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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the
A graceful, illuminating study of the wisdom of the natural world, from a world-renowned indigenous scientist As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature...
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith's three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Metazoa in...
The Life of Birds
A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough's bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home...
How to Sleep Like a Caveman: Ancient Wisdom for a Better Night's Rest
Sleep has hardly changed since Paleolithic humans snoozed soundly in their caves. While sabre-toothed tigers were their biggest night-time worry, today it's stress and social media that keep us awake,...
Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics
A moving, tender and thoughtful exploration of a complicated subject. Johann Hari, Sunday Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus and Lost ConnectionsA compulsively readable romp through a burgeoning scene that...
A History of the Human Brain: From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved
Crack open this book and take a read. You will be transported, illuminated, and delighted. Psychology Today Just 125,000 years ago, humanity was on a path to extinction, until a...
Ten Birds That Changed the World
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From "a captivating storyteller" ( Wall Street Journal ), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have lived...
Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind
The first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's global phenomenon and smash Sunday Times #1 bestseller, with gorgeous full-colour illustrations and a beautiful package - the perfect...
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
A fascinating exploration of the intricacies of how we remember, why we forget and what we can do to protect our memories, from the Harvard-trained neuroscientist and bestselling author of...
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora ,...
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought:...
Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a
'This book can catapult you into living fully the life that is yours to live while you have the chance' Jon Kabat-Zinn'A must-read for our distracted times' Dan Goleman'A must-have...
Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
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The thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate...
The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes
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A ground-breaking examination of human perception, reality and the evolutionary schism between the two Do we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive...
Understanding Cancer
One in two of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives and yet many of us don't understand how cancers arise. How many different kinds of cancer...
Under the Henfluence: The World of Chickens and the People Who Love
'Share[s] the life-enhancing joys of the humble hen' Sunday Times 'Clocks our obsession with chicken-keeping ... Brilliant' New York Magazine An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting...
The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us
'From your brain to your fingertips, you emerge from her book entertained and with a deeper understanding of yourself' Richard Dawkins'A masterful account of why our bodies are the way...
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a
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A "fascinating and terrifying" memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life ( Scientific American ) - and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
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The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb. We have long been encouraged to think of old age as...
Starborn: How the Stars Made Us (and Who We Would Be Without Them)
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An astronomer "who writes like a poet" ( Wall Street Journal ) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" ( Nature ) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history...
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
The future is sh*t: the literal kind. For most of human history we've been, well, disinclined to take a closer look at our body's natural product-the complex antihero of this...
The Origins of Creativity
In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each...
The Suggestible Brain: The Science and Magic of How We Make Up Our
Neuroscientist Amir Raz shares decades of research and case studies to show how suggestion changes the brain and shapes our behavior-and how we can protect ourselves from and harness suggestibility...
Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep
WINNER OF THE 2024 ASJA BOOK AWARD, BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE SELECTION From award-winning journalist Kenneth...
The Explorer's Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the
New York Times -bestselling author of Endure Alex Hutchinson returns with a fresh, provocative investigation into how exploration, uncertainty, and risk shape our behavior and help us find meaning. Off...
Naturalist: E. O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson -- University Professor at Harvard, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, eloquent champion of biodiversity -- is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century....
The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know
A wonderfully entertaining overview of all of psychology by a world expert Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you. Nothing is more...