Weirder Maths: At the Edge of the Possible by David Darling Agnijo Banerjee
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Category: Science
From centuries-old conundrums to eccentric geniuses like ƒvariste Galois (he failed the entrance exams at ƒcole Polytechnique twice because he couldn't explain how he'd arrived at his correct answers) to how the strangest math connects to the everyday, Darling and Banerjee transform the bewildering into ...Show more
Solar System - Understanding Every Planet, Star and Space Object That Surrounds Us by David W. Hughes; Carole Stott
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Category: Science
Featuring incredible photography from satellites and manned spaceflights, from the International Space Station to the Hubble telescope, this book brings the night sky to life. The cosmos are an expansive and fascinating area to study. There is much that we don't know about space, but science has made le ...Show more
Moonshots: 50 Years of NASA Space Exploration Seen through Hasselblad Cameras by Piers Bizony
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Category: Science
Available in paperback to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Moonshots presents stunning photos of space and Earth from NASA's archives--taken by Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and ISS astronauts using high resolution Hasselblad cameras. In December 1968, the crew of Apollo ...Show more
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
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Category: Science
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the unique human habits of exchange and specialisation, our species has found in ...Show more
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine by Thomas Morris
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Category: Science
"Delightfully horrifying."--Popular Science One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions... A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick... A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from ...Show more
Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders
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Category: Science
A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular "Diagnosis" column--the inspiration for the upcoming Netflix original series As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Te ...Show more
Dragon Keeper (#1 Rain Wild Chronicles) by Robin Hobb
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Category: Science | Series: The\Rain Wild Chronicles Ser.
After many years, dragons have hatched again outside the ancient city of Cassarick. But something is wrong with the creatures; each is inferior or weak in some way, and many die. Tending these stunted dragons has left the people of the surrounding area weary. The Traders Council, the city's leadership, ...Show more
The Great Naturalists by Robert Huxley
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Category: Science
From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and rec ...Show more
Stargazing - Photographs of the Night Sky from the Archives of NASA by United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Staff (Contribution by); Nirmala Nataraj; Bill Nye (Preface by)
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Category: Science
This collection of photographs illuminates the darkness of space in a whole new way. Images from the archives of NASA reveal the night sky's most extraordinary phenomena, from the radiant aurora borealis to awe-inspiring lunar eclipses. Science geeks, photography fans, and stargazers will pore over this ...Show more
Elementary - The Periodic Table Explained by James M. Russell
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Category: Science
The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, is one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly predicted ...Show more
Math Art - Truth, Beauty, and Equations by Stephen Ornes
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Category: Science
From geometry in motion to the possibilities of pi, this stunning volume reveals how art has been inspired by the beauty and poetry of mathematical principles. The worlds of visual art and mathematics come together in this spectacular volume by award-winning writer Stephen Ornes. He explores the growin ...Show more
The Earth Book by Jim Bell
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Category: Science | Series: Sterling Milestones Ser.
A beautifully illustrated presentation of 250 milestones in the history of our home planet, from celebrated geologist and planetary scientist Jim Bell.Spanning Earth's entire history, from its birth 4.6 billion years ago to its inevitable destruction billions of years into the future, this stunning volu ...Show more