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The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: ...And Other Amazing Cosmic Facts
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The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
Oxford University PressOriginal price R 299.00 - Original price R 299.00Original price R 299.00R 299.00R 299.00 - R 299.00Current price R 299.00Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz takes the reader one hundred million years into the future, long after the human race became extinct, to explore what wil...
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The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
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How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 240.01 - Original price R 240.01Original price R 240.01R 240.01R 240.01 - R 240.01Current price R 240.01Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way. Sometimes it'll be obvious - 'X people deve...
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Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Human Senses
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Burn: The Misunderstood Science of Metabolism
Penguin Books LtdOriginal price R 264.99 - Original price R 264.99Original price R 264.99R 264.99R 264.99 - R 264.99Current price R 264.99'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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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Pan MacmillanOriginal price R 230.00 - Original price R 230.00Original price R 230.00R 230.00R 230.00 - R 230.00Current price R 230.00'This book is not just about life, but about discovery itself. It is about error and hubris, but also about wonder and the reach of science. And it...
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Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
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The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics
Oneworld PublicationsOriginal price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00From 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...
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Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined - and redefined - nature
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Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law
Oneworld PublicationsOriginal price R 240.01 - Original price R 240.01Original price R 240.01R 240.01R 240.01 - R 240.01Current price R 240.01AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Delightful' Ed Yong What's to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing sq...
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Life Time: The New Science of the Body Clock, and How It Can Revolutionize Your Sleep and Health (Trade Paperback)
Russell FosterOriginal price R 370.00 - Original price R 370.00Original price R 370.00R 370.00R 370.00 - R 370.00Current price R 370.00A 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...
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2022 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa
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Eureka!: Mindblowing Science Every Day of the Year
John Murray PressOriginal price R 355.01Original price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01Current price R 199.00R 199.00 - R 199.00Current price R 199.00Introduced by Jim Al-KhaliliCould you surf down an erupting volcano?Why do zebras have stripes?Are you breathing the same air as Leonardo da Vinci?...
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How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask
Little, Brown Book GroupOriginal price R 420.00 - Original price R 420.00Original price R 420.00R 420.00R 420.00 - R 420.00Current price R 420.00Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. With a clear-eyed approach to their science and history, HOW VACCINES WORK demystifies th...
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Slime: A Natural History
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Nine Musings on Time: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and the Truth About Time Travel
Icon BooksOriginal price R 270.00 - Original price R 270.00Original price R 270.00R 270.00R 270.00 - R 270.00Current price R 270.00Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible?Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics - a...
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Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the Parental Brain
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01Before Chelsea Conaboy gave birth to her first child, she anticipated the joy of holding her newborn son, the endless dirty nappies and the sleeple...
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future (Paperback)
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My Life in Sea Creatures: A young queer science writer's reflections on identity and the ocean
Vintage PublishingOriginal price R 395.00 - Original price R 395.00Original price R 395.00R 395.00R 395.00 - R 395.00Current price R 395.00'A miraculous, transcendental book' ED YONGA young queer science writer on some of the ocean's strangest creatures and what they can teach us about...
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Observing our Solar System: A beginner's guide
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Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence and its Power to Change Our Lives
Hodder & StoughtonOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01'A lively examination of communal endeavour... important and correct' - Steven Poole, The GuardianAt a time of existential global challenges, we ne...
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Rebirth of Science in Africa
Umdaus Press,South AfricaOriginal price R 55.00 - Original price R 55.00Original price R 55.00R 55.00R 55.00 - R 55.00Current price R 55.00Original price R 55.00 - Original price R 55.00Original price R 55.00R 55.00R 55.00 - R 55.00Current price R 55.00Save 0% Save % -
Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings
Penguin Books LtdOriginal price R 264.99 - Original price R 264.99Original price R 264.99R 264.99R 264.99 - R 264.99Current price R 264.99You make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how to influence people, and not one of them could be made without the ...
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