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    Hayley Birch: 50 Chemistry Ideas You Really Need to Know [2024] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    Master the chemistry ideas that shape the world we live in today.In a series of 50 accessible essays, Hayley Birch introduces and explains everything you need to know about the...

    John Gribbin: Science: A History [2003] paperback

    €8.99€22.10

    From award-winning science writer John Gribbin, Science: A History is the enthralling story of the men and women who changed the way we see the world, and the turbulent times...

    James Lovelock: The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning [2010] paperback

    €3.99€13.00

    James Lovelock's The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning is a prophetic message for mankind from one of the most influential scientists of our age. James Lovelock's Gaia theory,...

    Brian Cox: The Quantum Universe [2012] paperback

    €6.99€15.70

    From the bestselling authors of Why does E=mc2? comes The Quantum Universe, in which Brian Cox, presenter of the BBC's Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of the Universe,...

    Sam Kean: The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table [2011] paperback

    €5.99€14.30

    Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation?...

    Louann, MD Brizendine: The Female Brain [2008] paperback

    €6.99€14.30

    In this groundbreaking book, Dr Louann Brizendine describes the uniquely flexible structure of the female brain and its constant, dynamic state of change - the key difference that separates it...

    Dr James Le Fanu: The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine [2011] paperback

    €7.99€19.50

    The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge...

    National Geographic: National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky [2009] paperback

    €7.99€24.27

    Stargazing's too much fun to leave to astronomers, but often we're blinded by science-dry facts can easily turn enchantment into a chore. We just want to lie down, look up,...

    Roger Penrose: The Emperor's New Mind [1990] paperback

    €5.99€10.40

    Arguing against artifcial intelligence, and exploring the mystery of the mind and consciousness, Roger Penrose takes the reader on the most engaging and creative tour of modern physics, cosmology, mathematics...

    Erica Gies: Water Always Wins:: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge [2022] hardback

    €24.99

    A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change.Trouble with water - increasingly frequent, extreme floods...

    Hugh Barker: Million Dollar Maths [2018] hardback

    €6.99

    Million Dollar Maths is an invaluable guide to the straightforward and outlandish mathematical strategies that can make you rich. ____________How can you turn $1000 into $1 million? What is the...

    Giles Sparrow: The Genius Test [2017] hardback

    €5.99

    What is the Higgs Boson? Where did life come from? And what are you looking at when you're looking at Modern Art?Put your knowledge to the test - and learn...

    Quercus: Mars [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    Mars has always fascinated humanity and the findings of the past decade have revolutionized ideas about our nearest neighbour - revealing its watery past and geological similarity to Earth. This...

    Julia Collins: Get Smart: Maths [2018] hardback

    €5.99

    Can you explain Fermat's Last Theorem? What is the shape of the Universe? And how do you add up to infinity? Challenge yourself with Get Smart: Maths and learn to...

    Gemma Lavender: Quantum Physics in Minutes [2017] paperback

    €6.99

    The fastest way to understanding quantum physics - learn about how our universe works, in minutes. Quantum physics is the most fundamental, but also the most bewildering, of sciences. Allowing...

    Menno Schilthuizen: Darwin Comes to Town [2019] paperback

    €13.00

    We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the rest is covered...

    Mr Isaac Asimov: Asimov's New Guide to Science [1993] paperback

    €7.99€27.13

    Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei, Achimedes, Newton and Einstein, he takes...

    William Poundstone: How to Predict Everything [2019] paperback

    €6.99

    How do you predict something that has never happened before?There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths professors all over the world, and it predicts...

    Chad Orzel: Breakfast with Einstein [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    A Sunday Times Book of the YearFrom the author of the international bestseller How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your DogYour humble alarm clock, digital cameras, the smell of coffee,...

    Sandeep Jauhar: Heart: A History [2018] hardback

    €7.99

    'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and...

    David Darling: Weird Maths [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    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...

