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Going Nuclear

What if climate change isn't an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

'A thrilling book: vividly written, filled with fascinating facts, and inspiring' STEVEN PINKER
'I challenge you to read this book and not be excited about how we get on and power the world with sustainable energy for the next century' HANNAH RITCHIE

In this v

€11.60 excl tax

The Genetic Book of the Dead

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From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.

In this groundbreaking new ap

€10.20 excl tax

On the Origin of Time

Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. In order to solve this mystery, Hawking studied the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the math predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse - countless different universes, most of w

€7.50 excl tax

Sentient - What Animals Reveal About Our Senses

An enthralling examination of some of the most remarkable creatures in the animal kingdom, and what they tell us about what it means to be human.
€10.20 excl tax

The Thinking Machine

The riveting account of Nvidia, the tech company that has exploded in value for its artificial intelligence computing hardware, and Jensen Huang, Nvidia's charismatic, uncompromising CEO.

'Superb'
SEBASTIAN MALLABY
'A page-turning biography' DAVID EPSTEIN
'Exceptional reporting' RAY KURZWEIL

In June of 2024, spurred by the frenzy of investmen

€11.60 excl tax

Is Maths Real?

Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths even real? From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid the world of maths phobia - brings us maths as we've never seen it before, revealing how profound insights can emerge from seemingly unli
€7.50 excl tax

Speed

'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill Gates

'There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smil' Guardian


Explore how speed influences every aspect of life on Earth, from the slow grind of geological processes and the fleeting lifespans of organisms to the astonishing speed of light and the remarkable adaptati

€13.00 excl tax

Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Illustrated Edition)

The million-copy bestseller now illustrated with over 200 full-colour images, illuminating the fascinating science of our universe like never before.
€17.70 excl tax

Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses.
€6.80 excl tax

The Big Bang of Numbers

'Who knew numbers could be so charming? ... Suri takes us on a light-hearted journey all the way from nothing (zero) to infinity' Karen Joy Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing - no ma
€8.90 excl tax

The Song of the Cell

In the late 1600s, a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, look down their hand-made microscopes. What they see introduces a radical concept that alters both biology and medicine forever. It is the fact that complex living organisms are assemblages of tiny, self-contained, self-regulating units. Our organs, our physiology,

€10.20 excl tax

The Sexual Life of Flowers

'A fascinating treasure trove for plant lovers and gardeners alike.' - Frances Tophill

Often beautiful and sometimes strange, flowering plants have evolved to become masters of seduction.

We are surrounded by extraordinary partnerships between plants and the birds, bees and other insects that pollinate them. In The Sexual Life of Flowers, botanist Simon Klein

€17.10 excl tax

Why Brains Need Friends

The new science of social interaction - and how it can give us healthier, happier, longer lives
€17.10 excl tax

Food for Life

'Life-changing' DAVINA McCALL
'A must-read' DR RUPY AUJLA
'Fascinating' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Empowering' LIZ EARLE

**AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST**


Empowering and practical, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet.

Food is our greatest ally for good hea

€8.90 excl tax

Entangled Life - The phenomenal Sunday Times bestseller exploring how fungi

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself.

'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert Macfarlane

The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

€8.90 excl tax

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Adventures of a Curious Character

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.
€8.90 excl tax

In a Flight of Starlings

From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science

'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side, too. By its end, readers will feel they've made a charming, witty new friend' Frank Wilczek

The world is shaped by

€7.50 excl tax

The Forgotten Sense

Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sensory systems. Until now.

€7.50 excl tax

The End of the End of the Earth

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes - both human and literary - that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounti
€6.80 excl tax

Counter-Intelligence

From the codebreakers and problem solvers, to the engineers, mathematicians and other problem-solvers - what the secret world can teach us about performance and creativity

€11.60 excl tax