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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... 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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... 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There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... 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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. 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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... 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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x40920E Gerd Kempermann / Adult Neurogenesis - Stem Cells and Neuronal Development in the Adult Brain(Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x40692E Frank Rose / Into The Heart Of The Mind - A Quest For Artificial Intelligence(Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x40415E Guy Croton / Wrinklies' Guide to Home Computing (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x40301E Walter Bodmer & Robin McKie / Book Of Man : The Human Genome Project (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 87846E Jon Agar / Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 55690H Bart Kosko / Fuzzy Thinking MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 87778E Thomas Fink, Yong Mao / The 85 ways to tie a tie: the science and aesthetics of tie knots MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x39647E Tom Whipple / X and Why: The Rules of Attraction: Why Gender Still Matters (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: x39515E Ben Hammersley / Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 62587H Steven Pinker / The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mind MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51309E Trevor J. Cox / Now You're Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Hardback) Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others – and whether we trust them... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51112E Ian Crofton / Science Without the Boring Bits. Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculation (Hardback) Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Cox / Now You're Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Hardback) Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others – and whether we trust them... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51112E Ian Crofton / Science Without the Boring Bits. Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculation (Hardback) Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... 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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... 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Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... 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Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others – and whether we trust them... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51112E Ian Crofton / Science Without the Boring Bits. Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculation (Hardback) Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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(Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... 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Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculation (Hardback) Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... 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Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: x39515E Ben Hammersley / Approaching the Future: 64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then (Large Paperback) MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: 62587H Steven Pinker / The Language Instinct : The New Science of Language and Mind MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51309E Trevor J. Cox / Now You're Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Hardback) Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others – and whether we trust them... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51112E Ian Crofton / Science Without the Boring Bits. Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculation (Hardback) Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x51309E Trevor J. Cox / Now You're Talking: The Story of Human Communication from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence (Hardback) Being able to speak is what makes us human. If you’ve ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice, you realise how important your voice is to your personal identity. We judge others – and whether we trust them... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51112E Ian Crofton / Science Without the Boring Bits. Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculation (Hardback) Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x51112E Ian Crofton / Science Without the Boring Bits. Cranks, Curiosities, Crazy Experiments and Wild Speculation (Hardback) Forget Boyle's law, polymer chains, cellular respiration and fields of force - here's all the really interesting stuff you never learnt during science lessons at school. But this isn't fantasy, this is hard fact. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x51096E Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback) The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Golf & Golf Biography | sku: x51072E John Zumerchik / Newton on the Tee: A Good Walk Through the Science of Golf (Hardback) Like no other sport, golf obsesses those poor souls who hope to master its subtleties and abundant complexities. One shot is hit like a dream, the next a nightmare. As a result, the game's disciples have embraced any and all techniques endorsed by... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x50980E Rudy Rucker / Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (Large Paperback) Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x50811E Christian Smith / The Scientist and the Psychic: A Son's Exploration of His Mother's Gift (Large Paperback) A captivating, one-of-a-kind memoir about a scientist's life with his famous psychic mother and his revealing exploration of the paranormal realm.Christian Smith realized his mother was different in the autumn of 1977 when he was eight years old... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x50808E Ramona Koval / A Letter to Layla: Travels to Our Deep Past and Near Future (Large Paperback) How might the origins of our species inform the way we think about our planet? At a point of unparalleled crisis, can human ingenuity save us from ourselves?Much-loved writer Ramona Koval travels the globe in a quest for answers, and encounters the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x50330E Mark Stevenson / An Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" (Large Paperback) In the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything , a smart and entertaining guide to the future. Mark Stevenson-a writer, deep thinker, and stand-up comedian-set out simply, asking, "What's next for our species?" and then... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: X72421H Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Large Paperback) Scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree, grappling with its complications for over a century. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything known about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x66307H Steve Peters / The Silent Guides (Large Paperback) Understanding and developing the mind throughout life - the NEW book from the creator of the chimp management mind model and author of the million copy selling The Chimp Paradox . The Silent Guides explores some neuroscience and psychological... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x49007E Mark Henderson / The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters (Large Paperback) Britain's leading science journalist makes an agenda-setting argument that science matters to every aspect of politics with a rallying call to all geeks, wannabe geeks, and secret geeks to join together in a new force our leaders cannot ignore... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x48979E Lingua Franca Magazine / The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy (Large Paperback) In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text . The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x48975E Sean McDonagh / Fukushima: The Death Knell for Nuclear Energy? (Large Paperback) A timely examination of the case for nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. Fr Sean McDonagh looks at the responses and reactions to the Fukushima disaster, the implications it has had for the world's nuclear powers, the reaction... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: x48875E Paul C.W. Davies / How to Build a Time Machine (Large Paperback) Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48725E Marcus Chown / The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science (Hardback) The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door , science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48707E David Philip Barash / The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (Hardback) Monogamy may be the rule, but it's not the practice - not even for animals.Using the same DNA fingerprinting technology used in the courtroom, biologists have now been able to trace parenthood in animals for the first time with certainty. The... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48706E John L. Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48630E Why Don't Penguins Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions (Hardback) The follow up to the no.1 bestseller Does Anything Eat Wasps?More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' columnThe New Scientist magazine's ever-popular 'Last Word' column produces an endlessly fascinating array of questions and answers... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Casti / Paradigms Regained : A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science (Hardback) The author of Paradigms Lost explores the complexities of modern scientific thought by examining the mysteries of modern science, ranging from the origins of life to the roots of human language. 20,000 first printing. All of our... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48702E Geoffrey Miller / The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (Hardback) Many aspects of how and why the human mind evolved remain mysterious. While Darwinian natural selection has successfully explained the evolution of much of life on earth, it has never seemed fully adequate to explain the aspects of our minds that... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x48635E Fred Krupp / Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Hardback) How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. 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MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: x48573E Jorn Lyseggen / Outside Insight: Navigating a World Drowning in Data (Hardback) The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47532E Michael Jonathan Reiss, Roger Straughan / Improving Nature?: The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering (Hardback) Little more than a decade ago the term 'genetic engineering' was hardly known outside research laboratories. By now, though, its use is widespread. Those in favour of genetic engineering - and those against it - tell us that it has the potential to... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: x47531E Karen Farrington / The Lore Of Averages: Facts, Figures, And Stories That Make Everyday Life Extraordinary (Hardback) A new title in the Arcane series of trivia books, Lore of Averages offers facts and stories that explore both meanings of the word average. Statistical averages (the average weight in turkey eaten each Thanksgiving) preface stories that prove to be... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x47375E Jonah Lehrer / The Decisive Moment: How The Brain Makes Up Its Mind (Hardback) Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate or we ‘blink’ and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind’s black box with the latest... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: X47930E Diana Craig, Sailesh Patel / The Weather Book: Why It Happens and Where It Comes From (Hardback) Packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts,... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 19398E The Rough Guide to Digital Stuff All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 20594E Siobhan McKeown / A Life Lived Remotely - Being and Work in the Digital Age What happens when we take our lives online? How are we being changed by immersion in the internet? How do we know the difference between work and life when one seems to blend into the other?Part memoir, part theory, A Life Lived Remotely... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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