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The Oil Depletion Protocol

Heinberg describes a unique accord whereby nations would voluntarily reduce their oil production and oil imports according to a consistent, sensible formula, thereby enab...

Fun Science

Welcome, fellow humans (and others), to the the world of FUN SCIENCE! I'm Charlie, also known across the internet as charlieissocoollike. In my book, I'll

The Neanderthal Legacy: Reawakening Our Genetic and Cultural Origins

In The Neanderthal Legacy, eminent psychologist and paranormal researcher Stan Gooch brings together the wide-ranging investigative strands of his lifetime of study of t...

Introducing Mathematics: A Graphic Guide

Introducing Mathematics traces the story of mathematics from the ancient world to modern times, describing the great discoveries and providing an accessible intro...

Goldilocks and the Water Bears

Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly habitable worlds,

Look up

'Sarah Cruddas is a gifted writer and Look Up is an inspired book. I am hopeful that we will never stop looking up.' Apollo 11

MOVING HEAVEN AND EARTH

When Nicolaus Copernicus claimed that the Earth was not stationary at the centre of the universe but circled the Sun, he brought about a total

The Element in the Room : Science-y Stuff Staring You in the Face

Have you ever wanted to perform sonic experiments with your morning coffee? Predict the exact second your unborn child will be born? Spice up your

The Inverted Bowl

The present well-established study of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, the exoplanets, was reviewed by the author in his earlier book Wandering Stars.

Space Record Breakers by Anne Rooney

The entire universe is in this book—and budding astronauts and astronomers will be captivated! What planet has the most moons? Who was the first woman

Elementary

Chemistry's most significant chart, the Periodic Table, and its 118 elements, is laid bare in this lively, accessible and compelling expose. The periodic table, created

A Scheme of Heaven

Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. In this ingenious

A Universe from Nothing

Fizicianul teoretician de renume internațional și autorul de bestselleruri Lawrence Krauss oferă răspunsuri provocatoare și revelatoare la cele mai mari întrebări filozo...

The Boy Who Played with Fusion

By the age of 11, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At 13, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate medical

Skeleton Keys

In this natural and cultural history of bone, Brian Switek explains where our skeletons came from, what they do inside us, and what others can

Vagina

The embarrassment and alienation we often feel when the word 'vagina' comes up in conversation is fairly new. In this book, Naomi Wolf explains why

Wonderland

What connects Paleolithic bone flutes to the invention of computer software? Or the Murex sea snail to the death of the great American city? How

POCKET GIANTS: ALBER EINS

Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein and everyone knows that he was a genius. Yet only a few people understand his work. In fact, he

The price of altruism

Describes the intellectual journey of eccentric American genius George Price, who tried to answer the evolutionary riddle of why people are nice, and eventually gave

117 Things You Should F*#king Know about Your World

117 Things You Should F*#king Know About Your World tells you the answers to these questions and many more weird and wonderful facts about the

13.8 - The Quest to Find the True Age of the Universe and the Theory of Everything

The 20th century gave us two great theories of physics: the general theory of relativity, which describes the behaviour of things on a very large

Uncentering the Earth

În 1543, astronomul polonez Nicolaus Copernic s-a întins pe patul de moarte, ținând în mâini capodopera sa abia publicată Despre revoluțiile sferelor cerești . Plasând

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth

The Apollo lunar missions of the 1960s and 1970s have been called the last optimistic acts of the twentieth century. Twelve astronauts made this greatest

Inflight Science

Every moment of your airplane journey is an opportunity to experience science in action—Inflight Science will be your guide. Brian Clegg explains the ever-changing view

Waters of the World

On the Integration of Nature

'A series of short essays, stories, and fragments concerning the nature of matter, life, consciousness, and identity in the context of a critique of science

Code Your Own Website

One of two new books in the brand-new Basher series Coding with Basher. These books combine Basher's trademark quirky and humorous illustration style with the

My freshman year

'After more than fifteen years of teaching, Rebekah Nathan, a professor of anthropology at a large state university, realized that she no longer understood the

Beyond

9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A top-secret rocket site in the USSR. A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet

FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM

The story of a puzzle that every child can understand but has baffled mathematicians for 300 years. Aged ten, Andrew Wiles stumbled across the puzzle,

Manchester Gross Sick Facts

Light in the Darkness

'A fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the nature of black holes-a blend of the spiritual, the philosophical, and the scientific-from the premier German ...

