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    Mark Henderson: 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know [2009] hardback

    €9.99€17.13

    In recent years knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth. New genetic technologies are transforming the way we live and promise treatments for otherwise...

    Joanne Baker: 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know [2007] hardback

    €9.99€14.27

    We encounter physics before we've even left the house in the morning; an alarm clock tracks time, a mirror reflects light waves and our mobile phones rely on satellites held...

    Professor Ian Stewart: Seventeen Equations that Changed the World [2012] paperback

    €5.99€22.84

    From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are fundamental to everyday life.Seventeen Equations that Changed...

    Professor Ian Stewart: Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries [2015] paperback

    €6.99€15.70

    Like its wildly popular predecessors Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and conundrums, packed with...

    Scientist New: How to Make a Tornado [2009] paperback

    €4.99€11.41

    Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some...

    Jerry Fodor: What Darwin Got Wrong [2011] paperback

    €4.99€14.27

    Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory. They do not deny Darwin's status as...

    Atul Gawande: Complications [2008] paperback

    €6.99€15.70

    This is a stunningly well-written account of the life of a surgeon: what it is like to cut into people's bodies and the terrifying - literally life and death -...

    Professor Ian Stewart: Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities [2008] hardback

    €8.99€18.56

    School maths is not the interesting part. The real fun is elsewhere. Like a magpie, Ian Stewart has collected the most enlightening, entertaining and vexing 'curiosities' of maths over the...

    Will Storr: The Science of Storytelling [2020] paperback

    €7.99€14.27

    SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book' Sunday Times 'The best book on the craft of storytelling I've ever read' Matt...

    Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (Collins Classics) [2011] paperback

    €3.99€4.27

    HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his...

    Professor Brian Cox: Wonders of the Solar System [2010] hardback

    €4.99€42.86

    The Sunday Times Bestseller In Wonders of the Solar System - the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series - Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of...

    Peter Grego: Universe [2006] paperback

    €6.99€14.27

    This is an introduction to the universe, covering everything from the big bang and our understanding of the universe over time, to the earth's formation, the Sun and how it...

    Mark Lynas: Six Degrees [2008] paperback

    €6.99€15.70

    An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'. Picture...

    James Gleick: Isaac Newton [2003] hardback

    €9.99€21.43

    From one of the best writers on science, a portrait of Isaac Newton - the man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. 'It's beautifully...

    E. J. Borowski: Mathematics (Collins Dictionary of) [2002] paperback

    €6.99€15.70

    A fully revised and expanded edition of the popular (over 50,000 copies sold) and authoritative Collins Dictionary of Mathematics, covering all mathematical fields from the mysteries of quantum theory to...

    Richard Fortey: Life: an Unauthorized Biography [1998] paperback

    €6.99€18.56

    A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What...

    Ruth Hull: Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology Colouring and Workbook for Therapists and Healthcare Professionals [2019] paperback

    €21.41

    It is the perfect study and revision aid for anyone studying a wide range of complementary therapies up to level 3 from aromatherapy, reflexology and massage to hair and beauty...

    Damian Corless: Looks Like Rain [2013] hardback

    €8.99€12.84

    The name the Romans gave to Ireland was Hibernia, which means `Land of Winter', and cold feet may have been a factor in their decision to leave the Irish to...

    Mike Berners-Lee: How Bad Are Bananas? [2010] paperback

    €6.99€14.27

    From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we need...

    Richard (Charles Simonyi Profes Dawkins: The Selfish Gene [2006] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. This 30th anniversary edition includes a new introduction from the author as well as the original prefaces...

    Dr. Ronald Epstein: Attending [2018] paperback

    €9.99

    With his "deeply informed and compassionate book...Dr. Epstein tells us that it is a 'moral imperative' [for doctors] to do right by their patients" (New York Journal of Books).The first...

    Richard P. Feynman: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Definitive and Extended Edition [2005]

    €120.00

    The revised edition of Feynman's legendary lectures includes extensive corrections and updates collated by Feynman and his colleagues. A new foreword by Kip Thorne, the current Richard Feynman Professor of...

    Peter Watson: The German Genius [2011] paperback

    €9.99

    From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western...

    Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds [1995] paperback

    €4.99€5.70

    Whenever struck by campaigns, fads, cults and fashions, the reader may take some comfort that Charles Mackay can demonstrate historical parallels for almost every neurosis of our times. The South...

    The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense [2018] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    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...

    Peter Nowak: Sex, Bombs and Burgers [2011] paperback

    €12.84

    War. Fast Food. Pornography. Pervasive in our culture, these three obsessions may seem to represent the worst qualities of humankind. But what have our lust, greed and rage driven us...

    Brian Klaas: Fluke [2023] paperback

    €20.99

    A provocative new vision of how our world really works - and why chance determines everything.In Fluke, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas deep-dives into the phenomenon of randomness, unpicking our...

    Rebecca Boyle: Our Moon [2023] paperback

    €20.99

    'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through...

    Brenna Hassett: Growing Up Human [2024] paperback

    €16.90

    Brings the science of biological anthropology to bear on understanding how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon everyone has experienced - childhood.Tracking deep into our evolutionary history, anthropological science...

    Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens [2023] hardback

    €24.99

    A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of...

    Shoot for the Moon: How the Moon Landings Taught us the 8 Secrets of Success [2019] paperback

    €5.99

    'Fascinating new book examines the history of Nasa's Apollo space missions' Daily Mail_______Eight key lessons to revolutionise your life with the mindset that got man to the moon.20th July 1969:...

    richard dawkins: The Ancestor's Tale [2017] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    A fully updated edition of one of the most original accounts of evolution ever written, featuring new fractal diagrams, six new 'tales' and the latest scientific developments.THE ANCESTOR'S TALE is...

    Richard Dawkins: The Magic of Reality [2012] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    Magic takes many forms. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting that the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods' bridge to earth....

    Michael Talbot: The Holographic Universe [1996] paperback

    €14.30

    'There is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it - from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons - are only ghostly images, projections...

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