    Sean Carroll: The Big Picture [2017] paperback

    €8.99

    'Fascinating' - Brian Cox, Mail on Sunday Books of the YearWhere are we? Who are we? Do our beliefs, hopes and dreams hold any significance out there in the void?...

    Sara (The Royal Marsden Hospital Lister: The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures, Professional Edition [2020] paperback

    €39.99€69.99

    Now in its tenth edition, The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures has been the definitive, market-leading guide to clinical nursing skills for over three decades. This internationally best-selling...

    Ervin Laszlo: The Akashic Experience [2009] paperback

    €11.99€19.50

    Knowing or feeling that we are all connected to each other and to the cosmos by more than our eyes and ears is not a new notion but one as...

    Chris Hadfield: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth [2013] paperback

    €5.99€19.50

    Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a...

    Brian Clegg: Dark Matter and Dark Energy [2019] paperback

    €5.99

    'Clear and compact ... It's hard to fault as a brief, easily digestible introduction to some of the biggest questions in the Universe' Giles Sparrow, BBC Four's The Sky at...

    Brian Clegg: Conundrum [2019] paperback

    €5.99

    **'Title of Most Fiendish Book goes to Conundrum: Crack the Ultimate Cipher Challenge by the ever-excellent science writer Brian Clegg.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year**The ultimate trial of knowledge...

    John Gribbin: Richard Feynman [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    One hundred years on from his birth, and 30 since his death, Richard Feynman's discoveries in modern physics are still thoroughly relevant. Magnificently charismatic and fun-loving, he brought a sense...

    Cherry Lewis: The Enlightened Mr. Parkinson [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the...

    Jillian Scudder: Astroquizzical [2018] hardback

    €9.99

    In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own 'family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in...

    Richard Brown: 30-Second Maths [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    From Rubik's cubes to Godel's incompleteness theorem, everything mathematical explained, with colour illustrations, in half a minute. Maths is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. So how can you avoid being...

    Iwan Rhys Morus: Michael Faraday and the Electrical Century (Icon Science) [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    The only scientist to ever appear on the British twenty pound note, Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science.Faraday's forte was electricity, a...

    Andrew May: Destination Mars [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    Mars is back. Suddenly everyone - from Elon Musk to Ridley Scott to Donald Trump - is talking about going to the Red Planet.When the Apollo astronauts walked on the...

    Brian Clegg: The Reality Frame [2017] hardback

    €9.99

    Weaving together the great ideas of science, The Reality Frame takes us on a thrilling journey from empty space all the way to the human mind.Acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg...

    Nick (University College London) Lane: Life Ascending [2010] paperback

    €6.99€16.90

    Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution's history by describing...

    Brian Clegg: Brainjacking [2024] hardback

    €14.99€26.00

    Brainjacking explores the psychology of storytelling - the ability that makes us human. To discover how science intersects with our desires and decisions, the book pulls together three ways that...

    Brian Switek: Written in Stone (Icon Science) [2017] paperback

    €4.99

    Darwin's theory of evolution was for more than a century dogged by a major problem: the evidence proving the connections between the main groups of organisms was nowhere to be...

    Andrew Gregory: Eureka! (Icon Science) [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific'...

    Matt Wilkinson: Restless Creatures [2016] paperback

    €4.99

    A billion-year history of movement,from bacteria to Olympic athletes.'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carriesyou from the kinetics of the amoeba to that of the blue whale, from...

    Barney Shaw: The Smell of Fresh Rain [2017] hardback

    €9.99

    Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph - so why is it so little...

    John Gribbin: Einstein's Masterwork [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    In 1915, Albert Einstein unveiled his masterwork - a theory, in his words, 'of incomparable beauty': the General Theory of Relativity. It is sometimes overshadowed - wrongly, argues John Gribbin...

    Brian Clegg: Science for Life [2015] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    In Science for Life acclaimed science writer Brian Clegg cuts through the vested interests and confusing contradictory statements that litter the media and the internet, to give a clear picture...

    Vaclav Smil: How the World Really Works [2022] paperback

    €6.99€15.70

    * THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about...

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