Quick view The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023 by Lia Leendertz Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: Reconnect with the seasons in Britain and Ireland with this month-by-month guide to the world around us - including key dates, tide tables and garden tasks; constellations and moon phases; sunrises, folk songs, seasonal recipes pl… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Wild and Wonderful: Around the World with Eanna by Eanna Ni Lamhna Now: €16.99 MSRP: Was: Glow-in-the-dark owls, eggs boiling in Icelandic hot pools, the gangster tactics of the devil's coach-horse beetle ... Eanna Ni Lamhna has seen them all! Eanna explores the wonders of our wild world, from a safari in Tanzania to t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view And Finally by Henry Marsh TPB Now: €12.25 MSRP: €17.50 Was: As a neurosurgeon, I lived in a world filled with fear and suffering, death and cancer. But rarely, if ever, did I think about what it would be like if what I witnessed at work every day happened to me. This book is the story of h… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics by Carlo Rovelli Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical' Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Analogia by George Dyson Now: €16.25 MSRP: Was: How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections that underpin our… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A Short History of the World in 50 Animals by Jacob F. Field Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: A Short History of the World in 50 Animals provides a new perspective on the grand sweep of our planet's making, taking readers from the time of the dinosaurs to the time of Dolly, the first cloned mammal. This book will include a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Planets by Andrew Cohen with Professor Brian Cox Now: €14.99 MSRP: €31.25 Was: The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before. Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun's expanding power.Venus… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture the Aeronauts by Richard Holmes Now: €5.00 MSRP: €11.25 Was: From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer balloonists. Falling Upwards asks why they … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Pasta For Nightingales by Helen Macdonald Now: €6.99 MSRP: €22.50 Was: The first-ever English translation of a seventeenth-century ornithology text, complete with historic watercolor illustrations This beautifully illustrated book brings together the newly commissioned, first-ever English translation… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Conversations with Einstein by Carlos Calle Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: By power of thought alone, Albert Einstein gave us a fresh conception of the universe. He showed us that space and time are elastic - shrinking or expanding, speeding up or slowing down, depending on your movement. Beginning with … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Conversations with Freud by D.M. Thomas Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and transformed the way we think about ourselves today. Starting with a brilliant foreword … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Conversations with Galileo by William Shea Now: €5.00 MSRP: €12.50 Was: When Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the skies, he ushered in a scientificrevolution: the Moon turned out to be covered with mountains and craters, starspopped out of nowhere, and four satellites were found to be orbiting… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline by Michael Pollan Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate, calm, or completely alter the qualities of our mental experience. In This Is Your Mind On Plants, … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Birds of County Cork by Patrick Smiddy & Mark Shorten & Russ Heselden Now: €39.00 MSRP: Was: This is book is a history of the birds of County Cork from the earliest times to the present. It provides a comprehensive account of the ecology of all species known to have occurred in the county, with an emphasis on distribution… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view A History of the Universe in 100 Stars by Florian Freistetter Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: From the Big Bang to the Gaia Mission, this is a very personal history of the universe through the author's favourite 100 stars. Astronomer Florian Freistetter has chosen 100 stars that have almost nothing in common. Some are brig… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story? With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Einstein's Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe by Paul Sen Now: €5.99 MSRP: Was: Einstein's Fridge tells the story of how scientists uncovered the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences, and learned to harness the power of heat and ice. The laws of thermodynamics govern everything from the … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World by Brian Clegg Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Higher EducationDevelopments in physics and physics-based engineering have led to some of the biggest transformations in the way we live out lives. Here, we journey back to ten separate days in history for a closer look at the bre… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva Now: €5.99 MSRP: €13.75 Was: Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Human Senses by Jackie Higgins Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: The peacock mantis shrimp can throw a punch that can fracture aquarium walls. The great grey owl can hear many decibels lower than the human ear. The star-nosed mole's miraculous nose allows it to catch worms in as little as 120 m… Add to Cart The item has been added