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Elixir
Theresa Levitt€18.50A FINANCIAL TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARA STRONG WORDS TOP 50 BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Dizzying and fragrant . . . truly a captivating achievement!' Aim...
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Ingenious
Richard Munson€29.99Benjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, o...
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Leibniz in His World
Audrey BorowskiCurrent price €38.99Original price €39.99A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his earl...
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Searching and Researching
Matthias Meili€46.99In the last 130 years, 30 Swiss people have won a Nobel Prize, and one of them is Richard R. Ernst. He laid the foundation for magnetic resonance i...
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Radical by Nature
James T. Costa€23.99A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was p...
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894)
Taylor & Francis Ltd€167.40Published in 1994: This book is to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertz’s death at the terribly young age of thirty-six. The...
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Evan James Williams
Rowland Wynne€21.99Dyma gyfrol sy’n rhoi darlun o fywyd a gwaith y ffisegydd o Gymro, yr Athro Evan James Williams, gŵr a gafodd ei ddisgrifio fel un o’r gwyddonwyr m...
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Bird Brother
Rodney StottsCurrent price €22.99Original price €23.99To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Z...
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Orion on the Dunes
Daniel G. Payne€27.50The first biography of the writer/naturalist, and one of the leading founders of the modern environmental movement, Henry Beston. In September of 1...
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Fauci: Expect the Unexpected
National Geographic€19.99Compiled from hours of interviews drawn from the eponymous National Geographic documentary, this inspiring book from world-renowned infectious dise...
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Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 15
Albert Einstein€197.16This volume covers one of the most thrilling two-year periods in twentieth-century physics, as matrix mechanics—developed chiefly by W. Heisenberg,...
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Thomas Harriot
Robyn Arianrhod€33.99Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harr...
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Rise to the Challenge
Marlene M. JohnsonCurrent price €25.99Original price €27.50The inspiring life story of Minnesota’s first woman lieutenant governor: breaking political ground, navigating patriarchal tradition, and perseveri...
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Bound by Muscle
Andrew Brown€34.99In Bound by Muscle, Andrew Brown details the lives and achievements of two physiologists, Archibald Vivian Hill (1886-1977) and Otto Fritz Meyerhof...
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How Do You Feel?
Jessi Gold€18.50A poignant and thought-provoking memoir following one psychiatrist and four of her patients as they deal with the unspoken mental and physical cost...
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Secret Lives of Numbers
Kate Kitagawa€18.50A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday...
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Snakes Without Borders
Rick Shine€21.99“My name is Rick, and I’m a snake-a-holic.” This book is a collection of amazing stories from one of the world’s leading herpetologists, Rick Shin...
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Aesthetic Science
Alexander WraggemorleyCurrent price €43.99Original price €44.99The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symboli...
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Lessons from an American Stoic
Mark MatousekCurrent price €27.50Original price €28.50A lifelong Emerson lover, teacher, and spiritual seeker reveals how American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson’s twelve essential teachings hold the ...
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Stephen HeymanCurrent price €26.50Original price €27.50Louis Bromfield was a World War I ambulance driver, a Paris expat, and a Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist as famous in the 1920s as Hemingway or Fit...
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Wonderful Mr Willughby
Tim Birkhead€17.50'Birkhead has combined ingenuity and perseverance to produce an evocative portrait of a great pioneer in the scientific study of birds' Literary Re...
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Women of Science
John S. CroucherCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50Women have played a vital role in scientific discovery, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly research and...
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First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong
James Hansen€15.99Now a major film starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Kyle Chandler, directed by Oscar-winner Damien Chazelle, First Man by James Hansen offers th...
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Vital Remains
Amos van der MerweCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50In the dark years of apartheid, a boy grew up in a household with a terrible secret: although they were all of mixed origins, they had managed to `...
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Impossible Man
Patchen BarssCurrent price €31.99Original price €32.50A Guardian Best Science Book of the YearThe first biography - 'a stunning achievement' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painfu...
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L.A. Coroner
Anne Soon Choi€27.50L.A. Coroner is a gripping true crime biography of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the controversial “Coroner to the Stars,” who performed the autopsies of Mar...
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Healing Wounds
Bob WelchCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50Featured in Kristen Hannah’s new book The Women What is the price of honor? It took ten years for Vietnam War nurse Diane Carlson Evans to answer t...
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Alexander von Humboldt
Andreas W. DaumCurrent price €25.99Original price €26.50An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct an...
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Lee Noble – Supercar Genius
Christopher CattoCurrent price €72.99Original price €73.99You'll know the name Noble. Ever since the M10 and M12 wowed the press in 1999, the marque has taken its place within the British sports car landsc...
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Pandemonium Logs
Ben MillerCurrent price €62.99Original price €63.99In 2015, Ben Miller and the poet Anne Pierson Wiese moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to explore their midwestern roots and t...
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Pandemonium Logs
Ben Miller€26.50In 2015, Ben Miller and the poet Anne Pierson Wiese moved from New York City to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to explore their midwestern roots and t...
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