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    O'Mara Shane: Talking Heads [2024] paperback

    €5.99 – €12.99

    From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication.'Delightfully well-written' IRISH TIMES'Intriguing ... Makes for an enjoyable read' NEW SCIENTIST'Full of...

    Giulia Enders: Gut [2017] paperback

    €6.99 – €16.90

    A Sunday Times bestseller - now with revised and expanded content on the exciting new science about the gut-brain link.Our gut is as important as our brain or heart, yet...

    Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Near [2024] paperback

    €21.99

    In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the dawning of a new civilisation where humans...

    Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity is Nearer [2024] paperback

    €20.99

    The legendary oracle of technological change explains how AI will transform our species beyond recognition within two decades.'The best person I know at predicting the future of AI' BILL GATES'Essential...

    Seamus O'Mahony: The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic [2024] paperback

    €14.30

    A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate...

    Andrew Smith: Moondust [2006] paperback

    €5.99 – €12.84

    In 1999, Andrew Smith was interviewing Charlie Duke, astronaut and moon walker, for the Sunday Times. During the course of the interview, which took place at Duke's Texan home, the...

    Schlanger Zoë: The Light Eaters [2024] paperback

    €17.99

    A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger'. Look at the green...

    Philip Ball: Critical Mass [2005] paperback

    €5.99 – €15.70

    Is there a 'physics of society'? Philip Ball's investigation into human nature ranges from Hobbes and Adam Smith to modern work on traffic flow and market trading, across economics, sociology...

    Scott Kelly: Endurance [2018] paperback

    €14.30

    *As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2*From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station...

    Bill Bryson: A Short History Of Nearly Everything [2003] hardback

    €9.99 – €28.57

    Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him....

    Lintott Chris: Our Accidental Universe [2024] hardback

    €28.60

    'A scientific tour de force.' Dr Becky Smethurst'Highly recommended.' Tristan Gooley'Extravagantly entertaining ... warmly informative.' Lev Parikian'A fascinating look at the strange and alien side of space.' Dr Lucy Rogers.....................................................................................................................................................................................................The...

    Derek Wilson: Superstition and Science [2019] paperback

    €5.99 – €9.99

    'A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity's smug assumptions' - Bryce Christensen, Booklist'O what a world of profit and delightOf power, of honour and omnipotenceIs promised to the studious...

    Matteo Pasquinelli: The Eye Of The Master [2023] paperback

    €16.99

    What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in...

    Jared, Ph.D. (UCLA) Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel [1999] paperback

    €6.99 – €14.27

    In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that...

    Randall Munroe: What If? [2015] paperback

    €3.99 – €13.00

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read...

    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...

    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...

    Margot Lee Shetterly: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race [2017] paperback

    €3.99 – €5.99

    The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of...

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

    €6.99 – €9.99

    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...

    David W Brown: The Mission: A True Story [2021] hardback

    €13.99 – €18.99

    "Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." -NatureA "magnificent" (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space mission to Europa, the Jovian moon where...

    Richard P. Feynman: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character [1992] paperback

    €5.99 – €6.99

    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into...

    Gravitational Waves: How Einstein’s spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe (Hot Science) [2018] paperback

    €4.99 – €6.99

    On 14 September 2015, after 50 years of searching, gravitational waves were detected for the first time and astronomy changed for ever.Until then, investigation of the universe had depended on...

    Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings [2019] paperback

    €7.99 – €9.99

    In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused...

    New Scientist: This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better [2021] paperback

    €5.99

    We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, This Book Could Save Your...

    Max Bennett: A Brief History Of Intelligence [2023] hardback

    €28.60

    A Brief History of Intelligence bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the evolutionary story of how the brain came to be. The entirety of the human brain's...

    Yuval Noah Harari: Money [2018] paperback

    €4.99 – €7.80

    Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariHow did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it...

    Owens Jay: Dust [2023] paperback

    €7.99 – €22.10

    DUST is unmistakably a major book in the making. This is a book with an extraordinary global story to tell, but - and - also with an ethical argument to...

    Carl Erik Fisher: The Urge: our history of addiction (The Addicted Brain) [2022] paperback

    €22.10

    As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Here, he investigates the history...

    Sumpter David: Four Ways of Thinking [2023] paperback

    €8.99 – €24.70

    Acclaimed mathematician David Sumpter shows how we can deal with the chaos and complexity of our livesWhat is the best way to think about the world? How often do we...

    Suzie Sheehy: The Matter of Everything [2023] paperback

    €14.30

    The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our worldA 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: NEW SCIENTIST * WATERSTONES * SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid idea,...

    Kitagawa & Timothy Revell Kate: The Secret Lives of Numbers [2023] paperback

    €19.50

    A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of mathsMathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been...

    Bill Bryson: SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING_ A [2004] paperback

    €3.99 – €13.00

    Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him....

    Jennifer Ackerman: What an Owl Knows [2023] hardback

    €20.99

    'And if anyone knows anything about anything...it's Owl who knows something about something.' Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. MilneFrom prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso, owls have captivated...

    Tom Ireland: The Good Virus [2023] paperback

    €5.99

    Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award 2021Not all viruses are out to get us - in fact, the viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that...

    Lewis Dartnell: Being Human [2023] paperback

    €17.99

    Being Human is history made flesh. It will change the way you see the world.We are a wonder of evolution. Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators...

    Steve Brusatte: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals [2023] paperback

    €11.99 – €16.90

    'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that ....

    30tas: Norman Mailer. MoonFire. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 [2013] hardback

    €14.99 – €29.99

    It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for...

    Jonathan Kennedy: Pathogenesis: How Germs Made Histor [2023] paperback

    €9.99 – €19.99

    'Thrilling and eye-opening' Lewis Dartnell'Unpicks everything we thought we knew... Mind blowing' Cal Flyn'A revelation' Sathnam SangheraHumans did not make history - we played host.According to the accepted narrative of...

    Carole Hooven: Testosterone [2021] paperback

    €5.99

    'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling...

    Eugenia Cheng: The Art of Logic [2019] paperback

    €5.99 – €13.00

    For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia...

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