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
What Shape is Space? by Giles Sparrow
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
What Shape Is Space? is a question with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the very nature of reality and our place within it. The concepts involved may be sophisticated, but Giles Sparrow's effortless prose style renders them understandable, allowing readers to come to grips with the ov ...Show more
The Honey Bee by David Cramp
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Category: Nature and Science
Beekeeper David Cramp explores the origins and evolution of man's only truly wild, food-producing livestock, the extraordinary complexity of the hive and honey-making process, the mysteries of the life of the queen, workers and drones and their sophisticated language and navigation systems. The Honey Be ...Show more
How Birds Behave: Interpreting What They Do and Why by Wenfei Tong
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Category: Nature and Science
Birds are intelligent, sociable creatures that exhibit a wide array of behaviours — from mobbing and mimicking to mating and joint nesting. Why do they behave as they do? Bringing to light the remarkable actions of birds through examples from species around the world, How Birds Behave presents engaging ...Show more
A Water Story - Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future by Geoff Beeson
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Category: Nature and Science
Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences. Water crises in Australia have already led to severe restrictions being applied in cities, drought ravaging farmlands, and the near-terminal decline of some rivers and wetlands. A Water Storypr ...Show more
Australia's Volcanoes by Ferret Russel
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Category: Nature and Science
Australia's Volcanoes will take you on a journey of discovery through Australia's volcanic upheaval. The book explains what happened all those years ago to create the volcanic landforms that you see today. Most of the sites featured are accessible by car or foot and maps are provided to help you find an ...Show more
Memoirs of An Addicted Brain - A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on drugs by Marc Lewis
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Category: Nature and Science | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it ...Show more
Cold: Extreme Adventures at the Lowest Temperatures on Earth by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt OBE
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Category: Nature and Science
There are only few human beings who can adapt, survive and thrive in the coldest regions on earth. And below a certain temperature, death is inevitable. Sir Ranulph Fiennes has spent much of his life exploring and working in conditions of extreme cold. The loss of many of his fingers to frostbite is a t ...Show more
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Category: Nature and Science
The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking- After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Elizabeth Kolbert has become one of the most important writers on the environment. Now she i ...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 Astrology of You and Me: How to Understand and Improve Every Relationship in Your Life by Gary Goldschneider
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Category: Nature and Science
Do you know how to live peacefully with a Taurus? Discuss money issues with a Cancer? Improve your sex life with a Scorpio? The Astrology of You and Meoffers help and guidance direct from the heavens, perfect for solving every for every star-crossed situation imaginable. Chapters organized by astrologic ...Show more
Psychedelic Apes: From parallel universes to atomic dinosaurs – the weirdest theories of science and history by Alex Boese
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Category: Nature and Science
What if we're living inside a black hole? What if we've already found extraterrestrial life? What if the dinosaurs died in a nuclear war? What if Jesus Christ was actually a mushroom? In Psychedelic Apes, bestselling author Alex Boese will delve into the curious scientific subculture of weird theories. ...Show more