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There are 145 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780141989549 | ISBN 10: 0141989548
The inspiring memoir of the superstar astronaut and internet sensation - now on her biggest space mission yet.
'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space'
In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474619974 | ISBN 10: 1474619975
'Even one glass of wine a day raises the risk of cancer' 'Hate crimes have doubled in five years''Fizzy drinks make teenagers violent'Â
Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Someti ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857524133 | ISBN 10: 0857524135
"A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529112443 | ISBN 10: 1529112443
What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
Black holes are the most extraordinary phenomenon in the universe, but they are a riddle that confounds our intuitions.
Anything that enters them can never escape, and yet they contai ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783966493 | ISBN 10: 1783966491
The universe is a beautiful, awe-inspiring place – from glowing nebulae to the sweeping majesty of the Milky Way, from complex cloud patterns on Jupiter to the rippling curtains of aurorae. But many of us struggle to grasp the complex ideas and sci ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529176490 | ISBN 10: 1529176492
Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator.
Books Do Furnish a Li ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788165532 | ISBN 10: 1788165535
Icelandic author and activist Andri Snaer Magnason's 'Letter to the Future', an extraordinary and moving eulogy for the lost Okjoekull glacier, made global news and was shared by millions. Now he attempts to come to terms with the issues we all face ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781841884943 | ISBN 10: 1841884944
Travel back to the prehistoric world and discover the most fascinating parts of the lives of Earth's most awe-inspiring creatures - the dinosaurs.
Dr Dean Lomax brings these prehistoric creatures to life in ten bite-sized essays, written ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781784708276 | ISBN 10: 1784708275
The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.
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Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enab ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787332461 | ISBN 10: 1787332462
Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson.
Drawing on her years of thinking abou ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787332041 | ISBN 10: 1787332047
Why cooperate?
This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. Â
The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781472154712 | ISBN 10: 1472154711
In this symphonic work of non-fiction, Heather Christle explores the most human of behaviours: crying. What are tears made of? Why do people cry? And why is this common, crucial act so rarely discussed? Christle unpacks the biological reasons for tea ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474611763 | ISBN 10: 1474611761
We are much more connected to nature and each other than we realise...
* Most of our 37 trillion cells have such a short lifespan that we are essentially made anew every few weeks
* The molecules forming our bodies have been component part ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780552779906 | ISBN 10: 0552779903
‘We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.’Â
Bill Bryson sets off to ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788163811 | ISBN 10: 1788163818
How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) a ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786897268 | ISBN 10: 1786897261
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of pla ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780008293864 | ISBN 10: 0008293864
Where did the idea of race come from, and what does it mean? In an age of identity politics, DNA ancestry testing and the rise of the far-right, a belief in biological differences between populations is experiencing a resurgence. The truth is: race i ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786632630 | ISBN 10: 1786632632
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity and capitalism.Â
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, i ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141987507 | ISBN 10: 0141987502
Humans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed? Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, according to the world's pre-eminent AI expert, it could also be the last. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781473696426 | ISBN 10: 1473696429
In this tie-in to their popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe' podcast, Steven Novella, along with 'Skeptical Rogues' Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella and Evan Bernstein explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781473695993 | ISBN 10: 1473695996
The final book from Professor Stephen Hawking, the bestselling author of A Brief History of Time and arguably the most famous scientist of our age, Brief Answers To The Big Questions is a profound, accessible and timely reflection on the biggest ques ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526604 | ISBN 10: 1783526602
'Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too.'
This was the great rallying cry of the pioneers who, in 1919, created the Women's Engineering Society. Spearheaded by Katharine an ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780750990950 | ISBN 10: 0750990953
The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair – one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141984964 | ISBN 10: 0141984961
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERÂ
The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time.Â
'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the trace ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241399361 | ISBN 10: 024139936x
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781847924759 | ISBN 10: 1847924751
Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that your sex determines your skills and preferences, from toys ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472137432 | ISBN 10: 1472137434
Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements. ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782439608 | ISBN 10: 1782439609
Have you ever wondered why ice floats, how the GPS on your mobile phone works (and what it has to do with Einstein), or why woollen jumpers shrink in the wash?
