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How Great Thinkers Transformed Our Ideas: Share the insights of Newton, Hawking, Curie and other geniuses

How Great Thinkers Transformed Our Ideas: Share the...

Author: C C Hagan
ISBN: 9781805142546
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This book represents a slice of the history of ideas, science and philosophy and how the lives of great thinkers...  Read More >>

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable Energy

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable...

Author: Yasmin Ali
ISBN: 9781529382983
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An essential and personal primer on the global energy system that powers our world, from an engineer on a journey...  Read More >>

Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real Intuition and Make Better Decisions

Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real...

Author: Joel Pearson
ISBN: 9781801293051
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Intuition follows basic rules, and Pearson explains that by understanding these rules and when and how to apply...  Read More >>

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable Energy

Power Up: An Engineer's Adventures into Sustainable...

Author: Yasmin Ali
ISBN: 9781529382976
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An essential and personal primer on the global energy system that powers our world, from an engineer on a journey...  Read More >>

Beautiful Bacteria: Encounters in the Microuniverse 

Beautiful Bacteria: Encounters in the Microuniverse ...

Author: Tal Danino
ISBN: 9780847899869
Format: Hardback
$120.00

A leading bacteria scientist combines unique photographic techniques and accessible text to reveal the microbial...  Read More >>

The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: Scenes from the Deep History of a Field 400 Years in the Making

The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: Scenes from...

Author: Kevin Donnelly
ISBN: 9780822947967
Format: Hardback
$118.80

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior. The...  Read More >>

StarWords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language

StarWords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language

Author: Daniel Kunth ,  Elena Terlevich
ISBN: 9783031490231
Format: Paperback
$73.89

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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges...

Author: Matt Strassler
ISBN: 9781541603295
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Why We Die: And How We Live: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity

Why We Die: And How We Live: The New Science of Ageing...

Author: Venki Ramakrishnan
ISBN: 9781529369250
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A major exploration of the science of why and how we age and die - from a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former...  Read More >>

Why We Die: And How We Live: The New Science of Ageing and Longevity

Why We Die: And How We Live: The New Science of Ageing...

Author: Venki Ramakrishnan
ISBN: 9781529369243
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A major exploration of the science of why and how we age and die - from a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former...  Read More >>

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between...

Author: Michael Taylor
ISBN: 9781847926791
Format: Paperback
$36.99

From fossil-hunting to the end of faith- a gripping narrative history of the seventy-five-year culture war that...  Read More >>

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between...

Author: Michael Taylor
ISBN: 9781847926784
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A narrative history of the discovery of dinosaurs and how they toppled religion and transformed the world In 1811,...  Read More >>

Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes Us

Why We Remember: The Science of Memory and How it Shapes...

Author: Dr Charan Ranganath
ISBN: 9780571374144
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A radical reexamination of memory, by the pioneering neuroscientist and internationally-renowned memory researcher....  Read More >>

How to be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

How to be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

Author: Helena de Bres ,  Julia de Bres
ISBN: 9781526179869
Format: Hardback
$44.99

This illuminating, entertaining book offers philosophical and personal reflections on twinhood and how it can help...  Read More >>

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Author: Rebecca Skloot
ISBN: 9781035038619
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . ....  Read More >>

The Science Museum Physics 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Key Concepts

The Science Museum Physics 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A...

Author: David Sang
ISBN: 9780241594926
Format: Hardback
$27.99

Get to grips with the essential topics in physics today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100...  Read More >>

Simply AI: Facts Made Fast

Simply AI: Facts Made Fast

Author: DK
ISBN: 9780241694176
Format: Hardback
$22.99

LESS CHAT! MORE CHATBOT! Understanding AI has never been easier. Combining bold graphics with easy-to-understand...  Read More >>

42 Reasons to Hate the Universe: (And One Reason Not To)

42 Reasons to Hate the Universe: (And One Reason Not...

Author: Chris Ferrie ,  Wade David Fairclough
ISBN: 9781728272825
Format: Paperback
$32.99

From bestselling author Chris Ferrie comes an out of this world pop science space book on how the universe is, indeed,...  Read More >>

Learning to Think.: A broken system kept her trapped, education helped her break free

Learning to Think.: A broken system kept her trapped,...

Author: Tracy King
ISBN: 9780857527431
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The most exciting memoir to launch in 2024 - Educated meets Lowborn and more. A stunning coming-of-age story. When...  Read More >>

The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study

The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work: Explore...

Author: Roger Highfield ,  Sir Roger Penrose
ISBN: 9780241630662
Format: Hardback
$42.99

"An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius...  Read More >>

Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers

Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest...

Author: Dr Chris Thorogood
ISBN: 9780241632628
Format: Hardback
$55.00

An acclaimed botanist's obsessive search across the rainforests of SE Asia for the rare and endangered, parasitic...  Read More >>

The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter

The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search...

Author: Govert Schilling ,  Avi Loeb
ISBN: 9780674295490
Format: Paperback
$34.95

If existing models of the structure of the universe are correct, then 85 percent of the cosmos comprises a substance...  Read More >>

How Trees Can Save the World

How Trees Can Save the World

Author: Peter Wohlleben
ISBN: 9780008447243
Format: Paperback
$28.44

From the internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees An illuminating manifesto...  Read More >>

The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running

The Race Against Time: Adventures in Late-Life Running...

Author: Richard Askwith
ISBN: 9781529112368
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think...  Read More >>

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