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  • A Little History of Everything

    From the Big Bang to You

    by Tim Coulson ...
    A COMPLETE, UNCOMPLICATED GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING INBETWEEN‘Most scientists know only their own field. Tim Coulson is at home with science as an integrated whole. A pleasure to read, and a lasting accomplishment’ Richard Dawkins'Step aside Star Wars – ours is the most astonishing origin story you’ll ever hear and its beautifully told by Tim Coulson’ Professor Ken ... Read more

    S$ 16.01 SGD

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0

    The bestselling popular science book of the 21st Century, now fully updated

    by Bill Bryson ...
    In this fully revised and updated edition of the best-selling popular science book of the 21st century, Bill Bryson makes complex subjects clear and compelling for everyone with an interest in the world around them.NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED.'Possibly the best scientific primer ever published.' Economist'Truly impressive...It's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science.' Guardian<s... ... Read more

    S$ 35.09 SGD

  • Material World

    A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

    by Ed Conway ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*An Economist, Financial Times, Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the British Academy Book Prize, Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize'Compelling' TIM MARSHALL'Lively, rich and exciting' PETER FRANKOPA... ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • What If?

    Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    by Randall Munroe ...
    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 Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When ... Read more

    S$ 15.79 SGD

  • Fundamentals of Pharmacology

    The basics of drugs and how they are absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted from the body

    by Amirali Banani ...
    Have you ever wondered what makes drugs so special? Or have you ever pondered upon the incredible number of lives that medications have saved in just the last century? The wonders of chemistry and biology have allowed pharmacologists to develop treatments against some of the most deadly forms of bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic infections, from the discovery of penicillin (the first ... Read more

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  • 現象在一念之間改變 「量子力學式」平行世界的法則

    現象が一変する「量子力学的」パラレルワールドの法則

    by 村松大輔 ...
    Translated by 陳聖怡 ...
    Series series 圖解雜學
    ～科幻不再只是「幻想」，用科學維度輕鬆翻轉人生～探索「近在身邊」的平行世界，你也可以改變過去、前往未來！【本書特色】◎以簡單有趣的方式解釋生硬的量子力學機制，初次接觸的人也能輕鬆理解！◎揭祕將科學應用在日常生活中的方法，探索改變人生軌跡的可能性！◎介紹實際案例，更好掌握用科學翻轉人生的「活學」！「如果我過的是另一種人生⋯⋯」「如果我當初這麼做，現在一定可以⋯⋯」你曾經後悔過去的選擇，或是想要乾脆穿越到另一個時空，展開全新的生活嗎？科幻電影中，時空旅行是屢見不鮮的題材，主角會為了拯救世界或改變人生而穿越時空回到過去，在關鍵時刻出手干預，使歷史偏離原來軌道……其實，這不僅僅是「幻想」科學，最新科學論證，我們也能前往另一個【平行時空】，改變過去、前往未來！只要運用【量子力學】的概念，任何人在任何時候、任何地方，都可以從現... ... Read more

    S$ 9.85 SGD

  • What If?2

    Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    by Randall Munroe ...
    WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask.The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.Planning... ... Read more

    S$ 28.33 SGD

  • The Disappearing Spoon

    And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

    by Sam Kean ...
    From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table.Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters?The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, ... Read more

    S$ 14.60 SGD

  • How To

    Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd

    by Randall Munroe ...
    Randall Munroe is . . .****'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Wonderful' Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing E... ... Read more

    S$ 18.85 SGD

  • Black Holes

    The Key to Understanding the Universe

    by Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw ...
    By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe.At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes ... Read more

    S$ 19.39 SGD

  • What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

    Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    by Randall Munroe ...
    CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSIC WITH A SPECIAL EDITION. THIS IS WHAT IF? . . . x10.THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Nerd royalty' BEN GOLDACRE'Totally brilliant' TIM HARFORD'Required reading across the world' NEW YORK TIMESFrom the creator of the wildly popular xkcd website, hilarious and informative answers to important questions y... ... Read more

    S$ 36.29 SGD

  • Going Nuclear

    How the Atom Will Save the Planet

    by Tim Gregory ...
    What if climate change isn’t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?'Fascinating' JAMES O'BRIEN'Thrilling...vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring' STEVEN PINKERSunday Times**, i Paper and Nature Book of the Year**This visionary book urges us to rethink the path to net zero, arguing that the solution to climate change lie... ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Elementary

