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What Do You Think You Are?: The Science of What Makes You You
Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and...
Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life
A New York Times -bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate describe the quest to discover how and where the universe breathed life into matter For a long time, scientists have...
Big Pacific: An Incredible Journey of Exploration and Revelation
The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface - greater than...
Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives
'Even if you've never picked up a weight, Stronger is for you ' - Arnold Schwarzenegger No matter how you think of yourself - strong or weak, large or small...
The Spirit of the Rainforest: How indigenous wisdom and scientific
*As featured in the NEW YORK TIMES* 'Every page feels alive with passion' - Sophie Pavelle, author of 'Forget Me Not' 'A beautiful book' - Levison Wood, author of 'Walking...
Soothe: The book your nervous system has been longing for
Our increasingly frantic lifestyles make it difficult to slow down and listen to what our bodies are telling us, paying attention only when it is broken, without stopping to ask...
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...
Emotional Ignorance: Misadventures in the Science of Emotion
Recommended by the New Scientist.'Brilliant.' Stylist, 'Ten new books to bring you comfort and wisdom in 2023''Thoughtful and thought-provoking - you need to read this book' - Gina Rippon'An affecting...
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Neurological and psychiatric disorders have long been regarded as fundamentally different, depending on whether they appear to affect the brain or the mind. In reality, the brain and the mind...
Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty...
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST * THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift...
The Demon in the Machine
How does life create order from chaos? And just what is life, anyway? Leading physicist Paul Davies argues that to find the answers, we must first answer a deeper question-...
Inner Sense: How the New Science of Interoception Can Transform Your
Interoception is one of our most important - and most mysterious - senses. It's how our bodies tell our brains what we're feeling - when we're hungry, when we're cold,...
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...
The Telomerase Revolution: The Story of the Scientific Breakthrough
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Science is on the cusp of a revolutionary breakthrough. We now understand more about ageing - and how to prevent and reverse it - than ever before. In The Telomerase...
Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future
How the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent "doing something good...
Hush: A memoir unravelling the unintended legacy of family secrets
Do we need an acceptable identity label to be validated? What makes us who we are? What will our legacy be? What defines us? In 2016, as the sun rose,...
This Book Will Give You ASMR: Activities and Assorted Triggers to
Tap into the tingly world of ASMR and experience the soothing power of sound with this immersive activity book A soft whisper in your ear. Someone playing with your hair....
The God Delusion
The international bestselling broadside that has taken the world by storm. The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly...
The No-Nonsense Meditation Book: A scientist's guide to the power of
'Meditation could retune our brains and help us cope with the long-term effects of the pandemic' - New Scientist 'Readers in search of an introduction to mindfulness that's free of...
The Neuroscience of Excellent Sleep: Practical advice and mindfulness
How to use the insights of neuroscience and the techniques of mindfulness to get a good night's sleep. Everyone's familiar with the consequences of lost sleep: you're groggy and irritable,...
Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness
How is consciousness possible? What biological purpose does it serve? Why do we value it so highly? In Soul Dust the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, a leading figure in consciousness research,...
What Evolution Is: From Theory to Fact
Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more than a century's progress in understanding, there is still widespread confusion about...
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of
This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of...
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human
*Updated and revised edition, with a new epilogue and interview with Michael J Fox* 'Engagingly written, informative, often funny' Daily Telegraph 'Has the hard-boiled style of a Raymond Chandler novel'...
Emotional Ignorance: Misadventures in the Science of Emotion
Recommended by the New Scientist.'Brilliant.' Stylist, 'Ten new books to bring you comfort and wisdom in 2023''Thoughtful and thought-provoking - you need to read this book' - Gina Rippon'An affecting...
Darwin's Origin of Species: Books That Shook The World
There is grandeur in this view of life . . . whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning...
Essential Cell Biology
Essential Cell Biology features lively, clear writing paired with exceptional illustrations and Dynamic Figures in the Norton Illumine Ebook, making it the ideal textbook for a first course in cell...
What Evolution Is: From Theory to Fact
Evolution is the most important idea in biology, with implications that go far beyond science. But despite more than a century's progress in understanding, there is still widespread confusion about...
The Life of Charles Darwin
The book titled The Life of Charles Darwin by the author Sir Francis Darwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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...
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...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
A Scientific American Top Ten Book of 2023If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its...
Why We Die: The New Science of Longevity - 'Changed my perspective on
'Changed my perspective on the whole living world but most of all myself.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'E nthralling and packed with insights.' - BILL BRYSON 'A must-read.' - STEPHEN...
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 When Lulu Miller's relationship falls apart, she turns to an unlikely figure for guidance - the 19th-century naturalist, David Starr Jordan. Pouring...
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Life isn't linear, and yet we constantly try to mould it to linear goals. The result is fear in the face of uncertainty and a sense of failure when we...
The Quantum Brain: The Search for Freedom and the Next Generation of
An enthralling look at the convergence of brain science, biological computation and quantum physics, and what it implies about our minds, our selves, our future, even God Do we really...
The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary...
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically
An exhilarating new 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?...
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
' Beginners belongs on the list of books that have changed the way I understand my own limitations.' - Malcolm Gladwell For many of us, the last time we learned...
The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential
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Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop , David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how this revolution in neuroscience will help us access...
Parasite Rex (with a New Epilogue): Inside the Bizarre World of
For decades parasites were the pariahs of science. Only recently have biologists begun to appreciate that these diverse and complex organisms are the most highly evolved life forms on earth....
Almost Like A Whale: The Origin Of Species Updated
The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first century. In his new book, Steve Jones takes on...
Evolution For Dummies
Today, most colleges and universities offer evolutionary study as part of their biology curriculums. Evolution For Dummies will track a class in which evolution is taught and give an objective...
Make Way for the Superhumans: How the science of bio enhancement is
Biomedical research is changing the both the format and the functions of human beings. Very soon the human race will be faced with a choice: do we join in with...
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...
The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory
Based on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal papers and scientific archive, Jonathan Watts has written a definitive and revelatory biography of a...