Science
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Six Impossible Things
John Gribbin
Read more ▸ Order ▸Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places...
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The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
David Spiegelhalter
Read more ▸ Order ▸Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries,...
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The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration
John Logsdon
Read more ▸ Order ▸The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a...
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Boom!
Bob Berman
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For a book about extreme, destructive forces, this is not as grim a prospect...
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The Planet Factory
Elizabeth Tasker
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An engaging exploration of planetary formation, the Solar System and the myriad unlikely and...
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Fallout
Fred Pearce
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This tour through the sites and legacy of nuclear power is not exactly picaresque...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
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You can never be too old for a book about dinosaurs, but here is a...
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Cosmic Impact
Andrew May
Read more ▸ Order ▸As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new...
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Our Universe
Jo Dunkley
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This is your basic one-stop shop for the subject – a simple, straightforward astronomical...
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Mission Moon 3-D: Reliving the Great Space Race
David Eicher
Read more ▸ Order ▸In 1961 John F. Kennedy surprised the world with his declaration that America would land...
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Sapiens’ showed us where we came from.
‘Homo Deus’ looked to the future.
’21 Lessons for the...
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The Ends of the World
Peter Brannen
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Mass extinctions are par for the course, shaping the world and the flora and...