The Elements (The Compact Guide)

The Compact Guide: The Elements is authoritative and accessible, with a sense of wonder about the way in which the material world works, thanks to

Noncommutative Geometry, Arithmetic, and Related Topics

This valuable collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars in mathematics presents innovative and field-defining work at the intersection of noncommutati...

The Long and the Short of It

We've always measured the world around us, from how big things are, to how fast they go, how much they're worth and practically everything in

The Secret Life of Genes

An illustrated introduction to genetics. The Secret Life of Genes is the story of genetic science and how it makes each of us unique. It

Science Experiments to Blow Your Mind!

Hold on to your lab goggles and get ready for Science Experiments to Blow Your Mind! From microwave soap monsters to make-your-own lava lamps, this

How to Lie with Statistics

‘Round numbers,’ pronounced Dr Johnson, ‘are always false.’ But not, of course, the precise and scientific calculations of trained statisticians with their decimals and...

Discovering the Golden Compass

New to The Golden Compass? Don't feel lost--or alone! This accessible, illustrated guide is the only passport you'll need to Philip Pullman's imaginative world of

Aldous Huxley's hands

'Psychedelics, neuroscience, and historical biography come together when a journalist finds a lost photograph of Aldous Huxley and uncovers a hidden side of the celebrate...

Aliens: Past, Present, Future

Aliens: Past, Present, Future acoperă subiectul vieții extraterestre din toate unghiurile, de la cele mai vechi speculații de acum 400 de ani până la căutarea

Clearing the Air

The story of what's happened to the air we breathe, the impact it has had on our health and what we can do to fight

The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Hardcover)

Both an indispensable scientific work and a beautiful collection of art, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State documents and illustrates the

Sam

A true story of innovation that “reads like a movie” (Seth Godin), centered on a scrappy team of engineers—far from the Silicon Valley limelight—and their

How Long Is a Piece of String?

Have you ever wondered how the meter in a taxi works? Or why a lift takes so long to respond to your call? Is there

Water and Waste

A documentation of 400 years of improvements in public health, this work looks at the challenges faced by engineers and others to eradicate such diseases

Reasonableness of Reason: Explaining Rationality Naturalistically

Does reliance on reason require an unreasonable faith in reason? In The Reasonableness of Reason, Professor Hauptli argues that naturalized epistemology enables us to ex...

Space Oddities: Our Strange Attempts to Explain the Universe

‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are …’ Ești un iceberg nazist gigant? La 4 octombrie 1957, faimosul satelit Sputnik al Uniunii

Weird Maths

Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordina...

50 Science Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Science Ideas You Really Need to Know is your guide to the biggest questions and deepest concepts from across the whole of science. What

What the Luck?

The world is filled with many curious facts: intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent. Students who get the highest scores in

Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

Michael Sims sets out to open our eyes—literally—to the miraculous events that lie underneath the oldest story on Earth: the passing of a single day.

Ordinary Differential Equations and Stability Theory

This brief modern introduction to the subject of ordinary differential equations emphasizes stability theory. Concisely and lucidly expressed, it is intended as a supplem...

Climate Change

The story of climate change is the story of all life on Earth. This book shows how the environmental challenges we face are leading to

Through Two Doors at Once

How can matter behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it or does the very act

American Iron Hand Presses

The technology of iron (replacing wood) created a revolution in printing in the nineteenth century. This important volume covers the great American iron hand presses

Maths in Bite Sized Chunks

Math has an intimidating reputation, but a good grasp of mathematical principles is key to understanding the world around us. In this enlightening book Chris

Darwin's Religious Odyssey

Draws on newly available material to consider Darwin's personal religious beliefs, profiling him as a man from a specific time in history struggling to harmonize

Transcendental Aspects of Algebraic Cycles

Topics range from introductory lectures on algebraic cycles to more advanced material in this collection of lecture notes from the Proceedings of the Grenoble Summe...