In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show's resident ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786492234 | ISBN 10: 1786492237
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
A New Scientist Gift Pick
"Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it."(Dara Ó Briain)
Can we resurrect dinosaurs? Is a Martian holiday good for your health? Can we build a time machine? (And more important ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141981802 | ISBN 10: 0141981806
"This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it"(Stephen Hawking)
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR
AI is the future - but what w ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241953174 | ISBN 10: 0241953170
When exactly did life begin? What really happened during the big bang - and before it? Is the universe expanding? Is dark matter real? Do we live in one of many worlds? What's more, how can we prove any of this?
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This book is all about how we - a ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786074041 | ISBN 10: 1786074044
A Sunday Times Book of the Year.
From the author of the international bestseller How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog.
Exciting physics doesn't just show up in billion-dollar experiments like the Large Hadron Collider or in extr ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781472920119 | ISBN 10: 1472920112
Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly habitable worlds, surely our planet isn't the only one that, like the porridge Goldilocks sought, is just right for life?
... more
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£13.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780393355802 | ISBN 10: 0393355802
One of the world’s leading cultural psychologists debunks the hype surrounding DNA testing and puts to rest our mistaken anxieties about our genes.
Around 250,000 people have had their genomes sequenced and scientists expect that number to ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241280881 | ISBN 10: 0241280885
An engrossing exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts.
Meteorites, methane, mega-volcanoes and now human beings; the old fo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447263654 | ISBN 10: 1447263650
Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee. The best-selling author of On the Move, Musicophilia, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks is known for his ill ... more
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£19.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781849352741 | ISBN 10: 1849352747
The definitive edition of Peter Kropotkin's final book, Modern Science and Anarchy is the summation of his forty years in the anarchist movement. It represents his theory that the doctrines of anarchism were a necessary consequence of “the great ge ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780198794981 | ISBN 10: 0198794983
Many extraordinary female scientists, doctors, and engineers tasted independence and responsibility for the first time during the First World War. How did this happen? Patricia Fara reveals how suffragists, such as Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strach ... more
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£15.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781844039838 | ISBN 10: 1844039838
Putting 48 pioneering and innovative female scientists firmly back on the modern map.
The women who shaped and were erased from our history.
The Forgotten Women series will uncover the lost histories of the influential women who hav ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008276324 | ISBN 10: 0008276323
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousn ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780762461738 | ISBN 10: 076246173x
An inspirational collection of musings on the wonders of nature and the universe, Zen Science pairs the fun of popular science trivia with the benefits of mindfulness.
It takes 30,000 years to create a single ray of sunlight. A pinch of soil ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008172039 | ISBN 10: 000817203x
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.
 Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psych ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785783180 | ISBN 10: 1785783181
WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE
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Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rew ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846149290 | ISBN 10: 1846149290
The bestselling French graphic novel about the mind-bending world of quantum physics.
Famous explorer Bob and his dog Rick have been around the world and even to the Moon, but their travels through the quantum universe show them the greatest ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780141983219 | ISBN 10: 0141983213
From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics comes a new book about the mind-bending nature of the universe.
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Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture?
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Scientist Carlo Rovell ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783783069 | ISBN 10: 1783783060
What separates your mind from the mind of an animal? Maybe you think it's your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future - all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the pre-eminent species on Earth. But in ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780393609394 | ISBN 10: 0393609391
The #1 New York Times Bestseller: The essential universe, from a celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
There’s no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571290086 | ISBN 10: 0571290086
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly and crime – b ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785782022 | ISBN 10: 1785782029
From Musa al-Khwarizmi who developed algebra in 9th century Baghdad to al-Jazari, a 13th-century Turkish engineer whose achievements include the crank, the camshaft and the reciprocating piston, Science and Islam tells the story of one of history’s ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099584575 | ISBN 10: 0099584573
Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on Sunday
THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful a ... more
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£6.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781841657561 | ISBN 10: 1841657565
Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second Worl ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780198747833 | ISBN 10: 0198747837
Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780718186272 | ISBN 10: 0718186273
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Quantum Mechanics is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the very, very small.