    The Periodic Table Explained

    by James M. Russell ...
    The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly predicted the properties of elements that hadn’t been discovered at the time.Here, in the ... Read more

    S$ 11.11 SGD

  • There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science

    by Leah Elson MS, MPH ...
    Leah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, in this highly entertaining and visually appealing giftable book of real-world scientific questions and answers.How does DNA work?Does chicken noodle soup actually help with being sick?When cats purr, what is actually making the noise?Does singing to plants really help them grow?Is it possible to clone a woolly mammoth?In ... Read more

    S$ 14.70 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Elements

    A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe

    by Theodore Gray ...
    With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table.Includes a poster of Theodore Gray's iconic photographic periodic table of the elements!Based on seven years of research and photography by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann, The Elements presents the most complete and visually ... Read more

    S$ 24.08 SGD

  • Elemental

    How the Periodic Table Can Now Explain (Nearly) Everything

    by Tim James ...
    SELECTED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE DAILY MAIL'A hugely entertaining tour of the periodic table and the 118 elements that are the basic building blocks of everything' Daily MailIn 2016, with the addition of four final elements - nihonium, moscovium, tennessine and oganesson - to make a total of 118 elements, the periodic table was finally complete, rendering any pre-existing books on ... Read more

    S$ 24.95 SGD

  • Caesar's Last Breath

    Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

    by Sam Kean ...
    The Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe.It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, ... Read more

    S$ 16.45 SGD

  • Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis

    by CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety) ...
    The book is a guide for Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA) practitioners. It explains the onion skin model and in particular, how it relates to the use of LOPA and the need for non-safety instrumented independent protection layers. It provides specific guidance on Independent Protection Layers (IPLs) that are not Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). Using the LOPA methodology, companies typically ... Read more

    S$ 144.99 SGD

  • The Dancing Wu Li Masters

    An Overview of the New Physics

    by Gary Zukav ...
    "The most exciting intellectual adventure I've been on since reading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York TimesGary Zukav’s timeless, humorous, New York Times bestselling masterpiece, a touchstone for readers of science and spirituality, The Dancing Wu Li Masters, is arguably the most widely acclaimed introduction to quantum physics ever ... Read more

    S$ 16.78 SGD

  • The Alchemy of Air

    A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler

    by Thomas Hager ...
    A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the Haber-Bosch discovery that changed billions of lives—including your own.At the dawn of the twentieth century, humanity was facing global disaster: Mass starvation was about to become a reality. A call went out to the world’ s scientists to find a solution.This is the story of the two men who found it: brilliant, self-important ... Read more

    S$ 17.43 SGD

  • Cooked

    A Natural History of Transformation

    by Michael Pollan ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES'It's not often that a life-changing book falls into one's lap ... Yet Michael Pollan's Cooked is one of them.' SundayTelegraph'This is a love song to old, slow kitchen skills at their delicious best' Kathryn Huges, GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times Top Five Bestseller - Michae... ... Read more

    S$ 15.03 SGD

  • Stuff Matters

    The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

    by Prof. Mark Miodownik ...
    * * * Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books * * *FROM THE TEA-CUP TO THE JET ENGINE, STUFF MATTERS IS A UNIQUE, INSPIRING EXPLORATION OF HUMAN CREATIVITY.'Enthralling. A mission to re-acquaint us with the wonders of the fabric that sustains our lives' Guardian'I stayed up all night reading this book' Oliver Sacks____________Everything is made of something.The ever... ... Read more

    S$ 15.03 SGD

  • Science of Synthesis: Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations Vol. 16

    Six-Membered Hetarenes with Two Identical Heteroatoms

    Edited by Yoshinori Yamamoto ...
    Series Book 16 - Science of Synthesis
    Science of Synthesis: Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations is the entirely new edition of the acclaimed reference series, Houben-Weyl, the standard synthetic chemistry resource since 1909. This new edition is published in English and will comprise 48 volumes published between the years 2000 and 2008.Science of Synthesis is a quality reference work developed by a highly esteemed ... Read more

    S$ 2,404.31 SGD

  • Index Volume Category 2

    Edited by Jutta Backes, Colin J. Drayton ...
    Series Book 2 - Science of Synthesis
    Science of Synthesis provides a critical review of the synthetic methodology developed from the early 1800s to date for the entire field of organic and organometallic chemistry. As the only resource providing full-text descriptions of organic transformations and synthetic methods as well as experimental procedures, Science of Synthesis is therefore a unique chemical information tool. Over 1000 ... Read more

    S$ 2,524.54 SGD