The Elements Magnet Set: With Complete Periodic Table! by Gray Theodore
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Category: Popular Science | Series: RP Minis Ser.
Display and play with the building blocks of life with The Elements Magnet Set! Based on and including the iconic images from Theodore Gray's bestselling book The Elements, this beautiful magnet set is the perfect way to display and play with the periodic table. Add a little atomic flair at work and ho ...Show more
The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World by Suzie Sheehy
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The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through the twelve experiments that changed our world*SELECTED AS ONE OF WATERSTONES' BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2022*'A splendid idea, vividly carried out- I enjoyed this book enormously' PHILIP PULLMAN'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ...Show more
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush
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Category: Environment & Sustainability | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An August 2023 Indie Next Pick, selected by booksellersA Vogue Most Anticipated Book of 2023A WBUR Summer Reading RecommendationA Next Big Idea Club's August 2023 Must-Read BookAn astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitze ...Show more
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte
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<b>‘Steve Brusatte, the author of <i>The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs</i>, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them as creatures who are just as engaging as dinosaurs.’ – <i>The Sunday T ...Show more
What If?2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
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'Nerd royalty' Ben Goldacre'Laugh-out-loud funny' Bill Gates'Totally brilliant' Tim HarfordWHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to move mountains, fill the solar system with soup and alt ...Show more
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: good
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love h ...Show more
A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Popular Science | Reading Level: very good
From the Big Bang to the theory of relativity, Stephen W. Hawking will challenge your imagination and expand your grasp of the cosmos. This is the classic revelatory science book of the last century. Here is a landmark book written for those of us who prefer words to equations. Told by an extraordinary ...Show more
A Clear Flowing Yarra by Harry Saddler
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
A passionate, evocative love letter to an iconic waterway, and an opportunity to appreciate the natural beauty right on our doorsteps. They say you can't step in the same river twice, and it's true that the Yarra has been hugely changed - but this book is a glorious and timely reminder that things can ...Show more
American Prometheus: the Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
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Category: Popular Science
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Games - A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy
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Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them? Around the World in 80 Games is about the mathematics of chance, game theory, gamification, gaming strategies and computer games. Traversing the globe, Marcus du Sautoy looks at t ...Show more
Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum
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Category: Environment & Sustainability
A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest. Eliane Brum reveals the direct links between structural inequities rooted in gender, race, class, and even species, and the suffering that capitalism and climate breakdown wreak on those who a ...Show more
Darwin and the Art of Botany: Observations on the Curious World of Plants by BOBBI ANGELL
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Uncover Darwin's most important writings about plants with this important collection featuring expert interpretations and rare illustrations. Charles Darwin is best known for his work on the evolution of animals, but in fact a large part of his contribution to the natural sciences is focused on plants. ...Show more