A Short History of England
The Elephant Within Us
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jerusalem: the Biography
The History of History: A Novel of Berlin
The Detour
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Before I Go to Sleep
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by: Daniel Kahneman
Category: Science
Price: € 24,75 >> € 22,50
"'Thinking, Fast and Slow' is a masterpiece - a brilliant and engaging intellectual saga by one of the greatest psychologists and deepest thinkers of our time. Kahneman should be parking a Pulitzer next to his Nobel Prize" -- Daniel GIlbert
"An outstanding book, distinguished by beauty and clarity ...
The Art of Science
by: Richard Hamblyn
Category: Science
Price: € 33,00 >> € 29,50
Science. Does the word fill you with excitement, or dread, or something in between? Science - and the art of science writing - can, and should, be something to get excited about. The extracts featured in this anthology span centuries and continents, but are connected by their authors' desire to understand, ...
The Quantum Universe: Everything that Can Happen Does Happen
by: Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw
Category: Science
Price: € 33,00 >> € 30,00
'The Quantum Universe' brings together two authors on a brilliantly ambitious mission to show that everyone can understand the deepest questions of science. But just what is quantum physics? How does it help us understand the world? Where does it leave Newton and Einstein? And why, above all, can we ...
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Category: Science
Price: € 16,50
"This is a riveting book - profound, eloquent and searching" -- John Carey
"Feels like a thriller more than anything else" -- Will Self
"A tale of hopes, dreams and pincer-sharp disappointment... Cancer has a master storyteller" -- Independent
A ...
The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember
by: Nicholas Carr
Category: Science
Price: € 15,95 >> € 10,50
Carr provides a deep, enlightening examination of how the Internet influences the brain and its neural pathways. Carr s analysis incorporates a wealth of neuroscience and other research, as well as philosophy, science, history and cultural developments ... His fantastic investigation of the effect of ...
Cycles of Time
by: Roger Penrose
Category: Science
Price: € 16,50 >> € 15,00
What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? In this remarkable book, Roger Penrose brilliantly illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. 'Cycles of Time' contains a penetrating analysis of the second law of thermodynamics - according to which ...
Genetics of Original Sin
by: Christian de Duve
Category: Science
Price: € 28,05 >> € 18,50
Increasingly absorbed in recent years by advances in our understanding of the origin of life, evolutionary history, and the advent of humankind, eminent biologist Christian de Duve of late has also pondered deeply the future of life on this planet. He speaks to readers with or without a scientific background, ...
Bad Science
by: Ben Goldacre
Category: Science
Price: € 14,85
"One of the essential reads of the year." — New Scientist
"For sheer savagery, the illusion-destroying, joyous attack on the self-regarding, know-nothing orthodoxies of the modern middle classes, 'Bad Science' can not be beaten. You'll laugh your head off, then throw all those expensive health foods ...
Recommended by: Jonny
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
by: Joshua Foer
Category: Science
Price: € 24,75 >> € 22,00
On average, people squander forty days annually trying to remember things they've forgotten. Joshua Foer used to be one of those people. But after a year of training, he found himself in the finals of the U.S. Memory Championship. He also discovered a truth we too often forget: in every way, we are the ...
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by: Bill Bryson
Category: Science
Price: € 13,20
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization ...