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Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain
Author: Dr Allan Ropper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What is it like to try to heal the body when the mind is under attack? In this...
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
Author: Jessica Nordell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Implicit bias affects us all, every day of our lives. But it can be overcome.Here's how we begin to...
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future
Author: Chris Goodall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The UK has declared a 'climate emergency' and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we...
Plant Names: A Guide to Botanical Nomenclature
Author: Roger Spencer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 168 Plant Names is an invaluable guide to the use of scientific, commercial and common names for plants and the conventions for...
Everything You Know About Science is Wrong
Author: Matt Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 A highly entertaining, myth-busting read for anyone with even a passing interest in science. Hot on the heels of the fascinating...
50 Things to Do by the Sea
Author: Easkey Britton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A beautifully presented, practical gift guide for all surf seekers. Explained with fascinating, easy-to-understand commentary from surfer and scientist Easkey Britton...
The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't
Author: Eugenia Cheng Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In...
Quantum Computing: The Transformative Technology of the Qubit Revolution
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Computer technology has improved exponentially over the last 50 years. But the headroom for bigger and better electronic solutions...
The Nation of Plants: The International Bestseller
Author: Stefano Mancuso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome...
Psycho-Logical: Why Mental Health Goes Wrong - and How to Make Sense of It
Author: Dean Burnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One in four people experience a mental health problem each year, with depression and anxiety alone afflicting over 500...
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
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Author: Arthur Holland Michel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on...
Astroquizzical - The Illustrated Edition: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
Author: Jillian Scudder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Looking up at the night sky, it is almost impossible to imagine that we can trace our common ancestry with the...
Dunkleosteus
Author: Professor Ben Garrod Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 A comprehensive look at the strongest force in nature. What causes extinction? Why do some species go extinct and not...
A Comprehensive Guide to Gamekeeping & Shoot Management
Author: J. C. Jeremy Hobson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 This book shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus...
The Case Against Sugar
Author: Gary Taubes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 More than half a billion adults and 40 million children on the planet are obese. Diabetes is a worldwide...
Killer Dinosaurs
Author: Format: Mixed Media Number of Pages: From the Velociraptor to the T-Rex, this book will uncover all kinds of fascinating facts from what they ate to some of their...
Ions in Solution: Basic Principles of Chemical Interactions
Author: J Burgess (University of Leicester, UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 This outline of the principles and chemical interactions in inorganic solution chemistry delivers a course...
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology: Volume 8
Author: Douglas Futuyma (Professor of Ecology and Evolution, Professor of Ecology and Evolution, The State University of New York, Stony Brook) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 404 This new volume...
Fracture of Nano and Engineering Materials and Structures: Proceedings of the 16th European Conference of Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 3-7, 2006
Author: E.E. Gdoutos Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 1416 The 16th European Conference of Fracture (ECF16) was held in Greece, July, 2006. It focused on all aspects of...
10 Short Lessons in Time Travel
Author: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 '10 Short Lessons in Time Travel lucidly sums up the essential parts of this fascinating subject.' John Gribbin ________________________ In Ten...
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Author: Max Tegmark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Why does mathematics explain the universe so well? From the big bang to the distant future via parallel worlds,...
We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World
Author: Mark Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Our systems are failing. Old models - for education, healthcare and government, food production, energy supply - are creaking...
When the Rivers Run Dry: The Global Water Crisis and How to Solve It
Author: Fred Pearce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 We cannot live without water. But with 7.5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource, the planet is...
The Book of Inventions: Amazing Ideas that Changed the World
Author: Tim Cooke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Let this book take you on a guided tour through the world's most significant, innovative and amazing technological inventions. Find out...
The Resistance Man: The Dordogne Mysteries 6
Author: Martin Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In south-west France, WW2 casts the longest shadow when some rare bank notes are discovered, notes that may have...
Edison
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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars
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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
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Author: Matthew Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Stanley is a storyteller par excellence."--The Washington Post Kirkus Review starred review; Publishers Weekly starred review; Booklist starred review The birth...
The Genius Within: Unlocking Your Brain's Potential
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Author: David Adam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Following the success of The Man Who Couldn't Stop, David Adam now expounds on the latest research into intelligence, revealing how...
This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
Author: David Sloan Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From noted evolutionary biologist and the author of Evolution for Everyone comes a paradigm-changing new look at how we can...
The Tech-Head Guide: AI
Author: William Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Explore the rise of technology that may soon rule our lives! What is artificial intelligence, how does it work,...
Turing and the Universal Machine (Icon Science): The Making of the Modern Computer
Author: Jon Agar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life...
Night School: Wake up to the power of sleep
Author: Richard Wiseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 We think of sleep as a waste of time. A time when we are literally doing nothing. Yet every human on...
Einstein's Shadow: The Inside Story of Astronomers' Decades-Long Quest to Take the First Picture of a Black Hole
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Author: Seth Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE Einstein's Shadow follows a team of elite scientists on their historic mission to...
Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone
Author: Brian Switek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Bone is a marvel, an adaptable and resilient building material developed over 500 million years of evolutionary history. It gives our...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Author: Lisa Margonelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates...
The Mathematics Devotional: Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics
Author: Clifford A. Pickover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 From the ingenious author of The Math Book and The Physics Book comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty...
Apocalypse How?: Technology and the Threat of Disaster
Author: Oliver Letwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As the world becomes better connected and we grow ever more dependent on technology, the risks to our infrastructure are multiplying....
Aliens: Science Asks: Is There Anyone Out There?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The ALIENS invasion is coming ... It's the biggest question we've ever faced, one that has fascinated generations of...
Man vs Big Data: Everyday data explained
Author: Stewart Cowley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Man vs Big Data explains to readers the science and theories that impact on our everyday existence. It taps...
Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and Ourselves
Author: Caitlin O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Wild Rituals explores how embracing the rituals of the animal kingdom can make us more connected to ourselves, nature, and others....
Science Makers: Making with Living Things
Author: Anna Claybourne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Be a SCIENCE MAKER by experimenting, tinkering and building to discover the wonders of science! Learn all about LIVING...
Relax: A User's Guide to Life in the Age of Anxiety
Author: Timothy Caulfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Masterfully, and humorously . provides much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok . I devoured it'...
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us
Author: Vybarr Cregan-Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 IF YOU THINK YOU ARE YOU, THINK AGAIN. PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at how and why...
Building the World: Power Stations and Electricity
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 See the world from a whole new angle! This innovative series, illustrated with amazing isometric artwork, reveals the technology, science and...
The Origin of Species: (Patterns of Life)
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns of our planet. Designed...