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Paperback. Reveals the simple techniques needed to estimate virtually anything and illustrates them using an eclectic array of problems. This title shows how to estimate everything from how closely you can orbit a neutron star without being pulled apart by gravity, to the fuel used to transport your food from the farm to the store. Illustrator(s): Edwards, Patricia. Num Pages: 384 pages, 95 halftones. BIC Classification: PBT; PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 115 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691150802
- ISBN
- 9780691150802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.58
€ 23.99
€ 17.58
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014 In her fantastically disgusting international bestseller, Mary Roach dives into the strange wet miracles of science that operate inside us after every meal Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MFG; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780749891
- ISBN
- 9781780749891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.24
€ 16.99
€ 13.24
Paperback. The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PH; PS; RBGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780753810927
- ISBN
- 9780753810927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.27
€ 13.99
€ 11.27
Paperback. What is happiness? What makes us happy? Why do we strive for happiness? And how might we achieve it? Daniel Nettle explores the origins and purpose of our pursuit of happiness, and uses the results of recent psychological studies to find answers to these questions and more. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 halftones and figures. BIC Classification: JMM; JMR; PDZ; VFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 121 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192805591
- ISBN
- 9780192805591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.08
€ 14.99
€ 12.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 204 x 39. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553446791
- ISBN
- 9780553446791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.15
€ 18.99
€ 15.15
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134307
- ISBN
- 9780691134307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.30
€ 30.99
€ 22.30
Hardback. Provides access to various paradoxes of the natural world. This book explains that some occur through the prevalence of pseudosciences such as astrology and UFO-logy and some enter the public conscience through the bad astronomy of science-fiction movies. It aims to present the reader with the methods for identifying and replacing incorrect ideas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: PDZ; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231116442
- ISBN
- 9780231116442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.20€ 79.73
€ 104.20
€ 79.73
Hardback. Did you know that as you read these words showers of high-speed particles from exploding stars are raining down on you? This book reveals the startling ways life on Earth is touched by our cosmic environment, and demonstrates why without such contact, life itself wouldn't be possible. Num Pages: 264 pages, 54 halftones. 5 line illus. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691129464
- ISBN
- 9780691129464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.20
€ 40.99
€ 29.20
Paperback. About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. The discovery of this virus and the vaccine against it was one of the triumphs of twentieth-century medicine. This book describes how Baruch Blumberg and a team of researchers found a virus they were not looking for and created a vaccine for a disease they knew little about. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 table, 16 halftones, 3 line illus. BIC Classification: BG; MJJ; MMFM; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691116235
- ISBN
- 9780691116235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.01
€ 42.99
€ 31.01
Paperback. Discovers the source of life and how it has developed into the wonder around us today. From ant-colonies to zinc mining, this book takes us on a journey around the world and from the top of the food-chain to the very chemicals of which we are made, and explores how the fate of humanity is in our own hands. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 195 x 13. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241950739
- ISBN
- 9780241950739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
€ 20.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 173 color illus. BIC Classification: FXZ; HPC; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691168692
- ISBN
- 9780691168692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.55
€ 26.99
€ 20.55
Paperback. A new particle - and very likely a new kind of particle - had been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, the huge particle accelerator designed to reproduce energies present in the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. It explains epochal discovery and it's startlingly beautiful implications. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 70.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847922571
- ISBN
- 9781847922571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.10
€ 18.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. The hunt for the Higgs particle involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. Finally, on 4 July 2012, CERN made the momentous announcement that a Higgs-like particle had been discovered. Here, Jim Baggott explains the science behind the discovery, how the theory was developed, and its implications for the future. Num Pages: 304 pages, 27 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PHP; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199679577
- ISBN
- 9780199679577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. Examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. This title focuses on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Viking
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780670919741
- ISBN
- 9780670919741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
€ 20.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? The author takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; JHMP; PDZ; PSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 111 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141018133
- ISBN
- 9780141018133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Hardback. Honeybees make decisions collectively - and democratically. This book reveals that these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. It presents an account of scientific discovery. It investigates how evolution has honed the decision-making methods of honeybees over millions of years. Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 color illus. 30 halftones. 26 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: PDZ; PSVP; PSVT7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1018.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147215
- ISBN
- 9780691147215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.48
€ 37.99
€ 27.48
Paperback. Charles Darwin's experiences in the Galapagos Islands in 1835 helped to guide his thoughts toward a revolutionary theory: that species were not fixed but diversified from their ancestors over many generations. This book explains what we have learned about the origin and evolution of new species. Series: Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology. Num Pages: 224 pages, 120 color illus. 46 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSEG; PDZ; PSAJ; PSVW6. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149998
- ISBN
- 9780691149998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.89
€ 42.99
€ 30.89
Hardback. A profound, unsettling and very funny new book from the cult artist, nominated for the Turner Prize 2013 Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: PDZ; VSP; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440. At the Centre of the Inside of The Human Brain's Mind. 208 pages, illustrations. A profound, unsettling and very funny new book from the cult artist. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: PDZ; VSP; WH. Dimension: 198 x 146 x 21. Weight: 448.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857867216
- ISBN
- 9780857867216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.09
€ 23.99
€ 16.09
Paperback. Answers to 20 of the most mindbending and perplexing mathematical questions. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: PDZM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782069485
- ISBN
- 9781782069485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Hardcover. Astound your friends! Impress party guests! Annoy your relatives! This book contains 100 science puzzles. The answers to each problem explains a scientific principle in easy-to-understand terms, so not only are you solving puzzles, you are having fun while you learn. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 b/w line artworks. BIC Classification: PDZ; WDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Carlton Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRS0029347
- ISBN
- 9781847325280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Offers the possibility to become permanently less stress-prone, to break bad habits, to improve our collaboration. Relaying the story of his own transformational experience as well as including the stories of others who try to describe an event that is truly indescribable, the author brings a paradigm for deep and lasting change. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HRLK; PDZ; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Hay House UK Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781807071
- ISBN
- 9781781807071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.57
€ 19.57
Paperback. familiar examples from everyday life and modern technology, this book explains the seemingly inexplicable phenomena we encounter all around us. Num Pages: 736 pages, Illustrations,. BIC Classification: PDZ; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 274 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470170663
- ISBN
- 9780470170663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.47
€ 48.47
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; VFMD; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 195. .
- Publisher
- Dorling Kindersley Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241289396
- ISBN
- 9780241289396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.22
€ 25.99
€ 18.22
Paperback. "Impey combines the vision of a practicing scientist with the voice of a gifted storyteller."-Dava Sobel Num Pages: 448 pages, 75 illustrations. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGK; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393343861
- ISBN
- 9780393343861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
€ 17.99
€ 16.46