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Stargazing from game reserves in Southern Africa offers visitors to game and nature parks an exciting night-time activity in the bush, giving them ...

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The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude an...

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'Superb' Sunday Times'Revolutionary' Alice Roberts'Hugely important' Jim Al-Khalili_______________A radical retelling of the history of science tha...

An essential read for the legions of Sherlockians about the globe. Sherlock Holmes is the world's greatest-ever consulting detective. The huge po...

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There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a...

Discover the world of science as never before in this richly illustrated guide bringing key milestones and events to life in visual timelines. Off...

A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and New York Times bestselling author of Are We Smart Enough To Kno...

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The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.  Explaining the key processes shap...

A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog.Perhaps the biggest question ...

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An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.Biomimetics literally means emula...

Music is shaped by the science of sound. How can music - an artform - have anything to do with science? Yet there are myriad ways in which the two...

The ancient Greeks called it Gaia; the Romans Terra. We know it simply as Earth, the planet we call home. And what a planet it is.Formed around 4.6...

There's a whole universe out there...Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit,...

No other life form on the planet has generated a brain like ours. How did a bundle of cells weighing just 1.2 kg give rise to conscious, self-aware...

n the Origin of Species is a book that changed the way we think about the development of life on earth. The author''s controversial theory of natur...

Forty articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scie...

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Hidden inflammation lies behind many modern diseases. Shilpa Ravella, an expert in nutrition and the gut, explains why our immune systems are turni...

Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader one hundred million years into the future, long after the human race became extinct, to explore what wil...

'Pontzer's findings have huge implications for our attitudes to exercise, diet and public health' Mark Webster, Sunday Times A myth-busting tour of...

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From cells in our bodies to measuring the universe, big numbers are everywhere We all know that numbers go on forever, that you could spend your l...

A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs - the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes...

A guide to using the science of the body clock to create the optimum personal routine, and sleep better, work better and feel better. In the twe...

Before Chelsea Conaboy gave birth to her first child, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn son, the endless dirty nappies and the sleeple...

OUT NOW: the new book from the bestselling authors and hosts of the wildy popular 'The Skeptics Guide to the Universe'__________Our predictions of ...

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Uncover the mysteries, wonders and natural history of Mars: as close as you'll get to an eye-witness perspective of the incredible 'Red Planet'. '...

'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 astronaut Michael Co...

The robots are here. They make our cars, they deliver fast food, they mine the sea floor. And in the near-future their presence will increasingly e...

In Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook, they tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some ...

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