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The Secret Life of Fungi

Discoveries From a Hidden World

by Aliya Whiteley ...

**_____Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically, something else.‘A lyrical, fascinating exploration of this weird organism’** Scottish Field‘A memoir oozing with wonder’ Waterstones.comWelcome to the astonishing secret world of fungi_____Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and thoughts; live between our toes or our floorboards; they ... Read more

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**_____Fungi are not like us - they are entirely, magically, something else.‘A lyrical, fascinating exploration of this weird organism’** Scottish Field‘A memoir oozing with wonder’ Waterstones.comWelcome to the astonishing secret world of fungi_____Fungi can appear anywhere, from desert dunes to frozen tundra. They can invade our bodies and thoughts; live between our toes or our floorboards; they
... Read more
Storm in a Teacup

The Physics of Everyday Life

by Helen Czerski ...

'A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the Large Hadron Collider.' - Jim Al-KhaliliOur world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll ... Read more

£7.99

'A quite delightful book on the joys, and universality, of physics. Czerski's enthusiasm is infectious because she brings our humdrum everyday world to life, showing us that it is just as fascinating as anything that can be seen by the Hubble Telescope or created at the Large Hadron Collider.' - Jim Al-KhaliliOur world is full of patterns. If you pour milk into your tea and give it a stir, you'll
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Ask an Astronaut

My Guide to Life in Space (Official Tim Peake Book)

by Tim Peake ...

The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since hi... ... Read more

£6.99

The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since hi...
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Elephants on Acid

And Other Bizarre Experiments

by Alex Boese ...

**Discover a world of outrageous experiments with the Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Elephants on Acid. Guided by Alex Boese's engaging storytelling, unearth answers to questions that have tickled your curious mind – from the unusual to the hilariously absurd.'Excellent accounts of some of the most important and interesting experiments in biology and psychology' – Simon Singh, author of The Code ... Read more

£3.99

**Discover a world of outrageous experiments with the Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Elephants on Acid. Guided by Alex Boese's engaging storytelling, unearth answers to questions that have tickled your curious mind – from the unusual to the hilariously absurd.'Excellent accounts of some of the most important and interesting experiments in biology and psychology' – Simon Singh, author of The Code
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Caesar's Last Breath

The Epic Story of The Air Around Us

by Sam Kean ...

** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **‘Popular science at its best’Mail on Sunday‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ObserverWith every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the ... Read more

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** GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 **‘Popular science at its best’Mail on Sunday‘Eminently accessible and enjoyable’ObserverWith every breath, you literally inhale the history of the world. On the ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar died of stab wounds in the Roman Senate, but the story of his last breath is still unfolding. In fact, you're probably inhaling some of it now. Of the
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The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons

The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

by Sam Kean ...

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents ... Read more

£8.99

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed. Parents
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Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction

Make mayhem from your stationery with 35 models to build yourself

by John Austin ...

Series series Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction
We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies - foldback clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips and plastic utensils - the everyday junk drawer can hold all the materials needed to create pocket-sized weaponry.Whether you're slowing dying of boredom in a stuffy office, plotting revenge on your ... Read more

£3.99

We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies - foldback clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips and plastic utensils - the everyday junk drawer can hold all the materials needed to create pocket-sized weaponry.Whether you're slowing dying of boredom in a stuffy office, plotting revenge on your
... Read more
It Looked Good on Paper

Bizarre Inventions, Design Disasters, and Engineering Follies

by Bill Fawcett ...

£4.99
Einstein’s Fridge

The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe

by Paul Sen ...

‘Hugely readable and entertaining’ JIM AL-KHALILI‘An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline’s breadth, largely told through its history’ PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLDEinstein’s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned to harness the power of heat and ice.The laws of thermodynamics govern everything ... Read more

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‘Hugely readable and entertaining’ JIM AL-KHALILI‘An accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline’s breadth, largely told through its history’ PHIL BALL, PHYSICS WORLDEinstein’s Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned to harness the power of heat and ice.The laws of thermodynamics govern everything
... Read more
Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species & On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties

by Charles Darwin ...

Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work 'On the Origin of Species & On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties' is a foundational text in the field of evolutionary biology. This literary masterpiece not only presents Darwin's theory of natural selection, but also provides a detailed account of the evidence supporting his revolutionary ideas. Darwin's writing style is clear and concise, making ... Read more

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Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work 'On the Origin of Species & On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties' is a foundational text in the field of evolutionary biology. This literary masterpiece not only presents Darwin's theory of natural selection, but also provides a detailed account of the evidence supporting his revolutionary ideas. Darwin's writing style is clear and concise, making
... Read more
Not Even Wrong

The Failure of String Theory and the Continuing Challenge to Unify the Laws of Physics

by Peter Woit ...

Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?The book begins with an historical survey of the experimental and theoretical developments that led to the creation of the phenomenally successful 'Standard Model' of particle physics around 1975. Despite ... Read more

£7.99

Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamnetal level?The book begins with an historical survey of the experimental and theoretical developments that led to the creation of the phenomenally successful 'Standard Model' of particle physics around 1975. Despite
... Read more
Secret of Athleticism

by Chong Xie ...

There is a question that arises in our consciousness: is it really genes or biomechanics that make us different from the widely sought after and famous athletes whose performances are not only awe inspiring but almost seem "out of this world" magical? Keeping this million-dollar question in mind the author Chong Xie embarks on an inquisitive journey to crack the code and unravel the truth. He ... Read more

£37.87

There is a question that arises in our consciousness: is it really genes or biomechanics that make us different from the widely sought after and famous athletes whose performances are not only awe inspiring but almost seem "out of this world" magical? Keeping this million-dollar question in mind the author Chong Xie embarks on an inquisitive journey to crack the code and unravel the truth. He
... Read more
How to Be Hopeful

A Practical Toolkit For a Life Full of Hope and Well-Being

by Bernadette Russell ...

___'The perfect book for troubling times. The ideas and exercises in How to Be Hopeful will soothe your soul.' Katherine May, author of WinteringA PRACTICAL TOOLKIT FOR A LIFE FULL OF HOPE AND HAPPINESS___'A gentle, kind reminder that I am not alone in a world.' Vera Chok, co-author of The Good ImmigrantBernadette Russell has made it her mission to teach the practice of hope: a lifelong habit ... ... Read more

£4.85

___'The perfect book for troubling times. The ideas and exercises in How to Be Hopeful will soothe your soul.' Katherine May, author of WinteringA PRACTICAL TOOLKIT FOR A LIFE FULL OF HOPE AND HAPPINESS___'A gentle, kind reminder that I am not alone in a world.' Vera Chok, co-author of The Good ImmigrantBernadette Russell has made it her mission to teach the practice of hope: a lifelong habit ...
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Adventures from the Technology Underground

Catapults, Pulsejets, Rail Guns, Flamethrowers, Tesla Coils, Air Cannons, and the Garage Warriors Who Love Them

by William Gurstelle ...

The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human imagination and ingenuity meet nature’s forces and materials. ... Read more

£3.41

The technology underground is a thriving, humming, and often literally scintillating subculture of amateur inventors and scientific envelope-pushers who dream up, design, and build machines that whoosh, rumble, fly—and occasionally hurl pumpkins across enormous distances. In the process they astonish us with what is possible when human imagination and ingenuity meet nature’s forces and materials.
... Read more
Physics From The Edge: A New Cosmological Model For Inertia

by Michael Edward Mcculloch ...

The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never been well understood. This book shows how inertia has puzzled many scientists such as Galileo and Mach, and then presents a new theory that explains inertia for the first time, and also predicts galaxy rotation without dark matter, cosmic acceleration and some other anomalies. Further evidence for, and tests of, the theory are ... Read more

£16.19

The fundamental and very important property of inertia has never been well understood. This book shows how inertia has puzzled many scientists such as Galileo and Mach, and then presents a new theory that explains inertia for the first time, and also predicts galaxy rotation without dark matter, cosmic acceleration and some other anomalies. Further evidence for, and tests of, the theory are
... Read more
The Wuhan Cover-Up

And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...

Series series Children’s Health Defense
“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”—Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureateFrom the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for t. ... Read more

£15.99

“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”—Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureateFrom the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.“Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for t.
... Read more
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

by George Johnson ...

George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured the pull of gravity and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his own eye, to Joule packing a thermometer on his honeymoon to take the temperature of waterfalls and Michelson recovering from a dark depression to discover that light moves at the same speed in ... Read more

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George Johnson tells the stories of ten beautiful experiments which changed the world. From Galileo singing to mark time as he measured the pull of gravity and Newton carefully inserting a needle behind his own eye, to Joule packing a thermometer on his honeymoon to take the temperature of waterfalls and Michelson recovering from a dark depression to discover that light moves at the same speed in
... Read more
Inside Cern's Large Hadron Collider: From The Proton To The Higgs Boson

by Mario Campanelli ...

The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Readers are led step-by-step to understanding why we do particle physics, as well ... Read more

£9.71

The book aims to explain the historical development of particle physics, with special emphasis on CERN and collider physics. It describes in detail the LHC accelerator and its detectors, describing the science involved as well as the sociology of big collaborations, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Readers are led step-by-step to understanding why we do particle physics, as well
... Read more
Life Cycle and Reproduction

Fifth Grade Science Experiments

by Thomas Bell ...

£1.79
The Big Book of Hacks

264 Amazing DIY Tech Projects

by Doug Cantor ...

Series series Popular Science
Ingenious (and hilarious) projects that aspiring makers will love, brought to you by the tinkerers at Popular Science magazine.From useful, doable gadgets to outlandish contraptions that you'd likely be wise to avoid, this showcase of ingenuity is an entertaining tribute to the inventive spirit. In this book from the science and technology magazine that's been inspiring everyday people for nearly ... Read more

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Ingenious (and hilarious) projects that aspiring makers will love, brought to you by the tinkerers at Popular Science magazine.From useful, doable gadgets to outlandish contraptions that you'd likely be wise to avoid, this showcase of ingenuity is an entertaining tribute to the inventive spirit. In this book from the science and technology magazine that's been inspiring everyday people for nearly
... Read more
Quantum Optics For Experimentalists

by Zheyu Jeff Ou ...

This book on quantum optics is from the point of view of an experimentalist. It approaches the theory of quantum optics with the language of optical modes of classical wave theory, with which experimentalists are most familiar. This approach makes the transition easy from classical optics to quantum optics. The emphasis on the multimode description of an optical system is more realistic than in ... Read more

£31.13

This book on quantum optics is from the point of view of an experimentalist. It approaches the theory of quantum optics with the language of optical modes of classical wave theory, with which experimentalists are most familiar. This approach makes the transition easy from classical optics to quantum optics. The emphasis on the multimode description of an optical system is more realistic than in
... Read more
Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe?

by Alexander Gleason ...

"Demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt, that the earth is not a globe." -Lutheran Witness (1890)"Gleason released one of the most accurate flat earth maps ever created." -Garrett, Flat Earth Trilogy Book of Secrets (2018)"Several American Adventists became outspoken flat earthers. The best-known was Alexander Gleason." -Schadewald, Worlds of Their Own (2008)"Ran experiments in true zetetic ... Read more

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"Demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt, that the earth is not a globe." -Lutheran Witness (1890)"Gleason released one of the most accurate flat earth maps ever created." -Garrett, Flat Earth Trilogy Book of Secrets (2018)"Several American Adventists became outspoken flat earthers. The best-known was Alexander Gleason." -Schadewald, Worlds of Their Own (2008)"Ran experiments in true zetetic
... Read more
Your Flying Car Awaits

Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century

by Paul Milo ...

A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo’s collection of “Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century” is true history on the ... Read more

£4.99

A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo’s collection of “Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century” is true history on the
... Read more
Born to Be Wild

Hundreds of free nature activities for families

by Hattie Garlick ...

Series series RSPB
Want to save cash, your child's imagination and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need.Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a small person's imagination and access to a little outdoor space.Nature lays on magical materials for free each season, from ... Read more

£8.81

Want to save cash, your child's imagination and possibly even the planet? This is the book you need.Packed with great photos of real families in the outdoors, Born to Be Wild contains easy-to-follow instructions for activities that require nothing more sophisticated than a small person's imagination and access to a little outdoor space.Nature lays on magical materials for free each season, from
... Read more

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