Science & Maths

Science & Maths

Science & Maths

Science & Maths

Scientific theories and thinkers from ancient times on, Galileo to Hawking, Big Bang to atomic theory.
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AN ODE TO DARKNESS
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...
SKELETON KEYS: The Secret Life of Bone
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...
BEYOND THE KNOWN
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...
CBD HANDBOOK: Over 75 Recipes for Hemp-Derived Health
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...
GRASP: The Science Transforming How We Learn
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...
CHASING THE MOON: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
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...
SPACE RACERS: Make Your Own Paper Rockets: 10 Models
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...
INFLUENZA
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....
MATTER OF THE HEART
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 ...
ORIGINS OF CREATIVITY
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...
ORIGIN OF SPECIES
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...
JAMES MAY'S MAGNIFICENT MACHINES
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...
FRAGILE WEB: What Next for Nature?
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...
NATURE'S TREASUREHOUSE:
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...
ADVENTURES IN HUMAN BEING
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...
CHARLES DARWIN: Victorian Mythmaker
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...
A SCHEME OF HEAVEN: Astrology and the Birth of Science
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...
BEHAVE: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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 ...
TRACES
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...
REWILDING
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...
SENSEMAKING
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...
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
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...
EVERYTHING THAT MAKES US HUMAN
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...
COSMIC IMPACT:  Understanding the Threat to Earth
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 ...
ENGINEERING REVOLUTION
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...
30-SECOND AI & ROBOTICS
LUIS DE MIRANDA    Book Number: 91416
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When personal computers started appearing in homes more than 30 years ago, many non-users thought they were complicated devices for a minority of engineering-minded specialists that the average cit...
EARTH: From Myths to Knowledge
HUBERT KRIVINE    Book Number: 91459
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To understand the Universe we must first comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed, the language of mathematics. The book is not merely a history of scientific learning ...
OESTROGEN MATTERS
DR. AVRUM BLUMING & C. TAVRIS    Book Number: 91490
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A healthier longer life without osteoporosis is the goal of every woman going through and beyond menopause. For years, Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) was hailed as a miracle and study after stu...
LITTLE BOOK OF BIG EXPLORATIONS
JHENI OSMAN    Book Number: 91441
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The science presenter, journalist and author who writes for BBC's Science Focus magazine developed her love of wildlife while growing up in the Caribbean. Here we are taken into adventures that ch...
ILLUSTRATED WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MARINE FISH
AMY-JANE BEER & DEREK HALL    Book Number: 91027
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The story of life on Earth began in the sea which was mostly shallow and very warm and contained a potent blend of the chemicals that were to become the stuff of living organisms. Popularly known ...
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