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Written by physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili, it explores all t ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780718186289 | ISBN 10: 0718186281
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Evolution is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to Charles Darwin's pioneering and revolutionary theory of how all life changes through natural selection.
Written by broadcaster, prize-winni ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849944021 | ISBN 10: 1849944024
A highly entertaining, myth-busting read for anyone with even a passing interest in science.
Hot on the heels of the fascinating compendium Everything You Know About London is Wrong, this next book in the series, written by author Matt Brown ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780198798330 | ISBN 10: 0198798334
Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been exploited to create sensational ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781785781667 | ISBN 10: 1785781669
Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.
Soon making scientific discoveries i ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784161859 | ISBN 10: 1784161853
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781256817 | ISBN 10: 1781256810
The ALIENS invasion is coming ...It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of humans: do aliens exist? If they did, what would they look like? How would they think? And what would it mean for us if we found them? ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781925228809 | ISBN 10: 1925228800
The heart — we all have one, pumping away reliably in our chest, never stopping till the day we die. But few of us think much about this heroic organ until it starts to go wrong.
In this lively and informative exploration of all aspects of ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785781223 | ISBN 10: 1785781227
Why do your fingers go wrinkly in the bath? What kind of animal can have 21 limbs? Who would really win a fight between a T.Rex and Godzilla?
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Test your knowledge of all things scientific with the biggest, brightest and most mind-bending quiz boo ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780007488827 | ISBN 10: 0007488823
A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the new BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions.
What is motion?
Why is every snowflake different?
Why is life ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783340712 | ISBN 10: 1783340711
Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used scientific computer program was named Ada, after Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century s version of a rock star, Lord Byron. Why?
Because, after computer pioneers such as ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141981536 | ISBN 10: 0141981539
In The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious set of adventures.Â
Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784161927 | ISBN 10: 1784161926
The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all ty ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781607749769 | ISBN 10: 1607749769
A charmingly illustrated and educational book, Women in Science highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Full of striking ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141981727 | ISBN 10: 0141981725
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons.
'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the myst ... more
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£3.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857503572 | ISBN 10: 085750357x
“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers.”
In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking deliver ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780198739838 | ISBN 10: 0198739834
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains.
If ... more
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£13.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910620014 | ISBN 10: 1910620017
Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist who developed the theory of relativity. He is considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
Einstein is the third in Maier and Simon’s collection of graphic novels exploring the li ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780816696154 | ISBN 10: 0816696152
The consequences, for science as well as public policy, of relegating ex-gay therapies to the scientific fringe.
Drawing on extensive participant observation at conferences for ex-gays, reorientation therapists, mainstream psychologists, and ... more
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£11.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781908885531 | ISBN 10: 190888553x
In this witty, fact-packed A-Z, Robert Newman takes the reader on a whirlwind tour from caring, sharing vampire bats to intelligent slime-mould; from pacifist baboons to Richard Dawkins wrestling naked with his postman; from the invisibility cloak of ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848664791 | ISBN 10: 1848664796
Alice Roberts takes you on the most incredible journey in nature, revealing your path from a single cell to a complex embryo to a living, breathing, thinking person. It's a story that with our distant ancestors and an extraordinary, unlikely chain of ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447278627 | ISBN 10: 1447278623
The international bestseller: a visually stunning photographic tour of Earth, from the astronaut who made us fall in love with our planet all over again.
