The Natural Heritage of the World: A Journey Through UNESCO Heritage-Listed National Parks, Protected Areas and Biosphere Reserves by Kunth Verlag
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Category: Nature and Science
The rugged fjords of Norway and the Arctic expanse of Lapland, the magnificent national parks of North America, the Amazon rainforests, the rich wildlife reserves of East Africa and the mesmerising marine and fossil areas of Australia...The last remaining animal paradises on Earth, magnificent geologica ...Show more
Planet Earth: II by Stephen Moss
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Category: Nature and Science
10 years on from the first, groundbreaking, Planet Earth, we use the most incredible advances in technology and scientific discovery to bring you the most exciting and immersive picture of our world's wildlife yet. With over 250 breathtaking photographs and stills from the BBC Natural History Unit's spe ...Show more
The Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
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Category: Nature and Science
This book links the little things - the unexpected pinkness of blueberry jam or the way the air smells before it rains - with the big in a book that will alter the way you see the world. Helen Czerski shows how the familiar, from coffee stains to ketchup bottles, can shed light on Antarctic winds, medic ...Show more
The Doctor by Karl Kruszelnicki
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Category: Nature and Science
Our timeless Lord of Science, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, is back - in this, his 37th book. Once again, The Doctor's mission has been to interpret the beauty and the mystery of the scientific world around us - alerting us to the complexities and conundrums of the everyday. He transcends history and space in h ...Show more
Natural Curiosity: The Art of the First Fleet by Louise Anemaat
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Category: Plants and Animals
Parrots and lorikeets swoop down, vivid, bright and colourful. Black swans glide through the air. Owls stare out from pages, wide-eyed.A sense of awe swept through natural history circles in eighteenth-century London when the first ships returned from Sydney with their cargo of exotic animals, birds and ...Show more
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything: From the Big Bang to Belly-Button Fluff (HB) by New Scientist Magazine Staff; Stephen Hawking; Jennifer Daniel (Illustrator); Graham Lawton
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Category: Nature and Science
From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, the history of science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to get too close to a black hole it would suck you up like a noodle (it's called spaghettification), why yo ...Show more
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence Krauss
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Category: Nature and Science
In the beginning there was light but more than this, there was gravity. After that, all hell broke loose...This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced - how humanity reached its current understanding of the universe, one that is far removed from the realm ...Show more
The Medici Effect, with a New Preface and Discussion Guide: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation by Frans Johansson
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Category: Nature and Science
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson's The Medici Effect shows how breakthroug ...Show more
How To Build A Universe (The Infinite Monkey Cage) by Prof. Brian Cox; Robin Ince; Alexandra Feachem
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian Cox ...Show more
The Zoomable Universe: A Step-by-Step Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from the Infinite to the Infinitesimal by Caleb Scharf
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Category: Nature and Science
Embark on a breath-taking, cutting-edge voyage through the enormity of our reality - travelling one 'power of ten' or order of magnitude at a time.Inspired by the classic 'Powers of Ten' film and bestselling book by Charles and Ray Eames, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and acclaimed artis ...Show more
Mask of the Sun: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses by John Dvorak
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Category: Nature and Science
What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein's General Theory Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the first space prob ...Show more
Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Sarah Scoles
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Category: Nature and Science
Jill Tarter is a pioneer, an innovator, an adventurer, and a controversial force. At a time when women weren't encouraged to do much outside the home, Tarter ventured as far out as she could--into the three-Kelvin cold of deep space. And she hasn't stopped investigating a subject that takes and takes wi ...Show more