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Waste and Want - A Social History of Trash

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susa...

Meathead - Unraveling the Athletic Brain

Meathead bridges scientific discoveries with athletic anecdotes to unravel the neuroscience of exercise for the jock, gym rat, and sports...

Differential and Integral Calculus on the Basis of Continuous Quantity and Consecutive Differences

Differential and Integral Calculus on the Basis of Continuous Quantity and Consecutive Differences is an unchanged, high-quality reprint ...

The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables for a Planet in Crisis

One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial Times Before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated around ...

Impossible Monsters - Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the...

On the Scent - Unlocking the Mysteries of Smell - and How Its Loss Can Change Your World

A fascinating exploration of how losing our sense of smell can shape our world, and how the global pandemic transformed our understanding...

Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

The New York Times bestseller "It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." -David P. Bar...

Material World - A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award** Picked as a Book of the Year by THE TIMES, FINANCIA...

Galileo's Finger - The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Why Galileo's finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for mode...

Determined - Life Without Free Will

Free will is the foundation of western society, dictating our notions of fairness and justice, punishment and reward, and our very identi...

Size - How It Explains the World

'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening expl...

Darwin's Doubt

The Evidence That Darwin Could Not Explain Charles Darwin knew there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did n...

Differential and Integral Calculus

Differential and Integral Calculus is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1886. Hansebooks is editor of the lit...

The Natural History of Birds

The Natural History of Birds is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1791. Hansebooks is editor of the literatur...

ABC of Gothic Architecture - Third Edition

ABC of Gothic Architecture - Third Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1882. Hansebooks is editor of...

Report of the Cruise of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear - Vol. III

Report of the Cruise of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Bear - Vol. III is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Ha...

Achieving Wellness Through Arthritis - How My Journey with Ankylosing Spondylitis Can Offer a Path to Wellness

After a year of escalating back pain, I was suddenly hit with severe arthritis in my hands, back, knees, and feet. Being in my mid-thirti...

Hunting and Trapping on the Upper Magalloway River and Parmachenee Lake - First Winter in the Maine Wilderness

This plain-spoken account of two hunters who spent a winter roaming the wilds of Maine in 1877 is a deeply insightful account of the hunt...

The Social Brain - The Psychology of Successful Groups

'A remarkable and important book . . . a highly accessible, timely and invaluable guide to anybody working in groups.' Prof Paul Gilbert ...

In the Name of Sharks

Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by...

Anaximander - And the Nature of Science

A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday Times Now widely available in English ...

The Invention of Nature - Alexander von Humboldt's New World

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose id...

After Nativism - Belonging in an Age of Intolerance

Increasingly, many people in the democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalisation, uncertainty and p...

Growth - From Microorganisms to Megacities

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth ...

Writing Scientific English - A Workbook

Success in science depends nowadays on effective communication in English. This workbook is specifically designed to give under- and post...

The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American p...

Other Minds - The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds a...

Scale - The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." -The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal From one of the most influential sci...

The Moral Landscape - How Science Can Determine Human Values

Bestselling author Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

The Limits of Genius - The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest Minds

The hilarious, regrettable and downright baffling lesser-known achievements of the men and women who somehow managed to bungle their way ...

Intelligence in the Flesh - Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks

Explores the mind/body debate at the heart of intelligence and what it is to be human, applying technical neuroscience and psychology to ...

Post Growth - Life after Capitalism

'Empowering and elegiac' Yanis Varoufakis, author of Another Now 'Utterly inspiring' Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party 'A masterpiece of me...

The Technological Singularity

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial int...

Iron Truss Bridges for Railroads - Methods of calculating strains, with a comparison of the most prominent truss bridges, and new formulas for bridge computations

Iron Truss Bridges for Railroads - Methods of calculating strains, with a comparison of the most prominent truss bridges, and new formula...

Breathless - The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023** **Shortlisted for the Royal Science Society Book Prize 2...

Gifted Mind - The Dr. Raymond Damadian Story, Inventor of the MRI

In 1969, magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRIs) and similar technologies were just an idea in the visionary life saving technologies ...

Horizons - A Global History of Science

A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in ...

Moonwalking with Einstein - The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller t...

The Gendered Self Further commentary on the transsexual phenomenon

Based on the author's experience in treating over 500 gender dysphoric individuals over the last 26 years,The Gendered Self is the story ...

Why Fish Don't Exist - A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall ...

Writing Science in Plain English

Scientific writing is often dry, wordy, and difficult to understand. But, as Anne E. Greene shows in Writing Science in Plain English, wr...

The Craft of Research

With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of resea...

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's big...

The Sediments of Time - My Lifelong Search for the Past

Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir-written with her daughter Samira-encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front...

The Social Instinct - How Cooperation Shaped the World

Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us ...

The Anatomy of Painting - Or, a short and easy introduction to anatomy : being a new edition, on a smaller scale, of six tables of Albinus, with their linear figures

The Anatomy of Painting - Or, a short and easy introduction to anatomy : being a new edition, on a smaller scale, of six tables of Albinu...

Control - The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Throughout history, people have sought to improve themselves - and society - by eliminating disease, or enhancing desirable qualities in ...

Researches in graphical statics

Researches in graphical statics is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is editor of the litera...

Rivals - How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

Why is the scientific community so unified? In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastio...

Animal Liberation - The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Updated)

"A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals--and, ultimately, at ourselves." -- Chicago Tribune Since its ...

How To - Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "How To will make you laugh as you learn…With How To, you can't help but appreciate the glorious ...

The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla blazed the path that electrical development followed for many years to come. This record of Teslas pioneering work gathers m...

Evolution, Eugenics and Transhumanism

During the nearly 4 billion years-old history of life on earth, the mechanisms of evolution were linked to natural selection and organic ...

Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement

Sounds Wild and Broken - Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

How to Create a Mind - The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

A bold exploration of the human brain's potential by the internationally bestselling author of The Singularity is Near

The Exceptions - Nancy Hopkins and the fight for women in science

The story of how a group of determined, brilliant women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radi...

The Glass Cage - How Our Computers Are Changing Us

In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable compu...

The Joy of Science

"In The Joy of Science, Jim Al-Khalili presents eight lessons that serve as a guide to thinking and living life a little more scientifica...

An Experimental Research on the Physiological Actions of Drugs on the Secretion of Bile

An Experimental Research on the Physiological Actions of Drugs on the Secretion of Bile is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the orig...