(Paperback, with French flaps)
By: Lawrence Weinstein
ISBN: 9780691150802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reveals the simple techniques needed to estimate virtually anything and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. This title shows how to estimate everything from how closely you can orbit a neutron star without being pulled apart by gravity, to the fuel used to transport your food from the farm to the store.
(Paperback)
By: Giulia Enders
ISBN: 9781925106671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us.
(Hardback)
By: Kathryn D. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780262539647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope.
(Hardback)
By: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
ISBN: 9781839765506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Verso Books
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How the mess we are in started. How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the 'industrial revolution'
(Paperback, Main)
By: Rob Eastaway
ISBN: 9781838958770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A mind-bending collection of puzzles from the New Scientist published in book form for the firsttime
(Paperback, No Edition)
By: Philipp Schott
ISBN: 9781770417830
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
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(Paperback)
By: Carlo Rovelli
ISBN: 9780141993270
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Yuval Noah Harari
ISBN: 9781784703936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 23rd March 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.
It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power
(Hardback)
By: Thomas D. Seeley
ISBN: 9780691147215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. This book reveals that these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. It presents an account of scientific discovery. It investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years.
(Paperback)
By: James Poskett
ISBN: 9780241986264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Martie Haselton
ISBN: 9781786075109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Provocative, ground-breaking and entertaining, the worlds leading expert on sexuality and the ovulation cycle reveals the hidden intelligence of hormones.
(Paperback)
By: Ian Robertson
ISBN: 9781787633728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Confidence lies at the core of what makes things happen.
Exploring the science and neuroscience behind confidence that has emerged over the last decade, clinical psychologist and neuroscientist Professor Ian Robertson tells us how confidence plays out in our minds, our brains and indeed our bodies.
(Hardback)
By: Rob Eastaway
ISBN: 9781911622260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A fascinating book, from a leading maths educator and demystifier, that shows how maths is relevant to our everyday lives.
(Paperback)
By: Jordan Ellenberg
ISBN: 9780718196042
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the mathematician's method of analyzing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore and when to change the equation entirely. This book tells us that maths touches on everything we do, and a little mathematical knowledge reveals the hidden structures that lie beneath the chaotic surface.
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241719190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2025
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780241989678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9780316445436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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Million-copy bestselling author of The Elements, Molecules and Reactions Theodore Gray applies his trademark mix of engaging stories, real-time experiments and stunning photography to the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty and rich history of everyday things.
(Paperback)
By: Theodore Gray
ISBN: 9780316445443
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
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"Another masterpiece" (BoingBoing), by Theodore Gray, How Things Work explores the inner workings of machines, big and small, revealing the extraordinary science, beauty, and rich history of everyday things.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Melanie Challenger
ISBN: 9781786895752
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Combining popular science, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical take on the human story and what it means for us today.
(Paperback)
By: New Scientist
ISBN: 9781529334029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Everything you need to know about being human from New Scientist
(Paperback)
By: Ray Kurzweil
ISBN: 9780715654538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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From the world's preeminent AI futurist: a fascinating account of how mapping the human mind leads to ever more intelligent machines.
(Paperback)
By: Kit Yates
ISBN: 9781529408690
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A fascinating exploration of how we can make better, accessible, mathematically-informed predictions about the world around us.
(Hardback)
By: Ryan North
ISBN: 9780753552568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Chad Orzel
ISBN: 9780465023318
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
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Everyone talks to their pets; Chad Orzel tells his about relativity.
