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The Life of Birds
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. Over 9,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on...
Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century
Author: Elise Bohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 We're hurtling towards a superhuman future - or, if we blunder, extinction. The only way out of our existential crises, from...
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making
Author: Chris Packham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough's Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox's Universe' Guardian...
How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'The ultimate anti-racism guide' Caroline Criado Perez...
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Author: Gavin Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 When it comes to illness, sometimes the end is just the beginning. Recovery and convalescence are words that exist at the...
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
Author: Tom Chivers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way....
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
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When the Last Lion Roars: The Rise and Fall of the King of the Beasts
Author: Sara Evans Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The illegal killing of Cecil - a famous and magnificent black-maned Zimbabwean lion - by an American big-game hunter in 2015...
The Finger Book
Author: John Manning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 What could fingers and sex possibly have in common? What does the shape of a child?s fingers reveal about future musical...
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse
Author: Victoria Shepherd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Fascinating and compassionate' Horatio Clare The King of France - thinking he was made of glass - was terrified he might...
Freedom: The End of the Human Condition
Author: Mr Jeremy Griffith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The fastest growing realisation everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear...
How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion
Author: David McRaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Genes create brains, brains create beliefs, beliefs create attitudes, attitudes create group-identities, group identities create norms, norms create values, and values...
Mindwandering: How It Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
Author: Moshe Bar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world's leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders - and...
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRITING
Author: Alice Bell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The history of climate change research - how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity may...
Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News
Author: Rob Brotherton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From the bestselling author of Suspicious Minds There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning...
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World
Author: Amanda Little Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We need to produce more food. With water and food shortages already being felt in some parts of the world, this...
From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Mold in Dr Florey's Coat, The: The Story of the Penicillin M iracle
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The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction
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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
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The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever...
The Constants Of Nature
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps
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Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
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Simply Einstein: Relativity Demystified
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DNA: The Secret of Life, Fully Revised and Updated
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Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA
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On Natural Selection
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Fungi: A Very Short Introduction
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Reptiles: A Very Short Introduction
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Harvey's Heart: The Discovery of Blood Circulation
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The History of Physics: A Very Short Introduction
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Rosalind Franklin and DNA
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Rosalind Franklin
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Climbing Mount Improbable
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Permanent Present Tense: The man with no memory, and what he taught the world
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything
Author: Jordan Ellenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The international bestseller - a whip-smart, entertaining exploration of the geometry that underlies our world, from the author of How Not...
10 Short Lessons in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Author: Dr Peter J. Bentley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'A lucid, balanced and engaging tour of one of the most important phenomena of this century.' - Steven Pinker...
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
Author: Beth Gardiner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Every year, air pollution prematurely kills seven million people around the world, in rich countries and poor ones. It is strongly...
Hard to Swallow: A Brief History of Food
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COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One
Author: Debora MacKenzie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Excellent . . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what...
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Author: Jon Ronson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Sunday Times top-ten bestseller from the author of The Men Who Stare at Goats "The belly laughs come thick and...
The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells
Author: Richard Wingate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and...
Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We're Losing to Technology
Author: Graham Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...