Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by Gooding, Mel
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Category: Science
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more
The Remarkable Life of the Skin: An Intimate Journey Across our Surface by Monty Lyman
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Category: Science
How does our diet affect our skin? What makes the skin age? And why can't we tickle ourselves? Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest growing organ. We see it, touch it and live in it every day. It's a habitat for a mesmerizingly complex world of mi ...Show more
The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers by Bobby Seagull
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Category: Science
If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that's because you didn't have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.***As seen on BBC 2's Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were ...Show more
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.