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Science
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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.
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Reality Is Not What It Seems : The Journey to Quantum Gravity€12.99Do space and time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture?
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The Clever Guts Diet : How to Revolutionise Your Body from the Inside Out€10.70Your gut is astonishingly clever. It contains millions of neurons - as many as you would find in the brain of a cat - and is home to the microbiome, an army of microbes that influences your mood, weight and immune system.
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardback)€15.99Astrophysics for People in a Hurry reveals just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
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The Ascent of Gravity : The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything (Large Paperback)€17.99Gravity 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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The Master Algorithm : How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World€11.99'Pedro Domingos demystifies machine learning and shows how wondrous and exciting the future will be' Walter Isaacson, author of Steve JobsSociety is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search engines to online dating, personalized medicine to predicting the stock market.
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The Invention of Nature : The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science€15.50Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist - more things are named after him than anyone else.
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Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction€10.99Most people remember chemistry from their schooldays as largely incomprehensible, a subject that was fact-rich but understanding-poor, smelly, and so far removed from the real world of events and pleasures that there seemed little point, except for the most introverted, in coming to terms with its grubby concepts, spells, recipes, and rules.
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The Poetics of Space€11.99Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself.
