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Lucy''s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
Donald JohansonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Current price €16.99Original price €19.99Save 15% -
To the Ends of the Earth: The Truth Behind the Glory of Polar Exploration
John H. V. DippelCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99This fascinating social history of polar expeditions examines the cultural trends that produced these daring, even reckless journeys. From the lat...
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Snow Widows: Scotts Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind
Katherine MacInnesCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry A welcome contribution to polar studies. Sara Wheeler, Spectator [MacInness] handles ...
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The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
Michael S. MaloneCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99The only contemporary history of the birth of Silicon Valley, from the reporter who had a ringside seat to it all. Over the past five decades, the...
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Shes In CTRL: How women can take back tech to communicate, investigate, problem-solve, broker deals and protect themselves in a digital world
Anne-Marie ImafidonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'A practical and positive guide to using tech to change women's lives for the better' -Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women: exposing d...
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Cardinal Sin: Challenging power abuse in the Catholic Church
Brian DevlinCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater
Jeff MaynardCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future o...
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Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of Americas Secret Thalidomide Scandal
Jennifer VanderbesCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of Americas thalidomide ...
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Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of Americas Secret Thalidomide Scandal
Jennifer VanderbesCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-Fiction The shocking, never-before-told story of Americas thalidomide ...
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Broken Reed: The Lords of Gower and King John
Ann Marie ThomasCurrent price €7.64Original price €8.99Current price €7.64Original price €8.99Save 15% -
In Praise of Savagery
Warwick CairnsCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99One mans journey in the footsteps of a great explorer into the heart of Africa. As a young man, Warwick Cairns met the then elderly explo...
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Hamilton Hume: Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography
Robert MacklinCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy ...
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Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
Jeff GuinnCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at th...
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The Royal Within: Twisted Branches - Volume I
House of ConingsbyCurrent price €33.19Original price €39.99A book for avid readers interested in history and genealogy about a variety of amazing people who made a difference. Explore the lives of key influ...
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The Jerusalem Files: The Secret Journey of the Menorah to Oak Island
Christopher MorfordCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99The Jewish Menorah is one of the worlds most sacred artefacts, a man-size lampstand with seven arms, made from a single block of gold, that is an i...
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Breaking Through: My Life In Science
Katalin KarikóCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50From butcher's daughter in Communist Hungary to winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023, this is the story of one woman's extraordinary determin...
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The Dinosaur Hunters: The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery of Prehistoric Life
American Museum of National HistoryCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Dinosaur bones had been found centuries before scientists understood what they were and what creatures they came from; ancient Chinese writings spo...
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Felons of Hathersage: (A Brief History of Crime)
David MoseleyCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Local prosecution associations were a method of controlling crime which was devised in the second half of the eighteenth century, fifty years befor...
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Felons of Hathersage: (A Brief History of Crime)
David MoseleyCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Local prosecution associations were a method of controlling crime which was devised in the second half of the eighteenth century, fifty years befor...
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Missions to Mars: A New Era of Rover and Spacecraft Discovery on the Red Planet
Larry CrumplerCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50From a long-term planning lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Project comes this vivid insider account of some of NASAs most vital and...
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Sleuth: The Amazing Quest for Lost Art Treasures
Philip MouldCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99CSI meets Who Do You Think You Are? meets Time Team meets The Antiques Roadshow. Two-dimensional works of art become three-dimensional thrillers. ...
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Code Name Hélène: Inspired by true events, a gripping WW2 story by the bestselling author of THE FROZEN RIVER, a GMA Book Club pick
Ariel LawhonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Woman. Wife. Smuggler. Spy . . .TV SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT STARRING ELIZABETH DEBICKI (TENET, THE CROWN) AS NANCY WAKEA thrilling and heart-wrenching...
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The End of the Road: A journey around Britain in search of the dead
Jack CookeCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, driv...
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The Smallest Lights In The Universe
Sara SeagerCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning and solace afte...
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Snow Widows: Scotts Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind
Katherine MacInnesCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry A welcome contribution to polar studies. Sara Wheeler, Spectator [MacInness] handles ...
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Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs
Brian J. FordCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that d...
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The End of the Road: A journey around Britain in search of the dead
Jack CookeCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, driv...
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100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World
Colin SalterCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science ...
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Rocket Men: the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made mans first journey to the moon
Robert KursonCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99An Economist book of the year. Fifty years ago, Christmas 1968, Man first orbited the Moon. This book tells the inside story of that epic journey....
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Selina''s Letter, Tales of Suicide from Victorian and Edwardian London
Stephen Robert KutaCurrent price €37.39Original price €43.99Current price €37.39Original price €43.99Save 15% -
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
Jeff GuinnCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, ...
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Andrew Fernando Holmes: Protestantism, Medicine, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Montreal
Richard VaudryCurrent price €63.74Original price €74.99This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Andrew Fernando Holmes, famous for his work on congenital heart disease. Physician, s...
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The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater
Jeff MaynardCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future o...
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Interesting Stories For Curious People Volume 2: A Collection of Captivating Stories About History, Science, Pop Culture and Anything in Between
Bill O'NeillCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Current price €14.10Original price €16.99Save 17%