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Science
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Caesar's Last Breath : The Epic Story of The Air Around Us€16.99
It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell.
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Science and Spiritual Practices : Reconnecting through direct experience€12.99
In this pioneering book Rupert Sheldrake shows how science helps validate seven practices on which all religions are built, and which are part of our common human heritage:
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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World€16.99
Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.
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Eye of the Shoal : A Fish-watcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything€12.99
There's something about fish that leaves a cold, slimy whiff in many people's minds. Either that, or fish are simply `food'; catching fish to eat is so deeply ingrained that we fish for fish, but we don't pigeon a pigeon or deer a deer.
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Scale : The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies€11.05
Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.
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The People Vs Tech : How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it)€10.99
This essential book shows that the stakes couldn't be higher and that, unless we radically alter our course, democracy will join feudalism, supreme monarchies and communism as just another political experiment that quietly disappeared.
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The Ascent of Gravity : The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything€11.99
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is the least understood. It is a 'force' that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists.Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma'.
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Fundamentals of Soil Ecology€88.99
>Fundamentals of Soil Ecology, 3rd Edition, offers a holistic approach to soil biology and ecosystem function, providing students and ecosystem researchers with a greater understanding of the central roles that soils play in ecosystem development and function.
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Thing Explainer : Complicated Stuff in Simple Words€17.99
Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone -- age 5 to 105 -- who has ever wondered how things work, and why.
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Dr James Barry : A Woman Ahead of Her TimeSpecial Price €14.99 Regular Price €16.99
A medical pioneer, she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy, but for all her successes, her long, audacious deception also left her isolated, even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved.