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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...
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...
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...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
Behave: The bestselling exploration of why humans behave as they do
A groundbreaking synthesis of the entire science of human behaviour by 'one of the best scientist-writers of our time' (Oliver Sacks) Why do human beings behave as they do? 'Awe-inspiring......
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape
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A mind-altering adventure through the world of fungi for readers of Robert Macfarlane and Other Minds The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and...
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living
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From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees comes an exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the entire natural world An exploration of the invisible connections sustaining the...
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 ,...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus...
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell
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...
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...
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 Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically
An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do...
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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Intriguing and uplifting stories of the world's oldest plants, from the revered botanist and indigenous teacher Robin Wall Kimmerer Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a...
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 by...
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...
When Breath Becomes Air: The ultimate moving life-and-death story
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For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live. ** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Rattling....
The Body Fantastic
The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens...
Impulse: The Science of Sex and Desire
Sex is everywhere in modern society, yet it remains taboo. We all have questions about sex that are too uncomfortable to ask - how do we get reliable answers? In...
The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to [...]
Artificial intelligence is about to amplify the most primitive version of who we are, and spit it back at us for entertainment and profit. That's the warning from award-winning technology...
The Social Paradox: Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find
A Next Big Idea Club Must Read of February 2025 "Von Hippel presents a radically new way to understand why human happiness has diminished. What's more, he offers superlative advice...
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Author: James T. CostaFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 244mm, 800g, 464 pagesPublished: WW Norton & Co, United States, 2017How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments. James...
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...
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness 'It's as if we made entering...
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 Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of...
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles
In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection...
Follow Your Gut: a story from the microbes that make you
Meet the ecosystem inside you ... A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the gut of a newborn...
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...
Intuition: Unlock Your Brain's Potential to Build Real Intuition and
We have all experienced a 'gut reaction' or acted 'on a hunch' we've used our intuition.Until recently, science didn't have a good explanation for how intuition works. In fact, some...
The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the
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An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure...
Understanding Life in the Universe
The two most fascinating questions about extraterrestrial life are where it is found and what it is like. In particular, from our Earth-based vantage point, we are keen to know...
The Little Book of Mushrooms: An Illustrated Guide to the
A beautifully illustrated guide to 75 of the most unique and fascinating mushrooms in the world, including interesting insight into their history, uses, and etymologies.From sweet little toadstools to giant...
Birds, Sex and Beauty: The extraordinary implications of Charles
In his new book, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley looks to the peculiar mating rituals of birds to better understand the rich origins and ongoing significance of Darwin's sexual selection...
Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
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Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, Edward O. Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and synthesis Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one...
The Knowledge Gene: The incredible story of the supergene that gives us human creativity
Over 500,000 years ago, a single gene mutated. It spread over time, becoming critical in the journey that transformed our earliest ancestors into fully modern humans, capable of navigating the...
On the Origin of Species
The anniversary paperback edition of our new On the Origin of Species edited by Professor William Bynum This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William...
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, THE SOCIAL INSTINCT reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined humankind - and what happens when it goes wrong. The first...
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives - And Our Lives Change Our
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Award-winning physician and New York Times bestselling author Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD, reveals how genetic breakthroughs are completely transforming our understanding of both the world and our lives. Inheritance Conventional...
The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to
In the modern world, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, even though we are the...
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our
InThe Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally reveals that, remarkably, it is not only our biological history that is coded in our DNA, but also our social history....
The Light Eaters: How the New Science of Plant Intelligence Expands
'teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights' OBSERVER 'Plant lovers will find much of interest in Schlanger's inspiring tale of where her curious mind has led her' NATURE 'Captivating' THE GUARDIAN...
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
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#1 Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback, this head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body is as compulsively readable as it is comprehensive. Bryson at...
In the Blink of an Eye
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An accomplished young scientist solves one of the greatest mysteries of evolution: What caused the dramatic explosion of life half a billion years ago?. The Cambrian Explosion is universally referred...
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
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From bestselling author Michael Pollan comes a radical challenge to how we think about drugs Of all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious is...