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On the Future - Prospects for Humanity

"Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century...

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 ...

Genetic Resources and Adaptive Management of Conifers in a Changing World

Climatic change causes a mismatch between tree populations on sites they currently occupy and the climate to which they have adapted in t...

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...

Physics for Scientists and Engineers (International Edition)

The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media solution that will help students ...

Quantum Steampunk - The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow

The Industrial Revolution meets the quantum-technology revolution! A steampunk adventure guide to how mind-blowing quantum physics is tra...

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...

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 ...

Small Gases, Big Effect - This Is Climate Change

The international bestseller that gives you the facts about climate changeWhen students David Nelles and Christian Serrer struggled to fi...

Flora Mesoamericana - Volumen 5, Parte 2: Asteraceae

Science Research Writing - for native and non-native speakers of English (Second Edition)

This book enables STEMM researchers to write effective papers for publication as well as other research-related texts such as a doctoral ...

Broken Places & Outer Spaces

Following her journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, acclaimed sci-fi writer Nnedi Okorafor reveals that wh...

Molecular and Cell Biology For Dummies

Your insider guide to the stuff of life 3.8 billion years old and counting, there's more than a little to know about the fundamentals of ...

Unlocking the Moon's Secrets - From Galileo to Giant Impact

Unlocking the Moon's Secrets tells the fascinating story of how scientists solved the mystery of the Moon's origin and the cause of the M...

Plasticity in the Life Sciences

Analyzes the reasons why biologists have referred to and continue to refer to plasticity. Since the early twentieth century, plasticity h...

Into the Clear Blue Sky - The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere

'A fascinating look into some of the cutting edge climate solutions' Bill McKibben Can we really restore the earth's atmosphere within ou...

Artificial Era - Predictions, Problems, and Diversity in AI

A ground-breaking view of technology trends and their impact on our society, including productivity, and job displacement, while identify...

Freud's Student Years - A Psychobiography

In Freud's Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from [year] to [year], show...

A Book of Noises - Noes on the Auraculous

Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean

"An invaluable reference book on the mathematics of Greek antiquity. Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are familiar names to many of us,...

The Science Museum A Brief History of Stuff - The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Objects

Explore the past, present and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons. Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the ...

The Constitution of Science

How can science be protected, by whom and at what level? If science is valued positively as the incubator of the most successful solution...

The Philosophy of Symmetry

This Element introduces the philosophy of physical symmetry. It stresses both the continuity with historically important themes such as t...

The Einstein Paradox - The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935

Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book offers a rich context for the famously controversial 1935 paper by Einstein, Podols...

From Chromosomes to Mobile Genetic Elements - The Life and Work of Nobel Laureate Barbara McClintock

This biography of Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) places her life and work in its social, scientific and personal context. The history doc...

In a Flight of Starlings - The Wonder of Complex Systems

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned...

Beyond Measure - The Hidden History of Measurement

Radical by Nature - The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

"A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (...

Metaverse For Dummies

Your first step to understanding what the metaverse is all about You've probably heard that the metaverse--a word that seemingly went fro...

Explanatorium of Science - Where the Wonders of the World are Revealed

This science book shows how the subject really works, with amazing photographs showing the ins and outs of chemistry, physics, and biolog...

Astronomy For Dummies, (+ Chapter Quizzes Online)

Embark on your own personal journey into the night sky. Stardate: Today! Ever catch yourself staring up at the night sky and wondering ju...

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 ...

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

The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work - Explore His Life, Mind and Science Through the Objects in His Study

A behind-the scenes tour of the inner sanctum of one of the world's most prominent scientific thinkers. In 2021, the Science Museum made ...

The Seven Measures of the World

Piero Martin explores how scientific knowledge is built around seven measurements: meter, second, kilogram, kelvin, ampere, mole, and can...

Just About Coping - A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair

In honest stories from her own life and the experiences of some of her patients as she trains to be a psychotherapist, Dr Natalie Cawley ...

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines on humans. These impacts ...

Elements of Marie Curie - How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

A new biography from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitudeand Galileo's Daughter, chronicling the life and work of the most f...

Recombinant Protein Expression in Mammalian Cells - Methods and Protocols

This fully updated volume explores notable developments in the field of mammalian cell-based recombinant protein production. Beginning wi...

The Life Scientific Quiz Book

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...

When the Ice Is Gone - What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future

In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. ...

Origin Story - The Trials of Charles Darwin

By early morning 30 June 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. The...

Chemistry, Biology and Pharmacology of Lichen

"Lichen, a single entity but with two or more different organisms in a symbiotic relationship mainly algae and fungus. Lichen is one of t...

The Struggle for Public Health - Seven People Who Saved the Lives of Millions and Transformed the Way We Live

"The fascinating stories of public health innovators who overcame immense obstacles to improve the health of millions.In the nineteenth c...

Cultural Selection

Humans learn in ways that are influenced by others. As a result, cultural items of many types are elaborated over time in ways that build...

Private Life of the Atom

The Brain That Changes Itself - Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain' Oliver Sacks 'Utterly won...