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When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters
Author: Professor Michael Banissy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and Livewired Why is a hugged...
How to Make a Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood
Author: Tom Mueller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: developing a treatment that transformed kidney failure from a death sentence to a manageable...
Are We Being Watched?: The Search for Life in the Cosmos
Author: Paul Murdin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Are We Being Watched? applies the latest scientific discoveries and theories to enquire whether life exists on other planets and, if...
How Vaccines Work: The Science and History Behind Every Question You've Wanted to Ask
Author: David Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Vaccines are a debate, whether we want them to be or not. Now more than ever, it's easy to feel overwhelmed...
The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness
Author: Mark Solms Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark Solms' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian 'A remarkable...
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity
Author: Andrew Simms Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all...
The Nature of Sex: The Ins and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Author: Dr Carin Bondar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Thought about sex today? Of course you have! It's about the most natural thing any animal can do. But have...
Your Planet Needs You!: An everyday guide to saving the earth
Author: Bernadette Vallely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what...
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Author: Nick Lane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'One of my favourite science writers' - Bill Gates 'Hugely important' - Jim Al-Khalili For decades, biology has been dominated by...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week 'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the modern-day magic we call...
The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System
Author: Dr Will Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The Inflammation Spectrum, Dr Will Cole's follow up to Ketotarian, teaches us how inflammation is often the catalyst for most...
Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
Author: Charles Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A wonderful, wild, dazzling book. You will feel more human for having read it' - Literary Review 'Foster's daringly imaginative exploration...
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom...
Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began
Author: Guido Tonelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void?...
Light to Life: The miracle of photosynthesis and how it can save the planet
Author: Raffael Jovine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food...
Boom!: The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe
Author: Bob Berman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Space is quiet. Billion trillions of stars slowly burning out their lives. Bodies of rock, moons, planets, floating in the dark....
Pluses and Minuses: How Maths Makes the World More Manageable
Author: Stefan Buijsman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thousands of years ago the inhabitants of Mesopotamia became the first to use numbers. Since then, mathematics has been unstoppable. It's...
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
Author: Arthur Turrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Is it possible to build a star on earth? When asked what problem he hoped scientists will have solved by the...
We Are Electric: The New Science of Our Body's Electrome
Author: Sally Adee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome - the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can...
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
Author: Tom Chivers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Every day, most of us will read or watch something in the news that is based on statistics in some way....
Hello New You: Eat Better, Drink Less, Exercise More
Author: Katherine Bebo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Being healthy doesn't have to be hard. Eating junk food, drinking too much and rarely (or barely) exercising we've all been...
All In The Mind: the new book from the popular ABC radio program and podcast
Author: Lynne Malcolm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Inspiring and transformational stories from the forefront of brain science -- from the popular ABC Radio National program and podcast Understanding...
How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet: The perfect gift for animal lovers
Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 THE MASSIVE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon,...
Light to Life: The miracle of photosynthesis and how it can save the planet
Author: Raffael Jovine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "Read this book and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we can produce more food...
When We Touch: Handshakes, hugs, high fives and the new science behind why touch matters
Author: Professor Michael Banissy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'A mind-expanding tour of what touch means.' DAVID EAGLEMAN, neuroscientist and author of Incognito and Livewired Why is a hugged...
Wrinkles in Time: Imprint of Creation
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When Did I Begin?: Conception of the Human Individual in History, Philosophy and Science
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The Killer Bean of Calabar and Other Stories: Poisons and poisoners
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The Comet Hale-Bopp Book: Guide to an Awe-Inspiring Visitor from Deep Space
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The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
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Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics = Happiness
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The Human Mind
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Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To
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The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change
Author: David Remnick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate emergency In...
What Are You Thinking?: Why We Feel and Act the Way We Do
Author: Nicky Hayes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The science of how we think is fundamental to understanding why we are who we are, and why we do what...
Honey Bee Pests and Diseases: A complete guide to prevention and management
Author: Jean-Pierre Y. Scheerlinck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Honey Bee Pests and Diseases provides up-to-date information on the management of honey bee diseases found globally, not just in...
A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamites, Nitrates and the Making of the Modern World
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What Mad Pursuit
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A History of Medicine in Papua New Guinea: Vignettes of an Early Period
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The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind
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Phaenomena: Doppelmayr's Celestial Atlas
Author: Giles Sparrow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A beautiful showcase of Johann Doppelmayr's magnificent Atlas Coelestis that deconstructs its intricately drawn plates and explores its influential ideas. Showcasing...
Riding the Elephant: Investing & Doing Business Profitably in Modern India
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Slice Girls
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Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future
Author: Tracey Spicer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers' eyes to a...
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks...
Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health
Author: Ben Lynch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Instant National Bestseller After suffering for years with unexplainable health issues, Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause-"dirty" genes....
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
Author: Paul Pettitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological...
The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this authoritative and entertaining book from bestselling author Marcus Chown breaks...