How Long is Now?

How long is 'now'? The short answer is 'somewhere between 2 and 3 seconds'. The long answer involves an incredible journey through neuroscience, our subconscious

Unsteady Transonic Flow

This classic monograph on unsteady transonic flow -- the flow of air encountered at speeds at or near the speed of sound -- is of

Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?

This rich history chronicles the prominent role of Catholic women religious in establishing the hospitals at the core of New York City's extensive Catholic medical

The Universe: Explained, Condensed and Exploded

Cea mai importantă și mai dificilă întrebare care există? De la cele mai vechi religii, prin filosofia greacă și prin știința occidentală, omul a încercat

Return To The Little Kingdom

Almost thirty years ago, Michael Moritz, then a young journalist at 'Time' magazine, was allowed exclusive access to the inner workings of a cutting-edge technology

The Eleven-Plus Book: Genuine Exam Questions From Yesteryear

Is the nation really dumbing down? Are exams really easier than they were in the good old days? Now's the chance to find out, with

Gunpowder and Geometry

August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's

The Human Cosmos

For most of human history, we have led not just an earthly existence but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily

BEYOND HUMAN: Science and the Changing Face of Humanity

As the news constantly reminds us, recent advances in the biomedical sciences have brought within reach things that were unthinkable only a few years ago:

Rough Justice

Ce l-a făcut pe un olandez să fugă în Anglia în 1942 pentru a-și trăda țara germanilor? Această poveste a rămas până acum un episod

The Secret Life of the Brain

'In the long history of the study of anatomy, neuroscience is a relatively new field and there are plenty of mysteries yet to be uncovered.

Our Enigmatic Universe

Three themes permeate Our Enigmatic Universe: that materialism is not the only tenable philosophy for those who take seriously the discoveries of modern science ab...

Exploring Black Holes and Other Space Mysteries

What is dark matter? What are gravitational waves? From the Big Bang to the Big Rip, from quasars to the Eridanus Supervoid, this book traces

Our Choice: A Plan To Solve The Climate Crisis

Al Gore has been a passionate advocate of action to halt climate change for many years. In his best-selling book, An Inconvenient Truth, he wrote

Theoretical Numerical Analysis

Concise text focuses on fundamentals of functional analysis and approximation theory, the major results of theoretical numerical analysis, and specific topics that illust...

Factfeed

FACTFEED... is an awesome book of lists, reinvented for the YouTube and Buzzfeed generation. Find out the coolest animal facts, the most unbelievable science info

Michael Faraday & The Electrical Century

Michael Faraday is one of the most recognisable names in the history of science. Faraday's forte was electricity, a revolutionary force in nineteenth-century society. T...

Introducing: Evolution (Graphic Guide)

In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still

Why Balloons Rise and Apples Fall

'Everything we do is touched by physics. Whether we're on the motorway, at the beach or in the pub, its laws tell us what happens

The Accidental Scientist

Te-ai întrebat vreodată cum apar ideile pentru unele lucruri? În mod surprinzător, este adesea datorită întâmplării strălucirii unei singure persoane. The Accidental Sc...

64 Geeks: The Brains Who Shaped Our World

See the greatest minds in history like never before; rendered in the greatest way imaginable: 8-bit pixel art! This book celebrates the 64 Best. Brains.

Terror Within

We live in an age of terrorism and like to think that the United Kingdom is a reasonably peaceful place, largely untroubled by the atrocity

Here Comes the Sun

Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds and fuels - but sometimes destroys - the creatures that live upon it, controls their patterns

PHILIPS COMPLETE ROAD ATLAS

Deluxe hardback edition - perfect for a gift. Philip's: Britain's clearest maps for motorists. Completely updated and revised for 2017. 'Good balance between detail and