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Children Of Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film
What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Children of Dune , the third book in one of the most influential series of...
A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We
How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us? We humans like to think of ourselves as...
Gut 10th Anniversary Edition: The Book That Began the Microbiome
A Sunday Times bestseller from the author featured on Netflix's Hack Your Health - now in its 10th Anniversary edition. Our gut is as important as our brain or heart,...
Wild Design: The Architecture of Nature
Wild Design reveals the wonders of the natural world as never seen before, through the stunning, extraordinary, and functional forms created by animals, plants, and other organisms all around us....
The Brain: The Story of You
'This is the story of how your life shapes your brain, and how your brain shapes your life.' Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman on a whistle-stop tour of the inner...
Evolution, Chance, and God: Understanding the Relationship between
Evolution, Chance, and God looks at the relationship between religion and evolution from a philosophical perspective. This relationship is fascinating, complex and often very controversial, involving myriad issues that are...
What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?: A
A revolutionary new paradigm for understanding addiction. Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don't they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone...
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life 'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker...
Are We Alone?: Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life
The search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) raises a number of scientific/philosophical questions. If we are the only conscious, intelligent species in the galaxy, why? If we are not, given that...
The Genius Life: Heal Your Mind, Strengthen Your Body, and Become
The author of the New York Times bestselling Genius Foods offers a lifestyle program for resetting your brain and body to their "factory settings"-to help fight fatigue, anxiety, and depression...
The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...
The Life Trilogy Boxset
David Attenborough's Life Trilogy is a complete introduction to the animals and plants found on Earth. The three books - published to accompany the classic BBC TV series - are...
Origins: Skeptic's
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The Ages of Gaia
BBC 2's 1986 "Horizon" programme won many new followers for Jim Lovelock's startling new theory of life called Gaia. Existing theories held that plants and animals evolve on, but are...
Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy
Drawing on past speculation and present knowledge, reproductive biologist David Bainbridge conducts us through the 40 weeks of a human pregnancy, from conception to breastfeeding, explaining the complex biology behind...
Ten Tantalising Truths: Why the Sky is Blue, and other Big Answers to
Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the...
White Light: The Essential Element that Changed the World
'At once lyrical and exacting, clear-sighted and deeply informed - a beautiful book.' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction A fascinating natural history for fans of Underland by Robert...
On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition
Classic of modern biology sets forth seminal "theory of transformation" - that evolution takes place in large-scale transformations of body as a whole. Over 500 photographs and drawings. In this...
Eight Little Piggies
This collection of essays range from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. The title is a pun and as always...
White Light: The Essential Element that Changed the World
'At once lyrical and exacting, clear-sighted and deeply informed - a beautiful book.' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction A fascinating natural history for fans of Underland by Robert...
White Light: The Essential Element that Changed the World
'At once lyrical and exacting, clear-sighted and deeply informed - a beautiful book.' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction A fascinating natural history for fans of Underland by Robert...
The Inner Clock: Living in Sync With Our Circadian Rhythms
Sleep better. Feel more energised. Reset your body clock. ' The Inner Clock explores the science of why your circadian rhythms fall out of sync - and how to get...
Control: Now the major BBC Radio 4 series BAD BLOOD
* FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST * Throughout history, people have sought to improve society by reducing suffering, eliminating disease or enhancing...
The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins
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When homo sapiens made their entrance 100,000 years ago they were confronted by a wide range of other early humans - homo erectus, who walked better and used fire; homo...
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024 GUARDIAN BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2024 ECONOMIST BEST BOOKS OF 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2024 From one of the world's great...
Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the skies. 'A masterly investigation of all aspects of flight, human and...
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024 GUARDIAN BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2024 ECONOMIST BEST BOOKS OF 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2024 From one of the world's great...
An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to Explain the World
What's the best book ever written? What would happen if we all stopped eating meat? What's the secret to living past 110? And what actually is the best thing since...
The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster. 'They rave for food with unceasing frenzy, being always ahungered and...
Principles of Neural Science, Fourth Edition
This is the most authoritative introduction to the brain, its structure, function, development, and control of behavior available today. It presents both a comprehensive summary of the state of the...
The Genetic Revolution and Human Rights: In Support of Amnesty
Are eugenics practices morally defensible? Who should have access to genetic information about particular individuals? What dangers for cultural and racial diversity do developments in genetics pose? And how should...
What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change
Why is it so hard to stick with the choices we want to make? We decide to be healthier, but snack all afternoon. We resolve to prioritise family time, but...
Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World
Twenty years ago, James Canton moved from London to the English countryside. Behind his farm labourer's cottage was a small field with a 'for sale' sign. At first it was...
Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places
From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear inimical to...
The Underwater Explorer: Secrets of a Blue Universe
Aimed at snorkellers and scuba divers of all levels of experience, this work explores how, in the marine world, colour, camouflage and mimicry are used as strategies for protection and...
Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places
From scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear inimical to...
The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of
Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades...
What the Wild Sea Can Be: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION No matter where we live, 'we are all ocean people,' Helen Scales observes in her...
Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize
Virtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These...
Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but...
Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution
Alison Jolly believes that biologists have an important story to tell about being human - not the all-too-familiar tale of selfishness, competition, and biology as destiny but rather one of...
Mindsight: Change Your Brain and Your Life
From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a book on the healing power of 'mindsight', the capacity for insight and empathy that allows you to make positive...
The Laws of Connection: 13 Social Strategies That Will Transform Your
In the early 1960s scientists at the University of California, Berkeley set out to establish the key factors effecting health and longevity. Their results, known as the 'Alameda 7', you...
Missing Microbes: How Killing Bacteria Creates Modern Plagues
Far beneath our skin exists an unfathomable, ancient universe - an internal ecosystem that is critical to our health. Dr Martin Blaser invites us into the wilds of the human...
Instant Egghead Guide to the Mind: 60 Second Science
Take a fantastic voyage through the whorls and curves of the human brain, no miniaturisation required. Learn everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people think...
Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet
A NEW SCIENTIST BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK FOR 2025 'A book that shows how we might evolve to solve the problems we have caused our planet. Brilliantly written, surprising, inspiring...
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
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"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, The New York Times ), Blueprint shows why evolution has placed us on...