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Science in Action - How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional...

The Biotech Century - Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World

In this seminal book, Jeremy Rifkin explores the epic marriage between computer technology and genetic engineering, and the historic tran...

Symbiotic Planet - A New Look at Evolution

Named "best biology book of the year" by Library Journal, "Symbiotic Planet" describes how symbiosis is the key to understanding the orig...

E=mc2 - A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews-this "little masterpiece" sheds brilliant light on the equation that cha...

Maya: The World as Virtual Reality

In the world of modern science, consciousness is reduced to a fading epiphenomenon, left over after the brain has been physically explain...

Napoleon's Buttons - How 17 Molecules Changed History

Napoleon's Buttons is the fascinating account of seventeen groups of molecules that have greatly influenced the course of history. These ...

Anaerobic Reactors: Biological Wastewater Treatment Volume 4 - Biological Wastewater Treatment Volume 4

Anaerobic Reactors is the fourth volume in the Biological Wastewater Treatment series. The fundamentals of anaerobic treatment are presen...

Einstein - His Life and Universe

The trade paperback edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller for many weeks, the brilliantly acclaimed biography of the most influenti...

Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion - Tesla, UFO's, and Classified Aerospace Technology

NEW SCIENCE "One of the boldest and most exciting books on gravity control to be put forward in our times. Paul LaViolette is an outstand...

Bad Science

Collection of articles from the hugely popular "Guardian" column of the same name, by turns hilarious, satirical, informative and, where ...

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States - A Path Forward

Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often ...

The Disappearing Spoon - And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

The periodic table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fasc...

The Moral Landscape

An explosive book now in paperback, that calls an end to religion's monopoly on morality. 'Sam Harris breathes intellectual fire into an ...

The Quantum Universe - Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

Brian Cox (Author) Brian Cox is a Professor of Particle Physics and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manches...

Moonwalking with Einstein - The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Joshua Foer studied evolutionary biology at Yale University and is now a freelance science journalist, writing for National Geographic an...

The Magic of Reality - How We Know What's Really True

Richard Dawkins has written a string of bestselling books, including the phenomenal The God Delusion. He is a fellow of the Royal Society...

The Big Switch - Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google

Hailed as "the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement" (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple a...

Design in Nature - How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations

In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature-trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and l...

Philosophy of Science - A New Introduction

Offering an engaging and accessible portrait of the current state of the field, Philosophy of Science: A New Introduction shows students ...

Stuff Matters - The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World

A Financial Times Master of Science and chosen by The Times as one of the 100 most influential scientists in the UK, Mark Miodownik is Pr...

To Save Everything, Click Here - Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don't Exist

Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect o...

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember - How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at ...

Life on the Edge - The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the University of Su...

Lingo

Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics an...

Principia: The Authoritative Translation - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

In his monumental 1687 work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mat...

Blue Mind - How Water Makes You Happier, More Connected and Better at What You Do

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols r...

Elephants on Acid - From Zombie Kittens to Tickling Machines: The Most Outrageous Experiments from the History of Science

If left to their own devices, would babies instinctively choose a well-balanced diet? What is the secret to falling asleep on a plane? Wh...

To Explain the World - The Discovery of Modern Science

Steven Weinberg has won the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Lewis Thomas Prize for the Scientist as Poet and n...

The Invention of Nature - The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else including towns, rivers,...

Being a Beast

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016 Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast: a badger, an otter, a deer, a...

Science of the Magical - From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers

"From the author of The Science of Monsters, this engaging scientific inquiry provides a definitive look into the elements of mystical pl...

The Invention of Science - A New History of the Scientific Revolution

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. His previous books include Paolo Sarpi (1983), Bad Medicine ...

Peak - How all of us can achieve extraordinary things

You don't have to be a genius to achieve extraordinary things. In this fascinating book, Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool explain that lea...

Einstein - His Life and Universe

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available -- a fully realised portrait of this extraordin...

Time Travel - A History

Best Books of 2016 BOSTON GLOBE * THE ATLANTIC From the acclaimed bestselling author of The Information and Chaos comes this enthralling ...

A Tapestry of Values - An Introduction to Values in Science

This book provides an easily accessible introduction to the roles that values play in scientific research. It examines case studies from ...

Behave - The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky holds degrees from Harvard and Rockefeller Universities and is currently a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanf...

The Bonobo and the Atheist - In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

For many years, de Waal has observed chimpanzees soothe distressed neighbors and bonobos share their food. Now he delivers fascinating fr...

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

Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to ...

To Be a Machine - Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death.

An exploration of transhumanism, the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine. From tec...

The Secret Life of the Mind - How Our Brain Thinks, Feels and Decides

The processes that delineate our thoughts, judgements, dreams and unconscious are revealed, building on a particularly popular TED talk f...

My Brief History

'His clarity, wit and determination are evident, his understand and good humour moving' New Scientist My Brief History recounts Stephen H...

Somerville, M: CONNEXION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIE

A Mind at Play - The Brilliant Life of Claude Shannon, Inventor of the Information Age

A prize-winning biography of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon, the neglected architect of the Info...

Science(ish) - The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

Two bestselling authors provide the perfect way into science: the Hollywood sci-fi movies we all know and love.

Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire - The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta

Accessible and essential coverage of today's challenging, speculative, cutting-edge science from Quanta Magazine. If you're a science and...

Stealing Fire - How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

It's the biggest revolution you've never heard of, and it's hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like E...

Deep Learning

An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translatio...

Science - Vintage Minis

Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen books. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, La...

Liquid - The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

A Financial Times Master of Science and chosen by The Times as one of the 100 most influential scientists in the UK, Mark Miodownik is Pr...

The Feather Thief - The Natural History Heist of the Century

Kirk Wallace Johnson served in Iraq with the US Agency for International Development in Baghdad and Fallujah as the Agency¿s first co-ord...

Soonish - Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything

Dr. Kelly Weinersmith (Author) Dr. Kelly Weinersmith is Adjunct Faculty in the BioSciences Department at Rice University. Kelly's researc...

Face to Face - True stories of life, death and transformation from my career as a facial surgeon

Powerful human stories from across the career of facial surgeon Jim McCaul, restoring identity to the traumatised and afflicted. Gives th...

The Science Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

Discover 80 trail-blazing scientific ideas, which underpin our modern world, giving us everything from antibiotics to gene therapy, elect...

Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis

Research synthesis is the practice of systematically distilling and integrating data from many studies in order to draw more reliable con...

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - How To Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

An entertaining and many-faceted guide to staying skeptical in the age of misinformation. Combines the accessible nature of "The Art Of T...

Carrying the Fire - An Astronaut's Journeys

In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is sti...

The Creativity Code - How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think

Mathematician and author of "The Order Of Time" Marcus du Sautoy explores how recent developments in AI and machine learning could mean t...

How To

Randall Munroe is . . .'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre 'Totally brilliant' Tim Harford 'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates 'Wonderful' Neil Gai...

Origins - How the Earth Shaped Human History

The author of "The Knowledge" indicates the links between the rhythms and changes of the natural world and human history and culture, exp...