The Little Book of Big Explorations

Pinpoint : How GPS is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds

A Financial Times Best Book of 2016 A Sunday Times Best Book of 2016 Pinpoint tells the story of GPS, a scientific marvel that enables

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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

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You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves

The story of the rise of modern navigation technology, from radio location to GPS-and the consequent decline of privacy What does it mean to never

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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

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The Self Delusion

We like to believe that we exist as independent selves at the centre of a subjective universe that we are discrete individuals acting autonomously in

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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

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Copy, Rip, Burn

Explores the politics of open source software, and how it is forcing us to re-think the idea of intellectual property.

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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

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The Real Story of Risk: Adventures in a Hazardous World

We live in a world of risk. It waits for us in our refrigerator and surrounds us on the freeway. It's lurking in our arteries

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First of Everything

The First of Everything follows a context-setting introduction with seven stimulating sections: In the Beginning (The Big Bang to Homo Sapiens), At Home (the first

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Meet Your Ancestors

Provides an introduction to the whole process of discovering your own family history. Topics covered include searching for birth, marriage and death cerificates, census a...

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Crop Circles

This is a new way of experiencing the crop circle mystery, through the geometry of the forms revealed in crops. The mathematics is sound and

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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,

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How the World Works: Astronomy

'Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.' Arthur C. Clarke, The Challenge of the Spaceship Astronomy traces one of humanity's oldest obsessions. This

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Ten Short Lessons in Space Travel

As a new age of space exploration dawns, Ten Short Lessons in Space Travel takes a timely look at the ten fundamental lessons in the

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NUMERICON:THE HIDDEN LIVES OF NUMBERS

Numericon tells the stories of the numbers, mathematical discoveries, oddities and personalities that have shaped the way we understand the world around us. Each chapter...

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Are Numbers Real?

Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would

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Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner

Eaton's Modern Ready Reckoner revives the curiosities of old, mixing it with the delights and complexities of the 21st Century. A nostalgic gift book for

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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

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Brilliant!

To celebrate the awarding of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics to Shuji Nakamura (along with two other Japanese scientists), this newly updated edition profiles

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Stargazing Month-By-Month Guide to the Night Sky

'I WILL CONTINUE TO ENJOY STARGAZING AS THE MONTHS GO BY' Helen Sharman, astronaut 'VERY USEFUL INDEED' Chris Lintott, Sky at Night presenter 'IF YOU

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Manchester Gross Sick Facts

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The Glass Universe

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars themselves’ The Economist #1

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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

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Spaceman

Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal what 'the right stuff'

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30-Second Genetics

30-Second Genetics prezintă cele mai extraordinare descoperiri, de la elementele fundamentale ale biologiei celulare până la progresele aproape incredibile ale secvenție...

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30-Second Biology

The 50 most thought-provoking theories of life, each explained in half a minute. 30-Second Biology tackles the vital science of life, dissecting the 50 most

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Hot Air

Here, for the first time, climate scientist Peter Stott reveals the bitter fight to get international recognition for what, among scientists, has been known for

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Equal

'Gracie tells the story of her struggle and eventual triumph as a way of encouraging us, of changing our society, of giving us all courage

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Eureka!: The Birth of Science (Icon Science) by Andrew Gregory

Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its sta...

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Footprints

In Footprints , David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future. From long-lived materials like plastic and nuclear waste, to

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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 ...

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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

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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

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Introducing: Chaos (Graphic Guide)

'Introducing Chaos' explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs

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Rise of the Rocket Girls

2016 Goodreads Choice Awards finalist The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly

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Adventures in Human Being

Sunday Times bestsellerWe have a lifetime's association with our bodies, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory. In Adventures in Human Being, Gavin

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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...

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Back to Basics

Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata?Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education

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Maths in Bite-sized Chunks

Maths is often cited as the 'most difficult' or 'complex' subject to study, many people admitting to a wariness that was probably ingrained into them

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WORLD AT WAR

Foreign Affairs and its parent organization, the Council on Foreign Relations, were founded in the early 1920s by veterans of the Woodrow Wilson administration’s di...

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Launch a Rocket Into Space

Solve problems using 3D shapes and degrees of rotation and blast off on a mission to outer space! Featuring maths problems from addition and decimals

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Astrobiology

Are we alone in the Universe, or are there as many planets supporting life as there are stars in the sky? It's one of the

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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

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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

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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

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Florida Marco Polo Guide (Marco Polo Guides)

Experience all Florida's attractions with this up-to-date, authoritative guide,packed with Insider Tips. Most holidaymakers want to have fun and feel relaxedfrom the mom...

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Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything -Hardcover

From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal , a hilariously illustrated investigation into future technol...

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Nature's Oracle

W.D.Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a revolution that changed our understanding of life itself. He played a...

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Go Figure: The Marvellous Maths Workbook

Math is one of those tricky subjects that continues to throw us problems, even after our school days. From splitting the bill in a restaurant,

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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...

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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

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Weather

A colourful and accessible guide to meteorology, suitable for the absolute beginner. The weather is always with us and, even in this modern age, affects

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The unnatural world

An environmental journalist examines the world humanity has created through climate change and chronicles the scientists, billionaires, and ordinary people who are workin...

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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together

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Look up

Our story with the stars Most of us have never been to space. To date, of the more than 100 billion humans that have ever

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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...

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Fight for Beauty

Fiona Reynolds proposes a solution that is at once radical and simple - to inspire us through the beauty of the world around us. Delving

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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,

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THE BOOK OF HUMANS

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal kingdom, Adam Rutherford tells

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