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Entropy for Smart Kids and their Curious Parents
Arieh Ben-NaimCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99This book discusses entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics in such a way that everyone can understand its subject matter. Entropy is one of t...
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Empty Brain Happy Brain: how thinking is overrated
Jorg ZittlauCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Find the happiness of emptiness. Few things scare us more than inner emptiness. The presumed emptiness of coma or dementia scares us so much that ...
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The Drugs That Changed Our Minds: The history of psychiatry in ten treatments
Lauren SlaterCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99'The messy history and brave future of psychotropic drugs' O Magazine'Vivid and thought-provoking' Harper's Magazine'Ambitious...Slater's depicti...
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Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe
Steven StrogatzCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019A magisterial history of calculus (and the people behind it) from one of the world's forem...
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How to Draw a Map
Alex SwanstonCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99How to Draw a Map is a fascinating meditation on the centuries-old art of map-making, from the first astronomical maps to the sophisticated GPS gui...
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Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
Oren HarmanCurrent price €13.05Original price €14.50'Daring, learned and humane... A revelatory restoration of wonder' Stephen Greenblatt. We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the...
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Blue Mind: How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do
Wallace J. NicholsCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Blue Mind paints a fascinating picture of our relationship to the planet's most omnipresent resource - water. Grounded in cutting-edge studies in n...
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Everyday Amazing: Fascinating Facts about the Science That Surrounds Us
Beatrice the BiologistCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Like fan mail addressed to the natural world, Everyday Amazing is filled with uplifting and interesting musings on science from Beatrice the Biolog...
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Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability
Rowan HooperCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Sunday Times Book of the YearThis is a book about what it feels like to be exceptional - and what it takes to get there. Why can some people achiev...
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The Telomerase Revolution: The Story of the Scientific Breakthrough That Holds the Keys to Human Ageing
Dr Michael FosselCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about ageing - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before....
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The Moon
Bill LeatherbarrowCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Our nearest celestial neighbour, the Moon, has always been the most conspicuous feature in our night sky. It has compelled observers since the dawn...
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Sodding Sums: The 10% of maths you actually need
Hywel CarverCurrent price €13.29Original price €13.99Maths is a part of everyday life and there's no denying it. For anyone who has blocked distant memories of complicated algebraic formulae or incomp...
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Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human
Guy LeschzinerCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99'Absolutely fascinating and has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett '...
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Seven Deadly Sins: The Biology of Being Human
Guy LeschzinerCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50'Absolutely fascinating and has the power to change the way you look at the world' Steven Bartlett '...
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Identically Different: Why You Can Change Your Genes
Professor Tim SpectorCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50*A brand new and updated edition for 2024, including the latest insights on diet and weight management drugs, gene editing, cancer testing, anti-ag...
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The Art of Physics: Eight elegant ideas to make sense of almost everything
Zahaan BharmalCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50'Exceptionally interesting' - Alain de Botton'Fascinating ... You'll never again view your own world in quite the same way. A delight to read' - Ia...
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What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall MunroeCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50SPECIAL UPDATED 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE MILLION-SELLING POP SCIENCE CLASSICWHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questi...
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Space. Life. Matter
HARI PULAKKATCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50How do you build a scientifically and technologically strong modern nation with limited means and resources? Indian scientists faced this challenge...
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Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
Tom VanderbiltCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99'Beginners belongs on the list of books that have changed the way I understand my own limitations.'Malcolm GladwellFor many of us, the last time we...
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Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation
Lluís Quintana-MurciCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The new Bible of population genetics: the science transforming our understanding of the past We are living through a revolution in knowledge. Over ...
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The Power of Nuclear
Marco VisscherCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly ...
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Conjuring With Computation: A Manual Of Magic And Computing For Beginners
Paul CurzonCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99The team behind Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN), brings you Conjuring with Computation: A Manual of Magic and Computing for Beginners. Develop you...
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The Global Ape: Between Extinction and Transcendence
Dan CorjescuCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Current price €27.89Original price €30.99Save 10% -
Why Don''t Things Fall Up?: Seven fundamental science questions explored and explained
Alom ShahaCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50'A great idea, beautifully executed.' Popular Science'A book of quiet wonder.' Ian Dunt'I have learnt (and remembered) so much, and so easily. It's...
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Simply Science: Facts Made Fast
DKCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Sometimes, less really is more. This powerful guide summarises the big questions; you could even learn the basics of Science on your next lunch bre...
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How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Vaclav SmilCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50There is no author whose books I look forward to more BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestse...
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How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide
Vaclav SmilCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99There is no author whose books I look forward to more BILL GATESIn this ambitious, myth-busting book, leading scientist and internationally bestse...
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Wild Science: Unexpected Encounters When Working in Nature
CSIRO PublishingCurrent price €29.74Original price €34.99What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen ...
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Drowning by Accident: Why So Many People Drown
Elizabeth MeinhardCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Drowning By Accident explains why it is so easy to drown, where accidents happen, and how to save lives by early rescue and resuscitation. More tha...
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Mars Ahead!: In Search of a New Home - Our Race to the Red Planet
Lewis PinaultCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Have you ever dreamed of visiting Deep Space? Lewis Pinault has. A scientist and budding explorer, Lewis watched the race to the Moon as a young bo...
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The Tell: Tale Brain-Unlocking the Mystry of Human Nature
V S RamachandranCurrent price €3.33Original price €3.50Current price €3.33Original price €3.50Save 5% -
Bigger Than This: The Ultimate Science Showdown
Balthazar PaganiCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Grab your gloves and your lab coat and prepare to explore chemistry, zoology, botany and astronomy in this ultimate science showdown. Did you know...
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Living with Wildlife: A Guide for Our Homes and Backyards
Tanya LoosCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99Possums in the roof, an echidna in the garden, or perhaps a python in the pantry? Living with Wildlife: A Guide for Our Homes and Backyards explore...
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Gravitomagnetism: Gravity''s Secret
Dr Ronald A EvansCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99Gravity is the weakest of the natural forces and yet it dominates our lives. We know how to make use of its properties and how to overcome it. But ...
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Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters
Jacqueline YallopCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99'Often poetic ... highly-researched and thought-provoking' New Scientist'Gently and thoughtfully enquiring' The SpectatorCan you remember the first...
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