In You Are Here, celebrated astronaut Chris Hadfield gives us the really big picture: this i ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007505142 | ISBN 10: 0007505140
In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. Now the pick of the journalism by one of our ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780271514 | ISBN 10: 1780271514
The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3,000 million years – from close to the South Pole to its current position. During these travels, there were many continental collisions, creating mountain belts as hig ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781910449264 | ISBN 10: 1910449261
In November 1915 Albert Einstein published his now world famous General Theory of Relativity. It made key predictions around gravity’s influence in space and time. It introduced to physics new concepts around the curvature of space, the passage of ti ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782434474 | ISBN 10: 178243447x
For those whose memories of learning science at school consist of burning magnesium and playing with iron filings and a magnet, and whose brains shut down as soon as things start to sound ‘too technical’, I Used to Know That: General Science is here ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847177285 | ISBN 10: 184717728x
Albert Einstein said his first ideas about relativity came from looking in the mirror as a teenager and wondering what it would be like to travel on a beam of light. This is the story of that journey ...
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A Time Traveller's Guide to Life follows ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781251706 | ISBN 10: 1781251703
Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic medicine, from the crime scene to the courtroom.
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447259947 | ISBN 10: 1447259947
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth is an inspirational memoir of space exploration and hard-won wisdom, from an astronaut who has spent a lifetime making the impossible a reality.
Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astr ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784700089 | ISBN 10: 1784700088
The official book behind the eight-time Oscar-nominated film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by Brit ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683149 | ISBN 10: 178168314x
"On my must-read list!"(Margaret Atwood)
Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. S ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780330535861 | ISBN 10: 0330535862
Why do obviously intelligent people believe things in spite of the evidence against them?
Will Storr has travelled across the world to meet an extraordinary cast of modern heretics in order to answer this question. He goes on a tour of Holocau ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205213 | ISBN 10: 030020521x
This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 mill ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781847677914 | ISBN 10: 1847677916
Winner of the 2013 British Psychological Society's Book Awards Popular Science category.
Have you ever tried to spend a day without looking at a clock or checking your watch? It's almost impossible. Time rules our lives, but how much do we u ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848315990 | ISBN 10: 1848315996
From the Large Hadron Collider rap to the sins of Isaac Newton, The Science Magpie is a compelling collection of scientific curiosities.
Expand your knowledge as you view the history of the Earth on the face of a clock, tremble at the power ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907704703 | ISBN 10: 1907704701
Do you know what your brain is made of? How does memory function? What is a neuron and how does it work? For that matter, what’s a comic? And in the words of Lewis Carroll’s famous caterpillar: “who are you?”
Produced in association with the ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689750 | ISBN 10: 1851689753
Marc Abrahams, the founder of the famous Ig Nobel Prize, offers an addictive, wryly funny expose of the oddest, most imaginative, and just plain improbable research from around the world. He looks into why books on ethics are more likely to get stole ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571295708 | ISBN 10: 0571295703
Two master science writers answer 140 of the biggest questions in physics, distilling the essence of each subject into tweets of 140 characters.
Marcus Chown and Govert Schilling take us on a unique tour of the universe, covering everything, from ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857896223 | ISBN 10: 0857896229
Here are many, many things that nobody knows...
Why are so many giraffes gay?
Has human evolution stopped?
Where did our alphabet come from?
Can robots become self-aware?
Can lobsters recognize other lobsters by sight?
What goes on insi ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848314061 | ISBN 10: 184831406x
The Ancient Greeks were so horrified by the implications of an endless number that they drowned the man who gave away the secret. A German mathematician was driven mad by the repercussions of his discovery of transfinite numbers. How will you fare?
... more
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£13.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780393342314 | ISBN 10: 039334231x
For physicists, the 1970s were a time of stagnation. Dissatisfied, underemployed and eternally curious, an eccentric group of Berkeley physicists threw off the constraints of the physics mainstream to explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing thems ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846683572 | ISBN 10: 1846683572
This is one curious man's journey to find out 'what's next?' Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it.
