that vacillate between beauty, amazement and horror.
Astrobiology:: The Search for Alien Life: The Illustrated Edition
Hardback,
02/02/2023,
£20.00
£18.00
The possibility that alien life exists in the universe is among the most profound of human conjectures, which today is being investigated not just by science-fiction writers but by scientists.
Painful Truth: The new science of why we hurt and how we can heal
Paperback,
10/02/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History
Hardback,
08/07/2021,
£20.00
£18.00
The inside story of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine, from two of the leading scientists who created it.
Vaxxers: A Pioneering Moment in Scientific History
Paperback,
26/05/2022,
£9.99
£8.99
The bestselling inside story from the leading scientists who made the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.
Brief Lives 3 - Newton
Paperback,
03/05/2007,
£9.99
£8.99
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote: 'I was in the prime of age for invention'. This book demonstrates his perceptions, which changed our world forever.
The Periodic Table
Paperback,
05/04/2012,
£8.99
£8.09
Assesses author's life in terms of the chemical elements. This title reflects on the difficult course of his life from his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Nature Is Never Silent: how animals and plants communicate with each other
Hardback,
14/10/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
Gravity: From Falling Apples to Supermassive Black Holes
Hardback,
10/11/2022,
£18.99
£17.09
Gravity: From Falling Apples to Supermassive Black Holes provides a fascinating historical account of how we have reached our current understanding of gravity, and places the most sensational developments in gravitational physics, including the detection of gravitational waves and supermassive black holes, in their true context.
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
Paperback,
25/11/2022,
£14.99
£13.49
A new translation of the complete, unabridged text of Galileo's Dialogue, with a detailed introduction and explanatory notes, giving contemporary readers access in English to Galileo's authentic text with comprehensive and up-to-date notes.
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Hardback,
09/06/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, the story of the mammals, our own kind, from their earliest development and their co-existence with the great lizards to their emergence out of the shadows to dominance of the recent history of our planet.
Sounds Wild and Broken
Hardback,
21/04/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
And yet this shared sonic existence is in crisis, as human noise threatens to drown out all else.
From city streets to ocean depths, and Palaeolithic cave dwellings to modern concert halls, Sounds Wild and Broken is an illuminating exploration of the rich and varied sounds of our planet.
Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One
Hardback,
21/04/2022,
£20.00
£18.00
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