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The Premonitions Bureau - by Sam Knight

£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571357567 | ISBN 10: 0571357563

**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** ‘A stunning piece of work’ Patrick Radden Keefe ‘Beautifully ordered, humane, capacious’ Hilary Mantel ‘An eerie and amazing account of coincidence and fate’ Emma Cline ‘Completely compelling an ... more
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The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars - by Dava Sobel

£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780007548200 | ISBN 10: 0007548206

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dava Sobel returns with a captivating, little-known true story of women in science. Before they even had the right to vote, a group of remarkable women were employed by Harvard College Observatory as Human ... more
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The Gene: An Intimate History - by Siddhartha Mukherjee

£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099584575 | ISBN 10: 0099584573

Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on Sunday THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful a ... more
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Alan Turing: The Life of a Genius - by Dermot Turing

£6.00 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781841657561 | ISBN 10: 1841657565

Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. His codebreaking work at Bletchley Park was so significant it helped to shorten the Second Worl ... more
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Light from the East: How the Science of Medieval Islam Helped to Shape the Western World - by John Freely

£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784531386 | ISBN 10: 1784531383

Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began in eighth-ce ... more
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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science - by Jim al-Khalili

£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780141038360 | ISBN 10: 0141038365

For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten, inspiring pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world during the golden age of Arabic science, includ ... more
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - by Stephen Hawking

£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780857501004 | ISBN 10: 0857501003

Was there a beginning of time? Could time run backwards? Is the universe infinite or does it have boundaries? These are just some of the questions considered in an internationally acclaimed masterpiece which begins by reviewing the great theories ... more
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Golden Section - by Scott Olsen

£5.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904263470 | ISBN 10: 190426347x

What was the great and golden secret known to Leonardo Da Vinci, Kepler, Plato and the ancient magicians? Why were they forbidden to reveal it? Can there really be a key to nature and life itself? In this small but compact volume divine prop ... more
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The Alchemist's Kitchen: Extraordinary Potions and Curious Notions - by Guy Ogilvy

£5.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904263524 | ISBN 10: 1904263526

What is the secret meaning of alchemical symbolism? Why was the Royal Art kept secret for so long? Could ancient mages really turn molten lead into gold with a mere pinch of the Philosopher's Stone? Alchemy is perhaps the last true magical a ... more
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Jacquard's Web; How the Hand Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. - by James Essinger

£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780192805782 | ISBN 10: 0192805789

Jacquard's Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how Joseph-Marie Jacquard, a master silk-weaver in Napoleonic France, invented a loom that was to spark the beginning of today's information age. The revolutionary Jacquard ... more
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Rosalind Franklin; The Dark Lady of DNA - by Brenda Maddox

£10.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780006552116 | ISBN 10: 0006552110

Although Rosalind Franklin took the crucial photograph of DNA revealing its double helix structure, her work was overlooked when, four years after her death, three men � Maurice Wilkins of King's College London, Francis Crick of the Cavendish Laborat ... more
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Fermat�s Last Theorem - by Simon Singh

£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781841157917 | ISBN 10: 1841157910

The extraordinary story of the solving of a puzzle that has confounded mathematicians since the 17th century. The solution of Fermat�s Last Theorem is the most important mathematical development of the 20th century.� In 1963 a schoolboy browsing i ... more
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