Science & Environment

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How it Began: A Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Universe

Chris Impey

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Impey combines the vision of a practicing scientist with the voice of a gifted storyteller. Dava Sobel See details

£8.99

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

Andrea Wulf

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United by the transit of Venus, scientists from around the globe came together to answer the essential question: ho... See details

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Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What it Means for Us

Dambisa Moyo

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Examines the misconceptions and noise surrounding resource scarcity with a penetrating analysis of what really is a... See details

£20.00

Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

Clive Hamilton

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On a damp, chill, blustery August afternoon in Whitby a few years ago I overheard a disgruntled holidaymaker de... See details

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Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrate

Gabriele Kuhl, Christoph Bartels, D. E. G. Briggs and Jes Rust, foreword by Richard Fortey

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Pays tribute to the exquisite fossils of the Hunsruck Slate that is situated west of the Rhine Valley in western Ge... See details

£24.00

Mankind Beyond Earth: The History, Science, and Future of Human Space Exploration

Claude A. Piantadosi

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Seeking to reenergize Americans’ passion for the space program, the value of further exploration of the Moon,... See details

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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

George Hrabovsky

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Teaches the skills you need to do physics yourself. This title introduces all the key concepts, from classical mech... See details

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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature

Vaclav Smil

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The biosphere—the Earth’s thin layer of life—dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the f... See details

£33.95

Genetic Explanations: Sense and Nonsense

edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber, contributions by Ruth Hubbard, Stuart Newman, Evelyn Fox Keller, David S. Moore, Steve Talbott, Eva Jablonka, C. Sonnenschein and A. M. Soto

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No longer viewed by scientists as the cell’s fixed master molecule, DNA is a dynamic script that is ad-libbed... See details

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Massive: The Higgs Boson and the Greatest Hunt in Science

Ian Sample

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In the early 1960s, three groups of physicists, working independently in different countries, stumbled upon an idea... See details

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Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

Daniel Tammet

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Mathematical savant and bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY, this is Tammet’s engaging and personal expl... See details

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The Universe within: A Scientific Adventure

Neil Shubin

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During the past 13.7 billion years (or so) since the Big Bang, our universe has evolved, stars have formed and died... See details

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Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar

Robert H. Lustig

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Sugar is addictive, toxic and everywhere. Find out how your sweet tooth might be nibbling you to death in this stra... See details

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The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters

Mark Henderson

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Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need th... See details