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Science: general issues
Brand: Oneworld Publications
AN 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 squirrel? Follow Mary Roach as she investigates laser scarecrows, robo-hawks, human-elephant conflict spec..
22.55£
Brand: The MIT Press
Vaccines are a documented success story, one of the most successful public health interventions in history. Yet there is a vocal anti-vaccination movement, featuring celebrity activists (including Kennedy scion Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and actress Jenn..
20.97£
Updated to reflect the current exam, this popular AP test prep offers a wealth of study materials, pro tips, and practice tests-accessible in print, online, and mobile devices.Year after year, AP students choose "5 Steps to a 5" series because it's..
29.78£
Updated to reflect the current exam, this popular AP test prep offers a wealth of study materials, pro tips, and practice tests-accessible in print, online, and mobile devices.Year after year, AP students choose "5 Steps to a 5" series because it's..
20.21£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
This suite of resources provide a clear two-year framework to help you and your students meet and exceed AQA's mastery goals using content matched to AQA's big ideas and enquiry processes.This title is AQA approved.* Aligned to AQA's big ideas and K..
24.27£
The leading American botanist of the nineteenth century, Asa Gray helped organize the main generalizations of the science of plant geography. The manual of botany that carries his name is still in use today. Friend and confidant of Charles Darwin, Gr..
40.69£
The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim PeakeShortlisted for the British Book Award 2018'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut?Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's pers..
13.03£
A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest bu..
31.01£
Over the past decade, asteroids have come to the forefront of planetary science. Scientists across broad disciplines are increasingly recognizing that understanding asteroids is essential to discerning the basic processes of planetary formation, inc..
134.09£
Brand: Oneworld Publications
To study astronomy is to consider the most wondrous phenomena on the grandest of scales - the universe and all it contains. Beginning with our earliest explorations of the night sky, William Waller takes us on an enthralling journey through the Mil..
13.49£
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Throughout the ages, comets, enigmatic and beautiful wandering objects that appear for weeks or months, have alternately fascinated and terrified humankind. The result of five years of careful research, Atlas of Great Comets is a generously illustra..
52.80£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
When it was originally released in 1980, Jeanne Altmann's book transformed the study of maternal primate relationships by focusing on motherhood and infancy within a complex ecological and sociological context. Available again with a new foreword by..
37.53£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Science doesn't speak for itself. Neck-deep in work that can be messy and confounding and naïve in the ways of public communication, scientists are often unable to package their insights into the neat narratives that the public requires. Enter celeb..
18.24£
Brand: John Murray Press
A relatable, interactive, and funny exploration of algorithms, those essential building blocks of computer science - and of everyday life - from the author of the wildly popular Bad Arguments.Algorithms -- processes that are made up of unambiguous s..
11.98£
From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty. Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave..
29.26£
Brand: University of Toronto Press
In the 1970s, scientists claimed that farm animal breeding was finally evolving from an art into a science. In their view, the switch to scientific breeding was as inevitable as the ongoing process of agricultural modernization. However, the art-to-..
93.42£
Brand: Random House
THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English langua..
13.96£
Brand: Princeton University Press
How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern wo..
32.60£
Brand: North Atlantic Books
'Beginners belongs on the list of books that have changed the way I understand my own limitations.' Malcolm Gladwell For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down ..
13.94£
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring… You will learn more about human nature than in any other book I can think of' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm We are capable of savage acts of violence..
16.75£
Brand: Visual Profile Books
What kind of creature is a human? If we don't know what we are, how can we know how to act? In 'Being a Human' Charles Foster sets out to understand what a human is, inhabiting the sensory worlds of humans at three pivotal moments in our history.'A..
15.62£
Brand: Chelsea Green Publishing
Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon-..
26.14£
Brand: Faber & Faber
A BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, BLOOMBERGAnil Seth's radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary bio..
14.76£
Brand: Springer Publishing
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschi..
64.02£