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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,...
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought:...
Upgrade Your Brain: Unlock Your Life's Full Potential
Discover the 8 steps you can take to optimise your brain for better mood, memory, sleep and stress resilience. The results are in: our mental health, memory and intelligence are...
Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life
AS SEEN ON ARMCHAIR EXPERT WITH DAX SHEPARD AND IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES**A COSMOPOLITAN BEST NEW NON-FICTION BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR TBR...
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...
Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society Does altruism exist? Or is human nature entirely selfish? In this eloquent and...
Fossils, Finches, and Fuegians: Darwin's Adventures and Discoveries on
When Charles Darwin, then age 22, first saw the HMS Beagle, he thought it looked "more like a wreck than a vessel commissioned to go round the world." But travel...
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
'A remarkably bold fusion of ideas from psychoanalysis, psychology and the frontiers of theoretical neuroscience that takes aim at the biggest question there is. Solms will challenge your most basic...
Watson and DNA: Making a Scientific Revolution
An account of one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the past century...In 1950 a young American zoologist, James Watson, came to Cambridge to work on molecular biology. From 1950--1953...
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain
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The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories. Early studies of the human brain used a simple...
Mother Brain: Separating Myth from Biology - the Science of the
'Promises a new route through the parenting wilds' Sunday Times'Powerful, honest and reassuring' Professor Gina Rippon'A vital new narrative . . . Meticulously researched, compelling and compassionate' Elinor Cleghorn'A compelling...
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"[A] grounded, bracingly intelligent study." --NaturePrizewinning science journalist Sonia Shah presents a startling examination of...
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...
Words And Rules
How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Chaucer's English almost incomprehensible? Steven Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language...
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
An Economist book of the year 2024.The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their...
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 Good Virus: The Untold Story of Phages: The Most Abundant Life
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY WATERSTONES AND THE TIMES'The book that might change the world ... This is luxury-class science writing'TELEGRAPH'One of the best books of...
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...
Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction
If you could bring back just one animal from the past, what would you choose? It can be anyone or anything from history, from the King of the Dinosaurs, T....
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
An ambitious, groundbreaking and myth-busting history of the evolution of the female body A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK...
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:...
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 MagazineAn immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and animal welfare reporting by a...
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World
Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesn't just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When...
Weather Almanac 2024: The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather
The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to UK weather with details of famous meteorologists and their influence....
Upgrade Your Brain: Unlock Your Life's Full Potential
Discover the 8 steps you can take to optimise your brain for better mood, memory, sleep and stress resilience. The results are in: our mental health, memory and intelligence are...
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
An Economist book of the year 2024.The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.In the 18th century, two men dedicated their...
The Genesis Quest: The Geniuses and Eccentrics on a Journey to Uncover
'A fascinating and challenging story' New York Review of Books 'This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important scientific question of our age' Mark Miodownik, author...
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...
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...
The Loop: How AI Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight
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...
Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
'A truly awe-inspiring piece of writing' David Robson, author of The Intelligence TrapIn recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the question of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species....
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...
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...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It's a personal...
Deep Water: The Story of the Evolution of Our Seas and Oceans
What lies beneath the surface of the ocean has mystified humankind for millennia.We have explored more of the surface of the Moon than we have of the deep sea. From...
The Earth: A Biography of Life: The Story of Life On Our Planet
A beautiful and informative history of life on our planet.It is difficult to conceive of the vast scale of the history of life on Earth, from the very first living...
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...
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...
Whalefall: The global thriller sensation
Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. He knows it's a long...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each...
Human Origins: 7 million years and counting
Where did we come from? Where are we going?Homo sapiens is the most successful, the most widespread and the most influential species ever to walk the Earth. In the blink...
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species....
The Eloquence of the Sardine: The Secret Life of Fish & Other
Humans have identified just a fraction of the 2.2 million species living in the sea. Roughly 91% of all marine species remain unknown: myths still to be written, discoveries still...
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and
If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even...
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and
If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even...
Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
For readers of Giulia Enders' Gut and Bill Bryson's The Body, a surprising, witty and sparkling exploration of the teeming microbiome of possibility in human feces from microbiologist and science...
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...