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Science & Maths
Science & Maths
Scientific theories and thinkers from ancient times on, Galileo to Hawking, Big Bang to atomic theory.
| SIGRI SANDBERG Book Number: 89964 |
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Under the dark polar night of northern Norway, journalist Sigri Sandberg meditates on the cultural, historical, psychological and scientific meaning of darkness, all the while testing the limits of...
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| BRIAN SWITEK Book Number: 89727 |
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Philadelphia's Mütter Museum has an expansive and historic collection of crania and bones and is home to the towering skeleton of the Mütter American Giant, the remains of a woman so tightly corset...
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| ANDREW RADER Book Number: 89771 |
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From an MIT scientist, gifted historian and SpaceX mission manager, here is a thrilling and irresistible history of human exploration. In one single, book-sized expedition, Rader retraces a 10,000...
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| MELISSA PETITTO, R.D. Book Number: 90096 |
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Cannabidiol is used for a wide variety of ailments, mainly related to pain relief, and can be bought in the UK from pharmacies and health food outlets, though care must be taken with dosage and the...
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| SANJAY SARMA Book Number: 90407 |
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Learning is an adventure, but education is a process of selection and the results can be destructive. The criteria used to separate pupils of differing aptitudes are riddled with cultural assumptio...
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| ROBERT STONE Book Number: 90514 |
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"3... 2... 1... We have lift off!" It was thirty two minutes past the hour and Apollo 11 saw humanity take a giant leap forward as the mission took off, shown on live television across the world. F...
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| STUART DANDO & ISABEL THOMAS Book Number: 90660 |
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Take a mission to the Moon with this fact packed pocket rocket set of ten press out models of the space shuttle system - Saturn V measuring over 60cm tall, smaller models Ariane V, Atlas V551, Long...
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| SUZIE GROGAN Book Number: 90360 |
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Sub-titled 'The Life of A Surgeon-Apothecary 1750-1850', imagine performing surgery on a patient without anaesthetic, administering medicine that could kill or cure, picture dissecting mouldering c...
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| JEREMY BROWN Book Number: 90369 |
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Sub-titled ' The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease In History'. 'Even though the initial influenza tested to be negative, Murray now repeated it using a much more sensitive technique....
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| THOMAS MORRIS Book Number: 90375 |
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Sub-titled 'A History of the Heart In Eleven Operations' here is the cut and thrust of cardiac surgery demystified lest we forget that venturing into the thoracic cavity was once so daunting. For ...
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| EDWARD O. WILSON Book Number: 90449 |
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By pushing further into the realm of science, especially fields such as evolutionary biology, neuro-science and anthropology, Pulitzer prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson calls for a transformati...
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| CHARLES DARWIN Book Number: 27140 |
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A Grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die... Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or...
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| JAMES MAY & PHIL DOLLING Book Number: 90496 |
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First published in hardback as 'James May's 20th Century', the book looks at how men in sheds have changed our lives in an unashamedly personal selection of magnificent machines, inventions and dis...
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| DAVID POGUE Book Number: 90504 |
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Essential Tips and Shortcuts (That No One Bothers To Tell You) For Simplifying the Technology In Your Life' is the sub-title of this primer and shortcut to a happier technological life. Tips inclu...
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| EDITED BY JONATHAN SILVERTOWN Book Number: 90833 |
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Published by the Natural History Museum the author is internationally known for his research on the evolution and ecology of plants. Nature's Web is solar powered driven by the energy that land pl...
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| JOHN THACKRAY & BOB PRESS Book Number: 90838 |
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As well as extensive holdings of books, journals and manuscripts, the Natural History Museum in London has an unparalleled collection of artwork. The Reeves Drawings are one of many examples of th...
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| GAVIN FRANCIS Book Number: 90846 |
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'A quietly radical, three-dimensional view of issues such as reproduction, birth, death and disability that has the power, at times, to make you stop mid-sentence and carefully reassess some of you...
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| A. N. WILSON Book Number: 90854 |
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As British biographers go, few can match A.N. Wilson and even fewer when it comes to the Victorian age. Published in the UK in 2017 (this is the US first edition of the same year), this was the fir...
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| ALEXANDER BOXER Book Number: 90884 |
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Astrology combines two powerful human tendencies: our compulsion to find connections in everything, and our fascination with ourselves. The earliest civilisations had astrological structures, most...
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| ROBERT SAPOLSKY Book Number: 90996 |
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Oliver Sacks has described Sapolsky as 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time.' This superb guide to human nature shows how all the perspective and systems connect and we laugh and marvel ...
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| DAVID BARRIE Book Number: 91029 |
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Award-winning author David Barrie has himself sailed the oceans using a sextant and is passionate about navigation as he describes in delightful detail the myriad ways in which animals get around. ...
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| PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILTSHIRE Book Number: 90827 |
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'The Memoir of A Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator', Professor Patricia Wiltshire takes us into a fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined. Through woodlands, hedgero...
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| JORDAN GOODMAN Book Number: 91098 |
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Sub-titled 'Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany', here is a bold new history on how botany and global plant collecting transformed the world. Botany was the darling a...
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| EDITED BY DAVID WOODFALL Book Number: 91100 |
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Sub-titled 'Real Life Stories of Returning British and Irish Wildlife to Balance', rewilding has become the key talking point in the modern conservation movement. It is still commonly misunderstoo...
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| CHRISTIAN MADSBJERG Book Number: 91127 |
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Sub-titled 'What Makes Human Intelligence Essential in the Age of the Algorithm', the book is a provocative stand against the tyranny of big data and scientism. Based on his work at companies like...
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| BRIAN CLEGG Book Number: 91131 |
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Sub-titled 'The Science of What Makes You You' the book gets right to the heart of what makes us tick. Popular science master Brian Clegg investigates what makes you the unique individual that you...
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| JAY JAYAMOHAN Book Number: 91195 |
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On a daily basis Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon Jay Jayamohan makes life-and-death decisions on the most vulnerable and fragile members of society - babies and children. Daily, parents and car...
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| SAM KEAN Book Number: 90781 |
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The story of the race to prevent Hitler from getting the atomic bomb is a little known but crucial strand in the complex tapestry of WWII. This fast-paced account, described on the cover as "thrill...
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| ANDREW MAY Book Number: 90784 |
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Bart Simpson's solution to the risk of an asteroid impact was to "party hard and wreck the place", and many people would echo that fatalistic judgment. The author concludes this no-nonsense guide ...
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| ANGUS BUCHANAN Book Number: 91240 |
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A collaboration between ten authors, the book is sub-titled 'How the Modern World Was Changed by Technology'. It is a refreshing new 'take' on the history of technology and some of the most import...
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