His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanis ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780552778053 | ISBN 10: 0552778052
Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth. These are magical, extraordinary tales. But there is another kind of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780061710292 | ISBN 10: 0061710296
For lovers of language and fans of Blink and Freakonomics, New York Times bestselling author James Geary offers this fascinating look at metaphors and their influence in every aspect of our lives, from art to medicine, psychology to the stock market ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141038360 | ISBN 10: 0141038365
For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic.
In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten, inspiring pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world during the golden age of Arabic science, includ ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857862310 | ISBN 10: 0857862316
Is science the only path to knowledge?
In this sparkling and provocative book Jonah Lehrer, author of The Decisive Moment, explains that when it comes to understanding the brain, art got there first. Taking a group of celebrated writers ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780241950739 | ISBN 10: 0241950732
Sometimes it's hard to be an optimist. In an ever more crowded and complex world, new challenges continue to confront us. It would be tempting to give up hope.
Tim Flannery is here to offer us a change of perspective. And he is here to insp ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857501004 | ISBN 10: 0857501003
Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? Â
These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780062074232 | ISBN 10: 0062074237
In 2007, Misha Angrist became the fourth subject in the Personal Genome Project, George Church’s ambitious plan to sequence the entire genomic catalog: every participant’s twenty thousand–plus genes and the rest of his or her six billion base pairs. ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199604883 | ISBN 10: 0199604886
As part of a trilogy of books exploring the science of patterns in nature, acclaimed science writer Philip Ball here looks at the form and growth of branching networks in the natural world, and what we can learn from them.
Many patterns ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780553819229 | ISBN 10: 0553819224
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent ‘grand design’ of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientifi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848542013 | ISBN 10: 1848542011
The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the peop ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781851687985 | ISBN 10: 185168798x
This groundbreaking book sees acclaimed psychologist Susan Blackmore combining the latest scientific theories about mind, self, and consciousness, with a lifetime’s practice of Zen. Prepared to step beyond the bounds of conventional investigation and ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781907155048 | ISBN 10: 190715504x
The Quadrivium consists of the four Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, and Cosmology, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. They synthesize number, space, and time. Geometry is number in sp ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780306819117 | ISBN 10: 0306819112
What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein’s famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light-while ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199573509 | ISBN 10: 0199573506
* Provides an overview of our Solar System and its origins, nature, and evolution
* Considers controversial issues, such as what qualifies as a planet
* Looks at different types of Solar System objects, such as asteroids, Trans-Neptunian obje ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780199584383 | ISBN 10: 0199584389
* Features stunning colour illustrations and photographs of the living world and exotic wildlife
* Unravels compelling stories of our evolutionary history and the effect on the living world and present-day diversity
* Writ ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552775243 | ISBN 10: 055277524x
Charles Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core on publication in 1859. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke but he would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the contr ... more
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£23.00 hardback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781556527852 | ISBN 10: 1556527853
"On October 10, 1970, the day she was born, she was named Dorothy Maree Alani - a baby girl. Curiously, though, no one filled out a birth certificate that day. When the certificate was finally filed on November 5, the name on it was Rudolph Andrew Al ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847921079 | ISBN 10: 1847921078
For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too.
The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780199225866 | ISBN 10: 0199225869
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, vi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843546702 | ISBN 10: 1843546701
The Kingdom of Infinite Space is a journey around the part of our anatomy to which we feel most attached: our heads. In this unique combination of biological science and philosophical interrogation, Raymond Tallis takes the head apart, piece by piece ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007284870 | ISBN 10: 000728487x
Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we're fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks!
When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780340980507 | ISBN 10: 0340980508
Jill Bolte Taylor experienced a massive stroke aged 37 when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A brain scientist by profession, she was in the rare position of being able to observe her own mind completely deteriorate to the point ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199219223 | ISBN 10: 0199219222
Charles Darwin revolutionized our ideas about the natural world and our place in it by introducing the concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and his ideas still provoke controversy today.
Editor Gillian Beer has writtten ... more
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