The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things by Peter Wohlleben
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Category: Science
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by hu ...Show more
Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Category: Science | Series: Astronomy
Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got plenty of that, then you have nothing to fear at all' - Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson is arguably the most influential, acc ...Show more
Six Degrees : The science of a connected age by Duncan J. Watts
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Category: Science
'Six degrees of separation' is a cliche, as is 'it's a small world', both cliches of the language and cliches of everyone's experience. We all live in tightly bonded social networks, yet linked to vast numbers of other people more closely than we sometimes think. Only in recent years, however, have scie ...Show more
Weird Maths by David Darling Agnijo Banerjee
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Category: Science
Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee draw connections between the cutting edge of modern maths and life as we understand it, delving into the ...Show more
Life Finds a Way - What Evolution Teaches Us about Creativity by Andreas Wagner
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Category: Science
'This is a wonderful, mind-expanding book. Prepare to be surprised, enlightened and awed as Wagner reveals the sources of human and natural creativity.' - Alice Roberts In Darwin's survival of the fittest, each step must be uphill as life progresses towards an evolutionary peak. There is no turning ...Show more
Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table by Kit Chapman
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Category: Science
Creating an element is no easy feat. It's the equivalent of firing six trillion bullets a second at a needle in a haystack, hoping the bullet and needle somehow fuse together, then catching it in less than a thousandth of a second - after which it's gone forever. Welcome to the world of the superheavy e ...Show more
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood by Rose George
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Category: Science
From a prize-winning writer, a fascinating exploration of blood: the stuff of life, the stuff of nightmares, and one of the most expensive liquids on the planet.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy by Brian Clegg
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Category: Science | Series: Hot Science Ser.
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has everfaced. Since the 1970s,astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them toaccount for the way they spin ar ...Show more
Am I Dreaming? New Science of Consciousness... by James Kingsland
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Category: Science
A scientific travel guide to altered states of consciousness - and what we can learn from them.
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever Ways to (Roughly) Calculate Anything by Rob Eastaway
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Category: Science
Does that statistic make sense? How much will this round of drinks come to? And what are the chances of winning the lottery? Twice? Learn how to do complex maths with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power. Doing mathematics without a calculator seems like ...Show more
From Zero to Infinity (and Beyond) by Dr. Mike Goldsmith
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Category: Science
Helps children unlock the mysteries of maths and discover the wonder of numbers. This title includes information on: why zero is so useful; what a googol really is; why music, maths and space are connected; why bees prefer hexagons; how to tell the time on other planets; and more.
Moon - Photographing the Moon 1840-Now by Maarten Dings; Joachim Naudts
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Category: Science
On July 21, 1969, the first man set foot on The Moon. When Neil Armstrong was asked if this made him feel big, he answered: "No, it made me feel really, really small." 50 years later, this publication celebrates that special moment that put life on earth into a totally different perspective. It collects ...Show more